per year in any case, and such expenses necessary to the
conduct of his office, as may be fixed by law, such salaries
and expenses to be paid in such manner and at such times
as may be prescribed by law.*

SEC. 45. Coroners, Elisors and Notaries Public may be
appointed for each county and the city of Baltimore in the
manner, for the purpose and with the powers now fixed, or
which may hereafter be prescribed by law.

ARTICLE V.

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND STATE'S ATTORNEY.
Attorney-General.

SEC. 1. There shall be an Attorney-General elected by
the qualified voters of the State, on general ticket, on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same
day in every fourth year thereafter,1 who shall hold his office
for four years from the time of his election and qualifica-
tion, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and
shall be re-eligible thereto, and shall be subject to removal
for incompetency, willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor
In office, on conviction in a court of law.

SEC. 2. Ail elections for Attorney-General shall be certi-
fied to, and returns made thereof by the Clerks of the Cir-
cuit Courts for the several counties, and the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, to the Governor of the
State, whose duty it shall be to decide on the election and
qualification of the person returned; and in case of a tie
between two or more persons to designate which of said per-
sons shall qualify as Attorney-General, and to administer
the oath of office to the person elected.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to
prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases
which at the time of his appointment and qualification and
which 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 Comptroller 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 Gen-
eral Assembly he shall aid any State's Attorney in prose-
cuting any suit or action brought by the State in any Court

*Thus amended by Chapter 845, 1914, ratified November, 1914.
1Amended by Article XVII, Section 3.