1102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 428

The State's Attorney shall receive a fee of fifty dollars for
every penalty recovered by him, to be paid out of the sum act-
ually recovered, whether the proceedings for the recovery of
such penalty shall be instituted of his own motion or at the
instance of said supervisors.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 427.
(Vacant. )

CHAPTER 428.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 604-A
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of Baltimore, " sub-
title "Jurors, " so as to increase the compensation of the
clerk of the grand jury of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 604-A of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (Revised Edition of 1915), title
"City of Baltimore, " sub-title "Jurors, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows:

604-A. Upon the organization of each grand jury, as pro-
vided for in the preceding section, and upon their request
therefor, signified to the judge or judges for the time being
especially assigned to and sitting in the Criminal Court of the
said city, the said judge or judges may and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint a clerk, who shall be a
competent stenographer, at a compensation not exceeding the
rate of three thousand dollars per annum, to be paid by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which said clerk shall
have authority to take and transcribe the testimony given
before any grand jury in said City of Baltimore, and when-
ever required by the State's Attorney, shall attend upon and
take and transcribe the testimony given at coroner's inquests,
and all of the said testimony so taken and transcribed shall
be for the exclusive use and benefit of the grand jury and the
State's Attorney of said city, unless 'otherwise ordered by
the Court. In addition to the compensation aforesaid to be