Chap. 343.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an
act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and
bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland, approved
March 4, 1896.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia. That section
three of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in
repair the publie roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland
and Westmoreland. approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3. Whenever, in the discretion of the boards of supervisors of each
of the said counties, the contract system is to be used, it shall be their
duty at any regular meeting which they may agree upon, to proceed to
advertise in such manner as may seem best to them for proposals for
working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of their
respective counties, and when such proposals shall have been received,
they shall proceed to award contracts tor a period not exceeding five
years, to the lowest responsible bidders, who shall furnish bond, with
approved security, for the faithful and eflicient performance of the work:
provided, that in the absence of any bids for the working of the roads
in any district, the contract may be awarded to some responsible person
within said district, in which case the person receiving the contract shall
give bond and security similar to that required in cases where bids have
been submitted. The work shall be done and the same paid for in accord-
ance with such regulations as the boards of supervisors of the said coun-
ties may determine upon. Each member of the board of supervisors of
the respective counties shall be the inspector of the roads within his
own magisterial district, and it shall be his duty twice each year to
inspect the work done upon the various roads within his district, and
shall report to the board of supervisors at their next regular meeting
succeeding such inspection, whether the work has been properly done,
and whether the contracts made under this act are being complied with.

For this service each supervisor shall receive the sum of one dollar for
each section of road thus contracted for, so inspected by him: provided,
however, that no supervisor shall receive for this service a sun exceeding
twenty-five dollars in any one year.

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