salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year; and after his
election and qualification, the offices before mentioned shall
cease.

SEC. 4. He shall supervise all the State inspectors of
agricultural products and fertilizers, and from time to time
shall carefully examine and audit their accounts, and pre-
scribe regulations not inconsistent with law, tending to se-
cure economy and efficiency in the business of their offices.
He shall have the supervision of the tobacco warehouses, and
all other buildings used for inspection and storage purposes
by the 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 re-
quired for their construction or repairs.

SEC. 5. He shall inquire into the undeveloped resources
of wealth of the State of Maryland, more specially concern-
ing those within the limits of the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries, 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
department of public affairs with which his office is con-
nected.

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
qualified by law to vote in said city for members of the
House of Delegates, shall on the fourth Wednesday of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same
day in every fourth year thereafter, elect a person to be
Mayor of the City of Baltimore, who shall have such quali-
fications, receive such compensation, discharge such duties,
and have such powers as are now, or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by law; and the term of whose office shall commence