further provides for an annual audit to be made by the State Auditor,
a Certified Public Accountant, or a Fiscal Auditing Committee, of the
books of each county, incorporated city or town, or local taxing unit
having a population of 2500 or more (Code 1947 Supp. Art. 19, secs.
49-59)..

1948 1949
Appropriations $25,000 $25,000
Staff: 2..

STATE LAW DEPARTMENT.

Hall Hammond, Attorney General, 1951
J. Edgar Harvey, Deputy Attorney General
Richard W. Case, Assistant Attorney General
Harrison L. Winter, Assistant, Attorney General
Special Assistant Attorney Generals:
Joseph D. Buscher, for Comptroller of the Treasury
Robert E. Clapp, Jr,, for State Roads Commission
Aaron A. Baer, for Department of Employment Security
Philip T. McCusker, for State Accident Fund
Special Title Attorneys, for State Roads Commission
Frederick A. Puderbaugh
Ernest N. Cory, Jr..

1901 O'Sullivan Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington. 5413.

The Attorney General is elected by the people for a term of four
years (Const. 1867, Art. 5, sec. 1). He is the Director of the State
Law Department which was established in 1916. The Attorney Gen-
eral serves as legal counsel to the Governor, the General Assembly,
and to all Departments, Boards, or Commissions of the State, except-
ing the Public Service Commission whose counsel is appointed by the
Governor. The Attorney General or his Assistants represent the
State in all litigations, including criminal appeals, before the Court
of Appeals. The Law Department acts as counsel to all Baltimore
City officials appointed by the Governor, and to the Clerks of Courts,
the Registers of Wills, the Sheriffs, the State's Attorneys, and the
Trial Magistrates of the several counties and the City of Baltimore,
as well as certain other county officials. The Department, however, does
not represent the Boards of County Commissioners, the Boards of
School Commissioners, the Board of Supervisors of Elections or such
other boards or officials of the counties who have the power to employ
and appoint their own counsel. The Attorney General may render an
opinion on any legal subject or matter upon the request of the Gov-
ernor, the General Assembly, or either house thereof, or of any de-
partment or agency of the State (Code 1939, Art. 32A)..

Publications: Report and Official Opinions of the Attor-
ney General, 1946,1947.

Index to the Opinions of the Attorney General, Vols.
1-30; 1946.

1948 1949
Appropriations $51,592 $49,632
Staff: 14..