EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1187

mission hereby created, shall thereupon be entitled to the pos-
session and custody of all maps, plats, blue-prints, sketches,
surveys, books, papers, documents, writings, letters and chat-
tels of and belonging to said former Commission, and also to
any unexpended balance remaining out of the proceeds of the
said loan authorised by the said Act of 1910, which unexpended
balance, if any, shall be placed to the credit of the special fund
hereinafter provided for and used by the Commission created
by this Act, in the manner authorized by this Act for carrying
out any of the powers and duties hereby conferred.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Commission
shall have the right and power and under and in pursuance of
any general or special ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore which may be passed therefor
to grade and pave any street, avenue, lane or alley or any part
thereof from curb to curb, and to establish and fix the building
lines and the width of the sidewalks, on any street, avenue,
lane or alley now existing or to be laid out, opened, extended,
widened, straightened, graded or paved in the annex portion
of the City of Baltimore. That said Commission shall have all
powers necessary and proper in the exercise of said powers;
and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to grant by ordinance any further
powers and duties it shall deem necessary for the proper exe-
cution of the improvements intended to be made by this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all work done or
supplies or materials purchased in carrying out the purposes
of this Act, when involving an expenditure of five hundred
dollars ($500. 00) or more, shall be by contract awarded by the
Board of Awards to the lowest responsible bidder, in accord-
ance with the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of Article 4,
entitled "City of Baltimore, " of the Public Local Laws of
Maryland, including the powers conferred by said Section 15
upon the Board of Awards to select the particular thing to be
adopted in the case of alternative bids; provided, however, that
the Mayor and City Council shall have the power to prescribe
by ordinance as to any particular street or streets that the con-
tract for paving or curbing, repaving or recurbing the same
shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder complying
with the call for bids, whether bids are asked for on one or
more than one kind of pavement, reserving to the Board of
Awards, the right to reject all bids and to call for new bids.