annual salary of three thousand dollars, or such annual sal-
ary as the General Assembly may from time to time by
law prescribe: but he shall not be entitled to receive any
fees, perquisites or rewards whatever, in addition to the
salary aforesaid, for the performance of any official duty;
nor shall the Governor employ any additional Counsel, in
any Case whatever, unless authorized by the General As-
sembly.^

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Attor-
ney-General, who is not a citizen of this State, and a quali-
fied voter therein, and has not resided and practiced Law in
this State for at least ten years.

SEC. 5. In case of vacancy in the office of Attorney-
General, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the
State, or from office, or other disqualification, the said va-
cancy shall be filled by the Governor, for the residue of the
term thus made vacant.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, respec-
tively, 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, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight,
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-

'Thus amended by Chapter 663, Acts of 1913, ratified November 4, 1913.
' Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Sovember 6, 1956.