county, their compensation, powers and duties shall be such
as now or may be hereafter prescribed by law; they shall be
elected at such times, in such numbers and for such periods
not exceeding six years, as may be prescribed by law*.

SEC. 2. The qualified voters of each county and of the
City of Baltimore shall, on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in the month of November, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven; and on the same day in every
second year thereafter,1 elect a Surveyor for each. county and
the City of Baltimore, respectively, whose term of office
shall commence on the first Monday of January next en-
suing their election, and whose duties and compensation
shall be the same as are now or may hereafter be prescribed
by law. And any vacancy in the office of Surveyor shall be
filled by the Commissioners of the counties, or by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, respectively, for the residue
of the term.

SEC. 3. The State Librarian shall be appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate, and shall hold his office during the term of the Gov-
ernor, by whom he shall have been appointed, and until his
successor shall be appointed and qualified. His salary shall
be fifteen hundred dollars a year; and he shall perform such
duties as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by law;
and no appropriation shall be made by law to pay for any
clerk, or assistant to the Librarian. And it shall be the duty
of the Legislature, at its first session after the adoption of
this Constitution, to pass a law regulating the mode and
manner in which the books in the library shall be kept and
accounted for by the Librarian, and requiring the Librarian
to give a bond, in such penalty as the Legislature may pre-
scribe, for the proper discharge of his duties.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Commissioner of the Land Office,
who shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, who shall hold his office
during the term of the Governor, by whom he shall have
been appointed, and until his successor shall be appointed
and qualified. He shall perform such duties as are now
required of the Commissioner of the Land Office, or such as
may 'hereafter be prescribed by law, and shall also be the
Keeper of the Chancery Records. He shall receive a salary
of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid
out of the Treasury, and shall charge such fees as are now,
or may hereafter be fixed by law. He shall make a semi-
annual report of all the fees of his office, both as Commis-

*Thus amended by the Act of 1890, Chapter 255, and adopted by vote of
the people November 8. 1890
'Amended by Article XVII, Section 1.