1708 PUBLICATION OF LAWS. [ART. 76

1904, art. 76, sec. 3. 1888, art. 76, sec. 3. 1882, ch. 251. 1894, ch. 15.
3. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to"
the publishers of the newspapers in which the public general laws shall
have been published in conformity with the provisions aforesaid, the
compensation to which they may be respectively entitled for publishing
said general laws; the said warrant shall be issued within six months
from the time of publications aforesaid; provided, however, that not
more than six hundred dollars shall be paid for the publication of said
laws in any one county, and not more than six hundred dollars shall be
paid to each of the four papers for the publication of said laws as
aforesaid in the city of Baltimore.

1904, art. 76, sec. 4. 1888, art 76, sec. 4. 1863, ch. 31. 1870, ch. 274. 1872, ch. 410.
1874, ch. 32. 1902, ch. 390. 1908, ch. 257.

4. Every public local law made to take effect before the first day of
June next after the session at which it may be passed, shall immediately
after its passage be published once in each of three successive weeks in
such newspaper or newspapers of the respective counties in which it
may operate as the county commissioners of each county may direct;
and in case such law is to be operative in the city of Baltimore, then
once in each of three successive weeks in such daily newspaper or
newspapers published in said city, as the mayor thereof may direct;
and the mayor and city council of Baltimore and the county commis-
sioners of the several counties shall provide for the payment of such
publication; provided, that as to Prince George's county, the county
commissioners thereof shall direct the publication of such laws in
three newspapers published in different sections in said county, the
papers designated for such work to be in the discretion of the county
commissioners, the total cost of which shall not exceed $600.00, and no
discrimination shall be made by said commissioners as to the amount
each of the three newspapers so designated shall receive for such work.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 76, sec. 5. 1865, ch. 31. 1870, ch. 105.
1870, ch. 274.

5. A certified copy of every public local law made to take effect as
aforesaid, shall immediately after its passage, be transmitted by mail,
by the secretary of the senate (if the same originated in the senate}
and by the chief clerk of the house of delegates (if the same originated
in the house of delegates), 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 as provided in the
preceding section.