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given one week's public notice in all the daily papers in the city
of Baltimore, inviting proposals, and setting forth the quantity
and quality of the provisions required, and the time within
which all proposals for said supply shall be made, and he shall
accept such proposals as may in his opinion, under all circum-
stances, be most advantageous to the institution.

17. The party with whom any contract may be made, shall
enter into bond, with security approved by the warden, and not
connected with the prison in any way whatever, in double the
amount of the estimated contract, conditioned for the faithful
performance thereof, and it shall be the duty of the warden to
rescind any contract as soon as there shall be a failure to comply
therewith, and the directors may direct a suit on said bond for
damages sustained by reason of the said non-compliance.

18. The directors may enter into such contracts for the em-
ployment of the convicts in the penitentiary, and for the sale of
the manufactures in the institution, as they may deem proper;
and may employ such agent or agents for the purchase of articles
or goods wanted by the institution, and allow the agents so em-
ployed such compensation as the directors may deem right and
proper.

19. All expenses of the said penitentiary shall be defrayed out
of the funds thereof, and no demand shall be made upon the
State for that purpose, except for such sums as may be payable
by law.

20. The directors, or any two of them, may, at the end of
every quarter of the fiscal year, draw on the Treasurer of the State
for the sum of two thousand dollars, to be expended by them
towards payment of the salaries of the officers of the institution.

21. They shall, within thirty days after the end of each fiscal
year of the institution, transmit to the Comptroller of the
State an accurate detailed statement of all its receipts and dis-
bursements during the year immediately preceding, including
the receipts from the treasury; and if there be any surplus in the
receipts over the expenditures, shall pay the same over to the
Treasurer of the State.

22. They shall, at the time of making their annual report to
the Executive, as required in the next succeeding section, transmit