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be construed as changing such rights as the State of Maryland
may have on or under such waters.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the center of the waters
aforesaid shall be deemed to be as represented on the county
maps issued under authority of the Laws of Maryland, 1896,
chapter 51, and the Laws of Maryland, 1898, chapter 129, and
said maps shall be admissible as evidence as to the location of
the boundary or boundaries aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That certified copies of said
county maps shall be filed with the clerks of the several courts
for all the several counties of Maryland, and also with the
Board of County Commissioners of said counties; said maps
to be regarded as official and authoritative.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908.

ARTICLE LXXVI.

PUBLICATION OF LAWS.

CHAPTER 257.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 4 of
article 76 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Publication of Laws. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section four (4) of article seventy-six (76) of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Publication of Laws, " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. Every public local law made to take effect before the
first day of June next after the session at which it may be
passed, shall immediately after its passage be published once in
each of three successive weeks in such newspaper or news-
papers of the respective counties in which it may operate as the
County Commissioners of each county may direct; and in case
such law is to be operative in the city of Baltimore, then once
in each of three successive weeks in such daily newspaper or
newspapers published in said city, as the Mayor thereof may
direct; and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the
County Commissioners of the several counties shall provide for
the payment of such publication; provided, that as to Prince
George's county, the County Commissioners thereof shall direct