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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and as a substitute for all Public General Laws
and Public Local Laws of this state in force on
the first Wednesday of January in the year eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-eight.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said

What to
codify.

John Prentis Poe be, and he is hereby authorized
and directed to codify upon the general plan of
the code so prepared and submitted by him, the
public acts of this present session, and to incor-
porate the same in a correct reprint of said code,
by such apt additions to, amendments of and
alterations in said code as the public acts of this
session may render necessary, appending to said
Code of Public General Laws a full and com-
plete analytical index.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That one

Deposit one
copy.

copy of said reprint of said Code of Public Gen-
eral and Public Local Laws, with the public
acts of this present session incorporated therein,
as provided in the preceding section, shall be de-
posited with the clerk of the court of appeals as
soon as the same can be prepared, and when so
deposited with him the said clerk shall give his

Give official
certificate.

official certificate of the fact of such deposit,
and publish the said certificate for ten days in
two newspapers publised in the city of Balti-
more, and thereupon the said reprint of said
Code of Public General and Public Local Laws,
with the public acts of this present session duly
incorporated therein, as hereinbefore provided,
shall constitute and be the sole Code of Public
General and Public Local Laws of this state,
and shall supersede and stand in the place of all
public laws of this state whatsoever.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the

Amount ap-
propriated.

sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be and the
same is hereby appropriated out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to
pay said John Prentis Poe for said code and
for the said reprint thereof, twenty thousand to
be paid to him by warrant drawn by the comp-
troller upon the treasurer upon the delivery by
him to the treasurer of a full assignment and
transfer to this state of all his claim to the
copyright of said work, and the remaining
five thousand dollars to be paid to him upon
the delivery to the state librarian of two thou-