Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1099

6. Salary of Attorney General; assistants, clerks, etc. The Attorney
General shall receive a salary of $12,000.00 per year. He is author-
ized to appoint six assistants, one of whom he shall designate and
who shall be known as Deputy Attorney General, two of whom shall
be known as Assistant Attorneys General, one of whom shall be
known as Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comptroller of
the Treasury, one of whom shall be known as Special Assistant Attor-
ney General of the State Roads Commission and the other of whom
shall be known as Special Attorney for the State Accident Fund.
The Attorney General is also authorized to appoint such additional
assistants, special attorneys and law clerks as may from time to
time be authorized in the budget. The Deputy Attorney General and
all Assistant and Special Assistant Attorneys General and special
attorneys shall be practicing lawyers of the State of Maryland in
good standing, each of whom shall hold his respective office during
the pleasure of the Attorney General and each of whom shall receive
such salary as shall be provided in the State budget. All of the
salaries above provided shall be payable monthly. The salary of the
Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury shall be paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury, out of funds
available to him for administration of the collection of taxes. The
salary of the Special Assistant Attorney General for the State Roads
Commission shall be paid by the State Roads Commission and the
salary of the Special Assistant Attorney General for the State Acci-
dent Fund shall be paid by the State Accident Fund, as provided by
the budget bill. The Deputy Attorney General and the Assistant
and Special Assistant Attorneys General and the law clerks shall
each perform such duties as the Attorney General may from time to
time assign to them, and the Attorney General is hereby authorized
to assign to them and each of them the performance, subject to his
discretion and control, of any of the duties required of him by law.
Provided, however, that from and after the time the Attorney General
elected in the November election of 1958 commences his term, the
said Attorney General shall receive a salary of fifteen thousand
dollars ($15,000.00) per annum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 679
(House Bill 768)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1 of
Article 19 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956 Supplement),
title "Comptroller", increasing the salary of the Comptroller.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1 of Article 19 of the Annotated Code of Maryland

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