lxvi CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 7.

SEC. 5. The Comptroller shall qualify and enter on the duties of
his office on the third Monday of January next succeeding the
time of his election, or as soon thereafter as practicable. And the
Treasurer shall qualify within one month after his appointment
by the Legislature.

SEC. 6. Whenever during the recess of the Legislature charges
shall be preferred to the Governor against the Comptroller or
Treasurer for incompetency, malfeasance in office, wilful neglect
of duty, or misappropriation of the funds of the State, it shall be
the duty of the Governor forthwith to notify the party so charged
and fix a day for a hearing of said charges; and if from the evi-
dence taken, under oath, on said hearing before the Governor, the
said allegations shall be sustained, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor to remove said offending officer and appoint another in his
place, who shall hold the office for the unexpired term of the
officer so removed.

ARTICLE VII.

8TTHDBY OFFICERS.

County Commissioners—Surveyor—State Librarian—Commissioner of the
Land Office—Wreck Master.

SECTION 1. County Commissioners shall be elected on general
ticket of each County by the qualified voters of the several
Counties of this State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in the month of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
and on the same day in every second year thereafter. Their
number in each County, their compensation, powers and duties,
shall be such as are now, or may be hereafter prescribed by Law.

Com'rs of Washington County v Nesbitt, 6 Md. 468. Com'rs of Public
Schools v. County Com'rs of Allegany Co., 20 Md. 459.

SEC. 2. The qualified voters of each County and of the City of
Baltimore shall on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, elect
a Surveyor for each County and the city of Baltimore, respectively,
whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday of Jan-
uary next ensuing their election; and whose duties and Compen-