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 twen-
ty-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.*

SEC. 10. No person shall, be eligible to the office of State's
Attorney who has not been admitted to practice law in this
State, and who has not resided for at least two years in the
county or city in which he may be elected.

SEC. II. In case of vacancy in the office of State's Attor-
ney, or of his removal from the county or city in which he
shall have been elected, or on his conviction as herein speci-
fied, the said vacancy shall be filled by the judge of the coun-
ty or city, respectively, having criminal jurisdiction, in
which said vacancy shall occur, for the residue of the term
thus made vacant.

SEC. 12 The State's Attorney in each county and the
City of Baltimore shall have authority to collect, and give
receipt, in the name of the State, for such sums of money as
may be collected by him, and forthwith make return of and
pay over the same to the proper accounting officer. And the
State's Attorney of each county and the City of Baltimore,
before he shall enter on the discharge of his duties, shall
execute a bond to the State of Maryland, for the faithful
performance of his duties, in the penalty of ten thousand
dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the
judge of the court having criminal jurisdiction in said coun-
ties or city.

ARTICLE VI.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. There shall be a Treasury Department, con-
sisting of a Comptroller, chosen by the qualified electors of
the State, at each general election at which the Governor is
chosen, who shall receive such salary as may be fixed by law;
and a Treasurer, to be appointed by the two Houses of the
Legislature, at each regular session thereof, in which begins
the term of Governor, on joint ballot, who shall receive an
annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and the
terms of office of the said Comptroller and Treasurer shall
be for four years, and until their successors shall qualify;

* Thus amended by Chapter 824, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people
November 4, 1913.