164 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. VII

hereafter be prescribed by law. And any vacancy in the office
of Surveyor shall be filled by the Commissioners of the Coun-
ties, or by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, respect-
ively, for the residue of the term.

Sec. 3. The State Librarian shall be appointed by the
Governor, 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 Con-
stitution, 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 v. 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 here-
after be prescribed by Law, and shall also be the Keeper of
Chancery Records. He shall receive a salary of One Thou-
sand 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 Comp-
troller of the Treasury, and shall pay the same semi-annually
into the Treasury.

Sec. 5. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall also,
without additional compensation, collect, arrange, classify,
have charge of, and safely keep all papers, records, relics and
other memorials connected with the early history of Maryland,
not belonging to any other office.