HARFORD COUNTY. 2933

COURT STENOGRAPHER.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 175. 1920, ch. 198, sec. 175.

194. The Circuit Court for Harford County 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
twenty-four hundred dollars per annum, to be paid in equal monthly in-
stallments, as the jurors and bailiffs of said Court are now paid.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 176. 1920, ch. 198, sec. 176.

195. 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 stenographic
notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions orally delivered at the
regular terms and at all sittings either at law or in equity of said Court,
and of any other judicial opinions or judicial matters requested at said
Court, and it shall be his duty to furnish to any party to such proceedings,
or his attorney, promptly 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 part of the expense of such copy
at the rate of five cents for every 100 words, excepting when such type-
written copy is required to be written and furnished during the progress
of the trial of a case, when he shall be entitled to charge for the same at
the rate of twenty cents per 100 words, and five cents per 100 words for
each additional copy. 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 stenog-
rapher to make such copy at the public expense at the aforementioned
charges, 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.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 177. 1920, ch. 198, sec. 177.

196. 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
Harford and whenever directed by said Court or the State's Attorney 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 Attor-
ney to furnish, at the public expense at the aforementioned charges, 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 shall at the request of said State's Attorney, furnish a type-
written copy of such notes, or such parts theerof as he may require, at
the public expense at the aforementioned charges; provided, however,
that such stenographer shall be paid for his traveling expenses. And said
stenographer shall not permit any person to make a copy of any of the