ROBERT M. McLA.NE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 78.

AN ACT to repeal sections one and two of article

forty-two of the Code of Public General Laws of

the State of Maryland, title " Governor," respect-

ing the custody of the great seal of the state and

the use thereof, and to re-enact the same with

amendments, so as to give force and effect to the

constitutional provisions relating thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections one and two of article

forty-two of the Code of Public General Laws of the

Repealed and

re-enacted.

State of Maryland, title " Governor," be and the same

hereby are repealed and re-enacted with amendments,

so as to read as follows :

SECTION 1. The great seal of the State of Maryland

shall be in the custody of the secretary of state, but

Custody of the

the governor shall have the control and use thereof

great seal.

whenever necessary for any purpose provided for by

the constitution and laws, or when needed to authenti-

cate communications between this state and the United

States, the states and territories thereof and foreign

states, in all which cases the great seal shall be used ;

and the secretary of the senate, and the chief clerk of

the house of delegates respectively, shall have unre-

stricted access to and use of the great seal for the pur-

pose of affixing the same to bills which shall have

passed the General Assembly as required by the con-

stitution, preparatory to presenting the same to the

governor for his approval; every bill, when passed by

the General Assembly, shall be returned to the house

Bills to oe
sealed.

in which the same originated, and shall, as soon there-

after as practicable, be sealed with the great seal by

the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the house

of delegates, as the case may be, and presented to the

governor for his approval; and, in his presence, such

clerical officer having custody of the same shall make

on the back of every such bill a memorandum in writ-

Make memo-
randum .

ing of the day and hour when the same was presented

to the governor for his approval, and such officer so

presenting the same shall sign his name to such memo-

randum, and shall make a corresponding entry upon

the journal of the house in which the same originated ;