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journals and debates of the Constitutional Conventions of 1850
and 1864.

In force from January 13, 1865.

ARTICLE

Publication of Laws.

Chapter 31 adds the following as an article in the Public General Laws under the

above title:

SEC. 1. Every Public General Law, which is 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 pub-
lished at the expense of the State, daily for one week, in two
daily newspapers of the city of Baltimore, and one newspaper in
each county, having the largest circulation, if there be a paper
published in said county.

2. 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 all the newspapers of the respective
counties in which it may operate; and in case there is no news-
paper published in any county, then in such manner as the
county commissioners of said county may direct, and in case
any such law is to operate in the city of Baltimore, then once in
each week for three successive weeks in such daily newspapers
published in said city as the mayor thereof may direct; and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the county commis-
sioners of the several counties, shall provide for payment of the
expenses of such publication.

8. A certified copy of every Public Local Law made to take
effect as aforesaid, shall immediately after its passage be trans-
mitted by mail, by the secretary of the Senate, (if the same ori-
ginated in the Senate, ) and by the chief clerk of the House of