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such buildings as are committed to his charge, and examine
all accounts for labor and materials required for their construc-
tion or repairs.

Sec. 5. He shall inquire into the undeveloped resources of
wealth of the State of Maryland, more especially concerning
those within the limits of the Chesapeake Bay and its tribu-
taries, which belong to the State, and suggest such plans as
may be calculated to render them available as sources of
revenue.

Sec. 6. He shall make detailed reports to every General
Assembly within the first week of its session, in reference to
each of the subjects committed to his charge, and he shall also
report to the Governor, in the recess of the Legislature, all
abuses or irregularities which he may find to exist in any
department of public affairs with which his office is connected.

Sec. 7. The office hereby established shall continue for four
years from the date of the qualification of the first incumbent
thereof, and shall then expire, unless continued by the General
Assembly.

ARTICLE XI.

CITY OF BALTIMORE.

Section 1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified
by Law to vote in said city for members of the House of Dele-
gates, shall on the fourth Wednesday of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same day in every fourth
year thereafter, elect a person to be Mayor of the City of Balti-
more, who shall have such qualifications, receive such compen-
sation, discharge such duties, and have such powers as are now,
or may hereafter be prescribed by Law; and the term of whose
office shall commence on the first Monday of November suc-
ceeding his election, and shall continue for four years, and
until his successor shall have qualified; and he shall be
ineligible for the term next succeeding that for which he was
elected.

[Sec. 1. The inhabitants of the City of Baltimore qualified
by Law to vote in said city for members of the House of Dele-
gates, shall on the Tuesday after the first Monday of Novem-
ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and on the same day in
every second year thereafter, elect a person to be Mayor of
the City of Baltimore, who shall have such qualifications,
receive such compensation, discharge such duties, and have