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Art. 5] MARYLAND MANUAL 747
persons shall qualify as Attorney-General, and to administer
the oath of office to the person elected.
i 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
and the intermediate Courts of Appeal, 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 Comp-
troller, 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 General Assembly,
he shall aid any State's Attorney in prosecuting any suit
or action brought by the State in any Court of this State,
and he shall commence and prosecute or defend any suit
or action in any of said Courts, on the part of the State,
which the General Assembly, or the Governor, acting ac-
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, designation, 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.
i 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,
1 Thus amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1966, ratified November 8, 1966.

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