386 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

sub-title '' Circuit Court,'' be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, said amended sections to
read as follows:

SEC. 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 stenographer so appointed shall receive a salary of
twenty-four hundred dollars per annum, to be paid in equal
monthly installments, as the jurors and bailiffs of said Court
are now paid.

SEC. 176. 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 testi-
mony 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 at 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 opinions so taken by him, or of such part thereof as
may be required, on payment by such part of the expense of
such copy at the rate of five cents for every 100 words, except-
ing when such typewritten copy is required to be written and
furnished 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 stenographer to make such copy at
the public expense at the aforementioned charges, 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. 177. 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 Hafford and whenever directed
by said Court or the State's Attorney of said county it shall be
the duty of said stenographer to attend at said sessions and
take full stenographic notes of all oral testimony introduced
before 'said grand juries, and at the request of said Court or