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Art. 5] MARYLAND MANUAL 631 cording to law, shall direct to be commenced, prosecuted 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 pre- scribe: And he shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand dollars, or such annual salary as the General Assembly may from time to time by law pre- scribe; 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 Assembly. 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. 1 SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals and the Clerks of any intermediate Courts of Appeal and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, respectively, whenever a case shall be brought into said Court, or office, in which the State is a party, or has interest, immediately 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- i Thus amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1966, ratified November 8, 1966. 2 Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. |
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