ART. 76] PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 1709

1904, art. 76, sec. 6. 1888, art. 76, sec. 6. 1870. ch. 105. 1S70, ch. 174. 1870, ch. 274.
1872, ch. 410. 1874, ch. 32. 1886, ch. 216.

6. The two preceding sections shall not apply to Washington, Somer-
set, Wicomico, Worcester or Dorchester counties.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1888, art. 76, sec. 7. 1870, ch. 281.

7. Whenever, in pursuance of the fifty-fourth section of article 3 of
the constitution, any act of the general assembly, authorizing a county
of this State to contract any debt or obligation in the construction of
any railway, canal or other work of internal improvement, or to give
or loan its credit to, or in aid of, any association or corporation, shall
be published, it shall be the duty of such association or corporation, or of
those individuals to be benefited by said act of the general assembly
to furnish certificates under oath, of such publication to the governor
of the State and the president of the senate and speaker of the house
of delegates of the general assembly next succeeding the passage of
said act. And the cost of such publication shall be defrayed as is
required to be done in the publication of local laws.