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drawn at length, or signed by the court before the verdict shall have been
recorded in the cause; and although, either before or after such verdict,
the party excepting shall offer to withdraw such exceptions; and in such
case, if the excepting party shall refuse or fail to draw or submit to the
court such exceptions, the same may be drawn or submitted by the oppo-
site party; and when ascertained and corrected, and settled by the court
to conform to the evidence and to the points or prayers embraced in the
exceptions, they shall be signed and sealed by said court, and avail as if
drawn and signed in the usual manner; provided, that no exceptions taken
by the party not appealing or suing a writ of error as aforesaid, shall be
certified as aforesaid, if such party shall agree in writing, and file the
agreement in the cause, not to avail himself at any future trial of the point
or prayer made or involved in such exception, which agreement shall pre-
clude the party from availing himself, at any future trial as aforesaid, of
such point or prayer.

Zihlman v. Cumberland Glass Co., 74 Md. 303. Mister T. Thomas, 122 Md. 456.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 73. 1918 Code, sec. 107.

86. Nothing contained in the two preceding sections shall debar the
parties in any cause from waiving by consent the right of having any of
the exceptions on either side, as aforesaid, certified, as herein provided,
to the court of appeals.

COURT STENOGRAPHER.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 79. 1918 Code, sec. 108.

87. The circuit court is authorized and directed to appoint a stenog-
rapher for said court, to be present at the jury terms of said court, whose
duty shall be prescribed by said coun; in such cases as the court shall
deem proper to employ the services of a stenographer.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 80. 1918 Code, sec. 109.

88. Said stenographer shall receive as compensation for the services
rendered by him as said stenographer, such sum as the court may deem
adequate for such services, which sum shall be levied for on the taxable
property of Frederick County by the County Commissioners of Fred-
erick County, and shall be paid him by the collector of taxes of said county.

INSPECTION OF RECORDS.

1898, ch. 223, sec. 13. 1918 Code, sec. 110.

89. It shall be the duty of the judges of the Circuit Court for Fred-
erick County at every term to inspect the records and papers of the office
attached to said court, relating to lands, tenements or other real estate,
and examine the condition thereof and see whether the clerk of such court
has performed the duties required of him by law, relating to the record-
ing of judgments, decrees, executions and proceedings, and whether he
has entered and transcribed the docket entries as required by law. And