HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 1671

716N. Whenever used in Sections 716 to 716P of this Article:

(a) "People's Court" or "Court77 shall mean the People's
Court of Baltimore City;

(b) "Judge" shall mean a Judge of the People's Court of
Baltimore City;

(e) "Constable" shall mean a constable appointed in accord-
ance with the Constitution as amended from time to time;

(d) "Clerk" or "Clerk of the Court" shall mean any person
appointed or designated to do clerical work or to give clerical
assistance.

716-O. Any Judge of the People's Court may issue process
and shall have jurisdiction over any proceedings that may be
pending in said Court or that may have been instituted before
any Justice of the Peace of the People's Court.

Any Judge of the People's Court shall have power to certify
to the records of the People's Court and to the records of
former Justices of the Peace of the People's Court. Such
power of certification may from time to time by rule be dele-
gated by said Judges to the Chief Constable or a Clerk of said
Court.

The Judges of said Court shall have power by rule to
authorize and direct the service of process of writs of summons
and other process of the Court by Clerks of the Court.

716P. Except as to cases in which a shorter time is fixed
by this Act, or by an Act of the General Assembly or by the
Charter of Baltimore City, any party aggrieved thereby may
appeal from any judgment or final order of the People's Court
to the Baltimore City Court at any time within 30 days from
the rendition of such judgment or order and the Baltimore
City Court shall hear the case de novo and determine the same
according to law, and the equity and right of the matter; and
this section shall be construed to include all actions of debt
for the collection of fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by
any law of the State and which are made recoverable before
Justice of the Peace, in which a right of appeal may not be
given by the law imposing the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted,, That Sections 716, 716J,
716L and 748 of said Article 4, as said sections were enacted
by Chapter 137 of the Acts of 1939, be and they are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts of any public general or public local laws inconsistent