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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 three times in four newspapers
of the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German
language, one of which shall be a law paper, and such news-
paper or newspapers in each county as the president of the
senate and the speaker of the house of delegates may designate.

1888, art. 76, sec. 2. 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) immediately after the publication of the same shall
have been directed as aforesaid, to such four daily newspapers
of the city of Baltimore, 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. sec. 3. 1882, ch. 251. 1894, ch. 15.

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 publications aforesaid; provided, however, that not more
than six hundred 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 four papers for the publi-
cation of such laws as aforesaid in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1865, ch. 31 1870, ch. 274. 1872, ch. 410. 1874, ch. 32.

1902, ch. 390.

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
counties in which it may operate as the county commissioners
of each county may direct, and in case any such law is to
operate in the city of Baltimore, then once in each week of
three successive weeks in such daily newspapers published in