The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-08-12

Prince Georges County State OF
Maryland, and for the issuing OF
bonds for the payment of the same,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
George n. Palmer, George w; Sanford,
Robert Kraft, George McDuell, William
F. Holmesd, Frank A. Schwallenberg'
and Francis A. Carmody be, and they
are constituted, a building committee
the purpose of purchasing a lot or lots IN
the Second Precinct of the Thirteenth
Election District of Prince Georges
County, State iof Maryland: Said lois
to be situated within a radius OF one
half mile of the District Line Station
of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad,
and erecting and furnishing on the
lot or lots purchased a public school
building to be used for public school
purposes in Prince Georges County
and its municipalities, for the pupils OF
the vicinity, free from any charge fol-
instruction therein whatsoever.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That OF
the aforesaid building committee four
members shall constitute a quorum, and
the concurrence of four of them shall
be necessary for the decision OF any
or all questions which may arise IN
the discharge of their duties; and all va
cancies occurring in said building com
mittee, whether from death, resignation
refusal to act or otherwise. shall be
filled by the School Commissioners OF
Prince Georges County.
Section 3. And be it enacted, That
the said building committee be, and
they are hereby authorized to purchase
a lot of lots in the Second Precinct OF
the Thirteenth Election District OF
Prince Georges County, State of Mary:
land. Said lot or lots to be situated
within a radius of one-half mile OF the
District Line Station of the Chesapeake
Beach Railroad, and procure and adopt
a plan and specification for the cree
ton of said school house; and when
adopted said committee shall invite
sealed proposals by advertisement for
a reasonable time for the erection OF
said school buildings which proposals
shall be sent in sealed envelopes in
care of the school superintendent OF
Prince Georges County addressed to
said committee, and shall be publicly
opened on a day and at the hour named
in said advertisement. Said proposals
setting forth the amount of money for
which the parties proposing will COM
plete the building according to the
specifications and plans and the time
or times at which payments therefor
shall be made and the time when said
building shall be completed; and the
said building committee shall award
the contract to the lowest responsible
bidder upon such bidder giving bond to
the Board of County School Commits
sioners in such penalty as said COM
mitteel shall determine conditioned for
the faithful performance of the contract
entered into. The building committee
Is hereby required to employ one or
more competent architects, uader whose
control and supervision as to material
and workmanship such building shall
be erected; the building committee
shall also select proper furniture fol-
the use of said public school house as
well as determine the best method OF
heating the school having due regard
for the safety and health of pupils at
tending there and shall at such times
as it may deem proper, advertise for
such furniture and plant and shall
award the contract or contracts to the
lowest responsible bidder or bidders.
Section 4. And be it enacted That
when said committee shall have con-
tracted for the erection of said school
building and the furnishing and heat
ing thereof it shall report the same to
the Board of County Commissioners
with the terms and conditions OF such
contract and they shall also report the
costs and expenses incurred and paid
from time to time.
O AID ho ~ onoafo6 Thof
for the purpose of paying for said lot
or lots and for the erection and furnish
ing of said public school building, the
School Commissioners for Prince George
County are hereby authorized and dir
ected to borrow; on the Endorsement OF
the County Commissioners of Prince
Georges Bounty, who are hereby
directed to indorse such bonds IN the
faith and credit of said County, an
amount not exceeding the sum of eight
thousand dollars and to issue coupon
bonds ther efor in sums of not less than
one thousand dollars each. to be signed
by the president of said Board ofschool
Commissioners and countersigned by the
superintedent of said Board with the
seal of said Board attached, and to be
registered by the said school superin-
tendent of Prince Georges County in a
separate book kept for that purpose
and bonds shall bear interest at the
rate of five per CEN per annum, payable
semi-annuallY, on the first day of May
and the first day of November each
year, until said bonds shall be paid.
And said bonds shall be forever exempt
from all municipal aud County taxation
for any purpose, and shall have printed
on them reference to this act as authOriz-
ing the issue thereof.
Section 6. And be it enacted, That
the School Commissioners of Prince
Georges County are hereby authorized
and directed TO retain each and every
year from the sum of money paid to
them by the County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County, for the sup,
port of the public schools of Prince
GEORGES County, a sufficient amount of
money to meet the interest and to
create a sinking fund to pay the princi-
pal of said bonds as they mature, until
the last of said bonds issued under this
act shall have been paid and cancelled,
should said bonds be issued and indoors
ed as a aforesaid.
Section 7. And be it enacted. That
the first bonds issued under this Act
shall be dated the first day of May, 1910.
and be payable as to principal in thirty
wears from the date of their issue; and
said bonds shall be advertised for sale
in two daily newspapers published in
the city of Baltimore, to be selected by
the School Board and sold to the high
est bidder for cash, and for not less
han their face value, by the School
Commissioners of Prince Georges
County.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That
the County School Commissioners of
Prince Georges County shall annually
deposit in some savings institution in
the State of Maryland, at interest, a
sufficient sum of money to create a sink
ing fund for the redemption OF said
bonds at their maturity, and are here
by authorized and empowered. to pur-
chase from the proceeds of said sinking
fund any of the said bonds as may be
offered for sale, and upon the purchase
of any such bonds or the redemption
of the same at maturity, the County
Commissioners shall have said bond or
bonds Immediately Cancelled by stamp
ing across their face the word sfCan-