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of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid
out of the treasury, and shall charge such fees as are now or
may be hereafter fixed by Law. He shall make a semi-annual
report of all the fees of his office, both as Commissioner of
the Land office, and as Keeper of the Chancery Records, to
the Comptroller of the Treasury, and shall pay the same
semi-annually into the treasury.

SEC. 5. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall also,
without additional compensation, collect, arrange, classify,
have charge of, and safely keep all papers, records, relics,
and other memorials connected with the early history of
Maryland, not belonging to any other.office.

SEC. 6. The qualified voters of Worcester County shall on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and
every two years thereafter, elect a Wreck Master for said
County, whose duties and compensation shall be the same as
are now prescribed by law; the term of office of said Wreck
Master shall commence on the first Monday in January next
succeeding his election, and a vacancy in said office shall be
filled by the County Commissioners of said County for the
residue of the term.

ARTICLE VIII.

EDUCATION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at its first session after
the adoption of this Constitution, shall by law establish
throughout the State a thorough and efficient system of free
Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise,
for their maintenance.

SEC. 2 The system of Public Schools, as now constituted,
shall remain in force until the end of the said first session of
the General Assembly, and shall then expire; except so far
as adopted or continued by the General Assembly.

SEC. 3. The School Fund of the State shall be kept invio-
late, and appropriated only to the purposes of education.

ARTICLE IX.

MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall make, from time
to time, such provisions for organizing, equipping and dis-
ciplining the Militia, as the exigency may require, and pass