34                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 12

by reason of poverty to pay the cost of the application and of appeal,
he may file, with the court making the order from which appeal is
sought, a petition under oath alleging the fact of his poverty and his
inability to defray the expense of making application and of appeal-
ing. The court upon being satisfied of the defendant's poverty shall
sign an order directing that all costs, including but not limited to, all
court costs, the cost of preparing the transcript of testimony, the
cost of preparing and transmitting the record, and the cost of the
briefs, appendices and printed record extract necessary in connection
with the appeal shall be paid by the political subdivision from which
the appeal is taken and that the record shall be transmitted to the
[Court of Appeals] Court of Special Appeals at the expense of the
political subdivision. A copy of the order shall be included in the
record transmitted to the [Court of Appeals] Court of Special
Appeals and the payment of all filing fees to the Clerk of the [Court
of Appeals] Court of Special Appeals in connection with the appeal
are waived. If counsel prosecuting the appeal on behalf of the
defendant has been appointed as such counsel by the court making
the order appealed from or by the [Court of Appeals] Court of
Special Appeals, the [Court of Appeals] Court of Special Appeals
may allow him a fee in an amount which the Court shall think proper
for his services in the appeal, the fee to be paid by the political
subdivision.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Sections 14 and 15 of
Article 36 of the said Code (1965 Replacement Volume), title "Fees
of Officers", subtitle "Clerks of Court", be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and all to read as follows:

Article 36

14.  The Clerks of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and of the
Court of Special Appeals may charge and shall be entitled to re-
ceive the fees hereinafter set forth for the performance of [his]
their duties, as follows:

(1)  For filing the record in any appeal and all duties incident
thereto, $20.00;

(2)   For filing a motion for reargument and all duties incident
thereto, $5.00;

(3)   For a certificate under seal of the admission of any attorney,
$5.00;

(4)   For any copy of a certificate under seal of the admission of
any attorney, $1.00;

(5)   For furnishing copies of laws per hundred words, 12½c ¢ ;

(6)   For rendering any services required or necessarily incident
to the duties of the office, and not hereinabove covered, the clerk
may make such charges as are reasonable and appropriate;

(7)   For furnishing copies of opinions, $2.00, when ordered in
advance, or $3.00 if ordered thereafter.

15.  In all cases of appeal to the Court of Appeals and to the Court
of Special Appeals, [both at law and in equity,] the clerk of the
court from which said appeal is taken shall charge but ten cents per
hundred words and no more for making up the record of same, and
when typewritten copies of any of the papers, or of the testimony