Chap. 227.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act ap-
proved March 2, 1898, to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county
to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep
the same in repair.

Approved January 30, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two and three of an act to authorize the hoard of supervisors of Floyd
county to let to contract the publie roads of that county and levy a tax
to keep the same in repair, approved March second, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

£2. The board of supervisors shall annually levy, along with the
county levy, a tax upon the property, real and personal, assessed for
taxation in the several magisterial districts of the county, which shall be
applied to the working and keeping in order, and repairing the public
roads and bridges in such districts, and the compensation of the super-
visors and contractors provided for by law and the provisions of this
aet. Such tax shall not be more than fifty cents on every one hundred
dollars of such property, and the same shall be collected, accounted for,
and paid out on the warrant of said hoard as if it were a county levy,
except that the levy for each magisterial district shall be kept separate
by the county treasurer: and a different rate of taxation may be pre-
seribed for different districts in said county, and the amount collected
in each district shall be expended therein.

§ 3. The said board shall let to contract for the term of one year at
its first sitting under this act, and each letting of contract after that shall
be for a period of three years, the roads in said county in one or more
precincts: provided, that no contract shall be let to any one person or firm
for less than five nor more than twenty-five miles, as said board may deem
most advisable, to the lowest bidder, having first advertised for sealed
bids, stating clearly in the advertisement the work to be done in said pre-
cinct or precincts, of roads or bridges therein, in addition to what is
specified and required by section nine hundred and eighty-two of the
code, such advertisement to be posted in at least three public places in
the neighborhood of the work to be done, for at least twenty days. But
said board shall have the right to reject the lowest bid received, if they
shall deem it too hich: or, for good cause, said board may reject the lowest
bid or hids received and accept a higher bid: or, if said board shall deem
it best, they mav receive propositions to do the work after advertisine
as above directed, without requiring said proposals to be sealed: provided,
that each supervisor may exercise in his magisterial district all the powers
given by this section, upon being authorized by the whole board.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.