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Assembly or the Governor, acting according to law, shall direct to be
commenced, prosecuted or defended, and he shall have and perform
such other duties and shall appoint such number of deputies or assist-
ants as the General Assembly may from time to time by law prescribe;
and he shall receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand
dollars, or such annual salary as the General Assembly may from time
to time by law prescribe; but he shall not be entitled to receive any
fees, perquisites or rewards whatever in addition to the salary afore-
said for the performance of any official duty; nor shall the Governor
employ any additional counsel in any case whatever, unless authorized
by the General Assembly.]*

Injunction proceedings to restrain the city of Baltimore from carrying
out the provisions of an ordinance alleged to be unconstitutional and void,
may be instituted by taxpayers of Baltimore city specially damaged there-
by; the attorney-general need not be a party. Baltimore v. Gill, 31 Md. 394.
Where an appeal is taken by an attorney employed by private parties to
assist the state's attorney, without the latter's consent or co-operation,
and the motion to dismiss the appeal is not opposed by the state's attorney
or the attorney-general, the motion will prevail. State v. Carter, 49 Md. 10.

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.

This section referred to in construing article 5, section 2, and article 4,
section 11—see notes thereto. Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 622.

Sec. 5. In case of vacancy in the office of Attorney-General, occa-
sioned by death, resignation, removal from the State or from office, or
other disqualification, the said vacancy shall be filled by the Governor
for the residue of the term thus made vacant.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of, Appeals
and of the Commissioner of the land Office, respectively, 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.

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, respectively, on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in November, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, 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, wilful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in

Thus amended by the act of 1912, chapter 663, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 3913.