PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 947

ARTICLE 76.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 4. 1912, 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. 1935. ch. 341.

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 council 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 once only in three newspapers published in
different sections in said county, the papers designated for such work to be
in the discretion of the county commissioners, the total cost of which shall
not exceed $600. 00, and no discrimination shall be made by said com-
missioners as to the amount each of the three newspapers so designated
shall receive for such work.

This section is directory hut not mandatory, or a condition precedent. Culp v.
Commrs, of Chestertown, 154 Md. 624.