1390 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 25

Committee be and they are hereby authorized in their
discretion to sell the lot or lots or building, or the
building only as now used for school purposes and use
the money to purchase other lot or lots or to help to
erect said new school building, and shall as speedily
as possible, if for any reason it is not deemed by them
expedient to erect said school house on the site of the
present school house of the town of Hyattsville, pur-
chase a lot or lots, and procure and adopt a plan and
specifications for the erection of said school house, and
when adopted, said committee shall invite sealed pro-
proposals by advertisements for a reasonable time for
the erection of said school building, which proposals
shall be sent in sealed envelopes in care of the School
Examiner of Prince George's county, addressed to the
said committee, and shall be publically opened on a
day and at the hour named in said advertisement;
said proposals setting forth the amount of money for
which the parties proposing will complete the build-
ing according to the specifications and plans and the
time or time at which pa3'ment therefor shall be made,
and the time when said building shall be completed,
and the said Building Committee shall award the con-
tract to the lowest responsible bidder, upon such bid-
der giving bond to the Board of County School Com-
missioners in such penalty as said committee shall
determine, conditioned for the faithful performance of
the contract entered into. The Building Committee
is hereby required to employ one or more competent
architects under whose control and supervision as to
material and workmanship, such building shall be
erected. The building Committee shall also select
proper furniture for the use of said public school
house as well as determine the best method of keep-
ing school, having due regard for the safety and
health of the pupils attending there, and shall at such
times as it may deem proper, advertise for such fur-
niture and heating plant, and shall award the contract
or contracts to the lowest responsible bidder or bid-
ders.

"Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That when said com-
mittee shall have contracted for the erection of said-
school building and the furnishing and heating thereof,