COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	Sec. 5. In case of vacancy in the office	See Section 4.18, Qualifications, p. 77.
	of Attorney General, occasioned by death,
	resignation, removal from the State, or from
	office, or other disqualification, the said
	vacancy shall be filled by the Governor, for
	the residue of the term thus made vacant.
	Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk
	of the Court of Appeals and the Clerks of
	any intermediate courts- of appeal and of
	the Commissioner of the Land Office, re-
	spectively, whenever a case shall be brought
	into said Courts, or office, in which the
	State is a party, or has interest, immediately
	to notify the Attorney General thereof.
	The State's Attorneys.
	Sec. 7. There shall be an Attorney for	Section 4.35. State's Attorney.
	the State in each county, and the City of	There shall be a state's attorney in each
	Baltimore, to be styled "The State's Attor- ney," who shall be elected by the voters	county or district which may be prescribed by the General Assembly by law. He shall be
	thereof, respectively, on the Tuesday next	elected by the voters of the county or district
	after the first Monday of November, in the	in which he seeks office. The term of office,
	year, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and on the same day every fourth year there- after; and shall hold his office for four years from the first Monday in January next	functions, powers, duties, method of filling vacancies, and all other matters relating to the office shall be prescribed by the General Assembly by law.
	ensuing his election, and until his successor
	shall be elected and qualified; and shall be
	re-eligible thereto, and be subject to removal
	therefrom, for incompetency, willful neglect
	of duty, or misdemeanor in office, on con-
	viction in a Court of Law, or by a vote of
	two-thirds of the Senate, on the recommen-
	dation of the Attorney General.
	Sec. 8. All elections for the State's	See Section 435, State's Attorney, p. 79.
	Attorney shall be certified to, and Returns
	made thereof, by the Clerks of the said
	counties and city, to the Judges thereof,
	having criminal jurisdiction, respectively,
	whose duty it shall be to decide upon the
	elections and qualifications of the Persons
	returned; and, in case of a tie between two
	or more Persons, to designate which of said
	Persons shall qualify as State's Attorney,
	and to administer the oaths of office to the
	Person elected.
	Sec. 9. The State's Attorney shall per-	See Section 435, State's Attorney, p. 79.
	form such duties and receive such salary
	as shall be prescribed by Law; and if any
	State's Attorney shall receive any other fee
	or reward than such as is or may be
	allowed by Law, he shall, on conviction
	thereof, be removed from office; provided,
	that the State's Attorney for Baltimore City
	shall have the power to appoint a Deputy

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