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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

which may be transacted without the intervention of a jury;

provided, however, when any of the above mentioned days

shall fall on the first day of January, the fourth day of July,

or on a day set apart by the laws of Maryland as a legal holi-

day, the term of court so falling thereon shall begin on the

day next succeeding, and writs and processes and appearances

to writs and processes issued out of said court shall be re-

turnable accordingly ; and in the trial of any case in said

court on either the law or equity side thereof, the Judges or

Authority to
employ sten-

Judge presiding shall have the power and authority to employ

ographer.

a stenographer or shorthand reporter to take down the pro-

ceedings, including the testimony and opinion of the court, for

the use of the court ; and the County Commissioners shall levy

such compensation for the services of said stenographer or

shorthand reporter as the court or Judge thereof shall ap-

prove of.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 236.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 26 of the

Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Courts,"

to be known as Section 44, relating to the payment of salar-

ies to certain classes of Judges after their retirement from

office.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Judges of

land, That the following section be and the same is hereby

courts.

added to Article 26 of the Code of Public General Laws of

Maryland, title "Courts," to be known as Section 44, relating

to the payment of salaries to certain classes of Judges after

their retirement from office :

44. Every Judge of the Circuit Court for any of the coun-

Payment of

ties, and of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and of the

salaries after
retirement

Court of Appeals, who shall attain the age of seventy years

from the
bench.

while in office, after having served the ten preceding consecu-

tive years, and every Judge of any of said courts who shall

have served upon the bench fifteen consecutive years, whether

such service be before or after the passage of this Act, or part-

ly before or partly after the passage of this Act, and who

shall have reached the age of seventy, and every person who

has heretofore been elected and has served as Judge of any of