ART. 76.] PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 1161

the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of
delegates may jointly designate.

1882, ch 251.

2. A certified copy of every public general law directed to be
published as aforesaid by the governor and attorney general shall
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) imme-
diately after the publication of the same shall have been directed
as aforesaid, to such two daily newspapers of the city of Balti-
more, and such newspaper or newspapers in each county as the
president of the senate and the speaker of the house of delegates

shall have designated as aforesaid, as provided in the preceding
section.

Ibid.

3. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall
pay to the publishers of the newspapers in which the pubh'c gen-
eral laws shall have been published in conformity with the
provisions aforesaid, the compensation to which they may respec-
tively be entitled for publishing said general laws, and said

warrant shall be issued within six months from the time of publi-
cation as aforesaid; provided, however, that not more than six
hundred dollars shall be paid for the publication of said laws in
any one county, and that not more than eighteen hundred dollars
shall be paid for the publication of said laws as heretofore pro-
vided in the city of Baltimore.

1865, ch. 31. 1870, ch. 274. 1872, ch. 410. 1874, ch. 32.

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 successive weeks in such newspapers of the respective coun-
ties in which it may operate as the county commissioners may
direct; and in case any such law is to operate in the city of Balti-
more, then once in each week for three successive weeks in such dally
newspapers published in said city as the mayor thereof may direct;
and the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and the county