PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 277

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Circuit Court for Har
ford County to appoint a court stenographer and define his
duties and provide for his compensation.

SECTION 1. Be U enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Circuit Court for Harford County be and it is
hereby authorized and directed to appoint a court stenographer,
who shall be a sworn officer of said Court, and said stenographer
so appointed shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per
annum, to be paid in equal monthly instalments, as the jurors
and bailiffs of said Court are now paid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the stenographer
so appointed shall be skilled in the practice of his art, and shall
hold his position during the pleasure of said Court. It shall
be his duty at the direction of said Court to take full steno-
graphic notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions orally
delivered at the regular terms of said Court, and of any other
judicial opinions or judicial matters requested by said Court,
and it shall be his duty to furnish to any party to such proceed-
ings, or his attorney, upon request, 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 of such
party of the expense of such copy, at the rate of five cents for
every 100 words. Whenever any judge of said Court shall
pass an order requiring a typewritten copy of all or any part
of the stenographer's notes taken as aforesaid to be made, it
shall be the duty of said stenographer to make such copy with-
out charge, and said transcript shall be filed in the proceedings
in which said notes were taken, under such rules as may be
prescribed by said Court

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful

for said stenographer to attend and be present at the sessions

of each and every grand jury empaneled in the County of Har

ford, and whenever directed by said Court or the State's Attor-

ney of said county it shall be the duty of said stenographer to

attend at said sessions and take full stenographic notes of all

oral testimony introduced before said grand juries, and at the

request of said Court or State's Attorney to furnish, without

charge, a typewritten copy of the notes of the testimony so

taken by him, or such part thereof as may be required. And

whenever directed by the State's Attorney of said county, said

stenographer shall attend upon and take stenographic notes of

the testimony given at coroner's inquests in the county, and