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1896, ch. 116. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 61. 1916, sec. 91. 1928, sec. 98.

98. The Judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County are hereby
authorized and empowered to purchase such law books as in their dis-
cretion they may deem necessary for the furtherance of the business of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County; provided, that the annual cost
of said books shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars;
and the County Commissioners of Baltimore County be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to levy annually upon the assessable
property of said county the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for said books.

See Art. 38, sec. 4, Anno. Code of Md.

1900, ch. 414. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 52. 1916, sec. 92. 1928, sec. 99.

99. The payment of appearance fees to attorneys-at-law by the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County, in what are known as habeas corpus
cases, arising in said county, is forbidden.

1918, ch. 334. 1920, ch. 173, sec. 93. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 93. 1928, sec. 100.

100. The Circuit Court for Baltimore County is hereby authorized
to employ a Court Stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of the
Court, and such stenographer so appointed shall receive a salary of
eighteen hundred dollars per annum to be paid in regular monthly in-
stallments as the bailiffs of said Court are now paid.

1914, ch. 336, sec. 52B. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 94. 1928, sec. 101.

101. Said stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in the practice
of his art and shall hold his position during the pleasure of the court.
It shall be his duty at the direction of said court to take full stenographic
notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions delivered at the regular
terms of said court and of any other judicial opinions or judicial matters
requested by said court.

And it shall be the duty of said stenographer to furnish to any party
to such proceedings a typewritten copy of the notes so taken, or of such
part thereof as may be required, at the rate of ten cents per page of not
less than 200 typewritten words for an original copy and five cents per
page for a carbon copy thereof, when more than one copy is made.

1914, ch. 336, sec. 52C. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 95. 1928, sec. 102.

102. Whenever any judge of said court shall direct that a typewritten
copy of such notes taken on the law or criminal side of said court be
filed in court, it shall be the duty of said stenographer to make such copy
for the use of said court without extra charge; the cost of such original
copy to be taxed as part of the costs of the case, either or both sides to
have the right to obtain copies thereof at five cents per page. Provided,
however, that when such notes are taken on the equity side of said court,
when testimony is taken orally in said court, said stenographer shall be
paid by the parties at whose instance said testimony is taken ten cents