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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all Acts or parts of Acts of

the General Assembly inconsistent with any provision or pro-

visions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved March 17, 1904.

CHAPTER 112.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 62

and 65 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of

Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Charter," re-

lating to the Department of Law of the City of Baltimore.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Department
of law.

land, That Sections 62 and 65 of Article 4 of the Code of Public

Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title

"Charter," relating to the Department of Law of the City of

Baltimore, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted

with amendments so as to read as follows :

62. The City Solicitor shall be the legal adviser of the Mayor

City Solicitor

and City Council of Baltimore, and its several departments, and

the legal ad-
visor of

special commissions or boards, and shall have general super-

Mayor and
City Council

vision and direction of all legal business of the city. He shall

of Baltimore.

have charge and direction of the preparation and trial of all

suits, actions and proceedings of every kind to which the city,

or any municipal official department, special commission or

board, shall be a party in any court, local, State or Federal, or

before any Justice of the Peace, and when practicable, without

conflict with his other duties, he shall personally participate in

the trial of all such suits in any of the Federal courts, and in

the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and of all such suits in other

courts which the Mayor may request him, in writing to try,

and shall discharge such other duties as may from time to time

be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article.

Appointment

He shall appoint in writing four assistants, to be known, re-

of assistants.

spectively, as the Deputy City Solicitor and Assistant City

Solicitor, all of whom shall be members of the Baltimore Bar,

and shall hold their respective positions, during the pleasure

of the City Solicitor, at salaries, payable monthly, of three

Salaries.

thousand dollars per annum for the Deputy City Solicitor, and

two thousand five hundred dollars per annum for each of the

said Assistant City Solicitors, who is hereby authorized to as-

sign to them the performance, subject to his direction and con-