| Attorney General
Current Maryland Manual On-Line information:
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/html/06agf.html
In Maryland, the office of Attorney General was established by the Constitution of 1776 (sec. 48). The office was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1817, (Chapter 247, Acts of 1816, ratified 1817). The General Assembly in 1818 recreated the office by statute (Chapter 146, Acts of 1817). By 1851, the Attorney General's duties were fulfilled by a state's attorney in each county and in Baltimore City (Const. 1851, Art. V, sec. 3). The office of Attorney General was reestablished by the Constitution of 1864 (Art. V, sec. 1).
Constitutions:
1776 Constitution Sec. 48
1851 Constitution Art. V sec. 3
1864 Constitution Art. V sec. 1
1867 Constitution Art. V Sec. 1-6
Current Constitution Art. V Secs. 1-6
Constitutional comparison table from 1967 Constitutional Revision Study Documents
Discussion of history of the Office of the Attorney General and its abolition in 1851 from James Warner Harry. The Maryland Constitution of 1851. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Eds. J. M. Vincent, J. H. Hollander, and W. W. Willoughby. Series XX, Nos. 7-8. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1902. (http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000631/html/am631--76.html)
pp. 186-95 of Dan Friedman, The Maryland State Constitution (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006).
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