J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      511

CHAPTER 304
(Senate Bill 623)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 250 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Charles County (1959 Edition,
being Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Charles County", sub-title "Schools", authorizing the Board
of School Commissioners of Charles County to publish required
accounts in three newspapers of general circulation in the county
and removing the limitation on the amounts that can be paid to
newspapers publishing such accounts.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 250 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Charles County
(1959 Edition, being Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Charles County", sub-title "Schools", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

250.

The Board of County School Commissioners of Charles County
shall publish in [two newspapers published in said county, if there
be two newspapers representing the two political parties, which at
the last election preceding the termination of the respective fiscal
years polled, respectively, the largest number of votes cast in said
county] three newspapers having a general circulation in the County,
a statement of all receipts and disbursements, including all money
received and expended on account of text-books, and a statement of
the indebtedness of the board at the close of the fiscal year, and the
items of expense of the several public schools in Charles County,
as now required to be published by said board, under the provisions
of Section 27 of Article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Public Education", sub-title "County School Com-
missioners", and including, also, all other matters of which the public
should be informed, in the discretion of said Board; provided, how-
ever, that said Board of County School Commissioners shall not
allow, as compensation or consideration for the publications herein-
before mentioned more than the current rates charged by said
newspapers for such like advertising; [and that the aggregate sum
paid both of said newspapers shall not exceed the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars ($250) for any one fiscal year;] and pro-
vided further, that in event the publishers or managers of [either]
any of said newspapers shall refuse to publish all of the publications,
as hereinbefore provided, upon the terms and for the [pro rata]
compensation aforesaid, then, and in said event, the publication in
[one] any of such newspapers, the publishers or managers of which
will publish the publications aforesaid, upon the terms aforesaid,
shall be sufficient publication thereof by the said board.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1963.

Approved April 17, 1963.