HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR
CHAPTER 443.

AN ACT to regulate and limit the sum to be
paid for the county printing and publishing
for Calvert county.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the County Commis-
sioners of Calvert county shall, before making
their annual levy in each and every year, con-
tract for the printing and publishing for Cal-
vert county in not less than two newspapers
in said county, the annual statement, notice
of registration and election; and they shall

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have printed in not more than one paper in
said county, such other printing as is or may
be required to be done and paid for by the
county aforesaid for the period of one year
from the day of making such contract; pro-
vided, said contract shall not allow, as com-
pensation for the entire printing and publish-
ing of every kind whatsoever of said county,
a sum not exceeding seven hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the County
Commissioners of Calvert county fail to effect
such contract for printing and publishing as
aforesaid, at a sum not exceeding seven hun-

Contract for
printing.

dred dollars as aforesaid, then they are author-
ized and empowered to adopt any mode of
printing or publishing for said county, by
hand-bills or otherwise, as in their judgment
may seem best for the interest of said county;
provided, the entire costs of same shall not
exceed the sum of seven hundred dollars in
any one year.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
be construed to relate to, and to include the
cost of printing and publishing the Public

Upon failure.

Local Laws passed at each session of the Gen-
eral Assembly, so long as the same are re-
quired by law to be published in said county.

Publish laws.