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244 DEPARTMENT OF LAW. [ART. XXXIIA
1916, Ch. 560.
3. It shall be unlawful for any board, commission, department,
officer or institution of the State Government to retain or employ or to
continue the employment of any counsel or legal adviser whatever, in
connection with the performance of their, its or his duties, or to be
represented, in the performance of any of the duties imposed upon
them, it or him, by any counsel or legal adviser whatever, other than
the Attorney-General, or his assistants, except as provided in Section
10 of this Article.
1916, ch. 560, sec. 4. 1918, ch. 22, see. 4.
4. The Attorney-General shall receive a salary of Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,000) per annum. He is authorized to appoint not exceed-
ing four assistants, who shall be known as Assistant Attorneys-General,
all of whom shall be practicing lawyers of the State of Maryland in
good standing, and each of whom shall hold his respective office during
the pleasure of the Attorney-General. The salary of each of the Assist-
ant Attorneys-General shall be Two Thousand Five Hundred ($2,500)
Dollars per annum. The said assistants shall each perform such duties
as the Attorney-General may, from time to time, assign to them, and
the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to assign to them and each
of them the performance, subject to his direction and control, of any
of the duties required of him by law.*
1916, ch. 560, sec. 5. 1918, ch. 22, sec. 5.
5. The Attorney-General is authorized to employ such stenog-
raphers, typewriters and other office assistants as he may require, all
of whom shall hold their respective positions during the pleasure of the
Attorney-General and be subject to his orders, and shall receive such
compensation as may be appropriated therefor. The Attorney-General
shall cause the books and papers of his department to be arranged and
indexed in such convenient and orderly manner as to be at all times
readily accessible. He shall also keep in said office a complete docket
and duplicate pleadings of all suits, actions and proceedings of which
the Department of Law has charge, upon which docket such appropriate
entries shall be made as to show at all times, the condition of each of
such cases. He shall also keep on record, in convenient and accessible
form, copies of all written opinions furnished by the Department of
Law, and also abstracts of all titles examined by or for the Department.
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*Section 2 of the act of 1918, chapter 22, provides that the salary of the addi-
tional assistant attorney-general provided for by this section, from March 22.
1918, "until the close of the present fiscal year," shall be paid out of any moneys
in the treasury available for that purpose and not otherwise appropriated.
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