ARTICLE V.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND STATE'S ATTORNEY.

A ttorney-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, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and on the same
day, in every fourth year thereafter, 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
between two or more persons, to designate which of said
persons shall qualify as Attorney-General, and to administer
the oath of office to the person elected.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to
prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases,
which at the time of his appointment and qualification and
which thereafter may be depending in the Court of Appeals,
or in the Supreme Court of the United States, by or against
the State, or wherein the State may be interested; and he
shall give his opinion in writing whenever required by the
General Assembly or either branch thereof, the Governor,
the Comptroller, the Treasurer or any State's Attorney,
on any legal matter or subject depending before them, or
either of them; and when required by the Governor or Gen-
eral Assembly, he shall aid any State's Attorney in prosecut-
ing any suit or action brought by the State in any Court
of this State, and he shall commence and prosecute or de-
fend any suit or action in any of said Courts, on the part
of the State, which the General Assembly, or the Governor,
acting according to law, shall direct to be commenced, prose-
cuted or defended, and he shall have and perform such
other duties and shall appoint such number of deputies or
assistants as the General Assembly may from time to time
by law prescribe: And he shall receive for his services an

'Thus amended try Chapter 99, Aits of 1956, latified Ko^embeT 6, 1956.