DEPAETMENT OP LAW. 1209

ARTICLE 32A.

DEPARTMENT OF LAW.1

1. Department created; head thereof. 2. Duties of Attorney-General and assis- tants. 3. Special counsel of boards, commissions, etc., abolished. 4. Salaries. 5. Employees; books; docket; records. 6. Offices; expenditures. 7. Books to be furnished by state libra- rian. 8. Annual report to Governor.

9. Additional assistant counsel; compen- sation. 10. Article not applicable to certain com- missions, boards and institutions. Blue Sky Law. 11-12. Attorney-General may require state- ment as to facts in re. securities of- fered for sale ; order persons to cease false representations, etc. 13. Court hearing. 14. Penalty.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1916, ch. 560.

1. There shall be a Department of Law of the State of Maryland. The
head of said Department shall be the Attorney-General of the State.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 560.

2. The Attorney-General shall have general charge, supervision and
direction of the legal business of the State, except as provided in Section 10
of this Article, and he, together with his assistants, shall perform the dtities
now or hereafter prescribed by the Constitution and Laws of this State, and
in addition thereto shall be the legal adviser and representative of and
perform all legal work for the following boards, commissions, departments,
officers and institutions:

Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City,

Board of Liquor License Commissioners of Baltimore City,

Police Commissioner of Baltimore City,

State Roads Commission,

State Insurance Commissioner,

State Tax Commission,

State Industrial Accident Commission,
Board of Shell Fish Commissioners,2

State Bank Commissioner,

Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
State Board of Health,

Sheriff of Baltimore City,

1 See art. 41, sec. 97.

2 Conservation Commissioner should probably be substituted here.