54 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 29

Section 4. The Attorney General shall receive a sal-
ary of five thousand dollars ($5. 000) per annum. He is au-
thorized to appoint not exceeding four assistants, who shall be
known as Assistant Attorneys General, all of whom shall be

practicing lawyers of the State of Maryland in good standing,
and each of whom shall hold his respective office during the
pleasure of the Attorney General. The salary of each of the

Assistant Attorneys General shall Le two thousand live hundred

dollars (2500) per annum. The said assistants shall each per-
form such duties as the Attorney General may, from time to

time, assign to them, and the Attorney General is hereby au-
thorized to assign to them and each of them the performance,
subject to his direction and control, of any of the duties re-
quired of him by law, including the collection of all unsettled
balances due the State, in place of the attorneys provided for
by Sections 37 and 38 of Article 19 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland.

IV.

The Department of Education.

SECTION 1. The head of the Department of Education shall
be the State Board of Education, constituted and organized as
at present; and all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions conferred by Annotated Code, Article 77, title "Pub-
lic Education, " or by any other provisions of law relating to
the public school system of the State, upon the said State
Board of Education, or upon any other boards, trustees, sup-
erintendents, principals, teachers or other officials or employees
therein mentioned, shall continue unaffected by this Act, ex-
cept as herein provided; it being the intention that this Act
shall in no way affect any of the provisions of said Article 77
of the Annotated Code, or any other provisions of law relating
to the public school system of the State or the administration
thereof, save only as herein provided.

SEC. 2. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions of the Maryland
Public Library Commission, as the same are set forth in Sec-
tions 100 to 120, inc., of Article 77 of the Annotated Code,
title "Public Education, " Chapter 15, sub-title "Public Li-
braries, " and in any other provisions of law, shall be trans-
ferred to and thereafter be exercised and performed by the
State Superintendent of Schools, as the lawful successor to