360 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 5, Sec. 7]

lively, whenever a case shall be brought into said Court, or
office, in which the State is a party, or has interest, imme-
diately to notify the Attorney-General thereof.

The State's Attorneys.

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 of
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,
willful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in office, on con-
viction 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 Judges thereof, having crimi-
nal jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty it shall be to de-
cide upon the elections and qualifications of the Persons re-
turned ; and, in case of a tie between two or more persons,
to designate which of said persons shall qualify as State's
Attorney, and to administer the oaths of office to the Person
elected.

^EC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such salary as shall be prescribed by law; and
if any State's Attorney shall receive any other fee or re-
ward 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 pow-
er 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 ex-
penses for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as

' Thus amended by Chapter 490, Acts of 1943, ratified November 7, 1944.