PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 873

to take and receive a bond of any contractor, with a penalty to the
County Commissioners, for the prompt and faithful perform-
ance of the work to be done, and of the contract entered into.

388. Whenever it shall be necessary in order to effect the
object proposed, that a house or improvement of any kind, or
any part thereof, should be taken, used, destroyed or removed,
the examiner or examiners shall examine the matter, and if in
their opinion it should be practicable to remove such house or
improvement to any other part of the grounds of the owner
thereof, and to put the same in as good condition and repair
as it was in before such removal, the said examiner or examiners
shall make an estimate of the probable cost of such removal and
repairs, and if the owner should agree in writing to such re-
moval and repairs, then the cost of such removal and repairs
shall be paid out of the benefits assessed, and the payment
of the cost for such removal and repairs shall be recognized
and taken in lieu of, and as a full payment and discharge for
any damages to such house or improvement; but if it should be
deemed practicable by the examiner or examiners to remove and
repair such house or improvement, or if the owner thereof should
not agree in writing to such removal, then damages should be
assessed and awarded for the whole of said house or improve-
ment, and when the benefits assessed shall be credited with the
damages awarded, or the damages awarded shall be credited with
the benefits assessed and paid, as provided for by the succeeding
Section, and the proceeding of the examiner or examiners shall
be fully ratified and confirmed as provided for by this sub-title
of this Article, the examiner or examiners, after giving notice in
one or more newspapers published in Baltimore County, and in
one newspaper of general circulation published in Baltimore
City, once a week for three successive weeks, of the time and
place, manner and terms of sale, shall sell the materials of any
house or improvement of any kind which it shall be necessary to
remove in whole or in part, at public auction to the highest bid-
der for cash, to be paid on the day when full possession is given
of the materials sold; and the examiner or examiners, on receiv-
ing the price or sum so bid, shall give a receipt for the same to
the purchaser thereof; and the said examiner or examiners, are
duly empowered to take and receive a bond of the purchaser of
such materials, with a penalty to the County Commis-
sioners that the price for which the same was sold shall be
duly paid at such time as the said examiner or exami-
ners is or are prepared to deliver possession of the same;