MARYLAND MANUAL 563
qualify, or give bond, or by disqualification, or removal from
the county, the Governor shall appoint a person to be Sheriff
for the remainder of the official term.
In the City of Baltimore at the general election to be held
in the year 1915 and every four years thereafter, there shall be
elected in said City of Baltimore, one person who shall be a
resident of said city, above the age of twenty-five years, and
who shall have been at least five years preceding his election
a citizen of this State to the office of Sheriff.
He shall hold his office for four years and until his successor
is duly elected and qualified; shall be eligible for relection; shall
give such bond, exercise such powers and perform such duties
as now are or may hereafter be fixed by law. The Sheriff elected
in and for the City of Baltimore in November, 1913, shall be
eligible for re-election.
In case of vacancy by death, resignation, refusal to serve,
or neglect to qualify, or give bond, or by disqualification or
removal from said city, the Governor shall appoint a person to
be Sheriff for the remainder of the official term. The Sheriff
hereafter elected and the Sheriff elected in and for the City of
Baltimore on the 7th day of November, 1913, shall from the
date of his qualification receive such salary as may be fixed
by law, not to exceed six thousand dollars 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 November, 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 qualification, 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.
* Thus amended by Chapter 845, 1914, ratified November, 1914.
1 Amended by Article XVII, Section 8.
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