ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  477

for at least five years; one Justice to be known as the Chief
Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, whose duty shall be
to care for the general business of said Court and to have charge
of the administration thereof, and who is to receive the salary
of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and not
more than two other associate Justices of the Peace of the
Traffic Court, who shall each receive the salary of three thou-
sand five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly,
and shall receive no other compensation or fees whatever for
the performance of any duty required by law. Said Traffic
Court shall be divided into separate courts, and one of said
Justices of the Peace shall be assigned to each of said courts.
The Traffic Court shall be in session every day except Sundays
and holidays. Said Traffic Court shall have exclusive juris-
diction within the- City of Baltimore to hear and determine all
complaints of violations of the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State,
and shall have exclusive jurisdiction where jurisdiction now or
may hereafter be given to any Justice of the Peace in Balti-
more City to try or commit for trial any person accused of
violating any of the Traffic Ordinances of Baltimore City, and
shall have concurrent jurisdiction with Justices of the Peace,
committing magistrates or police justices throughout the State
outside of Baltimore City, to hear and determine all complaints
of violations of the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State in those
cases where it is convenient for the accused to have such com-
plaint heard and determined in Baltimore City. The jurisdic-
tion, powers and duties heretofore vested in and required of
Justices of the Peace in Baltimore City under Section 158 of
this sub-title shall hereafter be exclusively vested in and re-
quired of the Justices of the Peace of the Traffic Court. Said
Justices shall, during the hours when said Traffic Court is re-
quired to be in session, transact no other business except the
business required of them by the provisions of this sub-title.
The said Justices of the Peace of the Traffic Court, and any
Justices who may be designated to sit in their absence, shall
have the power and authority to enforce obedience to their
orders and judgments by attachments, and to inflict summary
punishment for contempt of court by a fine not exceeding in
any one case the sum of twenty-five dollars; all of which fines
shall be paid to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in the
same manner as other fines; and imprisonment in default of
payment of such fines shall be imposed to the same extent as in
the case of other fines; provided, however, that the power afore-