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748 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 5 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. 1 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- turned; and, in case of a tie between two or more persons, to designate which of said persons shall qualify as State's Attorney, and to administer the oaths of office to the Person elected. 2 SEC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive such salary as shall be prescribed by law; and if any State's Attorney shall receive any other fee or re- ward than such as is or may be allowed by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall have the pow- er to appoint a Deputy and such other Assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy and Assistants shall receive the following annual salaries: State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand dollars; Assistant State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or such salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide, and such ex- penses for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as 1 Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1966. 2 Thus amended by Chapter 490, Acts of 1943, ratified November 7, 1944. |
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