ART. 2. ] PUBLICATION OP LAWS.

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Baltimore, one of which shall be printed in the German language,

and one newspaper in each county having the largest circulation, if

there be a newspaper published in said county.

2. A certified copy of every public general law made to take

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effect as aforesaid, shall be transmitted by mail, by the secretary of

To what news-
papers certified

the Senate (if the same originated in the Senate), and by the chief

copies of public
general laws to

clerk of the House of Delegates (if the same originated in the House

be sent

of Delegates), to such two daily newspapers of the city of Baltimore,

and one newspaper in each county, having the largest circulation (if

there be a newspaper published in said county), as the president of

the Senate and the speaker of the House of Delegates may respec-

tively designate for publication, as provided in the first section of

this article.

3. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay

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to the publishers of the newspapers in which the public general

Payment to
newspaper pub-

laws are printed in conformity with the first section of this article,

lishers

the compensation to which they may respectively be entitled for

printing said general laws, within six months from the time of pub-

lication.

4. Every public local law, made to take effect before the first day

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of June next after the session at which it may be passed, shall

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c 32 What pub-

immediately after its passage be published, once in each of three

lic local law s to
be published,

successive weeks in such newspapers of the respective counties in

and when

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 news-

Newspapers

papers published in said city, as the mayor thereof may direct, and

the mayor and city council of Baltimore and the county commis-

Cost, how de-
frayed

sioners of the several counties shall provide for payment of the

expenses of such publication. This section shall not apply to

County ex-
cepted

Washington County.

5. A certified copy of every public local law made to take effect

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Certified copies

as aforesaid, shall immediately after its passage be transmitted by

of public local
laws to be sent

mail, by the secretary of the Senate (if the same originated in the

to appropriate

Senate), and by the chief clerk of the House of Delegates (if the

county commis-
sioners, etc, for

same originated in the House of Delegates), to the county commis-

publication

sioners 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.

6. The preceding two sections shall not apply to Dorchester,

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174, c 274

Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties.

Counties ex-
cepted

7. Whenever, in pursuance of the fifty-fourth section, of article

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three, of the Constitution, any act of the General Assembly, au-

Certificates of
publication of

thorizing a county of this State, to contract any debt, or obligation

laws authoriz-
ing loans, etc,

in the construction of any railway, canal, or other work of internal

by counties

improvement, or to give or loan its credit to, or in aid of, any asso-