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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 196.

AN ACT to legalize the Revised Code of Public

General Laws of Maryland, prepared by Lewis

Mayer, Lewis C. Fisher, and E. J. D. Cross, and

to subscribe for copies of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the revised code of Public Gen-

eral Laws of the State of Maryland, containing the

articles and sections of the present code and subse-

quent acts now in force, prepared by Lewis Mayer,

Revised code.

Lewis Fisher, and E. J. D. Cross, be and the same is

hereby legalized and shall be deemed and taken in

the courts of this State as evidence of the articles

and sections of the present code and the subsequent

acts therein codified ; provided, that before the same

be published the Public General Laws of this session

be incorporated therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the librarian be

Librarian to
subscribe.

and he is hereby authorised and directed to subscribe

in the name of the State for six hundred copies of

said revised code, prepared, printed and bound in as

good style as the present code ; provided the price

shall not exceed ten dollars per copy ; and provided,

also, that a majority of the judges of the Court of
Appeals shall certify under their hands and seals

that they have carefully examined the said code and

that it is a faithful codification of the laws in force

and deserves the patronage of the State ; and the

Treasurer to

treasurer is hereby authorized and required on the

Pay

warrant of the comptroller, which he shall issue on

receipt of a certificate from the State librarian that

the said copies have been delivered as aforesaid, to

pay to the said Lewis Mayer, Lewis Fisher, and E.

J . D. Cross, the sum of six thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the State Librarian

shall distribute the copies aforesaid, when delivered

State Librar-
ian shall dis-
tribute copies

to him, in the same manner and to the same persons
that he is now required to distribute the laws of the
General Assembly, and the remainder of said copies

shall be deposited in the State library for the use of

the State.