SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, re-
spectively, whenever a case shall be brought into said court
or office, in which the State is a party or has interest, imme-
diately 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
the same day every fourth year thereafter; and shall hold
his office for four years from the first Monday in January....
next ensuing his election, and until his successor shall 'be
elected and qualified, and shall be re-eligible thereto, and be
subject to removal therefrom for incompetency, willful
neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in office, on conviction in
a court of law, or by a vote of two-thirds of the Senate, on
the recommendation of the Attorney-General.

SEC. 8. All elections for the State's Attorney shall be
certified to and returns made thereof by the clerks of the
said counties and city to the judge thereof having criminal
jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty it shall be to decide
upon the elections and qualifications of the' persons re-
turned ; and in case of a tie between two or more persons, to
designate which of said persons shall qualify as State's At-
torney, and' to administer the oath of office to the person
elected. .:

.SEC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars, as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive
any other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed
by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
office; provided, that the State's 'Attorney for Baltimore
City shall receive anannual salary of fifty-four hundred
dollars and shall have power, to appoint one deputy at an
annual salary not exceeding four thousand dollars, and such
other assistants at such annual salaries, not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars each, as the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City may authorize and approve; all of said salaries
to be paid out of .the fees of the said State's Attorney's office,
as has heretofore been practiced. *

* Thus .amended by Chapter 624, Acts of. 1912, ratified by the people
November i, IBIS.