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every such action brought in the Baltimore city court, on appeal
from a judgment of a justice of the peace, the party appellant
shall, as a condition precedent to such action being brought to
trial, pay to the clerk the sum of one dollar; and the amounts
so received by the clerks of said courts, respectively, shall be
accounted for under oath and paid over monthly by the said
clerks to the comptroller of the city of Baltimore, and by him
deposited in the city treasury, to be used as a fund for the pay-
ment of the stenographers employed in said courts, as provided
for in the next succeeding section. 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 appropri-
ated 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.

1867, ch. 878.

231. The judge of each of the courts hereinbefore named is
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 manner
as the salaries of other officers of the court are now paid, as pre-
scribed in section 223. The stenographer so appointed shall be
skilled in the practice of his art, and shall hold his position so
long as he efficiently discharges 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 judicial 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 tran-
scribed, and shall enforce payment 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 dis-
bursement 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