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MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. V

Fees.

[Sec. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not
exceeding three thousand dollars, as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed by law; and if any State's
Attorney 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 shell receive an
annual salary of forty-five hundred dollars, and shall
have power to appoint one deputy, at an annual salary,
not exceeding three thousand dollars, and such other
assistants at such annual salaries not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars each, as the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City may authorize and approve; all of said salaries
to be paid out of the fees of the said State's Attorney's
office, as has- heretofore been practised.]*

Qualifications.

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.

Vacancy.

Sec. 11. In case of vacancy in the office of State's
Attorney, or of 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.

Jackson v. State, 87 Md. 195.

Duties.

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
the City of Baltimore, before he shall enter on the dis-
charge 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.

*Thus amended by Act. of 1800, ch. 185, ratified by the people at the No-
vember election, 1901.