EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Charles A. Wells, Joseph R. Owens, Charles H.

Committee to

Welsh, Edwin Devlin, Jr., Charles H. Long, John Fainter, Jr.,

erect school
building.

W. W. Maloney, John F. Hickey, W. H. Richardson and

James C. Rogers be and they are hereby constituted a building

committee for the purpose of purchasing a lot or lots, and erect-

ing and furnishing in the town of Hyattsville, Sixteenth Elec-

tion District, Prince George's County, Maryland, a public

school building to be used for public school purposes for the

pupils from Hyattsville and its vicinity, free from any charges

for instruction therein whatever.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That of the aforesaid building

committee five members shall constitute a quorum, and the con-

Quorum.

currence of five of them shall be necessary for the decision of

any or all questions which may arise in the discharge of their

duties ; and all vacancies occurring in said building committee,

whether from death, resignation, refusal to act or otherwise,

shall be filled by the School Commissioners of Prince George's

County.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said building committee

be and they are hereby authorized in their discretion to sell

Authority to

the lot or lots or building, or the building only as now used for

sell present
building and

school purposes and use the money to purchase other lot or

lot.

lots or to help to erect said new school building, and shall, as

speedily as possible, if for any reason it is not deemed by them

expedient to erect said school house on the site of the present

school house of the town of Hyattsville, purchase a lot or lots,

and procure and adopt a plan and specifications for the erec-

tion of said school house; and when adopted said committee

shall invite sealed proposals by advertisements for a reasonable

time, for the erection of said school building, which proposals

shall be sent in sealed envelopes in care of the School Examiner

of Prince George's County, addressed to the said committee,

and shall be publicly opened on a day and at the hour named in

said advertisements ; said proposals setting forth the amount

of money for which the parties proposing will complete the

building according to the specifications and plans and the time

or times at which payment therefor shall be made and the time

when said building shall be completed ; and the said building

committee shall award the contract to the lowest responsible

bidder upon such bidder giving bond to the Board of County

School Commissioners in such penalty as said committee shall

determine, conditioned for the faithful performance of the

contract entered into. The building committee is hereby re-