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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 said court has performed the duties required of him by law, relating
to the recording of judgments, decrees, proceedings and executions, and
whether he has entered and transcribed the docket entries as required by
law, and if it should appear on such examination that any of the records
or indexes have become so dilapidated and worn as to require them to be
transcribed, they shall order and direct the clerk to transcribe the same
into new record or index books, which the clerk shall procure for that
purpose; and such new records and indexes, when so transcribed, shall be
carefully examined and certified by said clerk, and when so examined and
certified shall be substituted for and become the records and indexes of
said court in lieu of the 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 compensation 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.

COUET STENOGRAPHER.

1910, ch. 380, sec. 1. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 104.

152. The judges of the Circuit Court for Montgomery 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 the sum of ten dollars each day that he is engaged in the perform-
ance 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 presentation of the certificate of the clerk and of any of said
judges of said court showing the attendance and service of said court
stenographer.

1910, ch. 380, sec. 2. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 105.

153. 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 judi-
cial opinions orally delivered at the regular terms thereof, and said stenog-
rapher shall attend the taking of testimony in any cause depending iu 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 proceed-
ings 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