ART. VIII] CONSTITUTION. 71
shall be appointed and qualified. He shall perform such
duties as are now required of the Commissioner of the
Land Office, or such as may hereafter be prescribed by |
Duties. |
Law, and shall also be the Keeper of the Chancery
Records. He shall receive a salary 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. |
Salary. |
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. |
State Papers. |
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 or may be hereafter pre-
scribed by law: the term of office of said Wreck-Master
shall commence on the first Monday of 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. |
Wreck Master. |
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 bytax-
ation, or, otherwise, for their maintenance.
Clark v. Md. Institute, 87 Md. 661.
Sec. 2. The system of Public Schools, as now con-
stituted, 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. |
Public Schools |
Sec. 3. The School Fund of the State shall be kept
inviolate, and appropriated only to the purposes of
education. |
School fond. |
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