HOWARD COUNTY. 905

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

Approved February 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 4.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Judges of the Circuit
Court for Howard County to appoint a court stenographer.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Judges of the Circuit Court for Howard County
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to appoint a
court stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of said court,
and said stenographer so appointed shall be paid ten dollars
per day for each and every day he shall actually be engaged in
the work of the Court, and the County Commissioners of said
Howard County shall pay said stenographer the said sum of
money for his services immediately upon the presentation 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. 2. 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 in all proceedings
of all oral testimony, judicial opinions orally delivered, at the
regular terms thereof; 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 copy, at the rate of five
cents for every hundred words. Whenever any Judge of said
Court shall pass an order requiring a typewritten copy of all
or any part of the stenographic notes taken during any judi-
cial 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. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved February 11, 1910.