2532 ARTICLE 78A.

ARTICLE 78A.

PUBLIC WORKS—BOARD OF.1

1. Bids for stationery, etc.; advertise- ment; bond. 2. Specifications furnished by state li- brarian. 3. Awarding contract. 4. Successful bidder failing to contract to be sued on bond by attorney- general. 5. Clause in contract as to cost of addi- tional quantity of materials required. 6. Vouchers, by whom approved. Sale of State's Interest in Works of Internal Improvements or in Corporations. 7. Advertisements for. sealed proposals; sale to highest bidder; proviso.

8. What property board may sell or ex- change. Disposition of proceeds; bonds, etc., paid off to be burned. Examination of treasurer's books. 9. May sell at private sale if unable to obtain satisfactory public proposals. Brokers, etc. 10. Appropriation. 11. Sale of annuity of ninety thousand dol- lars created by act of 1854, ch. 260. 12. Authority of board to carry out pro- visions of secs. 11 to 13. 13. Sale of state's interest in Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1904, ch. 397, sec. 1. 1918, ch. 76.

1. The Board of Public Works is hereby authorized, on or before the
first clay of July in each and every year, to advertise for ten successive days
in three daily newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, and having,
as nearly as said board may be able to ascertain, the largest circulation,
that said board will receive bids for, based upon specifications to be fur-
nished to all who may apply for the same, the stationery, record and blank
books, and such other materials of a like nature as may be needed for the
following departments of the State government, to wit: The Court of
Appeals and Library of the State, the Executive Department, the General
Assembly of Maryland for the year during which the same may be in ses-
sion, and each of the bids made in accordance with such advertisements
shall be transmitted to the said Board of Public Works on or before the
time specified therefor in said advertisement, together with a bond to the
State of Maryland, with a penalty of twenty thousand dollars, with two
or more sureties, conditioned for the due, prompt and faithful compliance
with the contract entered into, if such bid shall be accepted; and said board

1 The act of 1920, ch. 184, sec. 9, repealed all provisions of art. 78A relating to the pur-
chase of stationery and materials by board of public works for certain state departments.
See art. 78, sec. 8.

See art. 41, sec. 94.