1162 PUBLICATION OF LAWS. [ART. 76.

commissioners of the several counties, shall provide for payment
of the expenses of such publication.

1865, ch. 31. 1870, ch. 105. 1870, ch 274.

5. A certified copy of every publlc 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
originated in the senate,) and by the chief clerk of the house of
delegates, (if the same originated in the house of delegates,) to
the county commissioners 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.

1870, ch. 105. 1870, ch. 174. 1870, ch. 274. 1872, ch. 410. 1874, ch 32.

1886, ch. 310.

6. The two preceding sections shall not apply to Washington,
Somerset, Wicomico or Worcester counties.

1870, ch 281.

7. Whenever, in pursuance of the fifty-fourth section of
article 3 of the constitution, any act of the general assembly,
authorizing a county of this State to contract any debt or
obligation in the construction of any railway, canal or other work
of internal improvement, or to give or loan its credit to, or in aid
of, any association or corporation, shall be published, it shall be
the duty of such association or corporation, or of those individuals
to be benefited by said act of the general assembly, to furnish
certificates, under oath, of such publication, to the governor of
the State, and the president of the senate and speaker of the
house of delegates of the general assembly next succeeding the
passage of said act. And the cost of such publication shall be
defrayed as is required to be done in the publication of local laws.