Sue. 8. All elections for the State's Attorney shall be
certified to and returns made thereof by the clerks of the
said counties and city to the judge thereof having criminal
jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty it shall be to decide
upon the elections and qualifications of the persons re-
turned ; and in case of a tie between two or more persons, to
designate which of said persons shall qualify as State's At-
torney, and to administer the oath of office to the person
elected.

Sue. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars, as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive
any other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed
by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore
City shall have the power to appoint a Deputy and such
other Assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by
the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy
and Assistants shall receive the following annual salaries:
State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand dollars; Assistant
State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries,
or such salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently
provide, and such expense for conducting the office of the
State's Attorney as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize or approve shall be paid by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore to the extent that the total of
them exceeds the fees of his office, or as the General Assem-
bly shall otherwise provide, and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall not be liable for appearance fees to the
State's Attorney.*

SEC. 10. No person shall be eligible to the office of State's
Attorney who has not been admitted to practice law in this
State, and who has not resided for at least two years in the
county or city in which he may be elected.

SEC. II. In case of vacancy in the office of State's Attor-
ney, or of his removal from the county or city in which he
shall have been elected, or on his conviction as herein speci-
fied, the said vacancy shall be filled by the judge of the coun-
ty or city, respectively, having criminal jurisdiction, in
Which said vacancy shall occur, for the residue of the term
thus made vacant.

*Thus amended by Chapter 177, Acts of 1924, ratified by the people No-
vember 4th. 1924,