464 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 228

amount of money for which the parties proposing will complete
the building according to the plan and specifications, and the
time or times at which payment therefor shall be made, and the
time when said building shall be completed; and the said build-
ing committee may reject any or all bids, or may award the
contract to the lowest responsible bidder upon such bidder giv-
ing bond to the State of Maryland such penalty as said build-
ing committee shall determine, conditioned for the faithful dis-
charge of the contract entered into, which bond shall be liable
at the suit of the Board of County School Commissioners of
Anne Arundel County for violations of its conditions; and the
said building committee is hereby authorized and required to
employ a skilled and competent architect under whose control
and supervision, as to material and workmanship, such building
shall be erected; and said building committee shall also in like
manner determine upon the proper furnishing of the rooms of
said addition or additions, and shall at such time as it may be
deemed proper, advertise for such furniture as in its discretion
will be suitable for the uses and conveniences of said addition
or additions and the several rooms therein, and shall award the
contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder, reserving the
right to reject any and all bids; and the said building committee
shall also advertise for the installation of a heating plant of
sufficient capacity to heat the said addition or additions and
also the public school recently erected and shall award the con-
tract therefor to the lowest bidder, reserving the right to reject
any and all bids.

SEC. 3. And be. it enacted, That said building committee
upon entering into any contract or contracts, as mentioned in
the preceding section, shall forthwith make report or reports
to the Board of County School Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County, fully setting forth the terms and character of said
contract and the debts incurred thereby.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That to provide for the erection
and furnishing of said addition or additions and installation of
said heating plant, the Board of County School Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County, are hereby authorized and directed
to borrow, on the endorsement of the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County, who are hereby authorized and
directed to endorse said bonds, on the credit of said County, an
amount not exceeding the sum of Twenty Thousand ($20, 000)
Dollars, and to issue coupon bonds therefor in the sum of One
Thousand ($1, 000) Dollars each, to be signed by the president