304 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 132

SEC. 25. The Mayor and Common Council are hereby
authorized to make such sidewalks, curbs, gutters, roadbed
and street improvements as determined and authorized in
accordance with the previous section, and where work is
done under contract the Mayor and Common Council shall
invite proposals for said work by advertisement for two
weeks in some newspaper having general circulation in
University Park, at such reasonable cost for said advertis-
ing, to be paid out of the fund provided by this Act, as the
Mayor and Common Council shall determine, and the said
Mayor and Common Council shall, in all cases, award the
contract for such work to the lowest responsible bidder
therefor, reserving at all times the right to reject any and
all bids received. All contractors for such street improve-
ments shall give bond in such sum as the Mayor and Com-
mon Council shall require, with sufficient surety or sureties,
to be approved by the Mayor and Common Council, for the
faithful performance of their contract. The Mayor and
Common Council shall employ a competent engineer at such
compensation as may be determined by them in carrying
out the objects of this Act.

SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor
and Common Council shall have full power to control and
protect public, grounds owned by the town of University
Park, whether within the corporate limits or outside of
said town.

SEC. 27. And be it further enacted, That no ordinance
passed by the Mayor and Common Council shall go into
effect until after the expiration of thirty days after its
passage, unless otherwise provided by the laws of this
State. If within thirty days from the date of its passage
a petition protesting against it signed by one-half as many
voters as voted at the last general election shall be filed
with the Town Clerk, such ordinance shall be suspended,
and the Mayor and Common Council shall reconsider it,
and if it be not repealed the Mayor and Common Council
shall submit it to a vote of the duly qualified voters of said
town at the next election, provided, however, that if the
next election shall occur more than ninety days thereafter,
the Mayor and Common Council shall call a special election
for the purpose of deciding whether such proposed ordi-
nance shall or shall not become a law, and the same shall
become operative or repealed by a majority of the votes cast
at this election.