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Salary, $2, 000. He is allowed a clerk at a salary of $1, 200.
No special date is set for his appointment, and he comes under
the constitutional rule of fifty days from the beginning of the
regular session of the Legislature of the year he is to be ap-
pointed. No bond is required of the Adjutant General. He is
next to the Governor in rank over the Maryland National Guard
and the Maryland Naval Militia, and has direct charge over
them. He holds bis office until the appointment and qualifica-
tion of his successor, or until removed in pursuance of the sen-
tence of a court martial. Constitution, article IX, section 2.
Article 65 of the Code.

Attorney General. —Elected by the people every four years.
His duty to prosecute and defend on the part of the State, suits
in the Court of Appeals of the State and the Supreme Court of
the United States, and to assist State's Attorneys where the
Governor or Legislature may direct. He is to give his opinion
in writing to the General Assembly, or either branch thereof, to
the Governor, the Comptroller and the several State's Attorneys,
whenever requested by them. Only practitioners of law are
eligible to the office. Salary, $3, 000. No bond is required.
Article V, sections 1 to 6, Constitution.

Auctioneers in Baltimore City. —Thirty are appointed by
the Governor. They are required to take out a license, rated as
merchant traders' licenses are. They are appointed biennially.
Time of appointment under the fifty day constitutional rule.
They have no legal fees or salary, but are paid by their own
commissions. They bond for $5, 000 to the State Treasurer.
Article 56, section 7 of Code. Article 4, sections 82 and 83, P.
L. L. Act of 1894, chapter 474.

Board of Health. —Has general care of the sanitary interests
of the State; shall meet quarterly; elect secretary; take action
in cholera epidemics, small-pox and infectious diseases; shall
appoint county health officers; county commissioners will act in
conjunction with them; seven members compose the board, one
of whom shall be an experienced civil engineer; three physicians,
appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate; a secretary, elected by the board, who shall be a
physician; the Attorney-General and the Commissioner of Health
of the city of Baltimore. Article 43, sections 1-14, of the Code.

Bureau of Statistics. —To collect statistics and information
concerning various branches of industry practiced in the State,
their needs and classes; the chief of the bureau to be appointed
by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate. Acts of 1884, Chapter 211, sections 1-2, Code, page 1295.

Board of Managers of the Maryland Hospital for the
Insane. —To manage the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, three