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480 MARYLAND MANUAL

ary aforesaid for the performance of any official duty; nor
shall the Governor employ any additional counsel in any
case whatever, unless authorized by the General Assembly.*

Sac, 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of Attor-
ney-General, who is not a citizen of this State, and a quali-
fied voter therein, and has not resided and practiced law in
this State for at least ten years.

SEC. 5. In case of vacancy in the office of Attorney-Gen-
eral, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the
State or from office, or other disqualification, the said va-
cancy shall be filled by the Governor for the residue of the
term thus made vacant.

Sac. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, re-
spectively, whenever a case shall be brought into said court
or office, in which the State is a party or has interest, imme-
diately to notify the Attorney-General thereof.

The State’s Attorney.
Sac. 7. There shall be an Attorney for the State in each
county and the City of Baltimore, to be styled “The State’s
Attorney,” who shall be elected by the voters thereof, re-
spectively, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in No-
vember, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on
the same day every fourth year thereafter; and shall hold
his office for four years from the first Monday in January
next 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 conviction in
a court of law, or by a vote of two-thirds of the Senate, on
the recommendation of the Attorney-General.

SEC. 8. All elections for the Slate’s Attorney shall be
certified to and returns made thereof by the clerks of the
said counties and city to the judge thereof having criminal
jurisdiction, respectively, whose duty it shall be to decide
upon the elections and qualifications of the persons re-
turned; and in case of a tie between two or more persons, to
designate which of said persons shall qualify as State’s At-
torney, and to administer the oath of office to the person
elected.

Sac. 9. The State’s Attorney shall perform such duties
and receive such fees and commissions or salary, not exceed

* Thus amended by Chapter 663, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4. 1913.


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