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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 news-
paper (or one of its officers if such publisher be a corporation), that the
rate at which such publication is charged for in said bill does not exceed
the rate charged by such newspapers for publishing legal .notices.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1865, 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 coun-
cil of Baltimore and the county commissioners 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 sec-
tions in said county, the papers designated for such work to be in, the dis-
cretion of the" county commissioners, the total cost of which shall not ex-
ceed $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.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec 6. 1870, ch. 105. 1870, ch. 174. 1870, ch. 274.
1872, ch. 410. 1874, ch. 32. 1886, ch. 216.

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