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commencing in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one; their number
in each county, their compensation, powers and duties shall be such as
now or may be hereafter prescribed by law; they shall be elected at
such times, in such numbers and for such periods not exceeding six
years, as may be prescribed by law.]*

Sec. 2. The qualified voters of each County, and of the City of
Baltimore shall, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and
on the same day in every second year thereafter, elect a Surveyor for
each County and the City of Baltimore, respectively, whose term of
office shall commence on the first Monday of January next ensuing
their election, and whose duties and compensaiton shall be the same as
are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law. And any vacancy in
the office of Surveyor shall be filled by the Commissioners of the Coun-
ties, or by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, respectively, for
the residue of the term.

Sec. 3. The State Librarian shall be appointed by the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold his office
during the term of the Governor, by whom he shall have been appointed,
and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. His salary
shall be fifteen hundred dollars a year; and he shall perform such duties
as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by Law; and no appropria-
tion shall be made by law to pay for any clerk, or assistant to the
Librarian. And it shall be the duty of the Legislature, at its first
session after the adoption of this Constitution, to pass a Law regulating
the mode and manner in which the books in the Library shall be kept
and accounted for by the Librarian, and requiring the Librarian to give
a bond, in such penalty as the Legislature may prescribe, for the proper
discharge of his duties.

Sec. 4. There shall be a Commissioner of the Land Office, who shall
be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, who shall hold his office during the term of the Governor,
by whom he shall have been appointed, and until his successor shall be
appointed and qualified. He shall perform such duties as are now
required of the Commissioner of the Land Office, or such as may here-
after be prescribed by Law, and shall also be the Keeper of Chancery
Records. He shall receive a salary of One Thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, to be paid out of the treasury, and shall charge
such fees as are now, or may be hereafter fixed by Law. He shall make
a semi-annual report of all the fees of his office, both as Commissioner
of the Land Office, and as keeper of the Chancery Records, to the Comp-
troller of the Treasury, and shall pay the same semi-annually into the
Treasury.

Sec. 5. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall also, without
additional compensation, collect, arrange, classify, have charge of, and

*Thus amended by Act of 1890, Chapter 255. and adopted by vote of people
November 3, 1890.