MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1177

Comptroller of the treasury, one of whom shall be known
as special assistant attorney 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.]
MAY APPOINT SUCH DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL, SPECIAL
ATTORNEYS, ASSISTANTS AND LAW CLERKS AS MAY BE AUTHORIZED
FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE BUDGET. The deputy [attorney]
ATTORNEYS 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 salaries of the special
attorneys of the Department assigned to the following
agencies: The State Roads Commission; the Property
Acquisition Division of the Department of Public
Improvements; the Subsequent Injury Fund; the State
Accident Fund; and the Department of Employment Security
shall be payable from the funds of the agency to which
the special attorneys are assigned as provided for in the
annual State budget and these attorneys may be located in
the offices of the agency to which they are assigned.]
The salaries of all DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL, assistant
attorneys general and all [other] special attorneys [than
those assigned to the State Roads Commission, the
Property Acquisition Division of the Department of Public
Improvements; the Subsequent Injury Fund, the State
Accident Fund and the Department of Employment Security,
shall be] ARE payable from the funds of the Department of
Law unless otherwise provided in the annual State budget
[and the offices of these assistants and other special
attorneys shall in the discretion of the Attorney General
be located in the offices of the Department of Law].
The deputy [attorney] ATTORNEYS general, [and] the
assistant [and special assistant] attorneys general, THE
SPECIAL ATTORNEYS, 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] MAY 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. Provided further, that from and after the
time the Attorney General elected in the November
election of 1966 commences his term, the said Attorney
General shall receive a salary of twenty thousand
($20,000.00) dollars per annum. Provided, further, that
from and after the time the Attorney General elected in
the November election of 1970 commences his term, the
said] THE Attorney General shall receive such annual