1008 ARTICLE 4.

requirements of the city may demand and as are necessary to properly
care for the lamps and lighting of the city, and fix their compensation,
uot to exceed in the; aggregate the amount appropriated by ordinance.
He shall have power to appoint such clerks and employees as may be
necessary to properly conduct his office, and as the annual appropriations
of the city for his use in the discharge of his duties may warrant. The
compensation of the Superintendent of Lamps and Lighting shall be
three thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and his assistants
and the clerks and employees under him shall be paid such fixed salaries
as may be prescribed by ordinance, and not in fees; all fines and inspec-
tion fees shall be paid to the Comptroller.

American Lighting Co. v. McCuen, 92 Md. 705.

SUIRVEYOR.

P. L. L. (I860). Art. 4. sec. 865. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4. see. 825.

205. There shall be a Surveyor, to be elected on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November in the year nineteen hundred and
nineteen, and on the same day in every second* year thereafter, and whose
term of office shall commence on the first Monday in January next ensuing

after his election; his duties and compensation shall be prescribed by the

ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Any vacancy in
the office of Surveyor shall be filled by the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore for the residue of the term.

Baltimore City v. Lyman, 92 Md. 610.

CONSTABLES.

1912, ch. 823.

206. There shall be two Constables for every ward of the City of
Baltimore, who shall be appointed by the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore and hold their offices for two years. Their duties and compensation
shall be the same as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by law or
ordinances.

Constable failing to qualify within thirty days after his appointment, forfeits
his position.

Little v. Schul, 118 Md. 455. (See notes to section 623).

Ordinance passed in pursuance of Charter has same force as Act of the Legis-
lature.

Gould v. Baltimore, 119 Md. 534.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.+

1898, ch. 123.

207. There shall be a Superintendent of Public Buildings, who shall
be appointed by the Mayor in the manner prescribed in Section 25 of this

*Term changed to four years by Article 17 of the State Constitution. See Sec.
85A, Sub-sec. 8, as to duties in Bureau of Plans and Surveys.

tThe office has been abolished and duties transferred to the Bureau of Buildings.
See Sec. 85A, Sub-sec. 6 of this Charter.