1770 PUBLIC PRINTER. [ART. 78

the first thousand copies printed of either, and the rate of thirty-three
per cent, less for each additional thousand copies; but no printing not
hereinbefore enumerated shall be paid for unless upon an order stating
the cost of the same and passed by a yea and nay vote of either the senate
or house, and each of the bids so made shall be transmitted to the board
of public works on or before the time specified therefor in said adver-
tisement, together with a bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of
thirty thousand dollars, with two or more sureties conditioned for the
due, prompt and faithful compliance with the contract to be entered into,
if such bid shall be accepted; and said board of public works shall on that
day, at or near 12 o'clock M. of said day and 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 entire printing as aforesaid to the lowest
responsible bidder who shall have filed with his bid a bond satisfactory
to said board of public works, and said board of public works shall be
the judge of the sufficiency of said bond, and no bid shall be considered
by said board of public works unless accompanied by such bond. And
it is further provided, that said board of public works shall not receive
any bid which shall be for a greater amount than twenty-two thousand
dollars, and should no bid within this amount be received by the said
board of public works, said board shall then advertise for bids immedi-
ately after the first day above fixed for receiving said bids, in the same
manner and under the same conditions hereinbefore set forth for the
first advertisement.

As to the Maryland reports and the civil and criminal codes, see art. 80.

1904, art. 77, sec. 2. 1904, ch. 319, sec. 2. 1908, ch. 206.

2. Said board of public works shall immediately upon determining
the lowest responsible bidder award said contract to said bidder and
notify him thereof, and said board shall, within ten days thereafter,
enter into contract with said bidder for the printing so enumerated, and
if from any cause said bidder shall fail to enter into said contract, said
board shall award the contract to the next lowest responsible bidder who
shall have filed his bond as directed in section 1; provided, however, that
if the bid of the next lowest responsible bidder exceeds the sum of
twenty-two* thousand dollars as aforesaid, the said board shall not
award him the said contract, but shall proceed to readvertise for pro-
posals as phovided in the preceding section.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1904, ch. 319, sec. 3.

3. Tf any person shall bid for said printing and shall fail to enter
into contract with said board, it shall be the duty of the attorney-general

*Prior to the act of 1908, ch. 206, amending section 1 of article 78, this section
read "twenty-five thousand dollars" (conforming to section 1 as it stood prior to
said act). Although the act of 1908, ch. 206, contains no express reference to
section 2 (article 78), it seems necessarily to Impliedly amend the portion of
section 2 providing for the maximum bid, and hence twenty-two thousand dollars
is substituted (in section 2) for twenty-five thousand dollars, and sections 1 and
2 are thus harmonized.