WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1701

may be necessary to work more than eight hours per calendar
day or more than forty hours per calendar week for the pro-
tection of property or human life; provided, that in all such
cases the laborer, workman or mechanic so employed and
working to exceed eight hours per calendar day shall be paid
on the basis of eight hours constituting a day's work.

97. SALARIES. The Mayor and City Council shall set the
salaries and wages payable generally to officers and em-
ployees of the City, except as specifically provided elsewhere
in this Article.

98. CONTRACTS—WAGES, (a) Not less than the gen-
eral prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar
character in the locality in which the work is performed, and
not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages
for legal holidays and overtime work, shall be paid to labor-
ers, workmen and mechanics employed by a contractor or
sub-contractor in the execution of any contract or contracts
for the City of Cumberland.

(b) The Mayor and City Council shall fix and determine,
from time to time, the general prevailing rate of per diem
wages in the locality in which the work is to be performed
for each craft or type of workman or mechanic needed to
execute the contract. The Mayor and City Council, or other
public body awarding the contract, shall specify in the call
for bids for said contract, and in the contract itself, what
the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the said
locality is for each craft or type of workman or mechanic
needed to execute the contract and also the general prevailing
rate for legal holiday and overtime work.

(c) It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom
the contract is awarded, and upon any sub-contractor under
him, to pay not less than the said specified rate to all labor-
ers, workmen and mechanics employed by him or them, as
the case may be, in the execution of the contract. The con-
tractor shall forfeit as a penalty to the City, Ten Dollars
($10. 00) for each laborer, workman or mechanic employed
for each calendar day, or portion thereof, during which such
laborer, workman or mechanic is paid less than the stipulated
rates for any work done under said contract by him or by
any sub-contractor under him. A stipulation to this effect
shall be inserted in the contract by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil or other public body awarding the contract.

(d) It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council to
take cognizance of complaints of all violations of the pro-
visions of this subtitle committed in the course of the execu-