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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

quired to employ one or more competent architects under whose

control and supervision, as to material and workmanship, such

building shall be erected ; the building committee shall also

select proper furniture for the use of said public school house

as well as determine the best method of keeping the school.

having clue regard for the safety and health of the pupils at-

tending there, and shall at such times as it may deem proper.

Awarding the

contract.

advertise for such furniture and heating plant, and shall award

the contract or contracts to the lowest responsible bidder or

bidders.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when said committee shall

Report to

have contracted for the erection of said school building and the

County Board

furnishing and heating thereof, it shall report the same to the

Board of County School Commissioners, with the terms and

conditions of such contract, and they shall also report the

costs and expenses incurred and paid from time to time.

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

Right to bor-
row funds on

for said lot or lots and for the erection and furnishing of said

coupon bonch

public school building, the School Commissioners for Prince

George's County are hereby authorized and directed to borrow

on the endorsement of the County Commissioners of Prince

George's County, who are hereby directed to endorse such

bonds on the faith and credit of said county, an amount not

exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, and to issue coupon

bonds therefor in sums of not less than one hundred dollars

and not more than one thousand dollars each, to be signed by

the president of said Board of School Commissioners and

countersigned by the School Examiner of said Board, with the

seal of said Board attached, and to be registered by the said

School Examiner of Prince George's County in a separate

Interest.

book kept for that purpose, and said bonds shall bear interest

at the rate of five per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually

on the first day of May and the first day of November each year

until said bonds shall be paid, and said bonds shall be forever

exempt from all taxation for any purpose, and shall have

printed on them "Reference to this Act as authorizing the issue

thereof."

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the School Commissioners

To create a
sinking fund.

of Prince George's County are hereby authorized and directed

to retain each and every year from the sums of money paid

to them by the County Commissioners of Prince George's

County for the support of the public schools of Prince George's

County, a sufficient amount of money to meet the interest and

to create a sinking fund to pay the principal of said bonds as