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THE RIGHT TO ENTER ANY INDUSTRIAL PLANT, PLACE OF
BUSINESS OR PUBLIC PREMISES AT REASONABLE HOURS
IN ORDER to carry out the investigations authorized by this section,
and in addition said Board, its agents or employees, shall have such
right of entry whenever necessary to carry out any of the duties im-
posed upon them by this Article. Any person interfering with, or deny-
ing entry to the said Board, its agents or employees, while engaged
in such performance of duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved March 24,1955.

CHAPTER 85
(Senate Bill 41)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 299 and
385 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
and Baltimore City Charter (1949 Edition), title "Baltimore
City", sub-titles "Criers, Bailiffs, Watchmen and Stenographers",
and "Jurors", as said Sections were amended by Chapter 270 of
the Acts of 1951, increasing the compensation of the court stenog-
raphers for the several courts of Baltimore City and the stenog-
rapher assigned to the Grand Jury of said City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 299 and 385 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1949 Edition),
title "Baltimore City," sub-titles "Criers, Bailiffs, Watchmen and
Stenographers", and "Jurors", by and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

299. The Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City are
authorized and directed to appoint from time to time as many court
stenographers, not exceeding in number altogether the number of
said judges, as shall in their discretion be required for the services
of the several courts of Baltimore City, who shall be sworn officers
of the court, and shall each be paid a salary of [Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,000)] Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000) per annum
when such stenographers shall be required to attend the courts
regularly, or [twelve] twenty dollars per diem for each day of
actual employment when he shall be appointed to attend only when
his services shall be specially required by the judges; the said
salaries to be paid in like manner as the salaries of the other officers
of the courts are now paid, as prescribed in Section 293. Every offi-
cial court stenographer of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
including the stenographer assigned to the Grand Jury, who after

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.