1160 PUBLICATION OF LAWS. [ART. 76.

obstructed or prevented, so that the officer charged with the
service of such writ or process shall be unable to serve the same,
or cannot do so without force, or personal risk, the said officer
shall leave a copy of such writ or process, if practicable or per-
mitted, with such person or persons as shall present themselves,
where such writ or process is sought to be served, and where or
whereabout the person on whom the same is sought to be served
shall be; or shall set up such copy upon the fortress, building oi
premises aforesaid, or as near thereto as may be practicable; and
shall make return of the f acts, accordingly; which return shall
to all legal intents, purposes and effect be equivalent to a return
of actual personal service of such writ or process upon the party
named therein.

ARTICLE LXXVI.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

1. What public general laws shall be published. 2. In what papers they shall be pub- lished. 3. Payment for such publication, how made. 4. Publication of local laws taking effect before June 1 next after their passage, how made.

5 To whom such local laws shall be sent. 6. What counties excepted from oper- ation of two preceding sections. 7. Certificates of publication to be fur- nished by corporations bene- fited by acts authorizing county subscriptions to works of inter- nal improvements.

1865, ch. 31. 1868, ch 67. 1868, ch. 440. 1882, ch. 251.

1. Every public general law which is made to take effect
before the first day of June next after the session at which it
shall be passed, which the governor and attorney general shall
direct, shall immediately after its passage be published at the
expense of the State, daily, for one week in two daily newspapers
of the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German
language, and such newspaper or newspapers in each county as