Chap. 49.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act
to improve the main thoroughfares of Rappahannock county, approved Feb-
ruary 22, 1894.

Approved January 11, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act entitled an act to improve the main thoroughfares of
Rappahannock county, approved February twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

§ 2. Three disinterested freeholders of Rappahannock, one being
skilled in road making or improvements in roads, shall be appointed
by the board of supervisors, on or before the first day of December,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four; the said three disinterested free-
holders to be residents of said county, and living in different sections
of said county. The said three disinterested freeholders shall select
the said eighty-five miles of main thoroughfare which are to be im-
proved. Twenty-two miles of the said eighty-five miles shall be in
Wakefield township, inasmuch as the tax paid by Wakefield town-
ship is more than half of that paid by the residue of the county,
and when the amount of tax paid by said Wakefield township is re-
duced, should that be the case at any time, the number of miles to
be worked in said township shall be correspondingly reduced; and
shall divide the said eighty-five miles into sections not exceeding ten
miles in length, and they shal] let the said sections to the lowest bid-
der, or have the said sections worked by any plan that may seem best
to them, after having advertised the time, terms and place of letting
for thirty days in some newspaper circulated in said county, or by
hand-bills, as to them may seem best. They shall have the power to
reject any or all bids, and the person to whom the contract for im-
proving any of the said sections of main thoroughfares may be
awarded shall execute bond, with good security, in the penalty of at
least the amount of his bid, and conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of his duty in improving said thoroughfares. Upon the
completion of the section or sections for which any person may have
taken the contract, the said disinterested freeholders, if satisfied that
the contract of said bidder has been fully complied with, and the
road improved in accordance with the contract and specifications,
shall give a warrant for the amount due to said contractor on account
of the improvement of said main thoroughfares, directed to the
treasurer of Rappahannock county, who shall duly honor the same
when signed by all of said disinterested freeholders.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.