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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
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748 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 80,
15. After the purchase of any grounds and improvements.
by the said Commissioners as authorized and provided in the
fourteenth section of this chapter, they, the said Commission-
era, are hereby authorized and directed to make, or cause to
be made, such alterations and improvements upon the build-
ings already upon such grounds, and to erect or cause to be
erected such additional building or buildings, and improve-
ments thereon, as in their judgment may be necessary for the
purposes of this Act; Provided, the entire cost of the erec-
tion or adaptation and alteration of such buildings and im-
provements, including the purchase of the grounds and im-
provements thereon, and the furnishing said buildings, shall
not exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of eighty thousand dol-
lars, appropriated in this Act,
16. The said Commissioners before entering into any con-
tract for the construction or erection of such improvements or
alterations as they may deem necessary, upon said premises,
shall invite sealed proposals for said work upon specifications.
furnished by publication, in at least two of the daily papers
of Baltimore City, for at least ten days before hand, and said
scaled proposals shall be opned upon a day and at an hour
specified in said publication, in the presence of all such in-
terested parties as may wish to be present; and the contract
for such improvements or alterations, shall be awarded by
them to the lowest responsible bidder; Provided, that the
party or parties entering into said contract, shall first give
and execute to the said Commissioners a good and sufficient
bond, to be approved by the Comptroller of the Treasury, for
twice the amount of said contract conditioned for the faithful
performance of the work, and that a sum equal to not less
than twenty per cent. of the whole cost of said alterations and
improvements shall be retained by the Treasurer from the
amount to be paid, winder said contract, for the erection and
final completion of the same until their acceptance and ap-
proval by the said Commissioners.
The question on the adoption of the amendment was deter-
mined in the negative, by yeas and nays, as follows :
AFFlRMATIVE.
Messrs. Compton, Earle,
Claggett, Steiner;
Dennis, Wilson—6.
NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Blake, Miller,
Carroll, Sellman,
Downs, Spencer,
Fields, Tuck,
Jump, Williams—11.
Longwell,

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