500 PUBLICATION OP LAWS. [ART. 76

ARTICLE LXXVI.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

1. What public general laws shall be published.

I 3. Appropriation therefor; proviso.

1894, ch. 15.

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 three daily news-
papers of the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the
German language, and one of which shall be a law paper, and
such newspaper or newspapers in each county as the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates may
designate.

Ibid.

3. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall
pay to the publishers of the newspapers in which the public
general laws shall have been published in conformity with the
provisions aforesaid, the compensation to which they may be
respectively entitled for publishing said general laws; the said
warrant shall be issued within six months from the time of publi-
cations aforesaid; provided, however, that not more than six hun-
dred dollars shall be paid for the publication of said laws in any
' one county, and not more than six hundred dollars shall be paid
to each of the three papers for the publication of said laws as
aforesaid in the city of Baltimore.