Chap. 130.—An ACT to require the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania
county to let the printing of the receipts and disbursements of taxes,
levies, tolls, etc., and other printing and newspaper work to the lowest
bidder. (H. B. 148)

Approved March 18, 1915.

Be it enacted by. the general assembly of Virginia, That on the first
of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the first of January of each
year thereafter, or as soon after these dates as possible, the board of
supervisors of Spotsylvania county shall advertise in some local paper
for twenty-one days at least once a week for bids on all printing and
newspaper work which is required by law to be done or will be done in
said county or any officers or official thereof at the expense of said county
during the remainder of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for
each year thereafter.

Said advertisement shall briefly state what is required to be printed
or will be printed, the kind, quality, quantity, style, manner and way
of printing required or desired and refer prospective bidders to the clerk’s
office of said county where said board shall file a complete list of all print-
ing and newspaper work required by law to be done or that will be done
for said county for the remainder of the year nineteen hundred and
fifteen, and for each year thereafter as above named at the same time
they commence to advertise for bidders for said work as above required.

These lists filed in the clerk’s office of said county shall contain all
particulars as to kind, quality, quantity, style, manner, way of printing
required or desired, number of copies, time when to be done and every
other particular necessary to give prospective bidders all the information
necessary for them to make accurate and close bids thereon. Each bid
shall be submitted in a sealed envelope on or before the first regular
meeting of said board in May, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and in
February of each year thereafter and so required in said advertisement.
Where a newspaper bids of publishing any work designed to give public
information it shall accompany its bid with a statement or other evidence
from the postmaster of its home office as to the average number of its
paid subscribers to every issue of said paper for the preceding year or so
long theretofore as said paper shall have been in existence.

All bids shall be publicly opened and discussed and contracts awarded
and no bid shall be received after any other bid on the same work or
any part thereof has been opened, but the board may reject any and
all bids and readvertise for others in the same manner heretofore pro-
vided as soon thereafter as possible if in their opinion and that of their
legal adviser those submitted are too high.

The public revenue being affected an emergency is declared to exist
and this act shall be in force from its passage.