year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight; their number in
each county, their compensation, powers and duties shall
be such as now or may be hereafter prescribed by law;
they shall be elected at such times, in such numbers and for
such periods, not exceeding four years, as may be prescribed
by law.^

^ SEC. 2. The qualified voters of each County, and of the
City of Baltimore, shall, on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in the month of November, in the year nineteen
hundred and fifty-eight, and on the same day in every
fourth year thereafter, elect a Surveyor for each County
and the City of Baltimore, respectively, whose term of of-
fice shall commence on the first Monday of January next
ensuing their election, and whose duties and compensation
shall be the same as are now or may hereafter be prescribed
by Law. And any vacancy in the office of Surveyor, shall
be filled by the Commissioners of the counties, or by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, respectively, for the
residue of the term.

°SEC. 3. The State Librarian shall be appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate, and shall hold his office during the term of the Gover-
nor, by whom he shall have been appointed, and until his
successor shall be appointed and qualified. His salary
shall be fifteen hundred dollars a year; and he shall per-
form such duties as are now, or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by Law; and no appropriation shall be made by Law,
to pay for any Clerk, or assistant to the Librarian. And
it shall be the duty of the Legislature, at its first Session
after the adoption of this Constitution, to pass a Law regu-
lating the mode and manner in which the Books in the
Library shall be kept and accounted for by the Librarian,
and requiring the Librarian to give a Bond, in such penalty
as the Legislature may prescribe, for the proper discharge
of his duties. The office of the State Librarian shall be
abolished as of the end of the term of the present incumbent.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Commissioner of the Land Of-
fice, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall hold his
office during the term of the Governor, by whom he shall
have been appointed, and until his successor shall be ap-
pointed and qualified. He shall perform such duties as are
now required of the Commissioner of the Land Office, or

'Thus amended }i~f Chaptpi- 255, Acts of IS"iO, ralifird Xov. 3, 1891: also ampndcd
hv Cliaptri 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Ko^pinbM B ]P)i)
' Repealed by Chapter 99. Acts of 1956, ratified Noveinbpr 6, 1956.
'Thus amended by Chapter 97 of 1958, ratified November 4, 1958.