402 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 221

control, the work of construction; the Committee shall invite
sealed proposals for such work by advertisement to be inserted
in two newspapers published in Dorchester County, and such
other advertisement as it may deem proper, for the performance
of the work aforesaid, including the heating, lighting, and
ventilating of said building, so decided upon, so as to make the
same complete, and it may invite bids for any one of these
items of construction, separately, or may invite bids for one
or more of them jointly, as in its discretion may seem advan-
tageous; the said proposals shall be made in sealed envelopes,
addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, and shall be
publicly opened at the time and place named in said adver-
tisements, and the Committee, reserving unto itself the right
to reject any and all bids, shall award the contract, or con-
tracts, to the lowest responsible bidder, or bidders, giving
satisfactory bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty
as said Committee shall determine, conditioned for the faithful
performance of the contract entered into, which bond shall
be liable to suit by the County Board of Education for viola-
tion of any of its terms and conditions. The said Committee
shall likewise have power to purchase a suitable site, in or
near the town of Hurlock, for the new school building, if that
be decided upon, as well as to provide proper equipment for
such building as may be decided upon, and to pay all costs and
expenses incidental to the work aforesaid.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said Committee shall
have the power, in its name, to make contracts for the work
aforesaid, or any part thereof, or any work or expense incident
thereto, as well as for the equipping and furnishing the same,
the said contracts, as well as the plans and specifications for
the building adopted by the Committe, to be subject to the
approval of the State Superintendent of Schools, to the same
extent as provided in section 30 of Article 77, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland that all contracts for the sums of $500,
and over, shall be in writing and the signature thereto of
the Chairman of said Committee, attested by its Secretary,
if duly authorized by the Committee, or a quorum thereof,
shall constitute a sufficient execution of the same on its part.

The said Committee shall provide for its use a book, contain-
ing warrants, numbered consecutively, in such form as it may
adopt, and issue such warrants, signed by its Chairman and
Secretary, to the contractor, or contractors, for money due un-
der his, or their, contract or contracts, and for all expenses
incident to the work, specifying the sum to be paid and the
purposes for which paid, said warrants to be upon the Board
of Education of Dorchester County, and the said Board of
Education on such warrant, or warrants, and in no other