1078 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 521

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 six hundred dollars ($3,600) per an-
num, 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 whenever 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 bene-
fit 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 paid to said clerk by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, the said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall make compensation to said ste-
nographer for all testimony taken and transcribed by him at
any coroner's inquest or inquests, and when requested by the
State's Attorney for the use of his office, at a rate not ex-
ceeding fifteen cents per hundred words of such testimony.

SEC. 2, And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 17, 1939.

CHAPTER 520.
(House Bill 260)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
290 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of
1937, to provide for the distribution of the portion of the
State Gasoline Tax allotted to Prince George's County.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 521.
(House Bill 291)

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioner of
Baltimore City to reinstate Joseph Leo Finney, 914 North
Milton Avenue, to his former position on the Baltimore
Police Force.

(Vetoed. )