1438 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 688

newspapers published in said County, one of which, if possible,
shall be of opposite political faith from them, or a majority
of them, invite sealed proposals from the various printing
and newspaper offices of said county for the printing and pub-
lishing of the same, and also for such printed notices, blank
forms and advertisements, as said County Commissioners or
their clerk, may be required to use or give during the year
succeeding the date of the contract to be awarded thereunder;
said advertisements shall specify as far as it is practicable the
character of material and work for which proposals are so
invited, and in such advertisements proposals for the news-
paper advertising shall be invited separately and distinct from
the other printed notices, blank forms, and other such printed
matter.

The proposals shall be opened and read aloud in public by
the County Commissioners at their meeting on the third
Tuesday in September of each year, and shall remain on file in
their office for one week, open to the inspection of the public.
The contract for supplying during the ensuing year the printed
notices (other than newspaper advertisements) the blank forms,
and other such printed matter, shall then be awarded by them
to the lowest responsible bidder for the same, who shall be
required to do the work connected therewith and to deliver
the same when and as required by the County Commissioners
or the officers aforesaid. The contract for the newspaper
advertising for which proposals were so invited during the
ensuing year shall be awarded to the lowest bidder for the
same. All bids for such newspaper advertising shall contain
an affidavit of the editor or publisher of the newspaper making
the same, setting forth a true statement of the actual number
of existing paying subscribers to such newspaper at the time
of such affidavit. The County Commissioners shall require the
person or persons to whom any of the contracts shall be
awarded as mentioned in this or in the preceding section to
execute a corporate bond in the amount of the contract price,
conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract so
made.

The County Commissioners shall reserve the right to reject
any or all bids received, and shall, if necessary, re-advertise
for bids pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 315 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1935 Session.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 11, 1939.