J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            465

title "Allegany County", sub-title "Circuit Court", providing for
a court approved schedule of fees to be charged by the court
stenographer of Allegany and Garrett Counties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 54 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany
County (1955 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Allegany County", sub-title "Circuit
Court", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

54. The said Court Stenographer so appointed shall be skilled
in the art and practice of stenography and typewriting and shall
hold said position until removed by the Judges of said Circuit or a
majority of them; and in case of a vacancy in said office, said Judges
are authorized and directed to appoint a suitable person in con-
formity with this sub-heading to fill such vacancy. It shall be the duty
of said Official Court Stenographer at the discretion of said court to
take full stenographic notes of all oral testimony and judicial opin-
ions orally delivered at the regular terms and at all trials of cases
in law or in equity of said court when the testimony is taken in
open court, and any other judicial opinions, or judicial matters,
pertaining to the business of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Mary-
land when requested by any of the Judges thereof, it shall be the
duty of said Court Stenographer 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 delivered in
open court and taken down in shorthand, or so much thereof as
may be requested, on payment by such party of the expense of said
copy at [the rate of fifteen cents for every hundred words] a
schedule of fees adopted by the court, to the Court Stenographer
for Allegany and Garrett Counties and ten cents for every hundred
words to the Court Stenographer for Washington County, excepting
when typewritten copy is requested to be written and furnished
during the progress of the trial of the case, when said Court Stenog-
rapher for Allegany and Garrett Counties shall be entitled to charge
for the same [at the rate of thirty cents per hundred word,] as per
a schedule of fees adopted by the court and said Court Stenographer
in Washington County shall be entitled to charge for the same at
the rate of twenty cents per hundred words. Said Official Court
Stenographer for Allegany and Garrett Counties shall be entitled
to make an additional charge [of seven and one-half cents per
hundred words] to be set by the court as hereinabove provided per
each carbon copy furnished any of said parties at any time and the
Official Court Stenographer of Washington County shall be entitled
to make an additional charge of five cents per hundred words per
each carbon copy furnished any of said parties at any time. When
any Judge of said Court shall pass an order requesting a typewritten
copy of all or any part of the notes of said Court Stenographer
taken as aforesaid to be made, it shall be the duty of said Court
Stenographer to make such copy without charge, and said transcript
and also the transcript of all testimony taken as provided in equity
cases shall be filed in the proceedings in which said notes were taken.

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

Approved April 3, 1959.