same is hereby repealed, and that the following
sections be enacted in its stead. In every action
in which issue of fact is now, or shall hereafter be
joined in the Superior Court of Baltimore City or
in the Court of Common Pleas, except in cases of
appeal from a judgment of a Justice of the Peace,
the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action shall, as a
condition precedent to such action being brought
to trial, pay to the Clerk the sum of three dollars,
and in every such action brought in the Court of
Common Pleas on appeal from a judgment of a
Justice of the Peace, the party appellant shall, as
a condition precedent to such action being brought
to trial, pay to the Clerk the sum of one dollar,
and the amounts so received by the Clerks of said
Courts, respectively, shall be accounted for under
oath and paid over monthly by the said Clerks to
the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, and by
him deposited in the City Treasury, to be used as
a fund for the payment of the Stenographers em-
ployed in said Courts as provided for in the second
section of this act. If the fund thus created be
inadequate to pay such salaries the additional
amount necessary for such payment shall be taken
and paid from the fund appropriated by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore for certain expenses,
to which fund any surplus of the sums so paid over
to the Comptroller, as hereinbefore provided, shall
be credited.

Judge to ap-
point Steno-
grapher.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Judge of
each of the Courts hereinbefore named, is hereby
authorized and directed to appoint a Stenographer
for such Court, who shall be a sworn officer of the
Court, and shall be paid a salary of twenty-flve
hundred dollars per annum, in like manner as the
salaries of other officers of the Court are now paid
as prescribed in section one hundred and thirty-
four of this article. The Stenographer so ap-
pointed shall be skilled in the practice of his art
and shall bold his position so long as he efficiently
discharges the duties of his office. It shall be his
duty, under the direction of the Judge of the
Court, to take full stenographic notes of all oral
testimony and judicial opinions orally delivered in
every trial at the regular terms thereof; and in case
the Judge shall require a transcript of such steno-
graphic notes or of any portion thereof, he shall