FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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said court house, and as soon as said plan and specifications

are determined upon, the said committee shall invite sealed

Sealed

proposals, by advertisement for a reasonable time, for the

Proposals.

construction and completion of said work, which proposal

shall be sent in sealed envelopes in care of the clerk of the

county commissioners, addressed to said committee, and

shall be publicly opened by said committee on the day

named in said advertisements ; said proposals shall set forth

the amount of money for which the parties proposing will

complete the building according to the specifications, and

the time or times at which payment therefor shall be made,

and the time when said building will be completed ; and the

said building committee shall award the contract to the

lowest responsible bidder, upon such bidder giving bond to

the State of Maryland in such penalty as said committee

shall determine, conditioned for the faithful discharge of

the contract entered into, which bond shall be liable at the

suit of the county commissioners for the violation of its con-

ditions, and said building committee are hereby authorized

and required to employ a skillful and competent architect

under whose control and supervision as to material and

workmanship, such building shall be repaired, enlarged and

remodeled, said building committee shall also in like manner

determine upon the proper furnishing of the rooms and offices

of said court house, and shall at such times as it may deem

proper advertise for such furniture as in its discretion will be

suitable for the uses and conveniences of said court house,

and the several offices therein, and shall award the contract

therefor to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders.

SEC. 4. The said building committee upon entering into

any contract as mentioned in the preceding section shall

Report

forthwith make report to the county commissioners fully

to the

setting forth the terms and character of such contract, and

County
Commis-

the debts incurred thereby, a synopsis of which report, shall

sioners

be duly published in the usual manner of publishing county

expenditures.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of paying

for the repairing, enlarging, and remodeling, and furnish-

ing said court house, the County Commissioners of Anne

To borrow
on the

Arundel County are hereby authorized and directed to bor-

credit
of the

row on the credit of said county an amount not exceeding

county.

the sum of twenty -five thousand dollars and to issue coupon

bonds therefor iu sums of not less than one hundred dollars

and not more than one thousand dollars each,to be signed by

the president of the said board of county commissioners to

be countersigned by the clerk of said board with the seal of

said board attached, and to be registered by said clerk in a