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constituted as a district council. Except as specifically provided
otherwise in this section, all the provisions of this sub-title shall
apply to any erosion control works undertaken and to any bonds, notes
or other certificates of indebtedness issued under the provisions of
this section, it being the legislative intent that this section merely
provides an alternative and county-wide means of financing erosion
control works on a county-wide basis.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 123

(Senate Bill 178)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 177 and
178 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Harford County (1945
Edition, being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Harford County", sub-title "Circuit Court", pro-
viding for a court approved schedule of fees for the court stenog-
rapher of Harford County and repealing certain obsolete language
of the laws of Harford County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 177 and 178 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Harford County (1945 Edition, being Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Harford County", sub-title
"Circuit Court", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

177.

The stenographer so appointed shall be skilled in the practice of
his art, and shall hold his position during the pleasure of said Court.
It shall be his duty at the direction of said Court to take full steno-
graphic notes of all oral testimony and judicial opinions orally deliv-
ered at the regular terms and at all sittings either at law or in equity
of said Court, and of any other judicial opinions or judicial matters
requested at said Court, and it shall be his duty to furnish to any
party to such proceedings, or his attorney, promptly upon request, a
typewritten copy of the notes of testimony and judicial opinions so
taken by him, or of such part thereof as may be required, on pay-
ment by such [part of the expense of such copy at the rate of five
cents for every 100 words, excepting when such typewritten copy is
required to be written and furnished during the progress of the trial
of a case, when he shall be entitled to charge for the same at the
rate of twenty cents per 100 words, and five cents per 100 words for
each additional copy.] party of the expense of such copy according to
the schedule of fees adopted and approved by the Court for such
purposes. Whenever any Judge or said Court shall pass an order
requiring a typewritten copy of all or any part of the stenographer's

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.