EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1563

ing and arranging for publication the laws of said session,
three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars; to the Clerk
of the Court of Appeals, for recording the laws of the General
Assembly of 1918, six hundred and fifty dollars; for publishing
the public general laws, in accordance with Section 3 of Article
76 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws as amended by
the Acts of 1916, seventy-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary; for copying and indexing the laws of said
session as provided by Section 8 of Article 78 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws, fifteen hundred dollars; for the
purpose of fitting the Senate Chamber and Hall of the House
of Delegates, and so forth for the meeting of the General As-
sembly of 1918, and for incidental repairs to public buildings
during the recess of the Legislature, two thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the
control and direction of the Governor; to the twenty-six news-
papers in which shall be published the defaulters to the State
previous to the general election in November, 1917, to be dis-
tributed by the Comptroller upon bills rendered, one thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for additional
cleaning of the State House during the session of the General
Assembly of 1918, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, the same to be spent under the
supervision and direction of the Executive.

PUBLIC DEBT.

For the payment of the interest on the public debt of the
State, one million and fifty-five thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums of money
hereby appropriated are hereby declared to be in lieu of any
and all annual or continuing appropriations heretofore re-
ceived by any hereinbefore mentioned person, persons, body
corporate, institutions, State, County, or City boards, com-
missions, bureaus, departments, officers, officials or employes, in
accordance with the provisions of any laws, acts or resolutions,
of parts thereof, heretofore at any time passed or enacted by
any General Assembly of the State of Maryland, whereby any
appropriation or appropriations have been made payable, in
whole or in part, out of the funds of the general treasury of
the State.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of
the State, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, shall disburse
the said sum or sums of money herein appropriated for the
object and purposes herein specified to or upon the order of
the person or persons, or a body politic or corporate, entitled
to receive the same; provided, however, that all of the appro-