ART. XV.] CONSTITUTION. 79
ARTICLE 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 Comp-
troller 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 retain as his salary or
compensation for the discharge of his duties, and for the ex-
penses of his office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer of
the State, the amount of such excess, subject to such disposi-
tion 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, and the Governor shall de-
clare 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 appointment under any court in this |
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State, shall receive more than three thousand dollars a year as
a compensation for the discharge of his official duties, except
in cases specially provided in this Constitution.
Banks vs. State, 60 Md., 305. Goldsborough vs. Lloyd, 86 Md., 376
SEC. 2. The several courts existing in this State at the time |
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of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until superseded
under its provisions, continue with like powers and jurisdic-
tion, 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 causes then de-
pending in said courts shall pass into the jurisdiction of the
several courts, by which they may be respectively superseded. |
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