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State; and may, at the discretion of the Legislature, have the
supervision of all public buildings now belonging to, or which
may hereafter, be erected by the State. He shall frequently
inspect such buildings as are committed to his charge, and
examine all accounts for labor and materials required for
their construction or repairs.
SEC. 5. He shall inquire into the undeveloped resources of
wealth of the State of Maryland, more specially concerning
those within the limits of the Chesapeake Bay and its tribu-
taries, which belong to the State, and suggest such plans as
may be calculated to render them available as sources of
revenue.
SEC. 6. He shall make detailed reports to every General
Assembly within the first week of its session, in reference to
each of the subjects committed to his charge, and he shall also
report to the Governor, in the recess of the Legislature, all
abuses or irregularities which he may find to exist in any de-
partment of public affairs with which his office is connected.
SEC. 7. The office hereby established shall continue for
four years from the date of the qualification of the first in-
cumbent thereof, and shall then expire, unless continued by
the General Assembly.
ARTICLE XI.
CITY OF BALTIMORE.
SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore quali- |
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fied to vote for members of the House of Delegates shall, on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in every
fourth year thereafter, elect by ballot a person of known in-
tegrity, experience and sound judgment, over twenty-five years
of age, a citizen of the United States, and five years a resident
of said city next preceding the election, and assessed with
property in said city to the amount of two thousand dollars,
and who has paid taxes thereon for two years preceding his
election to be Mayor of the City of Baltimore; but the Mayor
chosen at the first election under this section shall not enter
upon the discharge of the duties of the office until the expira-
tion of the term for which the present Mayor was elected; un.
less the said office of Mayor shall become vacant by death, res-
ignation, removal from the State or other disqualification of
the present Mayor.*
'Thus amended by Chapter 123, Acts of 1898. By Chapter 116, Acts of
1870, the term of Mayor was made two years; and by Chapter 397, Acts of
1888, the day of election was set tor the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November. Act of 1898, Chapter 123, made the first Monday In May, 1899,
the day of election, and every tour years afterward. |
Mayor.
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