1134 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 553

ployed by said Board of County School Commissioners, in
accordance with the terms of their said contract or contracts,
and by order of said Board of County School Commissioners
such sum or sums as such contractor or contractors are entitled
to in the performance of the contract or contracts; and no part
of said proceeds of sale of said bonds shall be paid out by said
treasurer, except by direction of said Board of County School
Commissioners.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the Board of County School
Commissioners shall as speedily as possible, procure and adopt
plans and specifications for the erection of said annexes or
additions and as said plans and specifications are determined
upon, said Board of County School Commissioners shall invite
sealed proposals by advertisement for a reasonable time for the
construction and completion of said work, which proposals
shall be sent in sealed envelopes in care of County (School
Superintendent of Anne Arundel County, addressed to the
President of said Board of County School Commissioners, and
shall be publicly opened on the day and at the hour named in
said advertisement, and said proposals setting forth the amount
of money for which the parties proposing will complete the
annexes or additions according to the plans and specifications,
and the time or times at which payment therefor shall be made,
and the time when said annexes or additions shall be com-
pleted; and the said Board of County School Commissioners
may reject any or all bids, or may award the contract to the
lowest responsible bidders upon such bidders giving bonds to
the State of Maryland in such penalty as said Board of County
School Commissioners shall determine, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of the contracts entered into, which bonds
shall be liable at the suit of the Board of County School Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County for violations of their
conditions; and said Board of County School Commissioners
is hereby authorized to name one of its own members and
the County Superintendent under whose control and super-
vision, as to material and workmanship, such annexes or addi-
tions shall be erected; and said Board of County School Com-
missioners shall purchase and install such furniture and heat-
ing plants as they may deem proper to heat said annexes or
additions.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of June, 1916,
Approved April 18th, 1916.