Chap. 175.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an
act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk
county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved February 26, 1898, entitled an act to amend an re-enact an
act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads
in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890.

Approved March 14, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act
for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county,
approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended
by an act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§10. It shall be the duty of the said road engineer to lay off all the
public roads in each district of said county into sections, which he may
designate by numbers, the lengths of which sections shall not exceed five
miles. The road engineer shall, each year, subject to the approval of the
board, ascertain the amount and character of work to be done on each
section in each district, and shall prepare specifications thereof, which
shall be posted in three or more public places on the section on which the
work is to be performed, authorizing bids for the same, and said bids
shall, in all cases where the contract exceeds one hundred dollars, be
advertised five successive times in some daily newspaper published in
Norfolk city or Portsmouth. The road engineer shall post, along with
the specification, notice of the time and place at which he will open the
bids for the work on such section, requiring all bids to be in on the day
previous to the day appointed for opening the same. When bids have been
received by the road engineer the same shall be referred by him to the
road board of Norfolk county for their approval or rejection, and the said
board shall have the right to reject any and all bids. The road engineer
shall require the contractor for such work to execute to him a written
agreement setting forth all matters appertaining to the contract, which
contract shall be subject to the approval of the road board, and, when
approved by the said board, shall be binding between the contractor and
the county, and shall be filed by the clerk of the board. When the work
contracted for shall have been completed, the road engineer shall inspect
the same, and if it shall appear to him to have been performed in accord-
ance with the terms of the contract, he shall certifv that fact to the
county road board for its approval, and, when so approved by said road
board, it shall issue to the said contractor a warrant upon the county
treasurer, for the amount due him under the contract, upon any funds
which may be available for that purpose, the said warrant to be signed
by the chairman of said board and countersigned by the clerk. All mat-
ters in controversy arising under such contract shall be submitted to the
county road board and finally settled by it. The said road engineer shall
have power to emplov, subject to the approval of the said county road
board, from time to time, persons to remove obstructions in the roads of
the county and to make light repairs on the same. The road engineer
shall, annually, on the first Monday in July, make to the county road
board a full report of his work as such road engineer for the past vear,
which report shall be entered upon a book kept by the road engineer
for that purpose, and shall, if required by the county road board, be pub-
lished in one or more newspapers printed either in the city of Norfolk
or Portsmouth, the cost of such publication to be paid for out of the gen-
eral road levy, by order of the board, upon warrant issued by the clerk
of the board and signed by the chairman thereof. Said road engineer
shall receive for his services an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars,
to be paid monthly by the county treasurer out of the general road levy.