ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 559

"Jurors," to follow section 136, and be designated as sections
136A, 136B, 136C and 13GD, respectively, providing for a clerk
to the grand juries of said county, defining his duties and
imposing a penalty for the violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the four following sections be and they are hereby
added to article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled
"Baltimore County," sub-title "Jurors," to follow section 136,
and be designated as 136A, 136s, 136c and 136D, respectively,
and to read as follows:

136A. The judges of the Third Judicial Circuit of the State
of Maryland are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a
clerk who shall be a competent stenographer, at a compensa-
tion of fifty dollars per month, to be paid by the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County, which said clerk shall have au-
thority to take and transcribe the testimony given before any
grand jury in said county of Baltimore, and whenever required
by the State's Attorney of said county, shall attend upon and
take and transcribe the testimony given at coroner's inquests,
and all of the said testimony so taken and transcribed shall be
for the exclusive use and benefit of the grand jury and the
State's Attorney of said county, and said clerk shall also per-
form such other clerical work in the said State's Attorney's
office as he may be directed by the State's Attorney, without
further compensation.

136B. Any clerk appointed under the provisions of the pre-
ceding section, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his of-
fice, take and subscribe before the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county, an oath that he will keep secret all matters
and things occurring before such grand juries.

136C. It shall be lawful for any clerk duly appointed and
qualified as herein provided, to attend and be present at the
sessions of every grand jury empanelled in said county, and it
shall be his duty to take in shorthand the testimony introduced
before such grand juries, and to furnish to the grand jury and
the State's Attorney of said county a full copy of all such testi-
mony as such grand jury or State's Attorney shall require, and
he shall not permit any other person to take a copy of the
same, nor any portion thereof, nor to read the same, nor any
portion thereof, nor shall he disclose the character of any of the
contents of the same to any person or persons other than the
grand jury or State's Attorney for said county; all of the said
original minutes shall be kept in the custody of said State's
Attorney, and neither the same nor a copy of the same shall be