1074

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commissioners on the day fixed by them for opening said

proposals and not before that day; and on the day fixed for

opening said proposals the said County Commissioners shall

publicly open said bids and shall examine the same and pub-

licly award the contract for making said repairs to the lowest

responsible bidder or bidders, and the person or persons, firm

Successful bid-

or corporation who shall be awarded the contract for repairing

der to give
bond.

said bridge shall immediately enter into a bond in double the

amount of the contract price for repairing said bridge, and if

said contractor shall fail to comply with all the requirements

and specifications of the same and fail within five days to give

the required bond, the said County Commissioners may give

the work to the next lowest bidder or advertise anew ; provided,

that no contract be entered into or bond received for the repair

of said bridge unless the whole cost of repairing said bridge

completed and fit for travel shall not exceed ................

dollars. And the said bridge engineer shall, in making his

Cost of re-

plans and specifications for repairing said bridge, give the

building.

County Commissioners an estimate of the probable time re-

quired to make said repairs, and the probable cost of the same,

and each bidder for the work shall be required to state the

time he will require to finish said repairs, and the successful

bidder shall give bond to complete the work within the time

stated in his proposal under a penalty of fifty dollars for each

day over the time required, and each bidder in naming the time

he shall require to complete said work shall not name or bid

on working days or any number of days, but he shall fix in his

bid the day, month and year when he will have the work com-

pleted and the bridge ready to turn over to the county for

public travel; and in considering said proposals the County

Commissioners shall, provided the amount of the bid is within

the amount hereby appropriated for said repairs, consider the

time mentioned by each proposal for completing the work,

and may, in their judgment, award the contract to some person,

firm or corporation not actually the lowest bidder, if, in their

judgment, owing to the time required for the completion of

Providing for

the work, and considering the cost of providing for public

public travel.

travel while said bridge is being repaired said bill will be the

least cost to the county.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of paying

for the repairing of said bridge the County Commissioners of

County to is-

Anne Arundel County are hereby authorized and directed to

sue bonds.

borrow on the credit of said county an amount not exceeding

the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and to issue coupon bonds