EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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that said Board will receive bids for, based upon specifications

to be furnished to all who may apply for the same, the station-

ery, record and blank books, and such other materials of a like

nature as may be needed for the following departments of the

State government, to wit : The Court of Appeals and Library

of the State, the Executive Department, the General Assembly

of Maryland for the year during which the same may be in

session, and each of the bids made in accordance with such ad-

vertisements shall be transmitted to the said Board of Public

Works on or before the time specified therefor in said adver-

tisement, together with a bond to the State of Maryland, with

a penalty of twenty thousand dollars, with two or more sure-

ties, conditioned for the due, prompt and faithful compliance

with the contract entered into, if such bid shall be accepted ;

and said Board shall, on that day, at or near twelve o'clock M.

of said clay, not before, open such bids in the presence of such

bidders and other persons as may choose to attend, and award

the contract for such supplies to the lowest responsible bidder

who shall have filed with his bid a bond satisfactory to said

Must file sat-

Board of Public Works; and said Board shall be the judge of

isfactory
bond.

the sufficiency of said bond, and no bid shall be considered by

said Board unless accompanied by such bond.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the

Duty of State

State Librarian for and on behalf of the Court of Appeals, on

Librarian.

behalf of the General Assembly for the year in which the same

may be in session, and on behalf of the State Library ; the

Secretary of State for and on behalf of the Executive Depart-

ment ; to furnish said Board of Public Works, before the first

day of June, in each year, specifications for the stationery, ac-

count books, record books and other materials of like character

necessary to the work of the above-mentioned departments in

each and every year, and for the General Assembly specifica-

tions shall be drawn by the State Librarian for the bids for

the year during which the General Assembly shall hold its ses-

sions.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said Board of Public Works

Awarding

shall immediately, upon determining the lowest responsible bid-

contract.

der, award said contract to said bidder, and notify him thereof;

and it shall ten days thereafter enter into contract with said bid-

der for the supplies so enumerated ; and if from any cause said

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

Public Works shall award the contract to the next lowest re-

sponsible bidder, who shall have filed his bond as directed in

Section 1.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted,That if any person shall bid for said

Failure to en-

stationery, books and materials of a like character necessarv for

ter into con-
tract.

said departments, and fail to enter into contract with the said

Board of Public Works, it shall be the duty of the Attorney-

General of the State to enter suit in the name of the State of

Maryland against the bond of said bidder for the amount of the

difference between said bid and the next lowest responsible bid-