ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 617

604A. Upon the organization of each grand jury, as pro-
vided for in the preceding section, and upon their request
therefor, signified to the judge or judges for the time being
especially assigned to and setting in the criminal court of the
said city, the said judge or judges may and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint a clerk, who shall be a
competent stenographer, at a compensation not exceeding the
rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which said clerk shall
have authority to take and transcribe the testimony given
before any grand jury in said city of Baltimore, and whenever
required by the State's Attorney 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 city, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
In addition to the compensation aforesaid to be paid to said
clerk by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall make compensa-
tion to said stenographer for all testimony taken and tran-
scribed by him at any coroner's inquest or inquests, and when
requested by the State's Attorney for the use of his office, at a
rate not exceeding fifteen cents per hundred words of such
testimony.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its pasage.

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 51.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to appoint thirty-six (36)
additional magistrates-at-large for Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor be and with the consent of the Senate
is hereby authorized to appoint thirty-six (36) additional
magistrates-at-large for Baltimore city, in addition to those
now provided by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1908.