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Monday of January next ensuing their election, and whose
duties and compensation shall be the same as are now or

may hereafter be prescribed by law. Any vacancy in the
office of Surveyor shall be filled by the Commissioners of
the counties or by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more respectively, for the residue of the term.

Vacancy.

Sec. 8. The qualified voters of Worcester County shall
on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and
every two years thereafter, elect a Wreck Master for said
county, whose duties and compensation shall be the same
as are now or may be hereafter prescribed by law; the

Wreck-master
elected in Worces-
ter county.

term of office of said Wreck Master shall commence on
the first Monday of January next succeeding his election,

Term two years.

and a vacancy in said office shall be filled by the County
Commissioners of said county for the residue of the term.

Vacancy.

Sec. 9. The General Assembly may provide by law for
the election or appointment of such other officers as may
be required, and are not herein provided for and prescribe
their tenure of office, powers and duties.

Other Officers.

AETICLE VIII.

EDUCATION.

Section 1. The Governor shall, within thirty days after
the ratification by the people of this Constitution, appoint,
subject to the confirmation of the Senate, at its first session
thereafter, a State Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Superintendent of
Public Instruction.

who shall hold his office for four years and until his succes-
sor shall have been appointed and shall have qualified.

Term four yeans.

He shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred
dollars, and such additional sum for travelling and inci-
dental expenses as the General Assembly may by law allow ;

Salary $2,500,

shall report to the General Assembly within thirty days
after the commencement of its first session under this Con-
stitution, a uniform system of Free Public Schools, and

Report a system
of Free Schools.