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shall have power to appoint one deputy at an annual salary not exceed-
ing four thousand dollars, and such other assistants at such annual
salaries, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars each, as.the Supreme
.Bench of Baltimore City may authorize and approve; all of said salaries
to be paid out of the fees of the said State's Attorney's office, as has
heretofore been practiced.]*

A state's attorney has no authority to institute proceedings in the nature
of quo warranto to oust an encumbent from a public office; state's attorneys
in Maryland possess no other powers than those prescribed by the consti-
tution or by statute. Hawkins v. State, 81 Md. 310 (decided in 1895).

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 which he
may bo elected.

Sec. 11. In case of vacancy 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 said vacancy shall be filled
by the Judge of the county or city, respectively, having criminal juris-
diction, in which said vacancy shall occur, for the residue of the term
thus mp.de vacant.

See notes to article 4, section 32.

Sec. 12. The State's Attorney in each county, and the City of Balti-
more, shall have authority to collect, and give receipt, 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 account-
ing officer. And the State's Attorney of each county, and the City of
Baltimore, before he shall enter on the discharge of his duties, shall
execute a bond to the State of Maryland, for the faithful performance
of his duties, in the .penalty of ten thousand dollars, with two or more
securities, to be approved by the Judge of the Court having criminal
jurisdiction in said counties or city.

ARTICLE VI. :

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Section 1. There shall be a Treasury Department, consisting of. a
Comptroller, chosen, by the qualified electors of the State, at each regular
election of members of the House of Delegates, who shall receive an
annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and a Treasurer,
to be appointed by the two Houses of the Legislature, at each regular
session thereof, on joint ballot, who shall receive an annual salary of
two thousand five hundred dollars; and the terms of office of the said
Comptroller and Treasurer shall be for two years, and until their suc-

*Thus amended by the act of 1912, chapter 624, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 1913.

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