EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the first day of July in the year in which said contract shall

be made, all matters required by law to be published by said

County Commissioners, except such matters relating to the reg-

istering of voters and to elections, as may be required by law

to be published by the Supervisors of Elections of said county,

or such other registration and election officials as may be

charged with the duty of publishing such registration and elec-

tion matters in said county, in two newspapers to be selected by

said County Commissioners, and in not more than two pub-

lished in said Charles County, bona fide representing the two

opposing political parties which at the last election before the

making of such contracts polled respectively the largest num-

ber of votes cast in said county ; provided, said County Commis-

sioners shall not allow as compensation or consideration for

publishing to be contracted for as aforesaid, nor shall they levy

or pay therefor an amount exceeding in the aggregate for

both such newspapers the sum of six hundred dollars in any

one year ; and provided further, if the owners or publishers of

one of such newspapers, selected as aforesaid, shall fail or

Failure to en-
ter into a con-

refuse, after reasonable notice, to enter into a contract for such

tract.

publishing as may be required of them under the provisions of

this Act, then if there be no other newspaper published in said

Charles County bona fide representing the political party of the

newspaper whose owners or publishers shall have failed or re-

fused to enter into contract for publishing as aforesaid, whose

owners or publishers shall be willing to enter into contract for

publishing as aforesaid, the contract shall be made for pub-

lishing as aforesaid in the one newspaper whose owners and

publishers shall be willing to enter into the contract ; or if there

be not, in the judgment of the said County Commissioners, in

any year, two newspapers published in said Charles County

bona fide representing the two opposing political parties which

at the last election before the making of such contract or con-

tracts polled, respectively, the largest number of votes in said

county, the County Commissioners may contract for publishing

as aforesaid with the owners and publishers of such one or two

newspapers published in said county as they may select; and

provided further, if the owners or publishers of all the news-

papers that may be published in said Charles County shall re-

Refusal to en-

fuse, in any year, to enter into contract with the said County

ter into a con-

Commissioners for publishing as herein provided, then the said

tract.

County Commissioners may make such publication of matters

required by law to be published by them as in their judgment

may best subserve the public interest.