158 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. V

the Supreme Court of the United States by or against the
State, or wherein the State may be interested; and he shall
give his opinion in writing whenever required by the General
Assembly,, or either branch thereof, the Governor, the Comp-
troller, the Treasurer, or any State's Attorney, on any legal
matter, or subject depending before them, or either of them;
and when required by the Governor or the General Assembly,
he shall aid any State's Attorney in prosecuting any suit or
action brought by the State in any Court of this State, and he
shall commence and prosecute or defend any suit or action in
any of said Courts, on the part of the State, which the General
Assembly, or the Governor, acting according to law, shall
direct to be commenced, prosecuted or defended; and he shall
receive for his services an annual salary of three thousand
dollars; but he shall not be entitled to receive any fees, per-
quisites or rewards whatever, in addition to the salary afore-
said, for the performance of any official duty; nor have power
to appoint any agent, representative or deputy, under any
circumstances whatever; nor shall the Governor employ any
additional counsel in any case whatever, unless authorized by
the General Assembly.
Mayor, &c. of Balto, v. Gill, 31 Md. 375.

Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney-
General, who is not a citizen of this State, and a qualified voter
therein, and has not resided and practiced Law in this State for
at least ten years.
Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 572.

Sec. 5. In case of vacancy in the office of Attorney-General,
occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the State or
from office, or other disqualification, the said vacancy shall be
filled by the Governor for the residue of the term thus made
vacent.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and of the Commissioner of the land Office, respec-
tively, whenever a case shall be brought into said court or office
in which the State is a party or has interest, immediately to
notify the Attorney-General thereof.

The State's Attorneys.

Sec. 7. There shall be an Attorney for the State in each
County and the City of Baltimore, to be styled " The State's
Attorney," who shall be elected by the voters thereof, respec-