604 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 430]

decide all questions, controversies and conflicts between the
engineers of the various departments, all engineering questions
which come before the Board of Estimates may be referred to
him for consideration and advice, and he shall exercise such
other duties as he may be called upon to exercise by the Mayor
or the Board of Estimates. The consulting engineer shall not
be regarded as a municipal official within the meaning of sec-
tion 26.

58B. It shall not be necessary to bring separate suits or file
separate claims for State and city taxes, but State and city
taxes may be claimed, sued for, and recovered in one claim, suit
or other proceeding in the name of the* Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore.

86D. The City Engineer shall be the chief engineer, and
after the Sewerage Commission shall have completed the sewer-
age system, under all Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, and shall have turned the same over to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore as therein provided, the City Engi-
neer shall have charge of the maintenance and extension of the
sewerage system.

14. Hereafter, in contracting for any public work, or the
purchase of any supplies or materials, involving an expenditure
of five hundred dollars or more for the city, or by any of the
city departments, sub-departments, or municipal officers not
embraced in a department, or special commissions or boards,
unless otherwise provided for in this article, advertisements,
for proposals for the same, shall be first published in two or
more daily newspapers published in Baltimore City, twice or
oftener, the first publication to be made not less than ten nor
more than twenty days prior to the day set for opening the
bids; and the contract for doing said work or furnishing said
supplies or materials, shall be awarded by the board provided
for in the next section of this article, and in the mode and
manner as therein prescribed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 430.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to appoint policemen for
the purpose of preserving order upon the farm and about the
buildings of Springfield State Hospital: