ART. 76.] PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 1705

said city, as the mayor thereof may direct; and the mayor and
city council of Baltimore and the county commissioners of the
several counties shall provide for payment of the expenses of
such publication; provided, that as to Prince George's county
the county commissioners thereof shall direct the publication
of such laws in one newspaper published in Upper Marlboro
one in Laurel and one in Hyattsville of said county, the total
cost of which shall not exceed $600, and no discrimination
shall be made by said commissioners as to the amount each of
the three papers above specified shall receive for such work;
provided further, that the newspapers so selected shall have
been established in the respective towns for at least two years
preceding the publication of the laws, as above directed; and
provided further, that no two of the newspapers so selected
shall be of the same political faith.

1888, art. 76, sec. 5. 1865, ch. 31. 1870, ch 105. 1870, ch. 274.

5. A certified copy of every public local law made to take
effect as aforesaid, shall immediately after its passage, 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), to the county commissioners of the county or
counties in which the some 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.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1870, ch. 105. 1870, ch. 174. 1870, ch. 274.
1872, ch 410. 1874, ch. 32. 1886, ch. 216.

6. The two preceding sections shall not apply to Wash-
ington, Somerset, Wicomico or Dorchester counties.

Ibid. sec. 7. 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

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