JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

empowered to appoint a clerk, who shall be a competent
stenographer, who shall be subject to such rules and orders
as shall be made and passed by the Circuit Court, and said
clerk, if so directed and required so to do, and not otherwise,
shall have authority to be present at all sessions of said grand
jury, and shall take and transcribe the testimony given before
such grand jury, and whenever desired by the State's attorney
shall attend upon and take and transcribe the testimony given
at coroner's inquest, and all testimony so taken and transcribed
shall be for the exclusive use of the grand jury and the State's
attorney of said county, unless otherwise ordered by the Cir-
cuit Court.

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Sec. 108B. The person appointed clerk, before entering upon
the duties of such office, shall take and subscribe before the
Clerk of the Circuit Court an oath that he will keep secret all
matters and things occurring before said grand jury, or in
such form as the Circuit Court may order and require.

Shall make
oath

Sec. 108C. Any person appointed clerk under the provisions
of this Act and having duly qualified, shall attend and be
present at the sessions of such grand jury so empanelled in
said court, and it shall be his duty to take fully and properly
in shorthand any testimony given before said grand jury, and
to furnish to such grand jury and the State's attorney promptly
and immediately a full and complete transcript or transcripts
of such testimony so taken as the grand jury and State's
attorney shall require, and he shall not permit any other
person to take a copy of the same or any portion thereof, nor
shall he read to or permit to be read by any person any part
of the same, nor shall he disclose the character or any of the
contents of the same to any person or persons other than the
grand jury or a member thereof and the State's attorney,
except when required so to do by the order of the Circuit
Court; all of said original notes and minutes shall be kept in
the custody of the State's attorney, and neither a copy or
memorandum of the same be taken from the office of the
State's attorney, except for the use of a grand jury of said
county, or for production in court, excepting, however, when
otherwise ordered by said Circuit Court; and all of said notes
and transcripts of testimony may be destroyed by the State's
attorney upon his application to and written authority of the
said court first obtained.

Duties of said
stenographer.

Sec. 108D. Any person appointed stenographer, as aforesaid,
who shall violate or permits to be violated in any manner any
of the provisions of this Act as to secrecy, shall be guilty of a

Penalty
for violation.