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Bar, and shall hold their respective positions during the pleas-
ure of the City Solicitor, at salaries, payable monthly, of three
thousand dollars per annum for the First Assistant, and twenty-
five hundred dollars per annum for the Second Assistant, and
eighteen hundred dollars per annum for the Third Assistant.
The City Solicitor is authorized to assign to his assistants such
duties in addition to those hereby assigned to them as he
shall deem most conducive to the efficient discharge of the
business of the Law Department. The First Assistant
shall aid the City Solicitor in the discharge of his court
duties, and shall try all cases in which the City is interested
in any court in the State of Maryland, and he shall act as
junior counsel to the City Solicitor in any court in which his
services may be required. He shall act as prosecuting attorney
on behalf of the City to assist the State's Attorney in the prose-
cution of all violations of City ordinances, subject to the direc-
tion and control of the City Solicitor, and shall perform such
other duties as may be assigned to him by the City Solicitor.
The Second Assistant to the City Solicitor shall have charge,
subject to the control and direction of the City Solicitor, of the
examination of all titles on behalf of the City, and shall dis-
charge such other duties as may be assigned to him by the City
Solicitor. The Third Assistant to the City Solicitor shall, sub-
ject to the control and direction of the City Solicitor, try all
cases in which the City is interested before any Justice of the
Peace, and in all cases in the City Court of appeals from Jus-
tices of the Peace. He shall file, subject to the direction and
control of the City Solicitor, all reports of sales for taxes by the
City Collector, and shall discharge such other duties as may
be assigned to him by the City Solicitor. He shall have his
office in the permanent offices of the Law Department, and shall
remain there from 11 A. M. to 2 P. M. daily, Sunday and legal
holidays excepted, when not elsewhere engaged on the busi-
ness of the City, or unless temporarily absent by leave of the
City Solicitor.

63. The City Solicitor shall give advice and opinions in
writing upon any legal questions affecting the interest of the
City which may be submitted to him in writing by the Mayor
or either Branch of the City Council, or any committee thereof,