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to enter into bond with approved security, in double the amount

of the contract, conditioned for its faithful performance.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 28, sec. 52. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 5.

24. When a contractor shall notify the county commissioners
that the bridge is finished, they shall inspect the work, and if in
their judgment it has been constructed according to the contract
and specification, they sliall take the same from the hands of the

contractor, and open it for public travel, and then and not before,
the contractor shall be entitled to receive the last instalment due
thereon.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1866, ch. 808, sec. 6.

25. If, upon petition in writing of any citizen or citizens of

any county, to the county commissioners, praying for a bridge to
be built or repaired, over any stream or place dividing two ad-
joining counties, the said county commissioners shall deem the
prayer of the petition reasonable, they shall by message in writing,
ask the concurrence of the county commissioners of the adjoining
county, and upon the concurrence of the last named county com-
missioners, the county commissioners of each county shall appoint
three disinterested and discreet examiners, and each shall notify

the other of such appointment.

Co. Comm'rs of Prince George's Co. v. Comm'rs of Laurel, 51 Md. 463.

Ibid. sec. 54. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 6.

26. The said examiners shall, with all convenient dispatch,
meet and examine, and determine aa to the expediency of building
or repairing the bridge, the place where, the plan, material and
the relative portion of the cost each of the adjoining counties
should pay, and estimate the whole cost, and report their opinion,
and all other proceedings, to their respective county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 55. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 6.

27. If the said report be approved, and a bridge be reported
as proper and expedient to be built or repaired, the said several

county commissioners shall direct the examiners to advertise for
sealed proposals to build or repair such bridge aa in their report
may be mentioned, stating the place, plan, material and workman-
ship, with sufficient certainty for the purpose of obtaining proper