ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 829

herein set forth and shall not be diverted for any other purpose
except upon approval by the Board of County Commissioners
of Washington County, and any balance remaining unexpended
of the amounts hereinbefore specified shall be retained by the
County Commissioners of Washington County, and applied by
them in their discretion to school purposes.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of
Education of Washington County shall award the contracts for
the erection of said school buildings, provided for in this Act,
equipping the same with heating plants and lighting and water
fixtures, to the lowest responsible bidders therefor, respectively,
after the said Board shall have advertised for bids therefor,
provided, however, that said board shall have the right to re-
ject any or all bids. Said Board of Education shall require
the successful bidder or bidders to whom said contracts, or any
of them, are awarded, to make a contract in writing for the
faithful performance of his or their work, and said contractor
or contractors shall agree in said contracts to pay all laborers
employed by him or them, on said buildings, and for all mate-
rials used in the construction and equipping of the same, and
shall give bond, acceptable to said board, for the faithful per-
formance of his or their contract. The said Board of Educa-
tion is hereby given full power and authority to employ an
architect or architects and to do all things in connection with
the construction and equipping of said buildings as may be
necessary.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if and whenever
the said Board of Education shall determine upon the erec-
tion of either of the high school buildings designated in Sec-
tion 4 hereof, and shall let the contract or contracts therefor as
provided in Section 5 hereof, and shall desire that the work
of the erection of said building or buildings shall be commenced
and carried forward before it shall be possible to issue and sell
a series of bonds as provided for in Section 2 hereof, the said
The County Commissioners of Washington County are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow upon the faith and credit
of said county such sums of money as shall be sufficient and
necessary to meet and pay the contract price for such building
or buildings as the work thereon shall progress, and payment
therefor becomes due under said contracts, and to issue certifi-
cates of indebtedness for said sums so borrowed, and shall pay
said certificates of indebtedness out of the proceeds of the sale
of the first series of bonds issued thereafter.