J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      331

Local Laws of Prince George's County (1963 Edition, being Article
17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Prince
George's County," subtitle "Circuit Court" and Section 45A of Article
19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),
title "St. Mary's County," subtitle "Circuit Court," be and they are
hereby repealed and that new Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of Sec-
tion 111 of said Calvert County Code, being also Subsections (a), (b),
and (c) of Section 32 of the said Charles County Code, being also
Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of Section 12-10 in the said Prince
George's County Code and being also Section 45A of said Article 19
of the said Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, be and they are
hereby enacted in lieu thereof and all to read as follows:

111. (Article 5)
32. (Article 9)
12-10. (Article 17)
45A. (Article 19)

(a)    The Judges of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland shall
appoint one or more official court reporters for the circuit courts of
Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's Counties, respec-
tively. These reporters each shall be expert stenographers or other-
wise competent to record court proceedings. Each shall hold office
during the pleasure of the judges of said respective courts. The
court reporters or stenographers in Prince George's County shall be
paid a per diem to be fixed by the court not to exceed $40.00 for each
and every day of actual service; and the court stenographers for
Calvert and St. Mary's Counties shall be paid a per diem to be fixed
by the court not to exceed $40.00 for each and every day of actual
service. Each such court stenographer shall be paid such expenses
as may be approved by the court payable by the County Treasurer of
the county in the circuit court of which such services shall have been
rendered, as a part of the court's expenses, upon the presentation of a
certificate of the clerk or any of the judges of said courts showing
attendance and services of said reporter. However, in Calvert and
St. Mary's Counties the court reporter or stenographer shall be paid
mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for all necessary travel be-
tween his home and the place of executing his duties as such; and
the court reporters or stenographers in Calvert and St. Mary's Coun-
ties after having served at least two years in such position shall be
granted two weeks vacation with pay which shall be computed from
the weekly average of per diem compensation during the year.

(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 payment by such party of the expenses incident to
such transcript at a rate to be fixed by the court.

(c)    The court may, in any case pending in any said courts, direct
such reporters to transcribe the notes taken with respect to such case,
and the cost thereof at the rates aforesaid shall be taxed as a part of
the cost in such case, or if the court shall so direct, be paid as a part
of the court expenses.