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hereby empowered to borrow such amount of money as may be necessary
to meet the cost of such construction and to pledge the credit of the said
counties to the payment of the same.

CIRCUIT COURT.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 12. 1868, ch. 55. 1910, ch. 331 (p. 1195).

16. There shall be four terms of the Circuit Court for Wicomico
County, to be held at Salisbury commencing on the first Monday of Jan-
uary and July and the second Monday of March and the second Monday
of September in each year.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 13. 1868, ch. 55.

17. A jury shall be drawn and summoned, according to the mode pre-
scribed by law for drawing and summoning jurors, to attend at the March
and September terms of said court; and whenever the said court, or a
majority of the judges thereof, shall deem it expedient and shall so order,
a jury may be drawn and summoned to the January and July terms, in
the same manner as for other terms.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 14. 1868, ch. 55.

18. The judges of said court may pass all such rules as may be neces-
sary for facilitating the business of the court, and such rules shall provide
for the transaction of equity business; and the said court for equity busi-
ness, shall be considered as always open.

COURT STENOGRAPHER.

1908, ch. 437, sec. 1 (p. 747).

19. The judges of the first judicial circuit of the State are hereby
authorized and empowered to employ a competent stenographer to serve
in the respective courts of said circuit.

1908, ch. 437, sec. 2 (p. 747).

20. The salary of said stenographer shall be one thousand dollars
($1,000) per year, from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eight;
the said salary to be paid as follows: The County Commissioners of Dor-
chester County, Wicomico County, Somerset County and Worcester Coun-
ty shall each pay the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars thereof. Said
payments to be made in quarterly instalments from the first day of May,
nineteen hundred and eight, during service, on the presentation of the
certificate of the clerk of either county or of either 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 coun-
ties are hereby directed and empowered to provide for the payment of
their several portions of the salary of the said stenographer at once on
presentation of said certificate.