WICOMICO COUNTY. 5049

PENINSULA GENERAL HOSPITAL.

1898, oh. 15.

170. The County Commissioners of Wicomico County are hereby auth-
orized and empowered to levy a sum of money each year not exceeding
five hundred dollars, and appropriate the same to the use of the Peninsula
General Hospital of Salisbury, Maryland, on such terms and conditions
as the said County Commissioners may deem best.

POCOMOKE RIVER.

1916, oh. 416, sec. 1.

171. After the passage of this Act, the County Commissioners of
Wicomico and Worcester Counties are hereby fully empowered to take
such steps as they may deem proper to drain the lands along the upper
waters of the Pocomoke River in said two counties by clearing out and
deepening the bed of said River, where it runs through said swamp lands
and by causing to be cut proper drains into said River through said
lands, so as to drain the same.

1916, ch. 416, sec. 2.

172. Before undertaking said work said County Commissioners of
Worcester County shall select a suitable engineer and the County Com-
missioners of Wicomico County shall likewise select a suitable engineer
and said two engineers shall jointly proceed to lay out a swamp district
in each of said counties and ascertain the number of acres of land in
said swamp district and also the number of acres in each county and shall
make suitable plots of the same and shall lay off the swamp land in each
county into divisions or zones according to the benefits it will receive, in
their judgment, from said drainage and the total cost in their judgment
of draining said land.

1916, ch. 416, sec. 3.

173. Before beginning said work the County Commissioners of each
of said Counties, shall adopt said report with full power in them, to amend,
adopt, or reject said report and plans or to modify the same in such man-
ner as they may deem proper.

1916, ch. 416, sec. 4.

174. After the adoption of suitable plans for doing said work, the
County Commissioners of the two Counties shall advertise for bids in
whole or in part for doing said work and shall award the contract for
doing said work to the lowest responsible bidder and shall require each
bidder to specify the time required for said work and shall require the
bidder to whom the contract is awarded to give bond for the faithful
performance of his contract according to said plans and specifications, and
may have such assistance as they may deem proper to see that said contract
is properly performed.