360 CITY OF BALTIMORE, [ART. 4.

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 shall further be his duty, under the
superintendence and direction of the judge of the court, to pre-
pare for publication, from time to time, a volume of reports of
such judicial opinions of the court as the judge thereof may des-
ignate, and particularly of such as may concern questions of in-
terest to courts in other portions of the State. He shall receive
no additional compensation for the preparation of such reports,
but shall be entitled to the copyrights thereof, provided they
shall be published at his expense.

1867, ch. 373.

232. The judges of the orphans' court of the city of Balti-
more are authorized and directed to appoint a stenographer for
that court, who shall be a sworn officer of the court, but shall be
required to attend the sessions of such court only when specially
summoned by the presiding judge thereof. 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. In any proceeding in said court in which either party
shall give notice that in the event of a decision of said court
adverse to the claim of such party, an appeal will be taken to the
court of appeals, the presiding judge of the court shall require
the attendance of the stenographer, whose duty it shall be in
such proceedings to take full stenographic notes of all oral proofs
and judicial opinions orally delivered; and in case appeal shall
be taken from the decision of the court, such notes shall be tran-
scribed, and after being signed by the witnesses, deponents or
affiants, shall become a portion of the record of the case, to be
transmitted by the judges of the court to the court of appeals.
By consent of the parties to the proceeding in which such proofs
shall be taken, and of the judges of said court, the signing of
such record of proof by the witness, deponent or affiant, may be
waived; in which case such record, after being authenticated by
the certificate of said stenographer, or of the presiding judge of
the court, shall be deemed to be the record of any proofs or pro-
ceedings so taken. The stenographer shall receive as compen-