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414 MARYLAND MANUAL ARTICLE IX. MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS. SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall make, from time to time, such provisions for organizing, equipping and dis ciplining the Militia, as the exigency may require, and pass such laws to promote volunteer militia organizations as may afford them effectual encouragement. SEC. 2. There shall be an Adjutant-General appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He shall hold his office until the appointment and qualification of his successor, or until removed in pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial. He shall perform such duties and receive such compensation or emoluments as are now or may be prescribed by law. He shall discharge the duties of his office at the seat of government, unless absent under orders, on duty; and no other officer of the General Staff of the Militia shall receive salary or pay, except when on service and mustered in with troops. SEC. 3. The existing Militia Law of the State shall expire at the end of the next session of the General Assembly, ex cept so far as it may be re-enacted, subject to the provisions of this Article. ARTICLE X. LABOR AND AGRICULTURE.’ SECTION 1. There shall be a Superintendent of Labor and Agriculture elected by the qualified voters of this State at the first general election for Delegates to the General As sembly after the adoption of this Constitution, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until the elec tion and qualification of his successor. SEC. 2. His qualifications shall be the same as those pre scribed for the Comptroller; he shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his office on the second Monday of January next succeeding the time of his election; and a vacancy in the office shall be filled by the Governor for the residue of the term. SEC. 3. He shall perform such of the duties now devolved by law upon the Commissioners of Immigration and the Im migration Agent, as will promote the object for which those officers were appointed, and such other duties as may be as signed to him by the General Assembly, and shall receive a * This Article expired by limitation. |
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