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Delegates stationery may be allowed not to exceed five dollars in
value and postage stamps to the same amount. Acts 1868, chap-
ter 70, amended by Act 1870, chapter 411.

The secretary of the Senate and chief clerk of the House
receives each $300 per annum for work done during recess of
the General Assembly. Act 1870, chapters 409 and 454.

The public printing of the General Assembly is awarded by
contract by the clerk of the Court of Appeals. The contractor
contracts in a sum total to do all the printing ordered to be
printed in English by the Act of 1882, chapter 261, and by the
current Legislature. Acts of 1882, chapter 261.

The laws of each General Assembly that are made to take
effect before the first day of June next, after the session at
which it may be passed, which the Governor and Attorney Gen-
eral shall direct, shall immediately after its passage be published
at the expense of the State for one week in three daily news-
papers in the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the
German language, one of which shall be a law paper, and such
newspaper or newspapers in each county as the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates may direct.
Acts of 1882, chapter 251. Chapter 15, Acts of 1894.

A certified copy of Public Local Laws, made to take effect as
above, shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Senate, if the
same shall have originated in the Senate, and by the Chief Clerk
of the House, if the same shall have originated in the House,
immediately upon its passage to the County Commissioners of the
county or counties, in which the same may operate, or to the
Mayor of the city of Baltimore, if the same is to operate in that
city; and it shall be the duty of the said County Commissioners
and Mayor upon receipt of such certified copy to have the same
published. Acts of 1870, chapter 274.

Certified copies of the Public General Laws are to be sent to
the newspapers selected to publish the same by the Secretary of
the Senate and Chief Clerk of the House, as the laws orginate
in their respective chambers. Acts 1882, chapter 251, section 1.

Dorchester, Somerset, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester
counties are exempted from publishing their local laws. Acts
1872, chapter 410, Acts 1870, chapters 105 and 174.

Cancelled Bonds. The Finance Committee of the Senate and
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House are required
during each session of the Legislature to examine, count and burn
all bonds and certificates of stock as have been purchased or
obtained, up to the close of the fiscal year, next preceding the
session, which have been purchased by the Comptroller and
Treasurer for the Sinking Fund, and shall report to the Legisla-
ture their proceedings. Acts 1862, chapter 112.