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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

To employ
architect.

conditions. The said building committee is hereby authorized
and required to employ a skilled and competent architect,
under whose control and supervision, as to material and work-
manship, such building shall be erected; and said building
committee shall also, in like manner, determine upon the
proper furnishing of the rooms and offices of said school
building, and shall, at such time as it may deem proper, adver-
tise for such furniture, as in its discretion will be suitable for
the uses and conveniences of said school building, and the
several rooms therein, and shall award the contract therefor
to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders; provided, how-
ever, that the entire cost of said building, complete, and the
furnishing thereof, shall not exceed the amount realized from
the sale of the bonds hereinafter authorized aud directed to be
issued for that purpose.

Reports of
building
committee.

SEC. 3. And le it enacted, That said building committee,
upon entering into any contract, as mentioned in the preceding
section, shall forthwith make reports to the County Commis-
sioners, and to the school commissioners of Anne Arundel
county, and to the corporation of Annapolis, fully setting
forth the terms and character of said contract and the debts
incurred thereby, a synopsis of which report shall be duly
published, in the usual manner of publishing county expendi-
tures.

Issue of
bonds by
school com-
missioners.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of contrib-
uting towards the erection and furnishing of said school build-
ing, the School Commissioners of Anne Arundel county, be
and they are hereby authorized and directed to issue bonds in
the name of the School Commissioners of Anne Arundel
county, with the endorsement thereon of the County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel county, (which endorsement said
County Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to
give,) to the amount of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars; said
bonds shall be issued in sums of not less than one hundred, nor
more than one thousand , dollars each, and shall be signed by
the president of the said Board of School Commissioners' and
countersigned by the secretary of said board, with the corpo-
rate seal of said board attached; such bonds shall be dated the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and shall
bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable
on the first day of January and July, in each year, until the
said bonds are respectively paid; for which semi-annual interest
proper interest coupons payable to the bearer shall be attached
to said bonds, to be signed by the president of the said Board