1284                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 639

increase the salary of the State's Attorney, the deputy State's
attorney and the full-time assistant State's attorneys; TO IN-
CREASE THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME ASSISTANT STATE'S
ATTORNEYS; and TO decrease the number of part-time assistant
State's attorneys.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 40 (q) of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Supplement), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact,"
subtitle "State's Attorney," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

40.

(q) Prince George's County—In Prince George's County, (1)
the State's Attorney's salary shall be [twenty thousand dollars
($20,000)] twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per annum. The
State's Attorney, during his term of office, shall not, except in con-
nection with and in the performance of his duties as such State's
Attorney, appear as counsel or represent any party professionally
before any court, magistrate, board, commission or agency of this
State or any county or political subdivision of this State. It is in-
tended by the provisions herein that the State's Attorney shall not
engage in the private practice of law in any matter whatsoever.

(2)    The State's Attorney may appoint one deputy State's attor-
ney and [four] nine full-time assistant State's attorneys and [five]
four part-time assistant State's attorneys. The salary of the deputy
State's attorney shall be at such compensation, not exceeding [fif-
teen thousand dollars ($15,000)] twenty-two thousand five hundred
dollars ($22,500), per annum as the State's Attorney may deem
proper, to be paid by the county on the certification of the State's
Attorney to the County Commissioners. The salary of the [four]
nine full-time assistant State's attorneys shall be at such compensa-
tion, not exceeding [twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500)]
eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) per annum each, as the State's
Attorney may deem proper, to be paid by the county on the certifica-
tion of the State's Attorney to the County Commissioners. The
deputy State's attorney and the [four] nine full-time assistant
State's attorneys, during their terms of office shall not, except in
connection with and in the performance of their duties as such
deputy and assistant State's attorneys, appear as counsel or repre-
sent any party professionally before any court, magistrate, board,
commission or agency of this State or any county or political sub-
division of this State. It is intended by the provisions herein that
the deputy State's attorney and the full-time assistant State's attor-
neys shall not engage in the private practice of law in any matter
whatsoever. The salary of the [five] four part-time assistant State's
attorneys shall be at such compensation, not exceeding seven thou-
sand, two hundred dollars ($7,200) per annum each, as the State's
Attorney may deem proper, to be paid by the county on the certi-
fication of the State's Attorney to the County Commissioners.

(3)    The salary of the State's Attorney, the deputy State's attor-
ney and the assistant State's attorneys shall be paid in equal semi-
monthly installments.

(4)    The deputy State's attorney and the assistant State's attor-
neys shall perform such work as may be directed by the State's