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or of such part thereof as may be requested, on payment of
such party of the expenses of said copy at the rate of eight
cents for every 100 words, excepting when such typewritten
copy is re'quested to be written and furnished during the pro-
gress of the trial of any case other than equity cases, when
said stenographer shall be entitled to charge for the same at
the rate of twenty cents per 100 words. Said stenographer
shall be entitled to make an additional charge of five cents per
100 words for each carbon copy furnished any of said parties
at any time. Whenever any Judge of said Court shall pass
an order requesting a typewritten copy of all or any part of
the notes of said stenographer taken as aforesaid to be made,
it shall be the duty of said stenographer to make such copy
without charge, and said transcript, and also the transcripts
of all testimony taken as provided in equity cases, shall be
filed in the proceedings in which said notes were taken.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That after said stenog-
rapher shall be appointed by said Judges under the provisions
of Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1898, Chapter 235 of the Acts
of 1904, and Chapter 790 of the Acts of 1906 of the General
Assembly of Maryland, unless said official stenographer shall
be employed in the trial of a case in one of the Courts of said
Circuit at the same time that the services of a stenographer
shall be necessary in one of the other Courts of said Circuit,
or in case the said official stenographer shall be sick or in-
capacitated or for some sufficient reason be unable to be pres-
ent, in which event any of the Judges of said Circuit may
employ a stenographer as provided in said Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all equity causes
when the testimony is taken in open Court and. in all causes
which shall be appealed by any party to the Court of Appeals
of Maryland, the costs of said stenographer for making the
original transcript in said cause shall be taxed and paid as
other Court costs are paid in said Circuit.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That after this Act becomes
effective the Judges of said Circuit shall appoint the said
stenographer at any time before the first day of September,
1920, and his salary as hereinbefore provided shall begin from
the date of his qualification.

Approved April 16, 1920.