The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-05-01
COURT STENOGRAPHER.
CHAPTER ITO.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter one hum
bred and eighty-three of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Mary
land, passed at the January Ses-
sion, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-siX, entitled an Act to
authorize and empower the Judges
of the Circuit Court for Carroll
County to appoint Court Steno-
grapher and to re-enact the same
with amendments.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Chapter one hundred and eighty-three
of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-siX, entitled an Act to au-
thorize and empower the Judges of
the Circuit Court for Carroll County
to appoint a Court Stenographer,
be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted SO as to read as fol-
lows:
Section 2. And be it enacted by the
General Assembly or Maryland, That
the Judges of the Circuit Court for
Carroll County be and they are hereby
authorized and directed to appoint
Court Stenographer, who shall be
a sworn officer of said Court, and said
stenographer so appointed shall be
paid a salary not less than five hun
dred dollars and not exceeding nine
hundred dollars per annum, the
amount to be fixed from time to time
by the County Commissioners of Car
roll County, who shall pay said Court
Stenographer the sum so fixed by
them for his services, in monthly in
stalments, Immediately upon the pre-
sentation of the certificate of the
Clerk and of any of said Judges of
said Court, showing the attendance
and services of said Court Steno-
grapher.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That
the stenographer so appointed shall
be skilled in the practice of his art,
and shall hold his position during the
pleasure of the Judges of said Court,
it shall be his duty, under the direc-
ton of the Judge or Judges of said
Court, to take full stenographic notes
of all oral testimony and Judicial
opinions orally delivered at the regu-
lar terms thereof; and said steno-
grapher shall attend the taking of
testimony in any cause depending in
the Court of Equity in said county
when requested to do so by any ex-
aminer in equity or by any one OF the
parties to the cause; and he shall take
down in stenographic notes and re-
duce to typewriter copy at least one
copy thereof to be filed in the cause
and certified and returned in like
manner by the regular examiner, for
which said stenographer shall re-
ceive no additional compensation; and
it shall be his duty to furnish to any
party to such proceedings upon re-
quest, a typewriter copy of the
notes of testimony and judicial opin-
ions so taken by him or of such part
thereof as may be required on pay
ment by such party of the expense
of such copy at the rate of five cents
for every hundred words, whenever
any Judge of said Court shall pass an
order requiring typewriter copy
of all or any part of the stenographic
notes taken during any judicial pro-
ceedings at which he presided, to be
made, it shall be the duty of the Court
Stenographer to make such copy, and
said transcript shall be filed in the
case under such rules as shall be pre-
scribed by said Court.
Section 4. And be 1t enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the
date of it's passage.
Approved March %, 1908.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS,
Governor.
JOSEPH B. SETH,
President of the Senate.
J. ENOS RAY,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Secretary of the Senate:
I hereby certify, That the aforego-
ing is true copy of an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, pass
ed at the January Session, 1908.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary.