EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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ten thousand dollars. And the bonds not sold and issued

shall be cancelled as aforesaid and be publicly destroyed,

Unsold bonds
to be de-

and entry in ink to that effect and of the date thereof being

stroyed.

made in the books aforementioned opposite the number of

the bonds so destroyed. And the Commissioners shall be

empowered to adopt in writing such orders for the payment

of money due and payable to the contractors for the construc-

tion and establishment of the water works not in conflict with

the provisions of this Act, as shall, from time to time, be

earned by said contractor in prosecution of the work, the pay-

ment of property purchased or condemned and for material

and labor furnished in pursuance of the provisions of this

Act. The Commissioners shall employ a competent water-

Water works
engineer.

works engineer to prepare the plans and specifications for

the said water works and to superintend and to pass upon in

his person the kind, quality and character of all material and

labor used in the construction and maintenance of said water

works and compensate him therefor in such sum of money,

to be paid in such portions and at such times as they shall

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order, first to be agreed upon in writing by and between him

and them ; provided, such compensation or portions thereof

so agreed upon or otherwise paid to him shall not exceed

five per centum of the actual costs of the said water works.

The plans and specifications shall be the property of the town

of Delmar, Maryland, and be filed in the office of the Com-

missioners and be open to inspection and examination by any

person interested, under the care of their clerk. The Com-

missioners shall invite sealed proposals for the construction

Scaled pro-

and establishment of such water works by advertisement in

posals.

some newspaper for a reasonable length of time ; provided,

such advertisement appears in three successive issues of the En-

gineering News, a publication published in the City of New

York, State of New York, for at least two weeks before any

proposal or proposals shall be opened and considered. The

proposals shall be in sealed envelopes addressed to the presi-

dent of the Commissioners of Delmar, Maryland, and bear

on its face the inscription, "Proposals for Construction of

Water Works." The proposals shall be opened in the office

of the Commissioners by the clerk of the Town Commissioners

in their presence and such other persons, if any, who choose

to be present on the day and at the hour named in the ad-

vertisement for the proposals. Said proposals shall set forth

the amount of money for which the parties proposing will

construct and establish such water works, and any specified

sort or portion thereof, according to the plans and specifica-