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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

benefits assessed against any person or persons or body corpo-
rate by said examiners, be decreased either by order of the
County Commissioners or by the decision of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county, upon appeal from the County Commissioners,
then the parties petitioning for said road shall pay pro rata
according to their assessments, the deficit caused by said
increase of damages or decrease of said benefits, the same to be
collected the same as are assessments for benefits as herein-
before provided; and provided further, that no work shall be
done on any road so ratified and confirmed until all the assess-
ments for the construction of said road shall have been paid,
or, in the event of a reduction of any assessment for benefits
or increase of any damages upon appeal or otherwise, as above
provided, until the amount of the deficit thereby caused shall
have been made up and paid by the petitioners ;. the County

Award of
contract.

Commissioners of said county shall then advertise for sealed
proposals for the construction of said road according to the
specifications furnished by said examiners, and the contract
shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder; provided,
the contract price shall not exceed the amount of the net
assessments collected for the building of said road; and the
person or persons contracting for the building of said road

Bond of con-
tractor.

shall give bond to the County Commissioners, in double the
amount of the contract price, for the faithful performance of
the contract; and the County Commissioners shall not pay in
full for making such road until the same shall have been
thoroughly examined and accepted by them ;. and all roads
opened under the provisions of this article shall be at least
thirty feet wide.

Building and
repair of
bridges.

SEC. 212. And be it enacted, That the building and repairs
of all bridges in Baltimore county shall be under the control
of the County Commissioners; and whenever twenty or more
taxable inhabitants of said county shall desire, the building or
repairs of any bridge, they may make application to the
County Commissioners by petition, setting forth the location of
the proposed bridge, or the character and extent of the pro-
posed repairs, and the probable cost of the same; the County

Board of
examiners.

Commissioners may then appoint a board of examiners, to
consist of the supervisor of the district in which the bridge
may be, one disinterested taxpayer to be named by the peti-
tioners, and the bridge superintendent of the county, to meet
on the premises on some day to be named in the order of ap-
pointment and examine and determine whether the public con-
venience required the granting of the application, and the-