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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. 1 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 such as may hereafter be prescribed by Law, and shall also 'Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. 'Thus 'amended by Chapter 97. Acts of 1958. ratified November 4. 1958. " Thus amended by Chapter 489, Acts of 1966, ratified November 8, 1966. |
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