1348 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 551

ment or advertisements as the day for opening said bids for
proposals thereby called for they shall receive such sealed pro-
posals for the purchase of as many of such bonds as may be
mentioned and designated in said advertisement, and on the
opening of such sealed proposals as many of said bonds as
have been so bid for shall be awarded by the County Com-
missioners to the highest responsible bidder or bidders therefor
for cash, if the price, in the judgment of said Commissioners,
be adequate, and when two or more bidders have made the
same bid and said bid is the highest and the bonds so bid by
the highest responsible bidders are in excess of the whole
amount of the bonds so offered for sale, such bonds shall be
awarded to the highest responsible bidders bidding the same
price in a ratable proportion, and if any of such certificates to
be offered for sale are not bid for or if an insufficient price be
bid for them, in the discretion of said Commissioners, they
may be subsequently disposed of by the said County Com-
missioners for Charles County at private sale, upon the best
terms that can be obtained for the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Charles County be and they are hereby di-
rected to -appoint a Board of three persons to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, plans for the erection of a County
Hospital for Charles County of such material as may be
selected by the said Board, and said Board shall invite
sealed proposals by advertisement, to be inserted in such
newspapers as it shall deem proper, for the construction and
completion of said work, which proposals shall be sealed in
envelopes, and shall be publicly opened on the day and hour
named in said advertisement; said proposals shall set forth
the amount of money for which parties proposing will con-
struct and complete the building including heating appa-
ratus, according to the specifications and at the time or
times at which payments thereof shall be made, and the
time when said building shall be completed; and the said
Board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible
bidder giving satisfactory bond to the State of Maryland, in
such penalty as said Board shall determine, conditioned for
the faithful performance of the contract entered into and
which said bond shall be liable to suit by the Board ap-
pointed under the provisions of this Act for the violation
of its conditions; reversing to the said Board the right to
reject any and all bids.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Board
is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to employ a skillful
and competent architect, under whose control and super-