1690 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 975

relating to the assignment of said Justices to the several
station houses, the creation and appointment of a "Chief
Police Magistrate of Baltimore City", and their salaries
and leave of absence.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 722, 736 and 737 of Article 4 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City
Charter (1938 Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title
"Justices of the Peace and Constables", Sections 722 and
737 having been amended by Chapter 601 of the Acts of
1941, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows:

722. It shall be the duty of the Governor, after the
appointment of the Justices of the Peace provided for in
Section 712 of this said Article 4, to select from the Jus-
tices of the Peace so appointed a Justice of the Peace to sit
at each station-house in the City of Baltimore, and in addi-
tion, two Justices of the Peace to be known as Magistrates-
at-Large, or such other number of justices as may be by
law hereafter provided for, of peace, to act at such times
and places as is hereinafter provided for. One of the
Justices so selected shall be designated by the Governor as
"Chief Police Magistrate of Baltimore City", and the others
shall be each designated by the Governor as "Police Magis-
trate of Baltimore City". The said Chief Police Magistrate
of Baltimore City, in addition to his duties as a Justice of
the Peace regularly assigned to sit in a station-house, shall
also be and act as the Chief or administrative head over all
the other Police Magistrates of Baltimore City; he shall
call meetings of all the regular and substitute Police Magis-
trates, from time to time, to discuss and further the im-
provement in the efficient administration of justice and
which shall be delegated to him by law hereafter. Each
justice so selected shall keep his office at the station-house
for which he was appointed, and shall attend at such sta-
tion-house from 8 o'clock A. M. until 10 o'clock A. M. on
every day of the year except Sundays and legal holidays,
and from 3 o'clock P. M. until 5 P. M. on every day except
Sundays and legal holidays; and upon every Sunday and
legal holiday shall attend at the station-house for which he
was appointed from 9 o'clock A. M. until 11 o'clock A. M.
(and for the purpose of this section Saturday afternoon
shall not be considered legal holidays unless the whole of
said Saturday may be a legal holiday), and at each of said
respective sittings shall sit to hear, try and determine cases,
and to perform all the duties which he is required by law
to perform. The said respective Justices of the Peace, so