HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 945

supervisory control over the several clerks and other em-
ployees assigned thereto. He shall receive a salary of
$4, 000 per annum. The Governor shall designate two other
of said justices to be known as magistrates of the Traffic
Court, who shall receive salaries of $3, 500 each per annum.
The Governor shall also designate the other justice of the
peace to be known as the associate magistrate of the
Traffic Court who shall receive a salary of $2, 500 per
annum.

205B. Substitutes. In the event that any two of said
magistrates are unable to preside at any time, the Police
Commissioner of Baltimore City shall have the power to
provide a substitute in the same manner and at the same
rate of compensation as substitutes are now provided for
police justices regularly assigned to station houses in Balti-
more City, the compensation of said substitute magistrate
to be paid out of funds provided for that purpose in the
Traffic Court budget. None of said justices shall receive
any other compensation or fees whatever for the perform-
ance of any duty required by law.

205C. Sessions. The Traffic Court shall be divided
into separate parts and each of said magistrates shall be
assigned by the chief magistrate to preside in such parts
at such times as the chief magistrates shall determine. The
Traffic Court shall be in session every day except Sundays
and holidays, and the magistrates shall, during the hours
when the Court is required to be in session, transact no
other business except the business required of them by the
provisions of this Section.

205D. Jurisdiction. The magistrates of the Traffic
Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction within the City of
Baltimore to hear and determine all complaints of viola-
tions 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 Baltimore
City, to try or commit for trial any person accused of
violating of the Traffic Ordinances of Baltimore City.

205E. Contempt Proceedings. The magistrates of Traf-
fic Court shall have power and authority to enforce obe-
dience 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 ($25. 00); all of which fine shall be paid to the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in the same manner as
other fines; and imprisonment in default of payment of
such fine shall be imposed to the same extent as in the
case of other fines; provided, however, that the power
aforesaid to punish for contempt shall not be construed