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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS [ATTORNEY GENERAL] COMPARISON

Headnotes

Present
Constitution

Constitution of
1867

Constitution of
1864

Constitution of
1851

Constitution of
1776

Amendments to
1776 Constitution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

twenty-one years, and hav-
ing property in the state
above the value of thirty
pounds current money, and
having resided in the county
in which they offer to bal-
lot one whole year next pre-
ceding the election, shall
have a right of suffrage; no
person to be eligible to the
office of sheriff for a county
but an inhabitant of the said
county, above the age of
twenty-one years, and having
real and personal property
in the State above the value
of one thousand pounds cur-
rent money; the justices
aforesaid shall examine the
ballots, and the two candi-
dates properly qualified, hav-
ing in each county the ma-
jority of legal ballots, shall
be declared duly elected for
the office of sheriff for such
county, and returned to the
governor and council, with
a certificate of the number
of ballots for each of them.

 

 

Coroners,
Elisors, and
Notaries Public:
Appointment;
powers.

Sec. 45. Coroners, Elisors,
and Notaries Public may be
appointed for each county,
and the City of Baltimore, in
the manner, for the pur-
pose, and with the powers
now fixed, or which may
hereafter be prescribed by
Law.

Sec. 45. Coroners, Elisors,
and Notaries Public may be
appointed for each county,
and the city of Baltimore,
in the manner, for the pur-
pose, and with the powers
now fixed, or which may
hereafter be prescribed by
Law.

Sec. 50. Coroners, Elisors
and Notaries Public may be
appointed for each county
and the city of Baltimore,
in the manner, for the pur-
poses, and with the powers
now fixed or which may
hereafter be prescribed by
law.

Sec. 21. Coroners, Elisors
and Notaries Public shall be
appointed for each county
and the city of Baltimore,
in the manner now pre-
scribed by law, or in such
other manner as the General
Assembly may hereafter di-
rect.

 

 

 

 

Attorney Gen-
eral: Election;
term; compensa-
tion; duties;
removal.

ARTICLE V. ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND STATE'S
ATTORNEYS.

Attorney General.

Section 1. There shall be
an Attorney General elected
by the qualified voters of the
State, on general ticket, on
the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month
of November, nineteen hun-
dred and fifty-eight, and on

ARTICLE V.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
AND
STATE'S ATTORNEYS.

Attorney General.

Section 1. There shall be
an Attorney-General elected
by the qualified voters of the
State, on general ticket, on
the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month
of November, eighteen hun-

ARTICLE V.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Section 1. There shall be
an Attorney General elected
by the qualified voters of the
State, on general ticket, on
the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month
of November, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, and on the same day
in every fourth year there-

Article III, sec. 32. No

law shall be passed creating
the office of Attorney Gen-
eral.

Article II, sec. 21. When
the public interest requires
it, he shall have power to
employ counsel, who shall
be, entitled to such compen-
sation as the Legislature may
allow in each case after the
services of such counsel shall
have been performed.

48. That the governor for
the time being, with the ad-
vice and consent of the coun-
cil, may appoint the chan-
cellor, and all judges and
justices, the attorney general,
naval officers, officers in the
regular land and sea service,
officers of the militia, reg-
isters of the land office, sur-
veyors, and all other civil
officers of government (as-
sessors, constables and over-
seers of the roads only ex-

Proposed by Act of 1816,
chapter 247. Ratified 1817.

Sec. 1. All and every part
of the Constitution and form
of Government of this State,
which relates to the Attorney
General be and the same is
hereby abrogated, annulled,
and made void.

Sec. 2. The duties and
services now provided by law
to be done and performed

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