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and the amount to be redeemed upon such dates, respectively accord-
ing to the serial annuity plan applied to said loan as a whole or to
the group of certificates evidencing a part of said loan issued at a
particular time, as the case may be. Said loan and certificates and
every part thereof and the interest, payable thereon, shall be and
remain exempt from State, County and municipal taxation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Public
Works is hereby authorized and directed to have prepared proper
Certificates of Indebtedness of the State in good and sufficient form
to aggregate the amount of One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars
($140,000.00), as evidence of such loan; such Certificates of
Indebtedness shall bear date as of the time of their issue as provided
in Section 1 of this Act. Each of said certificates shall be signed and
countersigned in the manner prescribed by Section 3 of Article VI
of the Maryland Constitution.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in order to provide for the
selling of the Certificates of Indebtedness aforesaid, to be issued
under the provisions of this Act, the Board of Public Works is hereby
directed to advertise once before the said Certificates of Indebtedness,
or any part thereof, shall be issued, in two newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore and in such other manner as the Board of
Public Works in its discretion may determine, that the Treasurer of
this State will be in readiness at a time within twenty (20) days
after expiration of said notice to receive bids at such place or places
as may be named in said respective advertisements for bonds or
Certificates of Indebtedness issued under the provisions of this Act,
under such regulations as may be made in the discretion of the Board
of Public Works; and the accrued interest between the date of the
bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness and the time of sale and
delivery of and payments for said bonds or Certificates of Indebted-
ness shall be adjusted with the purchaser thereof under such
regulations as may be made in the discretion of the Board of Public
Works; and upon the day mentioned in said advertisement as the
day for opening the bids for the proposals thereby called for, they
shall receive such sealed proposals for the purchase of as many of
such bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness as may be mentioned or
designated in said advertisements; and on the opening of such sealed
proposals, as many of said bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness as
have been so bid for shall be awarded by the Board of Public Works,
to the highest responsible bidder or bidders therefor for cash, if the
prices bid are adequate, in the judgment of the Board of Public
Works, and when two or more bidders have made the same bid, and
such bid is the highest and the Certificates so bid for by the highest
responsible bidder are in excess of the whole amount of the Certifi-
cates offered for sale, such bond or Certificates of Indebtedness shall
be awarded to such responsible bidders bidding the same price in a
ratable proportion; or if any insufficient WORKS, AND WHEN TWO
OR MORE RESPONSIBLE BIDDERS HAVE MADE BIDS RE-
SULTING IN THE SAME NET INTEREST COST TO THE STATE
AND SUCH BIDS ARE THE HIGHEST, THEN SUCH BONDS
SHALL BE AWARDED BY LOT TO ONE OF SUCH RESPONSI-
BLE BIDDERS; price be bid for them, they may be subsequently
disposed of under the direction of the Board of Public Works at a
private sale upon the best terms they can obtain for the same; pro-