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missioners by petition, setting forth the location of the
proposed bridge, or the character and extent of pro-
posed repairs, and probable cost of the same ; the County Commissioners may then appoint a board of	Slate probn- ble cost.
examiners, to consist of one Road Commissioner of
the neighborhood, one disinterested tax-payer, to be
named by the petitioners, and the bridge superin-
tendent of the county, to meet on the premises on
some day to be named in the order of appointment,
and examine and determine if the public conveni-
ence requires granting of the application, and the
probable cost thereof; and they shall report in wri-
ting their opinion and determination in the premises
and their reasons therefor, and if the 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, set-
ting forth the location of the proposed bridge, with
full specifications of the size, plan and materials,
and that sealed proposals for building or repairing	Receive pro- posals.
such bridge will be received until a certain day and
hour in said advertisement named. The commis-
sioners shall award the contract for the work to the
lowest responsible and competent builder. The con-
tractor shall give bond in double the amount of
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.
SEC. 20. And be it enacted, The County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore county shall, on the first Tuesday in January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and
the first Tuesday in January every second year there-
after, appoint a competent and trustworthy person, who shall thoroughly understand the business of	Appoint su- per intendant.
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 commissioners may see fit
to allow him, and he shall file with said commission-
ers a bond for the faithful performance of his duties
in the penal sum of two thousand and five hundred
dollars, with two or more sureties to be approved
by said commissioners ; it shall be his duty to make
drawings and furnish specifications for all new