EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 949

CHAPTER 458.
AN ACT to designate and adopt a flower emblem for the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land., That the Rudbeckia hirta or Black-Eyed Susan, be and
the same is hereby designated and adopted as the flower em-
blem of the State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That his Excellency the Governor
of Maryland be and he is hereby empowered and directed to
declare by proclamation on the first day of June in the year
1918, the Rudbeckia hirta or Black-Eyed Susan as the Floral
Emblem of the State of Maryland.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 459.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 379
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
(Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of Baltimore," sub-
title "Criers, Bailiffs, Watchmen and Stenographers," so as
to increase the compensation of Court stenographers ap-
pointed by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 379 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of
Baltimore," sub-title "Criers, Bailiffs, Watchmen and Stenog-
raphers," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

379. The judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
are authorized and directed to appoint from time to time as
many court stenographers, not exceeding in number altogether
the number of said judges, as shall in their discretion be re-
quired for the services of the several courts of Baltimore City,
who shall be sworn officers of the court, and shall each be paid a
salary of twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars per annum when
such stenographers shall be required to attend the courts reg-
ularly, or twelve dollars per diem for each day of actual em-
ployment when he shall be appointed to attend only when his
services shall be specially required by the judges; the said
salaries to be paid in like manner as the salaries of the other