Chap. 144.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March
2, 1898, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to
let to contract public roads of that county, and levy tax to keep the same in
repair, and to amend section 3 of said act as heretofore amended.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eleven of am act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March
second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act 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, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 11. No person in the county of Floyd shall be compelled to work on
any road without compensation, and when any road is established or
altered by order of court the same shall be opened and kept in order as
provided in this act unless the person for whose benefit said road is
established or altered shall agree to open or alter the same at his own
expense.

2. Be it further enacted, That section three of said act, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved January thirtieth, nineteen hundred,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 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 precinct 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 high; or, for good cause, said board may reject the
lowest bid or bids received and accept a higher bid; 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 powers given by this section upon being authorized by
the whole board: and provided further, that when each supervisor
shall be so authorized and shall exercise such powers, he shall file at
each meeting of the board of supervisors an itemized account of his ex-
penditures since the last meeting, which account shall show to whom
each item was paid, and for what purpose.

3. The condition of the public roads in the county of Floyd creates an
emergency, therefore this act shall be m force from its passage.