Chap. 482.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads
and bridges in Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to
borrow money for said purpose, and to repeal an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 9 of an act to provide for working roads in
Russell county, approved February 25, 1892.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for working the public roads of Russell county,
approved February the twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

2. It shall be the duty of the county court of Russell county at its
May term next after the passage of this act, and every two years there-
after, to appoint one discreet and suitable person in each road district
to act as inspector of the roads of his district for the term of two years,
commencing July the first next after his appointment. Said inspector
of roads so appointed shall execute bond in the penalty of five hundred
dollars, with good and sufficient security, before the said county court at
its June term after their appointment, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of their respective offices.

3. Said road inspectors shall from time to time let to contract the
building and repairing of roads and bridges in their respective districts
in such lots or lines of roads as they may designate by written notices,
posted at five or more conspicuous places in their respective road dis-
tricts for at least ten days before the same is let to contract, which is
required to be let, at public auction by said road inspector, according
to plans and specifications to be set out in said notice by said inspector:
provided, however, that the said road inspector shall not accept any bid
to build or repair any road or bridge in his road district if, in his judg-
ment, the amount bid is too much to pay for the work to be done.

4. Every contractor to whom any contract is awarded to build or repair
any road or bridge shall enter into bond, with security, acceptable to
said road inspector, in an amount equal to double the amount bid for
said work, conditioned to repair said road or bridge according to the
plans and specifications set out in said notice and within the time speci-
fied therein, and his failure to comply with the terms of such contract
shall operate as a forfeiture of his contract and also his pay for the
amount of labor performed thereunder, unless he has been prevented
from performing the same by sickness or other unavoidable accident.
In euch case his time may be extended by said inspector, not exceeding
sixty days: provided, however, that no such contract shall be valid until
it 1s approved by the supervisor of said road district or the nearest super-
visor thereto. Said inspector shall be entitled to a per diem of one
dollar and fifty cents for the time actually and necessarily engaged in
executing the duties aforesaid.

5. Said inspector of roads shall immediately file with the clerk of
the board of supervisors all contracts and bonds entered into and taken
for the building and repairing of roads and bridges in said county, and
said board of supervisors shall provide for the payment of said contracts
out of the road levy.
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6. For the purpose of carrying out more effectually this act, the board
of supervisors is by this act authorized to borrow the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars, at the rate of six per centum interest per annum, payable
in equal annual installments of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, and twelve years, and execute the bonds of said county
for said several amounts, and apply the same to the building and keep-
ing in repair the roads and bridges of said county: provided, however,
that this act, nor shall any part thereof, be effectual until the board of
supervisors of said county, by a recorded vote, shall have adopted the
same, or such parts thereof as they may deem proper and necessary,
and until the county court of said county shall approve the action of
said board by its order entered of record in said county court, ordering
the enforcement of this act, or such part or parts thereof as the board of
supervisors may adopt..

7. All acts and parts of acts and laws in conflict with this act, as to
the county of Russell, are hereby repealed.