EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1429

of the Court for the purchase of books shall be charged as a
part of the expense of his office. In no case shall any peti-
tioner be held liable for any costs of the case he or she may
institute unless the Court shall be satisfied that the case was
instituted without jurisdiction or through prejudice, upon
which finding all costs of the proceedings shall be paid by the
petitioner. When any constable may serve any summons or
notice of the Court, there shall be taxed as part of the costs of
the case the usual fee for such services.

173. The provisions of this Act shall be construed as con-
ferring additional and supplementary powers and jurisdiction
on said Court and not in substitution of or in conflict with any
other powers possessed by the Circuit Court for Harford Coun-
ty under any existing general or local laws.

174. All laws or parts of laws now in force in the State of
Maryland, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are here-
by repealed to the extent of such conflict, but no further.

175. 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 stenog-
rapher 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.

176. The stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in the
practice of his art, and shall hold his position during the pleas-
ure 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 furnish to any party to
such proceedings, or his attorney, promptly upon request, a
typewritten copy of the notes of testimony and judicial opin-
ions 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 furnished dur-
ing the progress of the trial of a case, when he shall be entitled
to charge for the same at the rato 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 requir-
ing 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