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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 61.

Authorized
to sell lots.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the School Commissioners
are hereby authorized and directed to sell the lots owned by
the Board of School Commissioners in said town of Kensing-
ton, and fronting upon Fawcett avenue, and the amount or
amounts realized therefrom shall be used and expended in the
erection of said public school house in addition to the said
sum of four thousand dollars.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That after the levy as provided

Advertise for
proposals.

for in the foregoing section shall have been made, it shall be
the duty of the Board of School Commissioners for said
county to advertise for two successive weeks in some news-
paper published in said county, for sealed proposals for the
building of said public school house, according to plans and
specifications furnished, and the bids shall be publicly opened
at a stated time set out in said advertisement, and the lowest
bidder shall be awarded the contract for erecting said school
house, and shall be required to execute and deliver to said

Bond to be
given.

School Commissioners a good and sufficient bond for the
faithful performance of his contract for the building and
completion of said school house on or before the first day of
September, 1902.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 20, 1902.

CHAPTER 62.
AN ACT to appropriate the sum of nineteen hundred and
fifty-two dollars and fifty-six cents out of the public school
funds, to reimburse Garrett County for an instalment of
State school tax withheld from said county in the year nine-
teen hundred and one, and also to authorize and direct the
Comptroller to apportion to said county the instalment
known as the March instalment of the State school tax for
the year nineteen hundred and two; said instalment being
the apportionment made to said Garrett County on the
fifteenth day of March in each year.
WHEREAS, An instalment of State school tax, amounting to

Preamble.

the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-
six cents, was withheld from Garrett county in the year nine-
teen hundred and one, and said county not being able to keep
open its schools for seven and one-half months in the year, as
required by the school laws of the State, is by said law
required to forfeit the March instalment of said school tax for