tively, whenever a case shall be brought into said court or
office, in which the State is a party or has interest, immediately
to notify the Attorney-General thereof.

The State's Attorney.

SEC. 7. There shall be an Attorney for the State in each
county and the City of Baltimore, to be styled "The State's
Attorney," who shall be elected by the voters thereof, re-
spectively, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and
on the same day every fourth year thereafter; and shall hold
his office for four years from the first Monday in January
next ensuing his election, and until his successor shall be elected
and qualified, and shall be re-eligible thereto, and be subject to
removal therefrom for incompetency, wilful neglect of duty,
or misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a court of law, or by
a vote of two-thirds of the Senate, on the recommendation
of the Attorney-General.

SEC. 8. All elections for the State's Attorney shall be
certified to and returns made thereof by the clerks of the
said counties and city to the judge thereof having criminal
jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty it shall be to decide
upon the elections and qualifications of the persons returned;
and in case of a tie between two or more persons, to desig-
nate which of said persons shall qualify as State's Attorney,
and to administer the oath of office to the person elected.

SEC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not exceed-
ing three thousand dollars, as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive
any other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed
by law, he shall, on cinviction thereof, he removed from office;
provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall
have the power to appoint a Deputy and such other Assistants
as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or
approve and until otherwise provided by the Genera] Assembly,
the said State's Attorney, Deputy and Assistants shall receive
the following annual salaries: State's Attorney, seven thousand
five hundred dollars; Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand
dollars; Assistant State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars
each; said salaries, or such salaries as the General Assembly
may subsequently provide, and such expense for conducting
the office of the State's Attorney as the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City may authorize or approve shall be paid by the

* Thus amended by Chapter 663, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people November 4, 1913