480                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 280

County shall be entitled to charge for the same at the rate of twenty
cents per hundred words. Said Official Court Stenographer for Al-
legany and Garrett Counties shall be entitled to make an additional
charge 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] the Official Court [Stenogra-
pher] Reporter taken as aforesaid to be made, it shall be the duty of
[said] the Official Court Reporter [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.

55.    It shall be the duty of [said] the Official Court [Stenographer
for Washington County to be in attendance daily to do all the work
required of him or her by the Chief Judge or any of the Associate
Judges of said Circuit; and it shall be the duty of the Official Court
Stenographer] Reporter for Allegany and Garrett Counties to be in
attendance daily to do all the work required of him or her by the
Chief Judge or any of the Associate Judges of said circuit.

56.    In case of a vacancy in the office of Official Court Reporter,
or in case said Official Court Reporter shall be ill or incapacitated or
for some sufficient reason be unable to be present, the Judges of said
circuit may employ a substitute Official Court Reporter, who shall
also be a sworn officer of the court, and said substitute Official Court
Reporter so appointed shall receive such compensation as the said
Judges of the Fourth Judicial Circuit may authorize in writing to be
paid him or her by the County Commissioners of Allegany and
Garrett Counties, for taking testimony, and shall also be entitled to
the fees herein provided for transcripts.

58. It shall be lawful for the Official Court [Stenographer] Re-
porter upon and at the special request of the Circuit Court for
Allegany [County] and Garrett Counties to attend and be present
at the session of any grand jury empaneled in the said [County]
Counties, and it shall be his duty to take in shorthand the testimony
introduced before such grand juries, and to furnish to the grand
jury and the State's Attorney of said [County] Counties a full copy
of all such testimony as such grand jury or State's Attorney shall re-
quire, and he shall not permit any other person to take a copy of the
same, nor any portion thereof, nor to read the same, nor any portion
thereof, nor shall he disclose the character of any of the contents of
the same to any person or persons other than the grand jury or State's
Attorney for said [County] Counties, except upon the written order
of the Court duly made after hearing the State's Attorney. All of the
said stenographical transcripts shall be kept in the custody of the
said State's Attorney, and neither the same nor a copy of the same
shall be taken from the office of said State's Attorney excepting for
the use of a Grand Jury for said [County] Counties or for produc-
tion in Court, without an order of Court first had and obtained as
above provided.

60. The official Court [Stenographer] Reporter, in the event he
shall violate any of the provisions of Section 58 with regard to