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LAWS OF MARYLAND
Ch. 545
duties of the Attorney General; providing for the
State's Attorney to perform such duties and receive
such salary as the General Assembly prescribes;
correcting certain language; and submitting this
amendment to Section 3 and this amendment to Section
9 as separate ballot questions to the qualified
voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption
or rejection.
BY proposing a repeal from the Constitution of Maryland
Article V - Attorney General and State's Attorneys
Section 3
BY proposing an addition to the Constitution of Maryland
Article V — Attorney General and State's Attorneys
Section 3
BY proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland
Article V — Attorney General and State's Attorneys
Section 9
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to
each of the two Houses concurring) , That the following be
and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section 3 of Article V - Attorney General and State's
Attorneys, of the Constitution of Maryland, the same, if
adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as
herein provided, to be removed from the Constitution of
Maryland:
Article V - Attorney General and State's Attorneys
[3.
It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to
prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases,
which at the time of his appointment and qualification
and which thereafter may be depending in the Court of
Appeals and the intermediate courts of appeal, or in the
Supreme Court of the United States, by or against the
State, or wherein the State may be interested; and he
shall give his opinion in writing whenever required by
the General Assembly or either branch thereof, the
Governor, the Comptroller, the Treasurer or any State's
Attorney, on any legal matter or subject depending before
them, or either of them; and when required by the
Governor or General Assembly, he shall aid any State's
Attorney in prosecuting any suit or action brought by the
State in any Court of this State, and he shall commence
and prosecute or defend any suit or action in any of said
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