ART. 17.] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 925

in said county any bills of exchange, bank check, draft or prom-
issory note due and presentable for acceptance or payment on
any half-holiday Saturday, such person shall not be deemed
guilty of any neglect or omission of duty or incur any liability
in not presenting for payment or acceptance or collecting such
bill of exchange, bank check, draft or promissory note on that
day; and provided further, that in construing this section every
half-holiday Saturday shall, until twelve o'clock noon, be
deemed a secular business day. Nothing in this section shall
affect the provisions of sections 9 and 19 of article 13 of the
Code of Public General Laws, applicable to any Saturday, when-
ever the same, under the provisions of said section, shall be a
legal holiday.

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

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 204.

AN ACT authorizing and empowering the judges of the Circuit
Court for Prince George's county to appoint a court stenog-
rapher.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the judges of the Circuit Court for Prince George's
county be and they are hereby authorized and directed to ap-
point a court stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of said
court. And said stenographer so appointed shall be paid a salary
of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, which sum shall
be levied and paid by the County Commissioners of said county,
in equal instalments quarterly, on the first day of January, April,
June and October in each year, during his term of service, upon
the presentation to them of the certificate of the clerk, or any
of the judges of said court,. showing the attendance and ser-
vices of said court stenographer. "

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the stenographer so ap-
pointed shall hold his position during the pleasure of the judges
of said court, and it shall be his duty to take full stenographic
notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions, orally deliv-
ered, at the regular terms of said court. And it shall also be his
duty to furnish to any party to such proceedings, upon request,
a typewritten copy of the notes of testimony and judicial opin-
ions so taken by him, or of such part thereof as may be re-
quired, on payment by such party of the expenses of such copy,
at the rate of five cents for every hundred words; provided, that