ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 905

pher, " be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

1. The Judges of the Circuit Court for Howard County be*
and they are hereby authorized and directed to appoint a court
stenographer for said court, who shall be a sworn officer of said
court, and said stenographer so appointed shall be paid a salary
not less than the sum of five hundred dollars per annum, the
amount to be fixed from time to time by the County Commis-
sioners of Howard County, who shall pay said Court stenogra-
pher the sum so fixed by them for his services in quarterly in-
stallments, immediately upon the presentation of the certificate
of said Court or any one of the Judges thereof, showing the
attendance and sendees of said court stenographer.

2. The stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in the
practice of his art, and shall hold his position during the pleas-
ure of the Judges of said Court; it shall be his duty, under
the direction of the Judge or Judges of said Court, to take full
stenographic notes in all proceedings of all oral testimony
and judicial opinions orally delivered, at the regular terms
thereof; and it shall be his duty to furnish to any party to such
proceedings, upon request, a typewritten copy of the notes of
testimony and judicial opinions so token 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 hundred
words. Whenever any Judge of said Court shall pass an order
requiring a typewritten copy of all or any part of the steno-
graphic notes taken during any judicial proceedings at which
he presided to be made, it shall be the duty of the court stenog-
rapher to make such copy and said transcript shall be filed in
the case under such rules as shall be prescribed by said court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 324.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 68C
of Article 6 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Caroline County", sub-title "County Treasurer, "
making taxes bear interest from the first day of October
instead of from the first day of September.