PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 597

of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1912, entitled "An
Act to authorize and empower the Circuit Court for Harford
County to appoint a court stenographer and define his duties
and provide for his compensation,'' and to re-enact the same
with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Chapter 129 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1912, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Circuit Court for Harford County be and it is hereby
authorized and directed to appoint a court stenographer,
who shall be a sworn officer of said court, and said stenographer
so appointed shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per
annum, to be paid in equal monthly installments, as the jurors
and bailiffs of said Court are now paid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the stenographer
so appointed shall be skilled in the practice of his art, and shall
hold his position during the pleasure of said Court. It shall be
his duty at the direction of said Court to take full stenographic
notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions orally delivered
at the regular terms and at all sittings either at law or in equity
of said Court, and of any other judicial opinions or judicial
matters requested by said Court, and it shall be his duty to fur-
nish to any party to such proceedings, or his attorney, promptly
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 100 words, excepting
when such typewritten copy is required to be written and fur-
nished during the progress of the trial of a case, when he shall
be entitled to charge for the same at the rate of twenty cents per
100 words, and five cents per 100 words for each additional copy.
Whenever any Judge of said Court shall pass an order requiring
a typewritten copy of all or any part of the stenographer's notes
taken as aforesaid to be made, it shall be the duty of said stenog-
rapher to make such copy without charge, and said transcript
shall be filed in the proceedings in which said notes were taken,
under such rules as may be prescribed by said Court.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful
for said stenographer to attend and be present at the sessions
of each and every grand jury empaneled in the County of Har-