ART. 24.] WORCESTER COUNTY. 1165

equipment for a proper lighting plant for the said town if by
said election it should be decided to erect and construct water
works and lighting plant and for whichever of said plants it
should be decided to erect if by said election it was decided
to erect only one thereof, and after receiving the said plans
and specifications they shall invite sealed proposals by adver-
tisement for a reasonable time for the construction and comple-
tion of said works, which proposals shall be sent in sealed
envelopes addressed to said Mayor and Council, and by them
shall be publicly opened on the day named in said advertise-
ment; said proposals shall set forth the amount of money
for which the person, persons, firm, corporation or association
proposing will construct such works according to the plan and
specification submitted, and the time or times at which pay-
ments therefor shall be made, and the time when said water-
works and lighting plant, or waterworks or lighting plant will
be completed, and the said Mayor and Council may reject any
and all bids, or award the contract to the lowest responsible
bidder therefor, at their discretion, requiring any accepted
bidder to give bond in such penalty as said Mayor and Council
shall determine, conditioned for the faithful performance of
the contract entered into. And for the purpose of carrying out
the intention of this Act, the said Mayor and Council are
hereby authorized and empowered, if they see fit, to employ,
and from the funds raised by the issue and sale of said bonds,
to compensate a competent engineer or engineers to oversee and
inspect the construction of said waterworks and lighting plant
or waterworks or lighting plant, so that the same shall be con-
structed strictly according to the plans and specification
embodied in this contract, and to do any other act or thing
which to them may seem necessary or proper in order to carry
out the intention of this Act.

48T. The Mayor and Council shall select, in their discretion,
some depository in which to deposit the money necessary for
the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds as the
payment may mature and become due; provided, that the said
Mayor and Council shall select by resolution said depository
.before issuing said bonds and shall designate the same on the
said bonds and the coupons thereto attached.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and members of
the City Council of Berlin, now in office, shall remain and
continue to be Mayor and members of the Council until their
respective terms of office shall have expired, and until their
successors are elected and qualified, and all their acts shall
have the same effect as if this Act had not been passed, and