other fee or reward than such as is or may be allowed by
law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
office; provided, that the State's Attorney for Baltimore
City shall have the power to appoint a Deputy and such
other assistants as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize or approve and until otherwise provided by
the General Assembly, the said State's Attorney, Deputy
and Assistants shall receive the following annual salaries:
State's Attorney, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Dep-
uty State's Attorney, five thousand dollars; Assistant State's
Attorneys, four thousand dollars each; said salaries, or such
salaries as the General Assembly may subsequently provide
and such expenses for conducting the office of the State's
Attorney as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may
authorize or approve shall be paid by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to the extent that the total of them
exceeds the fees of his office, or as the General Assembly
shall otherwise provide, and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall not be liable for appearance fees to the
State's Attorney

SEC. 10. No person shall be eligible to the office of
State's Attorney, who has not been admitted to practice
Law in this State, and who has not resided, for at least two
years, in the county, or city, in which he may be elected.

SEC. 11.¹⁶² In case of a vacancy in the office of State's
Attorney, or of his removal from the county or city in which
he shall have been elected, or on his conviction as herein
specified, the Judge or Judges resident in the county or, if
there be no resident Judge, the Judge or Judges having
jurisdiction in the Circuit Court of the county in which the
vacancy occurs, or by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
for a vacancy occurring in Baltimore City, shall appoint a
person to fill the vacancy for the residue of the term.

SEC. 12.¹⁶³ The State's Attorney in each County, and the
City of Baltimore, shall have authority to collect, and give
receipt, in the name of the State, for such sums of money as may
be collected by him, and forthwith make return of and pay over
the same to the proper accounting officer. And the State's
Attorney of each county, and the City of Baltimore, before he
shall enter on the discharge of his duties, and from time to time
thereafter, shall give such corporate surety bond as may hereafter
be prescribed by Act of the General Assembly

ARTICLE VI.

SECTION 1.¹⁶⁴ There shall be a Treasury Depart-
ment, consisting of a Comptroller chosen by the qualified
electors of the State, who shall receive such salary as may
be fixed by law; and a Treasurer, to be appointed on joint
ballot by the two Houses of the Legislature at each regular
session in which begins the term of the Governor, who shall
receive such salary as may be fixed by law. The terms of
office of the Comptroller and Treasurer shall be for four
years, and until their successors shall qualify; and neither
of the officers shall be allowed, or receive any fees, com-

missions or perquisites of any kind in addition to his salary
for the performance of any duty or services whatsoever. In
case of a vacancy in the office of the Comptroller by death
or otherwise, the Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall fill such vacancy by appoint-
ment, to continue until another election and until the
qualification of the successor. In case of a vacancy in the
office of the Treasurer by death or otherwise, the Deputy
Treasurer shall act as Treasurer until the next regular or
extraordinary session of the Legislature following the crea-
tion of the vacancy, whereupon the Legislature shall choose
a successor to serve for the duration of the unexpired term
of office. The Comptroller and the Treasurer shall keep their
offices at the seat of government, and shall take such oaths
and enter into such bonds for the faithful discharge of their
duties as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law,

SEC. 2.¹⁶⁵ The Comptroller shall have the general
superintendence of the fiscal affairs of the State; he shall
digest and prepare plans for the improvement and manage-
ment of the revenue, and for the support of the public
credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue and
expenditures of the State; superintend and enforce the
prompt collection of all taxes and revenues; adjust and
settle, on terms prescribed by law, with delinquent collec-
tors and receivers of taxes and State revenue; preserve all
public accounts; and decide on the forms of keeping and
stating accounts. He, or such of his deputies as may be
authorized to do so by the Legislature, shall grant, under
regulations prescribed by Law, all warrants for money to
be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations
by law, and countersign all checks drawn by the Treasurer
upon any bank or banks in which the moneys of the State,
may, from time to time, be deposited. He shall prescribe
the formalities of the transfer of stock, or other evidence of
the State debt, and countersign the same, without which
such evidence shall not be valid; he shall make to the
General Assembly full reports of all his proceedings, and
of the state of the Treasury Department within ten days
after the commencement of each session; and perform such
other duties as shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 3.¹⁶⁶ The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of
the State, and, until otherwise prescribed by law, deposit
them, as soon as received, to the credit of the State, in such
bank or banks as he may, from time to time, with the
approval of the Governor, select (the said bank or banks
giving security, satisfactory to the Governor, for the safe-
keeping and forthcoming, when required of said deposits),
and he or such of his deputies as may be authorized to do
so by the Legislature shall disburse the same for the pur-
poses of the State according to law, upon warrants drawn
by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and on
checks countersigned by the Comptroller, or his duly
authorized deputy. The Legislature may prescribe, by law,
for the Treasurer to disburse the moneys of the State, by a
system other than by the use of checks. The Treasurer or
such of his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the
Legislature shall take receipts for all moneys paid from the