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of the said Code, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and all to read as follows:

32.

(a-1) In addition to the provisions of sub-section (a) above, the
judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit resident in Charles County is
authorized to appoint an official court reporter for the Circuit Court
for Charles County at a salary to be fixed by the County Commission-
ers of Charles County on the recommendation of the resident judge
of the County not to exceed the sum of $6,500. annually. The County
Commissioners shall be responsible for a sum equal to one-third of
the salary of the court reporter. The clerk of the court shall pay the
salary to the court reporter either monthly or semi-monthly out of
the fees of office collected by the clerk. The clerk shall prior to May 1
of each year submit a voucher to the County Commissioners for pay-
ment of the one-third of the salary for which the County Commis-
sioners are responsible and the Commissioners shall reimburse the
clerk by no later than the above date.

(b) Said reporters shall attend and take full stenographic notes
of, or otherwise record, all oral testimony and judicial opinions in
all proceedings in said courts at such times and in such cases as
the respective courts may direct. Said reporters shall make and
furnish to any party, upon request, a typewritten transcript of any
part of said notes, upon the payment by such party of the expense
incident to such transcript at a rate to be fixed by the court. The
reporters shall perform such other duties as the court may direct.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961.

CHAPTER 863
(House Bill 654)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 1 through 9, inclusive, of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Charles County (1959 Edition, being Article 9
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Charles
County", sub-title "Almshouse", and to repeal the sub-title "Alms-
house", to repeal obsolete provisions in the local laws of Charles
County relating to the trustees of the Poor, their powers and duties,
and relating to the sale of the Almshouse Tract in the county.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 1 through 9, inclusive, of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Charles County (1959 Edition, being Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Charles County", sub-title "Alms-

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