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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 299.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Judges of the Second
Judicial Circuit of the State to employ a stenographer, and
to provide for the salary of the same.

To employ
stenog-
rapher.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the judges of the Second Judicial Circuit of this
State be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
employ a competent stenographer to serve in the respective
courts of said circuit.

Salary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the salary of said stenogra-
pher, shall be twelve hundred dollars per year, from the first
day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; the said salary
to be paid as follows: The County Commissioners of Cecil
county shall pay three hundred dollars thereof, and the County
Commissioners of the counties of Kent, Queen Anne and Tal-
bot shall each pay two hundred and twenty-five dollars thereof,
and the County Commissioners of Caroline county shall pay
one hundred and seventy-five dollars thereof, of said payments
to be made in quarterly installments from the first day of May,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Term of
office.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the stenographer appointed
under this act shall serve for one year, but shall be removable
at any time at the pleasure of said judges and shall perform
such duties as may be imposed upon him by the judges of said
court or either of them.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d. 1896.

CHAPTER 300.

AN ACT to exempt from taxation property used by survivors
of the war between the States as sites for monuments or
monumental parks.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, By section 2 of Article 81 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," sub title "Exemp-
tions," graveyards, cemeteries, private burial grounds, public
parks, etc., are exempted from taxation .and