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ARTICLE —.

Publication of Laws.

2. In what papers public local laws to be published.

6. When and by whom certificate of pub- lication to be furnished

1870, c. 274 repeals 1865, c. 31, 8. 2, [Sup. 1861-7, p. 234,] and enacts the following

in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. Every public local law, mode 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 newspapers of the respective counties in which it may operate as the county commissioners 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 commissioners of the several counties shall provide for payment of the expenses of such publication, but none

1870, c. 274 In what papers public local laws to be pub- lished.

of the provisions of this act shall apply to either Somerset, Dorchester or Worcester counties. Approved April 4, 1870.

Counties ex- cepted.

1870, c. 105 enacts that so much of the second and third sections (chapter thirty,
one) of the laws passed January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as ap-
plied to Somerset and Worcester counties requiring the publication of all local laws
in all the newspapers of Worcester and Somerset counties be and the same is hereby
repealed.

Approved and in force March 23,1870.

1870, c. 174 approved and in force April 4, 1870, enacts the same as to Wicomico and

Dorchester counties.

1870, c. 281 adds the following:

6. Whenever, in pursuance of the fifty-fourth section of article three of the constitution, any act of the general assembly, authorizing a county of this state, to contract

1870, c. 281.