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CHAPTER 316.
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AN ACT to authorize the building of a new To-
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bacco Warehouse on the site now owned by the
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State in the City of Baltimore, and to appropriate
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money for said purpose.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Authorized
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Maryland, That the Governor, Comptroller, Treas-
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directed and
required.
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urer, Attorney General and Supervisor of Ware-
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houses, be and they are hereby authorized, directed
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and required to have re-built one of the tobacco
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warehouses which were burned in the City of Balti-
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more.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sum of fifty-nine
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thousand dollars, being the amount carried into the
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Appropriatl'n
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State Treasury for insurance on the warehouses
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which were burned, or so much thereof as may be
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necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of
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building a tobacco warehouse as required in the
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preceding section.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before proceeding
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Plan and spe-
cification.
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to build said warehouse, they shall cause a plan and
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specifications to be made of said contemplated new
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warehouse, and shall advertise in two of the daily
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papers of Baltimore, for ten day s, for proposals to con-
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tract for said work, to be done under the supervision
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of the architect employed by them; and they shall
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Give out con-
tract.
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give out said contract to the lowest responsible bid-
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der therefor, and shall pay for said building in such
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sums, and at such times, as may be deemed right and
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Proviso.
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proper; provided, that in any contract for building
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said warehouse, the commission shall require bond,
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and retain ten per cent, of contract price, until the
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building is completed; and provided further, that
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the cost of said warehouse shall in no event exceed
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the sum hereby appropriated; such payments to be
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made by the Treasurer of this State upon the war-
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rant of the Comptroller; and authority is hereby
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given to the supervisor of warehouses, that if it be-
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Have more
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comes necessary to have more room for the inspection
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of tobacco than is possessed until the said new ware-
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house is built, to rent some convenient and suitable
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