236 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

tendent of the county, to meet on the premises on some day to be
named in the order of appointment, and examine and determine
whether the public convenience requires the granting of the appli-
cation, and the probable cost thereof; and they shall report in writ-
ing their opinion and determination in the premises and their reasons
therefor; and if the county commissioners shall be of the opinion
that such application ought to be granted, if it be for a new bridge
or extensive repairs upon a standing bridge, they shall advertise
in two or more newspapers in Baltimore county, setting forth the
location of the proposed bridge, with full specifications of the
size, plan and materials, and that sealed proposals for building or
repairing such bridge will be received until a certain day and
hour in said advertisement named. The county commissioners
shall award the contract for the work to the lowest responsible
and competent builder; the contractor shall give bond in double
the amount of the contract price for the faithful performance of
the contract ; and the commissioners shall in no case fully pay for
such work until it shall have been thoroughly examined and
accepted by them.

1878, ch. 340.

206. The county commissioners, on the first Tuesday in Janu-
ary of every second year, accounting from the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-nine, shall appoint a competent and trust-
worthy person, who shall thoroughly understand the business of
bridge building, as superintendent of bridges in said county; he
shall receive such compensation for his services, not exceeding
five dollars per day when actually employed, as the county com-
missioners may see fit to allow him, and he shall file with them
a bond for the faithful performance of his duties in the penal
sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, with two or more
sureties, to be approved by them; it shall be his duty to make
drawings and furnish specifications for all new bridges to be
erected, and to make specifications for all repairs on old bridges
when they shall so direct; he shall superintend the building of
all new bridges and such repairs as they may direct; he shall
examine and report in writing to them upon all new bridges or
repairs made, and give his written opinion as to the strict per-
formance of the terms of the contract by the contractors, and
whether such work should be accepted or not; he may be re-