TALBOT COUNTY. 4519

COURT STENOGRAPHER.

1896, ch. 299, sec. 1.

57. The Judges of the Second Judicial Circuit of this State are here-
by authorized and empowered to employ a competent stenographer to
serve in the respective courts of said circuit.

1896, ch. 299, sec. 2. 190S, ch. 526, sec. 2 (p. 678). 1912, ch. 43, sec. 2.

58. The salary of said stenographer shall be sixteen hundred dollars
($1,600.00) per year from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and
twelve; the said salary to be paid as follows: The County Commissioners
of Cecil County shall pay four hundred and twenty dollars ($420.00)
thereof; the County Commissioners of Talbot County shall pay three
hundred and twenty-five dollars ($325.00) thereof; the County Commis-
sioners of Kent County shall pay three hundred and ten dollars ($310.00)
thereof; the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County shall pay
three hundred and ten dollars thereof, and the County Commissioners of
Caroline County shall pay two hundred and thirty-five dollars ($235.00)
thereof, said payments to be made in quarterly instalments, from the first
day of April, nineteen hundred and twelve.*

1896, ch. 299, sec. 3. 1908, ch. 526, sec. 3 (p. 628). 1912, ch. 43, sec. 3.

59. The stenographer appointed under this Act shall serve for one
year, and shall be removed at any time for cause, and shall perform such
duties as may be imposed upon him by such judges of said court, or any
of them.

1914, ch. 705.

60. In addition to the salary of the stenographer duly appointed under
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, the Court Stenographer
of the Second Judicial Circuit of the State of Maryland shall be paid the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300) per annum, in quarterly instalments,
accounting from the first day of April, 1914, for his expense as such
stenographer; and the County Commissioners of Cecil County, of Talbot
County, of Kent County, of Queen Anne's County and of Caroline County
shall each pay the sum of sixty dollars ($60.00) thereof per annum, in
quarterly payments as aforesaid.

INDEXES.

1890, ch. 427, sec. 1.

61. The clerk of the circuit court for Talbot county is hereby author-
ized and required to make out in a fair and legible handwriting, gen-

*Ch. 244, 1918, increased the salary of the Court Stenographer $10 per month in
each of the five counties in the Second Judicial Circuit, and ch. 280, 1920, increased
his salary $50 per year in each of the five counties, these increases to be payable
only to a person who has served as Court Stenographer for at least five years.

Ch. 598, 1927, increased his salary $500 per year, $100 to be paid by each of the
five counties.