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hereafter be prescribed by Law, and if any State's Attor-
ney 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 power to appoint one Deputy,
at a salary of not more that fifteen hundred dollars per
annum, to be paid by the State's Attorney out of the fees
of his office, as has heretofore been practised.

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. 11. In case of vacancy in the office of State's
Attorney, or his removal from the county or city in which
he shall have been elected, or on his conviction as herein
specified, the said vacancy shall be filled by the Judge of
the county or city, respectively, having criminal jurisdiction,
in which said vacancy shall occur, for the residue of the term
thus made vacant.

SEC. 12. The State's Attorney in each county, and the
City of Baltimore, shall have authority to collect, and give
receipt, in the name of the State, for such sums of money
as may be collected by him, and forthwith make return of
and pay over the same to the proper accounting officer.
And the State's Attorney of each county, and of the City
of Baltimore, before he shall enter on the discharge of his
duties, shall execute a bond to the State of Maryland, for
the faithful performance of his duties, in the penalty of ten
thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved
by the Judge of the Court having criminal jurisdiction in said
counties or city.

ARTICLE VI.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. There shall be a Treasury Department, con-
sisting of a Comptroller; chosen by the qualified electors
of the State, at each regular election of members of the
House of Delegates, who shall receive an annual salary of
two thousand five hundred dollars; and a Treasurer to be
appointed by the two Houses of the Legislature, at each
regular session thereof, on joint ballot, who shall receive an
annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and the
terms of office of the said Comptroller and Treasurer shall be
for two years, and until their successors shall qualify; and
neither of the said officers shall be allowed, or receive any
fees, commissions or perquisites of any kind, in addition to
his salary, for the performance of any duty or services