J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1961

judges thereof, to change the formula for the payment of pensions
to retired judges, to change the formula for the payment of pen-
sions to widows of judges thereof, and to increase the amounts
specified for the exclusive, and also for concurrent, jurisdiction of
this Court.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 436, 436A, 436B, and 437 of the Charter and Public
Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition), being Article 4 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore City," sub-
title "People's Court," Section 436 thereof having been last amended
by Chapter 470 of the Acts of 1957, Sections 436A and 436B thereof
having been last amended by Chapter 532 of the Acts of 1959, and
Section 437 thereof having been last amended by Chapter 469 of the
Acts of 1957, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

(1) (A) Every elected Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City
shall be paid, after the termination of his active service, if he is then
at least sixty years of age or when he becomes sixty years of age, a
pension or salary calculated at the rate of [Three Hundred Fifty
Dollars—($350.00)] Six FIVE Hundred Dollars ($600.00) ($500.00)
per annum for each year or any part thereof of active service by
appointment and election as a Judge of said People's Court, up to and
including twenty years of such active service, so that the maximum
pension or salary for such service payable hereunder to any one
person shall not exceed the sum of [Seven Thousand Dollars—
($7,000.00)] Twelve TEN Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) $10,000
per annum. This section shall apply to any elected Judge already
retired from active service. Any former Judge who accepts any
salaried public office or position, municipal, county, state or federal,
shall not be paid any such pension or salary so long as he remains
in any such office or position. No pension shall be payable here-
under to any retired Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City

436.

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City shall pay to the

Chief Judge of the People's Court of Baltimore City a salary of
[$15,500.00] $18,000 per annum payable monthly, and to each of
the Associate Judges of the People's Court of Baltimore City, a salary
of [$15,000.00] $17,500 per annum, payable monthly. Each of said
Judges shall devote to his duties a regular session on every day except
Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays and such other sessions at

such times as the Chief Judge deems necessary or advisable, during

such eleven months in each year as the Chief Judge shall assign. No
Judge of the People's Court shall engage in the practice of law while
holding the position of Judge. The Chief Judge shall make such as-
signments in such manner as to provide regular sessions for the trans-
action of business, and such other sessions as he shall prescribe,
throughout the entire year. The Chief Judge of said Court may direct
that the Chief Constable's Office shall be closed on Saturdays, so that
the Clerk's Office may be closed on Saturdays. All such sessions shall
be held at such place as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City
shall provide.

436A.