ARTICLE V, SECTION 9.

9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and re-
ceive such salary as shall 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 conviction thereof,
be 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
General 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
expenses 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 Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
the extent that the total of them exceeds the fees of his office,
or as the General Assembly shall otherwise provide, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable for
appearance fees to the State's Attorney.

This amendment was submitted by Chapter 490 of the Acts of 1943 and
will be voted upon by the people in November, 1944.

ARTICLE IV, SECTION 18A.

Sec. 18A. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be the
administrative head of the judicial system of the State. He
shall from time to time require, from each of the judges of the
Circuit Court for the several counties and of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, reports as to the judicial work and business
of each of the judges and their respective courts. He may, in
case of a vacancy or of illness, disqualification or other absence
of one or more judges of the Court of Appeals, designate any
judge of any of the Circuit Courts for the counties or of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City to sit in any case or for a
specified period as a judge of the Court of Appeals in lieu of a
judge of that court, and may designate, to sit as a judge of the
Circuit Court for any county or of any Court or Courts of
Baltimore City, either alone or with one or more other judges,
in any case or for a specified period, any judge of the Court of
Appeals or of any other Circuit Court or of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City. In the absence of the Chief judge of the
Court of Appeals the provisions of this Section shall be appli-
cable to the senior judge present. The powers of the Chief
Judge under the aforegoing provisions of this section shall be