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ARTICLE 76

ARTICLE 76.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

	1. What general laws published in news-	5. To whom such local laws sent.
	papers.	6. What counties excepted from opera-
	2. In what papers they shall be published. 3. Payment for, to newspapers.	tion of two preceding sections. 7. Certificates of publication furnished by corporations benefited by acts
	4. Public local laws published in news-	authorizing county subscriptions to
	papers.	works of internal improvements.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1865, ch. 31. 1868, chs. 67
and 440. 1882, ch. 251. 1894, ch. 15. 1902, ch. 561. 1904, ch. 464.
1906, ch. 329. 1918, ch. 349. 1922, ch. 295.

1. Every public general law, which is declared to be an emergency
law and which the Governor and Attorney-General shall direct, shall im-
mediately after its passage be published at the expense of the State, daily,
for three times, in three newspapers in the City of Baltimore, one of which
shall be a law paper, and one of which represents the minority political
party, and such newspaper or newspapers in each county, as the president
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates may designate,
who shall also designate the three daily newspapers in the City of Balti-
more in which the said laws are to be published.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1882, ch. 251.

2. A certified copy of every public general law directed to be published
as aforesaid by the governor and attorney-general shall 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) immediately after the publication of the same
shall have been directed as aforesaid, to such four daily newspapers of the
city of Baltimore, and such newspaper or newspapers in each county as
the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of delegates shall
have designated as aforesaid, as provided in the preceding section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 3. 1912, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, 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 com-
pensation to which they may be respectively entitled for publishing 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.