MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3619

SILVER SPRING PARK.

1912, ch. 561. 1914, chs. 320 and 746, sec. 1.

903. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County are hereby
authorized and empowered, in order to accomplish the purposes of this
Act, to construct sewers and water mains and extensions of both in the
District of Silver Spring Park, in said Montgomery County, as said dis-
trict is defined in this Act, to invite plans and specifications to be pre-
pared for such construction and extensions upon the deposit of such sum
of money by any person interested in such improvements for the payment
of the cost of such plans and specifications and to an amount not to exceed
five hundred dollars ($500.00) or so much thereof as may be required
by the County Commissioners, the cost of said plans and specifications to
be charged to construction and included in the special tax bills hereinafter
provided for and the deposit refunded, in case the County Commissioners
shall proceed with said construction and the issue of special tax bills as
herein provided.

1914, chs. 320 and 746, sec. 2.

904. After the preparation of such plans and specifications as the said
County Commissioners may deem satisfactory, they shall advertise in
such papers published in said County, or elsewhere, for a period not ex-
ceeding two publications in any one daily paper, or two publications in
papers issued in said County once a week, giving notice of the
pieces or parcels of property to be charged in any contract, with
the owners' names so far as the owners' names can be ascertained
by the County assessments or other information in the Treasurer's
office, inviting bids for the construction of said water mains and
sewers, or extensions thereof, and at some time prior to the letting
and accepting of any contract for such purposes it shall be necessary for
a petition to be filed in the office of the County Commissioners, signed by
at least twenty-five (25) persons, who are taxpayers resident within the
limits of said district; and thereafter the County Commissioners shall
consider such bids as may be submitted, and shall open all bids at one
time that may be sent to them sealed, in the presence of the Treasurer
of the County; and the County Commissioners shall have the right to
reject any and all bids, or to accept any bid which in their discretion is
deemed best to the public interest to be accepted; and they shall there-
upon enter into contract with the bidder whose bid is accepted for the
work to be performed, according to the plans and specifications which
may have been adopted and the contractor shall give bond to faithfully
perform his contract and in such an amount as the County Commissioners
may require. Before letting any contract to lay a sewer or water main
in any place other than a road or street under control of the County Com-
missioners, said County Commissioners shall secure the right to construct
and control and maintain such sewer or water main from the persons
having the right to give the same and said County Commissioners shall