thereafter may be depending in the Court of Appeals, or in
the Supreme Court of the United States, by or against the
State, or wherein the State may be interested; and he shall
give his opinion in writing whenever required by the General
Assembly or either branch thereof, the Governor, the Comp-
troller of the Treasury, or any State's Attorney, on any legal
matter or subject depending before them or either of them;
and when required by the Governor or General Assembly he
shall aid shall State's Attorney in prosecuting any suit or
action brought by the State in any Court of the State, and he
shall commence and prosecute or defend any suit or action in
any of said courts, on the part of the State, which the Gen-
eral Assembly or the Governor, acting according to law, shall
direct to be commenced, prosecuted or defended, and he shall
have and perform such other duties and shall appoint such
number of deputies or assistants as the General Assembly may
from time to time by law prescribe; and he shall receive for
his services an annual salary of three thousand dollars, or such
annual salary as the General Assembly may from time to time
by law prescribe; but he shall not be entitled to receive any
fees, perquisites or rewards whatever in addition to the salary
aforesaid for the performance of any official duty; nor shall
the Governor employ any additional counsel in any case what-
ever, unless authorized by the General Assembly.*

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney-
General, who is not a citizen of this State, and a qualified
voter therein, and has not resided and practiced law in this
State for at least ten years.

SEC. 5. In case of vacancy in the office of Attorney-Gen-
eral, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the State
or from office, or other disqualification, the said vacancy shall
be filled by the Governor for the residue of the term thus made
vacant.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, respect-
ively, whenever a case shall be brought into said court or office,
in which the State is a party or has interest, immediately to
notify the Attorney-General thereof.

The State's attorney.

SEC. 7. There shall be an Attorney for the State in each
county and the city of Baltimore, to be styled "The State's
Attorney," who shall be elected by the voters thereof, re-
spectively, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in No-
vember, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on

* Thus amended by Chapter 663, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people