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than five hundred dollars and not exceeding nine hundred dol-
lars per annum, the amount to be fixed from time to time by
the County Commissioners of Carroll county, who shall pay
said court stenographer the sum so fixed by them for his ser-
vices, in monthly instalments, immediately upon the presenta-
tion of the certificate of the clerk and of any of said judges of
said court, showing the attendance and services of said court
stenographer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the stenographer so ap-
pointed shall be skilled in the practice of his art, and shall hold
his position during the pleasure of the judges of said court, it
shall be his duty, under the direction of the judge or judges of
said court, to take full stenographic notes of all oral testimony
and judicial opinions orally delivered at the regular terms
thereof, and said stenographer shall attend the taking of tes-
timony in any cause depending in the court of equity in said
county when requested to do so by any examiner in equity or
by any one of the parties to the cause; and he shall take down
in stenographic notes and reduce to type-written copy at least
one copy thereof to be filed in the cause, and certified and re-
turned in like manner by the regular examiner, for which said
stenographer shall receive no additional compensation; and it
shall be his duty to furnish to any party to such proceedings
upon request, a typewritten copy of the notes of testimony and
judicial opinions so taken by him or of such part thereof, as
may be required, on payment by such party of the expense of
such a copy at the rate of five cents for every hundred words,
whenever any judge of said court shall pass an order requiring
a tpye-written copy of all or any part of the stenographic notes
taken during any judicial proceedings at which he presided, to
be made, it shall be the duty of the court stenographer to make
such copy, and said transcript shall be filed in the case under
such rules as shall be prescribed by said court,

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

Approved March 23, 1908.

CHAPTER 546.

AN ACT to amend section 18 of article 7 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Carroll County," sub-title
"County Commissioners."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 18 of article 7 of the Code of Public Local