is duly elected and qualified; shall be eligible for re-election;
shall give such bond, exercise such powers and perform such
duties as now are or may hereafter be fixed by law..

In case of vacancy by death, resignation, refusal to serve,
or neglect to qualify, or give bond, or by disqualification or
removal from the County or City, the Governor shall ap-
point a person to be Sheriff for the remainder of the official
term..

The Sheriff in each county and in Baltimore City shall
receive such salary or compensation and such expenses nec-
essary to the conduct of his office as may be fixed by law;
provided, that the salary of the Sheriff of Baltimore City
shall be Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($7,500.00)
per year. All fees collected by the Sheriff shall be accounted
for and paid to the Treasury of the several counties and
of Baltimore City, respectively.1.

SEC. 45. Coroners, Elisors and Notaries Public may be
appointed for each county and the city of Baltimore 1n 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 ATTORNEYS
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 No-
vember, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same
day in every fourth year thereafter,2 who shall hold his
office for four years from the time of his election and qual-
ification, and until his successor is elected and qualified,
and shall be re-eligible thereto, and shall be subject to re-
moval for incompetency, willful neglect of duty or misde-
meanor in office, on conviction in a court of law..

SEC. 2. All elections for Attorney-General shall be certi-
fied to, and returns made thereof by the Clerks of the Cir-
cuit Courts for the several counties, and the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, to the Governor of the
State, whose duty it shall be to decide on the election and
qualification of the person returned; and in case of a tie.

1 Thus amended by Act of 1945, Ch. 786, and ratified at November election,
1946.
2 Modified by Article XVII, Section 3..