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in said town, to warn persons using said crossing over said
railroad at said crossing of the approach of trains upon said
railroad, and that said railroad company shall not require any
one such flagman or signalman to serve for more than nine
hours during the course of any day at said crossing.

212B. The said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company shall
be liable to pay a fine of fifty dollars for each and every day
that it shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of the
preceding section, said fine to be recovered in an action of
debt in the name of the State of Maryland before any Justice
of the Peace in and for Montgomery county, and to be paid
when collected into the public school fund of said county.

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

Approved April 5, 1910.

CHAPTER 380.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the judges of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery county to appoint a court stenog-
rapher, and to authorize and empower the County Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County to pay for services rendered
by said stenographer so appointed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the judges of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
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
the sum of ten dollars each day that he is engaged in the per-
formance of the duties of his office by an order of the said
court, and the County Commissioners of Montgomery county
shall pay said court stenographer the sum' or sums so fixed by
the order of said Circuit Court immediately upon the presen-
tation of the certificate of the clerk and of any of said judges
of said court showing the attendance and service 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 of all oral
testimony and judicial opinions orally delivered at the regular
terms thereof, and said stenographer shall attend the taking of
testimony in any cause depending in the Court of Equity when-