Private Acts of 1921 Chapter 598

SECTION 1. That persons authorized to take depositions in Counties of not less than 22,225 and more than 22,240, according to the Federal Census of 1920, may take them in short hand, and subsequently, reduce the same to typewriting, or may take them directly on the typewriting machine, provided, that in case the deposition be taken in short hand, the person taking it can truthfully and does certify substantially as follows:

"I certify that being a stenographer, I took foregoing deposition in the exact language of the witness, and reduced it to typewriting (or manuscript) That it was then read over by the witness in my presence (or was read over by me to the witness) and was approved and signed by him (or by me for him or her at his or her request and I certify that I am not interested in the cause, nor of kin or counsel to either of the parties, and that I sealed up said deposition and delivered it to ----------- (or delivered it to the express office, or put it in the post office) without being out of my possession, or altered after it was taken."

SECTION 2. That any deposition taken under this Act by a person authorized to take depositions, at the request of the witness may sign witnesses's name to the deposition, after the same has been reduced to writing, on the typewriter, or manuscript.  

SECTION 3. That the person taking the deposition in short hand, and subsequently reducing the same to typewriting or manuscript, shall in addition to the regular fee allowed by the General Statute for taking depositions, be permitted to charge for transcribing the same, the price of ten cents per page, which may be included in the bill of cost, for taking said depositions.  

SECTION 4. That all laws, or parts of law in conflict with this Act be and the same, are hereby repealed.  

SECTION 5. That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: March 31, 1921.