68 MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. VIII.
|
advice and consent of the Senate, who shall hold his office
during the term of the Governor, by whom he shall have
been appointed, and until his successor shall be appointed |
|
Duties. |
and qualified. He shall perform such duties as are now re-
quired of the Commissioner of the Land Office, or such as
may hereafter be prescribed by law, and shall also be the |
|
Salary. |
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 Commis-
sioner 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, |
|
State papers. |
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 • |
Wreck
Master. |
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 prescribed by law; the term of
office of said Wreck Master shall commence on the first Mon-
day 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.
SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at its first session |
Public
schools. |
after the adoption of this Constitution, shall, by law, estab-
lish throughout the State a thorough and efficient system of
free public schools; and shall provide by taxation, or other-
wise, for their maintenance.
Clark v. Md. Institute, 87 Md., 661.
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. |
|
School fund. |
SEC. 3. The school fund of the State shall be kept in-
violate, and appropriated only to the purposes of education. |
|
 |
