SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1103

that all projects involving construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
improvement and repair of port facilities, including the dredging
of ship channels and turning basins and the filling and grading of
land, which contracts involve the expenditure of five thousand dollars
or more, shall be performed by private industry and contracts for
the same shall be awarded on the basis of the lowest responsible bid
received therefor in response to an invitation for bids published at
least twice in two newspapers having general circulation in the State
of Maryland, provided, however, that development work not suscep-
tible to accurate bidding may be awarded by negotiation; and.
provided further, that all of said contracts for said projects which
are to be performed in, on, upon, or in connection with the Port
of Baltimore in the Patapsco River Estuary shall require the pay-
ment of wage rates in an amount not less than the schedules of
minimum hourly wage rates, including minimum hourly wage rates
for overtime work, established from time to time by the Board of
Estimates of the City of Baltimore pursuant to Article 1 of the
Baltimore City Code (1950 Edition), title "Mayor and City Council,"
subtitle "City Contracts," subheading "Hours and Wages" as here-
tofore amended and as the same may be hereafter amended, for the
classifications of laborers, mechanics and apprentices, required to
perform said projects, as established by the said Board pursuant to
the said Ordinance, and said contracts shall specifically set forth
the said schedules of minimum hourly wage rates and the said
classifications;

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 497
(Senate Bill 401)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 536 (a)
of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949
Edition), being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Police Department of
Baltimore City," as said section and subtitle were revised by
Chapter 203 of the Acts of 1966, amending the laws concerning
the Police Department of Baltimore City, in order to correct a
cross-reference which is in error concerning members of the
Department who are on probationary status.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 536 (a) of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Balti-
more City (1949 Edition), being Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Police De-
partment of Baltimore City," as said section and subtitle were revised
by Chapter 203 of the Acts of 1966, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

536.

(a) All members of the Department, except those serving at the
pleasure of the Commissioner, and those on probationary status