PUBLICATION OF LAWS 2889

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, 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 sucpessive 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 but not mandatory, or a condition precedent. Culp v.
Commrs, of Chestertown, 154 Md. 624.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, gee. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1870, ch. 281.

7. Whenever, in pursuance of the fifty-fourth section of article 3 of
the constitution, any act of the general assembly, authorizing a county of
this State to contract any debt or obligation in the construction of any rail-
way, canal or other work of internal improvement, or to give or loan its
credit to, or in aid of, any association or corporation, shall be published,
it shall be the duty of such association or corporation, or of those indi-