Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of anact to authorize thi
board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the public road:
of said county, and levy a tax to keep them in order, approved February 29
1802.

Approved February 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors o
the county of Carroll to let to contract the public roads of said county
and levy a tax to keep the same in order, approved February twenty
ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted
as to read as follows:

§ 3. Said board shall let to contract in sections of not less than five mile
nor more than twenty-five miles, for the term of two years, the roads i
said county to the lowest bidder, having first advertised for sealed bids
stating clearly in the advertisement the work to be done on said section
of rcad or bridge therein in addition to what is specified and require«
by section nine hundred and eighty-two of the code, such advertisemen
to be posted at at least three public places in the neighborhood of th
work to be done for at least twenty days. But said ‘board shall hav
the right t to reject the lowest bid received if they shall deem it too high
or, if said board shall deem it best, they may receive propositions to do
the work, after advertising as above directed, without requiring said
proposals to be sealed: provided, that each supervisor may exercise in
his magisterial district all the power given the board by this section,
upon being authorized so to do by the whole board, and if at the end of
any fiscal vear there shall remain in hand any unexpended balance of
money to the credit of any district, it shall be lawful for said board or
such supervisor when authorized ‘by the whole board to expend such
balance or surplus, or such part thereof as he may see fit, in road ma-
chinery or tools, or repairing said roads and bridges as he may see
proper, when acting alone.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.