ART. VIII.] CONSTITUTION. 71
vice and consent of the Senate, who shall hold his office during
the term of the Governor, by whom he shall have been ap- |
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pointed, and until his successor shall be appointed and qual-
ified. He shall perform such duties as are now required of
the Commissioner of the Land Office, or such as may here- |
Duties. |
after be prescribed by law, and shall also be the Keeper of the
Chancery Becords. He shall receive a salary of one thousand
five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the Treas-
ury, and shall charge such fees as are now, or may be here-
after 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 Becords, 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, |
Salary. |
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 Mary-
land, not belonging to any other office.
SEC. 6. The qualified voters of Worcester county shall on |
State papers. |
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, 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 after |
Wreck
Master. |
the adoption of this Constitution, shall, by law, establish
throughout the State a thorough and efficient system of free
public schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise,
for their maintenance.
Clark vs. 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. |
Public
schools. |
SEC. 3. The school fund of the State shall be kept invio-
late, and appropriated only to the purposes of education. |
School fund. |
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