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sation shall be the same as are now or may hereafter be prescribed
by Law. And any vacancy in the office of Surveyor shall be
filled by the Commissioners of the Counties, or by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, respectively, for the residue of the
term.

SEC. 3. The State Librarian shall be appointed by the Gov-
ernor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and
shall hold his office during the term of the Governor, by whom
he shall have been appointed, and until his successor shall be
appointed and qualified. His salary shall be Fifteen hundred
dollars a year; and he shall perform such duties as are now, or
may hereafter be prescribed by Law; and no appropriation shall
be made by Law, to pay for any Clerk, or assistant to the
Librarian. And it shall be the duty of the Legislature, at its
: first Session after the adoption of this Constitution, to pass a
Law regulating the mode and manner in which the Books in the
Library shall be kept and accounted for by the Librarian, and
requiring the Librarian to give a Bond, in such penalty as the
Legislature may prescribe, for the proper discharge of his duties.

Marshall v. Harwood, 5 Md. 423. Silver a. Magruder, 32 Md. 387.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Commissioner of the Land Office,
who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, who shall hold his office during the
term of the Governor, by whom he shall have been appointed,
and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. He shall
perform such duties as are now required of the Commissioner of
the Land Office, or such as may hereafter be prescribed by Law,
and shall also be the Keeper of the Chancery Records. He shall
receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum,
to be paid out of the Treasury, and shall charge such fees as are
now, or may be hereafter fixed by Law. He shall make a semi-
annual report of all the fees of his office, both as Commissioner
of the Land Office, and as Keeper of the Chancery Records, to
the Comptroller of the Treasury, and shall pay the same semi-
annually into the Treasury.

SEC. 5. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall also, with-
out additional compensation, collect, arrange, classify, have charge