300 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tion 25 of this Article, and hold his office as therein pro-
vided. He shall be paid the salary of two thousand five hun-
dred dollars per annum, payable monthly. He shall collect all
water rents and license fees, and all other dues or revenues to
which the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is or may be
entitled, except otherwise provided in this Article, and he shall
have such assistants and clerks and shall perform such other
duties as shall be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent
with this Article. All licenses imposed by ordinance shall be
due and collectible in the first week of January in each year,
and it shall be the duty of said Collector of Water Rents and
Licenses to see that said licenses are paid at that time.

Department of Law.

60. There shall be a Department of Law of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore ; the head of said department shall
be the City Solicitor.

61. The City Solicitor shall be appointed by the Mayor in
the mode prescribed in section 25 of this Article, and hold his
office as therein provided. He shall be a member of the Balti-
more Bar, who has practiced his profession for not less than ten
years in Baltimore City, and he shall receive a salary of four
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly.

62. The City Solicitor shall be the legal adviser of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and its several depart-
ments, and special commissions or boards, and shall have gen-
eral supervision and direction of all legal business of the City.
He shall have charge of the preparation and trial of all suits,
actions and proceedings of every kind to which the City shall
be a party in any Court, local, State or Federal, and he shall
personally participate in the trial of all such suits in any of the
Federal Courts, and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and
of all such suits in other Courts which the Mayor may request
him in writing to try, and shall discharge such other duties as
may from time to time be prescribed by ordinances, not incon-
sistent with this Article. He shall appoint in writing three as-
sistants, to be known as the First, Second and Third Assistant
City Solicitors, all of whom shall be members of the Baltimore