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ing 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 counties in such paper binding as he may deem for the best
interest and advantage of the people of the State.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, 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.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, 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 publication of
said code or codes for cash; and the said librarian shall report to the comp-
troller 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.

An. Code, sec. 10. 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 Wednesday 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 commission of three persons to revise the crimi-
nal law of the State, and providing compensation for said commission and
a fund to defray the necessary 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 examina-
tion, and if said commission so appointed by the court of appeals, or a
majority of them, shall approve the said criminal code, they, or a majority
of said commission, shall certify in writing that they have examined and do
approve and determine the same to be complete and correct, then the said