8 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND.

judges such further annual sum as an addition to their respective salaries
as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall from time to time deem
right and proper, provided, that any such sum being once granted shall not
be diminished during the continuance of said judges in office. ¹

Sec. 39.

This section and art. 11A of Constitution, referred to in overruling objection
to zoning ordinance of Baltimore City, based on its extending jurisdiction of
Baltimore City Court by providing appeal to it from Board of Zoning Appeals.
Goldman v. Crowther, 147 Md. 310.

This section referred to in construing art. 23, sec. 404, of Code—see notes
thereto. Public Serv. Commn. v. Byron, 153 Md. 476.

Sec. 40.

See notes to art. 23 of Declaration of Rights.

Sec. 45.

See notes to art. 87, sec. 2, of Code.

ARTICLE V.

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND STATE'S ATTORNEYS.

State's Attorneys.

Sec. 9. The State's Attorney shall perform such duties and receive
such fees and commissions or salary, not exceeding three thousand dollars,
as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law; and if any State's At-
torney shall receive any 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 thou-
sand five hundred dollars, Deputy 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
expense 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. ²
See notes to art. 3, sec. 52, of Constitution.

¹ This section was submitted by act 1924, ch. 116, and ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 1924.

² Thus amended by act of 1924, ch. 177, and ratified by the people November 4,
1924.