ART. XV.] CONSTITUTION. 79
ABTICLE XV.
MISCELLANEOUS,
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SECTION 1. Every person holding any office created by, or |
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existing under the Constitution or laws of the State (except
Justices of the Peace, Constables and Coroners), or holding
any appointment under any court of this State, whose pay or
compensation is derived from fees or moneys coming into his
hands for the discharge of his official duties, or in any way
growing out of or connected with his office, shall keep a book
in which shall be entered every sum or sums of money re-
ceived by him, or on his account, as a payment or compensa-
tion for his performance of official duties, a copy of which
entries in said book, verified by the oath of the officer by
whom it is directed to be kept, shall be returned yearly to
the Comptroller of the State for his inspection, and that of
the General Assembly of the State, to which the Comptroller
shall, at each regular session thereof, make a report showing
what officers have complied with this section; and each of
the said officers, when the amount received by him for the
year shall exceed the sum which he is by law entitled to re-
tain as his salary or compensation for the discharge of his
duties, and for the expenses of his office, shall yearly pay
over to the Treasurer of the State, the amount of such excess,
subject to such disposition thereof as the General Assembly
may direct; if any of such officers shall fail to comply with
the requisitions of this section for the period of thirty days
after the expiration of each and every year of his office, such
officer shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and the
Governor shall declare the same vacant, and the vacancy
therein shall be filled as in case of vacancy for any other
cause, and such officer shall be subject to suit by the State
for the amount that ought to be paid into the Treasury; and
no person holding any office created by or existing under
this Constitution or laws of the State, or holding any ap- |
Returns of
fees. |
pointment under any court in this State, shall receive more
than three thousand dollars a year as a compensation for the
discharge of his official duties, except in cases specially pro-
vided in this Constitution.
Banks v. State, 60 Md., 305. Goldsborough v. Lloyd, 86 Md., 376.
SEC. 2. The several courts existing in this State at the |
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time of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until super-
seded under its provisions, continue with like powers and
jurisdiction, and in the exercise thereof, both at law and in
equity, in all respects, as if this Constitution had not been
adopted; and when said courts shall be so superseded, all |
Jurisdiction
of courts. |
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