1786 REPORTER AND CODIFIER——STATE. [ART. 80

shall provide in like manner, from time to time, according to need, for
the codification and publication of a code of public local laws of the
State, but may have the same printed collectively or separately for the
several comities in such paper binding as he may deem for the best
interest and advantage of the people of the State.
As to the acts of assembly, see art. 78, sec. 8.

1904, art. 80, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 9.

8. Immediately upon the completion of the code of public general
laws in the year 1910, and decennially thereafter, the same shall be
submitted by the state reporter and codifier to a commission to be
appointed by the court of appeals of Maryland, and after examination,
if a majority thereof shall so determine, shall certify the said code to
be authentic, and upon said certification the same shall be received' in
all the courts of this State and in any other State as evidence of the
law of the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 10.

9. After the publication of such code or codes the same shall be
placed in the possession of the state librarian, and shall be sold by said
librarian at a price to be computed from the gross expense of the pub-
lication of said code or codes for cash; and the said librarian shall
report to the comptroller and treasurer of the State monthly, giving
the number of codes sold by him during the preceding month and such
sums of money as he may have received from the sale of codes, and
the number of volumes of said codes still in his possession.

1910, ch. 345, sec. 1 (p. 217).

10. The criminal code of the State of Maryland, containing the
articles and sections of the present code of public general laws of 1904,
and the subsequent public general laws in force on the first Wednes-
day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and ten, so far as they
relate to crimes and impose penalties therefor, revised and codified by
the commission for the revision of the criminal law of the State of
Maryland, and submitted to this general assembly by said commission,
in pursuance of chapter 325 of the acts of 1908, entitled "An Act to
provide for the appointment by the governor of this State of a commis-
sion of three persons to revise the criminal law of the State, and provid-
ing compensation for said commission and a fund to defray the neces-
sary expenses thereof," with the 'public general laws enacted by the
general assembly of Maryland at its session of 1910 relating to crimes
and punishments incorporated therein, shall be printed and submitted
by said commission to the commission to be appointed by the court of
appeals under the provisions of section 7 of article 80 of the code of
public general laws, to examine and approve the new code of public
general laws of the State of Maryland directed by the provisions of
said article to be prepared by the state reporter and codifier, for their
examination, and if said commission so appointed by the court of