be interested, except those criminal appeals otherwise
prescribed bv the General Assembly
(2) Investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any
civil 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 invesngated, 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 inves-
tigating, 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 Gov-
ernor, the Comptroller, the Treasurer or any State's At-
torney 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 As-
sembly 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 an) additional
counsel, in any case whatevci, unless authorized by the
General Assembly

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of
Attorney General, who is not a citi/en of this State, and a
qualified voter therein, and has not resided and practiced
Law m this State tor 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
Governor shall appoint a person to till the vacancy for the
residue of the term

SEC. 6.¹⁶⁰ 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 notify the Attorney General
thereof

The State's Attorneys.

SEC. 7.¹"¹ 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, 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, tor incompctcncy, 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 recom-
mendation of the Attorney General

SEC. 8. All elections tor the State's Attorney shall be
certified to, and Returns made thereof, by die Clerks of die
said Counties and City, to the Judges thereof, having criminal
Jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty if shall be to decide upon
the elecuons and qualifications of me Persons returned, and,
in case of a ue between two or more pcisons, to designate
which of said persons shall qualify as State's Attorney, and to
administer the oaths of office to the Person elected

SEC 9 ¹⁶² The State's Attornc} shall perform such
duties and receive such salary as shall be prescribed by the
General Assembly If any State's Attorney shall receive any
other fee or reward than such as is or nia^ be allowed bv
law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
office, provided, that the State's Attornc\ tor Baltimore
City shall have the power to appoint a Deputy and such
other assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authori7C or approve and until othcrv, ise provided bv
the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy
and Assistants shall recenc 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 Assemble may subsequently
provide and such expenses tor conducting the office of the
State's Attorney as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize or approve shall be paid b\ 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 toi appearance fees
to the State's Attoiney

SEC. 10 No person shall be eligible to the office of
State's Attorney, 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 v. hich he may be elected

SEC 11 "In case of a ^ acanci in the office of State's
Attorney, 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 resident Judge, the Judge or
Judges having jurisdiction in the Circuit Court of the
county in which the vacancy occurs, or hv the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City tor a vacancy occurring in Balti-
more City, shall appoint a person to fill the \acancy tor the
residue of the term

SEC. 12.¹⁶⁴ The State's Attornci, in each County, and
the City of Baltimore, shall have authority to collect, and give
receipt, in the name of the State, tor such sums of money as
may be collected b) him, and forthwith make return of and
pay over the same to the proper accounting officer And me
State's Attorney of each county, and the City of Baltimore,
before he shall enter on me discharge of his duties, and from
tune to time thereafter, shall give such corporate surety bond
as may hereafter be prescnbed bv Act of the General Assembly