ART. 76] PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 807

ARTICLE LXXVL

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

3. Payment for, to newspapers.

1904, art. 76, sec. 3. 1888, art. 76, sec. 3. 1882, ch. 251. 1894, ch. 15.

1912, ch. 367.

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 pub-
lishing said general laws; the said warrant shall be issued within six
months from the time of publication 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 twelve hundred dollars
shall be paid to each of the five papers for the publication of said laws
as aforesaid in the City of Baltimore.

And provided further, that the Treasurer shall not pay the bills of
any newspaper of the City of Baltimore for publishing such laws unless
there be furnished with such bill an affidavit from the publisher ;of
such newspaper (or one of its officers if such publisher be a corpora-
tion), that the rate at which such publication is charged for in said
bill does not exceed the rate charged by such newspapers for publish-
ing legal notices.