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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 per-
formance 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1916, ch. 560, sec. 4. 1918, ch. 22, sec. 4.
1922, ch. 29 (p. 53). 1931, ch. 289. 1937, ch. 374. 1939, ch. 577.

4. The Attorney General shall receive a salary of eight thousand dol-
lars ($8,000) per annum. He is authorized to appoint six assistants, one
of whom he shall designate and who shall be known as Deputy Attorney
General, two of whom shall be known as Assistant Attorneys General, one
of whom shall be known as Special Assistant Attorney General for the
Comptroller of the Treasury, one of whom shall be known as Special As-
sistant Attorney General of the State Roads Commission, and the other
of whom shall be known as Special Attorney for the State Accident Fund.
The Attorney General is also authorized to appoint such additional assis-
tants, special attorneys and law clerks as may from time to time be au-
thorized in the Budget. The Deputy Attorney General, the Assistant
Attorneys General, the Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comp-
troller of .the Treasury, the Special Assistant Attorney General for the
State Roads Commission, the Special Attorney for the State Accident
Fund, and all other Assistant Attorneys General and special attorneys shall
be practicing lawyers of the State of Maryland in good standing, each of
whom shall hold his respective office during the pleasure of the Attorney
General. The Deputy Attorney General shall receive an annual salary
of six thousand dollars ($6,000) ; the Assistant Attorneys General shall
each receive an annual salary of fifty-five hundred dollars ($5,500) ; the
Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comptroller of the Treasury
shall receive an annual salary of fifty-five hundred dollars ($5,500); the
Special Assistant Attorney General for the State Roads Commission shall
receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars ($5,000), and the Special
Attorney for the State Accident Fund shall receive an annual salary of
four thousand dollars ($4,000). All of the salaries above provided shall
be payable monthly. The salary of the Special Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral for the Comptroller of the Treasury shall be paid by the Comp-
troller of the Treasury, out of funds available to him for administration of
the collection of taxes. The salary of the Special Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral for the State Roads Commission shall be paid by the State Roads
Commission and the salary of the Special Attorney for the State Accident
Fund shall be paid by the State Accident Fund, as provided by the Budget
Bill. The Deputy Attorney General and the Assistant Attorneys General
and the law clerks 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.
The Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comptroller of the Trea-
sury, the Special Assistant Attorney General for the State Roads Com-
mission and the Special Attorney for the State Accident Fund shall per-
form such duties for the Comptroller of the Treasury, the State Roads
Commission and the State Accident Fund, respectively, as the Attorney
General may assign to them, and each shall be required to perform such
duties subject at all times to the direction and control of the Attorney
General.