750

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the warrant of the Comptroller, the amount
or amounts of any such differences to the per-
son or persons entitled to receive the same ;
and any such differences payable to the State
shall be received by the said Treasurer, upon,
the warrant of the Comptroller, into the Treas-
ury of this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That if any of
the bonds or certificates of indebtedness re-
ferred to in the preamble of this act as now
due shall not be exchanged on or before the
first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-six, for certificates of indebtedness
issued under this act, the Governor, Comp-
troller and Treasurer of this State, or a ma-
jority of them, shall give notice by advertise-
ment at such time or times as they, or a
majority of them, may elect, and in such man-
ner and for such period or periods as they or
a majority of them may prescribe; that they
will receive proposals for the purchase, for
cash, of so many of such bonds, equal in face
value to the amount of said bonds referred to
in the preamble of this act as due and payable
as may not have been exchanged under the
provisions of this act, at prices not less than

Give notice.

the par of the said bonds and the interest ac-
cruing thereon; all coupons on said certifi-
cates of indebtedness issued under the pro-
visions of this act which shall have matured,
or will mature before the time of such pro-
posed sale, shall be cut from said certificates
of indebtedness; if any of said certificates of
indebtedness so offered for sale are registered,
the time from which interest shall begin to
run thereon shall be endorsed on such certifi-
cates of indebtedness before they are deliv-
ered to the purchaser thereof; proposals for
said certificates of indebtedness on any of them
shall be advertised at least twice a week for
four weeks before the time fixed for opening
such proposals, and shall be so advertised at
the expense of the State in two newspapers
published in the city of Baltimore and in the