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courts as provided for in the second section of this
act. If the fund thus created be inadequate to pay
such salaries the additional amount necessary for
such payment shall be taken and paid from the
fund appropriated by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore for certain expenses, to which fund any
surplus of the sums so paid over to the comptroller,
as hereinbefore provided, shall be credited.
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Ibid s. 2.
Stenographers
for court of
common pleas
and superior
court.
Their salaries.
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181. The judge of each of the courts hereinbefore
named, is hereby authorized and directed to appoint
a stenographer for such court, who shall be a sworn
officer of the court, and shall be paid a salary of
twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, in like man-
ner as the salaries of other officers of the court are
now paid as prescribed in section one hundred and
thirty-four of this article. The stenographer so ap-
pointed shall be skilled in the practice of his art and
shall hold his position so long as he efficiently dis-
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Duties.
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charges the duties of his office. It shall be his duty,
under the direction of the judge of the court, to take
full stenographic notes of all oral testimony and judi-
cial opinions orally delivered in every trial at the
regular terms thereof; and in case the judge shall
require a transcript of such stenographic notes or of
any portion thereof, he shall order the expense of
such transcription to be paid equally by the parties
to the action at the rate of ten cents for every one
hundred words so transcribed, and shall enforce pay-
ment thereof, and the amount so paid, together with
the sum paid 'as a condition precedent to the cause
being brought to trial, shall be deemed a necessary
disbursement of the trial and allowed as such to the
prevailing party in the action, and shall be so taxed
in the bill of costs of the action. It shall further be
the duty of the stenographer to furnish to any party
to such trials, upon request, a copy of the notes of
testimony and judicial opinions taken by him on such
trials, or of such part thereof as may be required on
payment, on behalf of such party of the expense of
such copy at the rate hereinbefore prescribed. It
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