1728 ARTICLE 7.

1890, ch. 136, sec. 16M.

28. The clerk of said court shall have full power and authority to
enter judgment by default under the rules of said court according to the
provisions of Section 23, in the absence of the judge of said court residing
in said county, but said clerk shall not have authority to extend such
judgment or assess the damages which shall alone be done by the order and
under the direction of said court or any one of the judges thereof.
COURT STENOGRAPHER.
1896, ch. 183, sec. 1. 1908, ch. 110, sec. 2 (p. 686). 1914, ch. 246. 1920, ch. 337.

29. The Judges of the Circuit Court for Carroll County 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 a salary of not less than five hundred dollars per annum, the amount
to be fixed from time to time by the County Commissioners of Carroll
County, who shall pay said Court Stenographer the sum so fixed by them
for his services, in monthly installments, immediately upon the presenta-
tion of the certificate of the Clerk and of any of said Judges of said Court,
showing the attendance and services of said Court Stenographer.

1896, ch. 183. 1908, ch. 110, sec. 3 (p. 686).

30. 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
stenographer shall attend the taking of testimony in any cause depending
in the court of equity in said county when requested to do so by any
examiner in equity or by any one of the parties to the cause; and he shall
take down in stenographic notes and reduce to typewritten copy at least
one copy thereof to be filed in the cause, and certified and returned in
like manner by the regular examiner, for which said stenographer shall
receive no additional compensation; and it shall be his duty to furnish to
any party to such proceedings 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 by such party of the expense of
such a 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.

INDEXES.

1906, ch. 477.

31. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County, Maryland, is
hereby authorized and directed to make a general index of the equity
records of said county.