BALTIMORE CITY. 911

DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

1898, ch. 123.

60. There shall be a Department of Law of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore; the head of said department shall be the City Solicitor.

1906, ch. 459.

61. The City Solicitor shall be appointed by the Mayor in the mode
prescribed in Section 25 of this Charter, and hold his office as therein
provided. He shall be a member of the Baltimore Bar, who has prac-
ticed his profession for not less than ten years in Baltimore City, and he
shall receive a salary of forty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly.

1898, ch. 123. 1904, ch. 112. 1906, ch. 206.

62. The City Solicitor shall be the legal advisor of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, and its several departments, and special commis-
sions or boards, and shall have general supervision and direction of all
legal business of the city. He shall have charge and direction of the
preparation and trial of all suits, actions and proceedings of every kind
to which the city, or any municipal official, department, special commis-
sion or board, shall be a party in any Court, local, State or Federal, or
before any Justice of the Peace, and when practicable, without conflict
with his other duties, he shall personally participate in the trial of all
such suits in any of the Federal Courts and in the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, and of all such suits in other Courts which the Mayor may
request him in writing to try, and shall discharge such other duties as
as may from time to time be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent
with this Charter. He shall appoint in writing four assistants, to be
known, respectively, as the Deputy City Solicitor and Assistant City
Solicitors, all of whom shall be members of the Baltimore Bar, and shall
hold their respective positions at salaries payable monthly of $3,000 per
annum for the Deputy City Solicitor and $2,500 per annum for each
of the said Assistant City Solicitors during the pleasure of the City Solic-
itor, who is hereby authorized to assign to them the performance, subject
to his direction and control, of any of the duties required of him by this
Charter, whether expressed to be personal to himself or not, excepting
only such duties as pertain to his character as a member of the Board
of Estimates or the Board of Awards. In case any vacancy shall occur
in the office of the City Solicitor whether by death, resignation or other-
wise, the Deputy City Solicitor shall perform all the duties appertaining
to said office until the appointment and qualification of the new City Solic-
itor, and during the absence, sickness or other disability of the City
Solicitor, the Deputy City Solicitor shall perform all the duties apper-
taining to the office of City Solicitor, including his duties as a member of
the Board of Estimates and of the Board of Awards. In addition to such
other duties as the City Solicitor may assign to him, one of the Assistant