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we will do the State printing for the sum of $28,000
(twenty-eight thousand dollars.)
Very respectfully,
WM> J. C. DULANY Co.
BOND OF MESSRS. W. J. C. DULANY CO.
Know all men by these presents, that we, William J.
C. Dulany Company, as principals, and the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty Company, of Baltimore, as surety,
all of the city of Baltimore, in thern State of Maryland, are
held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland, in the
full and just sum of thirty thousand dollars, current
money of the United States, to be paid to the said State,
or its certain Attorney; to which payment well and
truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves and each
of us, our alid each of our heirs, executors and adminis-
trators, jointly an.d severally, firmly by these presents,
sealed with our seals and dated this 25th day of Sep-
tember, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Whereas, The above bounden William J. C. Dulany
Company is about to transmit to the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, its bid for the printing required
to be done for the General Assembly of Maryland at its
next ensuing session, in pursuance of the provisions of
Article 78 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land; and
Whereas, The said William J. C. Dulany Company in
transmitting its said bid to said Clerk, is required by
section 1, of said Article 78 of the Code of Public a-
eral Laws of Maryland, to accompany the same with a
good an(I sufficient bond to the State of Maryland, in the
penal sum of thirty thousand dollars, conditioned for the
due, prompt and faithful compliance on their part with
the contract required by the provisions of said Article
78 of said Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, to
be entered into with said Clerk, in the event that they,
the said William J. C. Dulaney Company, shall be
awarded said contract by said Clerk; and
Whereas, These presents are also intended to indem-
nify the State of Maryland against any loss, which may
be sustained by it, in consequence of the said William J.
C. Dulaney Company failing or refusing to enter into
said contract, in compliance with the provisions of said
Article 78 of said Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land.