EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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bid for in a good and workmanlike manner; and all printing

not enumerated shall be in usual octavo or bill folio pages, as

the General Assembly, or either House thereof may expressly

order, and shall be paid for, whether plain or tabulated, at the

price of one dollar and fifty cents per page, octavo, per thou-

sand, long primer type, and two dollars and fifty cents per

Price to be
paid for first

page, bill folio, for the first thousand copies printed of either,

thousand

and at the rate of thirty-three per cent, less for each addi-

copies, etc.

tional thousand copies ; but no printing not hereinbefore enu-

merated shall be paid for unless upon an order stating the cost

of the same and passed by a yea and nay vote of either the

Senate or House ; and each of the bids so made shall be trans-

mitted to the Board of Public Works on or before the time

specified therefor in said advertisement, together with a bond

to the State of Maryland in the penalty of thirty thousand

Bond.

dollars, with two or more sureties, conditioned for the due,

prompt and faithful compliance with the contract to be entered

into, if such bid shall be accepted ; and said Board of Public

Works shall, on that day, at or near 12 o'clock M. of said day,

and not before, open such bids in the presence of such bidders

and other persons as may choose to attend, and award the con-

tract for such entire printing as aforesaid to the lowest respon-

sible bidder who shall have filed with his bid a bond satisfac-

tory to said Board of Public Works ; and said Board of Public

Works shall be the judge of the sufficiency of said bond; and

no bid shall be considered by said Board of Public Works un-

less accompanied by such bond. And it is further provided that

said Board of Public Works shall not receive any bid which

shall be for a greater amount than twenty-five thousand dol-

lars, and should no bid within this amount be received by the

Proviso.

said Board of Public Works, said Board shall then advertise

for bids immediately after the first day above fixed for receiv-

ing said bids, in the same manner and under the same condi-

tions hereinbefore set forth for the first advertisement.

2. Said Board of Public Works shall immediately upon de-

Awarding

termining the lowest responsible bidder award said contract

contract.

to said bidder and notify him thereof, and said Board shall,

within ten days thereafter, enter into contract with said bidder

for the printing so enumerated, and if from any cause said

bidder shall fail to enter into said contract, said Board shall

award the contract to the next lowest responsible bidder who

shall have filed his bond as directed in Section 2 ; provided,

however, that if the bid of the next lowest responsible bidder

exceeds the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars as aforesaid,

the said Board shall not award him the said contract, but shall