14 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

ARTICLE V.

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND STATE'S ATTORNEYS.
State's Attorneys.

Sec. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive
such fees and commissions or salary, not exceeding three thousand dollars,
as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law; and if any State's At-
torney shall receive any other fee or reward than such as is or may be
allowed by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from office;
provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City shall have the power
to appoint a Deputy and such other Assistants as the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by
the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy and Assistants
shall receive the following annual salaries: State's Attorney, seven thou-
sand five hundred dollars, Deputy State's Attorney, five thousand dollars,
Assistant State's Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or
such salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide, and such
expense for conducting the office of the State's Attorney as the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City may authorize or approve shall be paid by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the extent that the total of them
exceeds the fees of his office, or as the General Assembly shall otherwise
provide, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be liable
for appear ence fees to the State's Attorney. ¹
See notes to art. 3, sec. 52, of Constitution.

ARTICLE VI.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Sec. 2. The Comptroller shall have the general superintendence of the
fiscal affairs of the State; he shall digest and prepare plans for the im-
provement and management of the revenue, and for the support of the
public credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue and expenditures
of the State; superintend and enforce the prompt collection of all taxes and
revenue; adjust and settle, on terms prescribed by law, with delinquent
collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue; preserve all public
accounts; and decide on the forms of keeping and stating accounts. He, or
such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature, shall
grant, under regulations prescribed by Law, all warrants for money to be
paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law, and

¹ Thus amended by act 1924. ch. 177, and ratified by the people November 4, 1924.