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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

they are hereby authorized and required to have erected and

built a substantial iron or steel bridge over the Patapsco river

between Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County at or

near the site of the present wooden bridge known as Sweetsers

bridge.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

Plan of bridge
and materials

of the said respective counties immediately after the passage of

to be used in
it.

this Act shall contract with some competent bridge engineer to

prepare and formulate a complete plan for the proper building

of said bridge, accompanying the same with full and particular

specifications in detail as may be necessary, setting forth the

kind and character of the materials to be used and the work

needed in the construction thereof and such other information

as may be required to the satisfaction of said County Commis-

sioners of said counties and shall accompany said plans and

specifications with a report in writing of his estimate of the

probable cost of building such bridge and the time reasonably

required for the completion of the same, and it shall be the

duty of said County Commissioners of said counties to con-

sider such plans, specifications and report of said engineer and

to determine upon adopting or rejecting the same and in their

judgment to have other and different plans and specifications

Joint Boards

made and submitted by said engineer for their approval, each

of County

of said Boards of County Commissioners to have one vote in

Commission-
ers to act.

determining' all questions which may arise under this or other

sections of this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That upon the adoption of a plan

Advertise for
proposals.

and specifications submitted by said engineer, the said County

Commissioners of said counties, jointly, shall immediately ad-

vertise for sealed proposals to construct and build said bridge

according to said plans and specifications ; a form of said pro-

posals shall be prepared and furnished any applicant therefor

by the County Commissioners of either county ; the said adver-

tisement for proposals shall be made by application for at least

once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper pub-

lished in Baltimore City and in such other newspapers as the

said County Commissioners shall jointly determine. On the

Tuesday next after the expiration of said notice the County

Commisioners of Baltimore County shall meet with the County

Commissioners of Anne Arundel County in the City of An-

napolis and at the hour of 11 o'clock A.M. and in the pres-

ence of the two boards, all the proposals for building said

bridge shall be publicly opened by them and they shall pub-

licly announce each bid, and the lowest bidder shall, by the said