SEC. 3. ¹⁵² (a) The Attorney General shall:
(1) Prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases
pending in the Appellate Courts of the State, in the Supreme
Court of the United States or the inferior Federal Courts, by or
against the State, or in which the State may be interested, except
those criminal appeals otherwise prescribed by the General As-
sembly.
(2) Investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any civ-
il or criminal suit or action or category of such suits or actions
in any of the Federal Courts or in any Court of this State, or
before administrative agencies and quasi legislative bodies, on
the part of the State or in which the State may be interested,
which the General Assembly by law or joint resolution, or the
Governor, shall have directed or shall direct to be investigated,
commenced and prosecuted or defended.
(3) When required by the General Assembly by law or joint
resolution, or by the Governor, aid any State's Attorney or other
authorized prosecuting officer in investigating, commencing, and
prosecuting any criminal suit or action or category of such suits
or actions brought by the State in any Court of this State.
(4) Give his opinion in writing whenever required by the
General Assembly or either branch thereof, the Governor, the
Comptroller, the Treasurer or any State's Attorney on any legal
matter or subject.
(b) The Attorney General shall have and perform any other
duties and possess any other powers, and appoint the number of
deputies or assistants, as the General Assembly from time to
time may prescribe by law.
(c) The Attorney General shall receive for his services the
annual salary as the General Assembly from time to time may
prescribe by law, but he may not receive any fees, perquisites or
rewards whatever, in addition to his salary, for the performance
of any official duty.
(d) The Governor may not employ any additional counsel,
in any case whatever, unless authorized by the General Assem-
bly.

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney-
General, who is not a citizen of this State, and a qualified 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-Gen-
eral, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the State,
or from office, or other disqualification, the Governor shall ap-
point a person to fill the vacancy for the residue of the trnn.

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SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and the Clerks of any intermediate Courts of Appeal,
respectively, whenever a case shall be brought into said Courts,
in which the State is a party or has interest, immediately to noti-
fy the Attorney-General thereof.

SEC. 7. There shall be an Attorney for the State in each
county and the City of Baltimore, to be styled "The State's At-
torney", who shall be elected by the voters thereof, respectively,
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 conviction in a Court of
Law, or by a vote of two-thirds of the Senate, on the recommen-
dation 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 criminal jurisdiction, re-
spectively, whose duty it shall be to decide upon the elections
and qualifications of the Persons returned; 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.

SEC. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such salary as shall be prescribed by the General As-
sembly. 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 con-
viction thereof, be removed from office; provided, that the
State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall have the power to ap-
point 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 sala-
ries: State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Dep-
uty State's Attorney, five thousand dollars; Assistant State's At-
torneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or such
salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide and
such expenses for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve
shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the
extent that the total of them exceeds the fees of his office, or as
the General Assembly shall otherwise provide, and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable for appearance
fees to the State's Attorney.

SEC. 10. No person shall be eligible to the office of State's At-
torney, who has not been admitted to practice Law in this State,
and who has not resided, for at least two years, in the county, or
city, in which he may be elected.

SEC. 11. In case of a vacancy in the office of State's At-
torney, or of his removal from the county or city in which he
shall have been elected, or on his conviction as herein specified,
the Judge or Judges resident in the county or, if there be no resi-
dent Judge, the Judge or Judges having jurisdiction in the Cir-
cuit Court of the county in which the vacancy occurs, or by the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City for a vacancy occurring in
Baltimore City, shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy for the
residue of the term.

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SEC. 12. The State's Attorney in each County, and the

City of Baltimore, shall have authority to collect, and give re-
ceipt, in the name of the State, for such sums of money as may
be collected by him, and forthwith make return of and pay over
the same to the proper accounting officer. And the State's Attor-
ney of each county, and the City of Baltimore, before he shall
enter on the discharge of his duties, and from time to time there-
after, shall give such corporate surety bond as may hereafter be
prescribed by Act of the General Assembly.