750                             laws of Maryland                      [ch. 442

of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Worcester
County," subtitle "Circuit Court," subheading "Court Stenographer,"
as last amended by Chapter 27 of the Acts of the Special Session
of March 11, 1964, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

123.

(a) The salary of said stenographer shall be eight thousand
five hundred dollars ($8,500) per year, said salary to be paid as
follows: The County Commissioners of Dorchester County, Wicomico
County, Somerset County and Worcester County shall each pay an
[equal] amount of the salary specified as directed and certified by
the judges of the circuit, said payments to be made in monthly
installments during the service, on the presentation of the certificate
of the [clerk of either county or of said] judges of said court, to
the County Commissioners certifying to the services of said court
stenographer. And the said County Commissioners of the several
counties are hereby directed and empowered to provide for the pay-
ment of their several portions of the salary of the said stenographer
at once on presentation of said certificates. The several judges of the
respective circuit courts are authorized to provide for the employ-
ment of an additional court stenographer or court stenographers,
when in their joint discretion the volume of work requires, at the
same compensation as provided above.

[(b) The said judges are hereby authorized and empowered to
employ such additional competent stenographic assistance as may,
in their sound discretion, be deemed necessary, the County Commis-
sioners of the county for the benefit of which such additional em-
ployment is made to pay the cost thereof at once upon the presenta-
tion of the certificate of the Clerk of such county or of either of
said judges of said court certifying to the services of such additional
court stenographer.]

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Section 12(a) being also
Section 6 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Somerset
County (1963 Edition), Article 20 of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Somerset County," subtitle "Circuit Court," subhead-
ing "Court Stenographer," as last amended by Chapter 27 of the Acts
of the Special Session of March 11, 1964, be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

12.

(a) The salary of said stenographer shall be eight thousand five
hundred dollars ($8,500) per year, said salary to be paid as follows:
The County Commissioners of Dorchester County, Wicomico County,
Somerset County and Worcester County shall each pay an [equal]
amount of the salary specified as directed and certified by the judges
of the circuit, said payments to be made in monthly installments
during the service, on the presentation of the certificate of the
[clerk of either county or of said] judges of said court, to the
County Commissioners certifying to the services of said court stenog-
rapher. And the said County Commissioners of the several counties
are hereby directed and empowered to provide for the payment of
their several portions of the salary of the said stenographer at once