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charge of seven and one-half cents per hundred words 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 Stenog-
rapher 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, 1963.

Approved March 29, 1963.

CHAPTER 157
(Senate Bill 255)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 139 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Escaping from Peniten-
tiary", reducing the sentence for escaping from the State Reforma-
tory for Males if the escape does not involve an assault.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 139 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Escaping
from Penitentiary", is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

139.

If any offender or person legally detained and confined in the peni-
tentiary, or jail, or house of correction, or reformatory, or station
house, or any other place of confinement, in this State, shall escape,
he shall, on conviction thereof by the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City or by the circuit court of the county in which the escape takes
place, be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, jail or house
of correction for such additional period, not exceeding ten years, as
the court may adjudge. However, for escapes from the Reformatory
for Males which have not involved an assault, the sentence shall not
exceed confinement for three years.

If any keeper, deputy, assistant keeper or other person shall aid
or assist in the escape of any offender or person detained and con-
fined, as aforesaid, he shall, on conviction thereof by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore City or by the circuit court of the county in
which the escape takes place, be sentenced to such confinement in the
penitentiary, or jail, or the house of correction, as the court may
adjudge, for not more than ten years.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved March 29, 1963.