730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 301

Commissioners to levy taxes on the assessable property of
said county to redeem said bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Howard P. Spedden, William J. Seward, Samuel E.
LeCompt, Charles W. Wolford, and Samuel W. Linthum, be
and they are hereby appointed a committee to be styled, "The
Building Committee of Hudson School," to serve without pay
for the purpose of building a school building, located on a lot
in the town of Hudson, Maryland, to be purchased by the
County Commissioners of Dorchester County, and provide suit-
able and sufficient heating apparatus therefor; three of said
committee shall constitute a quorum and the concurrence of
three of them shall be necessary for the decision of all questions
which may arise in the discharge of their duties, and all vacan-
cies in said building, committee, whether from death, refusal to
act, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by competent per-
sons from Dorchester County, to be selected by the said Board
of County School Commissioners of Dorchester County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said building committee
shall as speedily as possible, procure and adopt plans and speci-
fications for building said school building, and as soon as said
plans and specifications are determined upon by said building
committee they shall invite sealed proposals by advertisements
for a reasonable time for the construction and completion of
said work, which proposals shall be in sealed envelopes, in care
of the school treasurer of Dorchester County, addressed to said
committee, and shall be publicly opened on the day and at the
hour named in said advertisement. Said proposals shall set
forth the amount of money for which the parties proposing will
construct and complete the building, including heating appara-
tus, according to specifications and the time or times at which
payments thereof shall be made and the time when said building
committee shall award the contract to the lowest responsible
bidder, giving bond to the State of Maryland, in such penalty as
said committee shall determine, conditioned for the faithful
performance of the contract entered into reserving to them their
right to reject any and all bids. Which bond shall be liable at
the suit of the said Board of County School Commissioners of
Dorchester County for violation of its conditions; the said
building committee is hereby authorized and required to employ
a skilful and competent architect, under whose control and su-
pervision as to material and workmanship such work shall be