EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 979

of twenty-five 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 when-
ever 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 com-
pensation to said stenographer for all testimony taken and
transcribed 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 and after January 1, 1919.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 478.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 77 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Public Educa-
tion," sub-title "Teachers' Associations," to follow Section
96, and to be designated as Section 96A.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 479.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State Roads Commis-
sion to acquire, construct and maintain an improved highway
from Burkittsville, Frederick County, via. "Crampton's
Gap" and "Gapland Turnpike," to Gapland Station, in
Washington County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State Roads Commission of Maryland be and
it is hereby authorized and empowered out of the first money
it may find available for that purpose coming into its hands, to