J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                         355

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any Replacement Volumes to the Annotated Code of the Public
General Laws of Maryland (1957 Edition), prepared and published
by the Editorial Staff of The Michie Company, Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, be and the same are hereby legalized and made evidence of the
Public General Laws enacted following 1957 and up to and including
the time of publication. Each Replacement Volume shall be deemed
and taken as such in all of the Courts of this State and by all Justices
of the Peace, Trial Magistrates, and all other public officials of the
State and of its political subdivisions.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 14, 1966.

CHAPTER 157
(Senate Bill 473)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 24 (a)
of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume), title "State Roads", subtitle "In General" author-
izing the acceptance of a cashier's or treasurer's check, in addi-
tion to a certified check by the State Roads Commission for certain
bid bonds.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsection 24(a) of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "State Roads", sub-
title "In General" be and is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

24(a)

The said Commission, when about to construct any highway,
shall advertise for at least two weeks in one or more newspapers
published in each county in which the highway lies, and for three
consecutive issues in at least one daily newspaper published in Balti-
more City, for sealed proposals for the construction of said high-
way, accurately describing the same and stating the time and place
for opening said proposals, and reserving the right to reject any
and all proposals; said proposals shall be publicly opened at the time
specified in said advertisement, and the contract for such work or
for the supplies and materials required for such construction shall
be awarded by the Commission to the lowest responsible bidder,
unless in the opinion of said Commission the interests of the State
shall be better served by awarding the contract to some other bidder,
when this may be done. All work which shall be done by the said
Commission, whether on State Roads, county roads or municipal
streets, the labor and materials of which are estimated to cost over
three thousand dollars ($3,000), shall be advertised as aforesaid,
except such labor and materials as may be required from time to
time to maintain the various roads to the width and cross section,
as previously or originally constructed. The construction and im-
provement of all State highways or parts thereof shall be under the