348 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Court Stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of said Court
and said stenographer so appointed shall be paid a salary not
less than five hundred dollars and not exceeding twelve hundred
dollars per annum, the amount to be fixed from time to time
by the County Commissioners of Carroll County, who shall pay
said Court Stenographer the sum so fixed by them for his serv-
ices, in monthly installments, immediately upon the presenta-
tion 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. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to assent to the Act of Congress passed at the second
session of the Sixty-third Congress, known as the Lever Bill,
H. R. 7951, entitled "An Act to provide for co-operative agri-
cultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in
the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress,
approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and
of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.''

WHEREAS, By an Act of Congress passed at the second session
of the Sixty-third Congress of the United States, the Lever Bill,
H. R. 7951, entitled "An Act to provide for co-operative agri-
cultural extension work between the agricultural colleges, in the
several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress ap-
proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of Acts
supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of
Agriculture;" and whereas, said Act of the second session of
the Sixty-third Congress provides that before funds as made
available under the said Act shall be paid to any State, such
State shall give its legislative assent to the purposes of said
grants; and whereas, the Maryland Agricultural College is the
only institution in Maryland, established under the provisions
of the Act of Congress, approved July Second, Eighteen Hun-
dred and Sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto;
therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the assent of the State of Maryland be, and the same