1352 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 71)0]

wornout records and indexes, and the County Commissioners
for Montgomery County shall annually levy by estimate in
advance a sum of money sufficient to provide a fair compensa-
tion for the labor of the clerk in making such new records and
indexes; and shall pay to said clerk at the end of each calendar
month such sum of money as may be found due to the said
clerk for services rendered under the provisions of this section.

1910, ch. 380, sec. 1.

104. That the judges of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County be and they are hereby authorized and directed to
appoint a court stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of
said court, and said stenographer so appointed shall be paid
the sum of ten dollars each day that he is engaged in the per-
formance of the duties of his office by an order of the said
court, and the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
shall pay said court stenographer the sum or sums so fixed by
the order of said Circuit Court immediately upon the presenta-
tion of the certificate of the clerk and of any of said judges of
said court showing the attendance and service of said court steno-
grapher.

1910, ch. 380, sec. 2.

105. That the stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in
the practice of his art and shall hold his position during the
pleasure of the judges of said court; it shall be his duty, under
the direction of the judge or judges of said court, to take full
stenographic notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions
orally delivered at the regular terms thereof, and said steno-
grapher shall attend the taking of testimony in any cause
depending in the Court of Equity whenever he may be so
ordered by any judge of said court. It shall also be the duty
of said stenographer, by an order of said court, to attend any
hearing in any cause to take stenographic notes, and upon
request, it shall be his duty to furnish to any party to such
proceedings a typewritten copy of the notes of testimony and
judicial opinions so taken by him, or of such part thereof as
may be required on payment by such party of the expense of
such copy at the rate of five cents for every hundred words;
whenever any judge of said court shall pass an order requiring
a typewritten copy of all or any part of the stenographic notes
taken during any judicial proceedings at which he presided, to
be made, it shall be the duty of the court stenographer to make
such copy, and said transcript shall be filed in the case under
such rules as shall be prescribed by said court.