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salary during the governor's or lieutenant governor's term
of office. It differs from the present Constitution
which provides in Article 11, section 21 that the governor i
shall receive a salary of $25,000 per year and which pro-
vides in Article III, section 52(6) that the salary of
any public official shall not be decreased during his term ,
of office.
Maryland experience clearly indicates the dis- ;
advantage of fixing a salary ceiling in the Constitution.
In 1955, the governor was still receiving the $4,500 j
salary originally fixed by the Constitution of 1867. The ''
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Constitution has twice since been amended to raise the '\
governor's salary to $25,000, an amount the committee feels
is still too low. ;
Although the committee feels that the General
Assembly should be able to legislatively set the salaries
of the governor and lieutenant governor, it also feels
that certain safeguards are necessary. The provision
prohibiting the General Assembly from increasing salary
during the governor's term of office will remove any tempta-
tion of a gubernational effort to "sell," or a legislative
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