HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 737

for that court, who shall be a sworn officer of the court, but
shall be required to attend the sessions of such court only
when specially summoned by the presiding judge therefor. The
stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in the practice of
his art and shall hold his position so long as he efficiently
discharges the duties of his office. In any proceeding in said
court in which either party shall give notice that in the event
of a decision of said court adverse to the claim of such party ?
an appeal will be taken to the Court of Appeals, the presiding
judge of the court shall require the attendance of the stenog-
rapher, whose duty it shall be in such proceedings to take
full stenographic notes of all oral proofs and judicial opinions
orally delivered; and in case appeal shall be taken from the
decision of the court, such notes shall be transcribed and shall
become a portion of the record of the case, to be transmitted
by the judges of the court to the Court of Appeals. The stenog-
rapher shall receive as compensation for his services the sum
of twelve dollars for each day of actual attendance at the
court, by direction of the presiding judge thereof, which sum
the presiding judge shall cause to be paid by the petitioner,
and shall enforce payment thereof; and if the notes so taken
shall be transcribed, as hereinbefore provided, the expense of
such transcriptions, at the rate of sixty cents for each page so
transcribed, shall be taxed in the bill of costs of the proceed-
ings to the party appellant, and shall thereafter be awarded
as costs by the Court of Appeals in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Code of Public General Laws.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 23, 1945.

CHAPTER 664.
(House Bill 431)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 16
of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Marriages", relating to annulment of marri-
ages.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 16 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Marriages", be and it is here-

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