The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-30

commissioner of public roads shall be en-
titled to receive five dollars per day and
actual expenses whenengaged in the du-
ties imposed by this bill, payable monthly
by the treasurer of this state out ofsany
moneys in the treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, upon the receipt of the YOU
chers of the said commissions of public
roads, when approved by. the governor.
A. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect imedately.
Approved May II, 1894.
CHAPTER CCLXXvTI,
A further supplement to an act entitled
AN act to provide for the more per-
p manent improvement of the public
roads of this state" approved April
fourteen, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey, That the, first section of the act to
ed by the supplement thereto approved
March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight
hundred and ninet-ytwo, be and the same
is hereby amended to read as follows:
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey, hat whenever the board of chocen
~freeholders of any county in this state
shall, by resolution, have declared their
intention to cause any particular road or
section thereof within such county to be
improved under the provisions of this act
such board shall cause all necessary sur
vveys to be made and specifications to be
prepared; the specifications shall require
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or a telford or other stone road, that will,
at all seasons of the year be firm, smooth
and convenient for travel; shall be SO
prepared as to call for bids from which
an approximate estimate of the cost can
be ascertained. and shall state the
amount of security that will be required
of the bidder; after said specilcatlons
shall have been prepared they shall be
submitted to the board of chosen free
holders, and If such board h approve
them they shall then be submitted to the
ofnf n ion - nf T1lh1io roads 1n6 if
he shall approve them it shall be the duty
of the director OF the board OF chosen
freeholders to advertise in at least. two
daily newspapers, printed and circulated
in the county, for the period of two
weeks, or if there be not two daily news
papers printed and circulating therein, for
work according. to the specifications pre-
pared; such advertisements shall state
where bidders may find the specifica-
tons, and shall name a time and place
or a committee of five members thereof,
of the director shall be one, will meet to
%companied with the bidders bond in a
sum of one thousand dollars, with secur-
ity satisfactory to the board. conditioned
that if the contract shall be awarded to
him he, when required by the board, eX-
ecute an agreement in writing to per-
form the work according to the specifica-
lions no bids shall be received by the
board or any member thereof, or by said
committee or any member thereof, except
at such meeting, and all bids then re
ceived shall be Immediately publicly read;
if the bids shall be received by the COM
mittee of the board, they shall be re-
ported to he board at the next meeting
thereof, with the recommendation of the
committee; the board may reject bids, if
in their opinion, good cause exist there
for, but otherwise thy shall award the
contract to he lowest bidder who shall
give satisfactory evidence of his ability
to pperform the contract; provided, now
ever, that the estimated amount of con-
tracts awarded in any one year by any
board of chosen freeholders shall not ex-
ceed one-half of one per centum of the
ratables of the unit as reported to the
state comptroller FOR the last preceding
year; the bidder to whom the contract
may be awarded shall, in addition to exc
cutting the ageement to perform the work
according to the specifications, also exc
cute to the board of chosen freeholders a
Torrance of the con lact in the sum spe-
Gifted in the advertisement for bids, and
with such sureties as the board may ap-
prove; the contract shall, on behalf of
the board of shosen freeholders, be exc
cuted by the director thereof, and when
executed by the bidder and said director,
mated cost of the work. shall be forth
whitfield with the state commissions of
public roads.
2. And be it enacted, That the second
section of said act as amended by the
supplement thereto, approved March
twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred
dred and ninety-two, be and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows
2. And be it enacted, after a cop
of the contract shall be filed with the
state commissioner of public roads as
aforesaid, the said state commissioner of
public roads shall as soon as practicable
appoint as supervisor of the construction
of the work unde such contract, who
shall receive for his services under this
act tire dollars per day, to be paid out
of the county treasury; if the work for
which such contract shall be
a shall have been petit
the seventh section of this aet,g then If
the petitioners therefor, or any of them,
shall in writing nominate to the said state
commissioner of public rbads one or more
persons for the position of such super
visor, it shall be the duty of said state
commissioner of public roads, if only one
nomination be made, to. appoint, as such
supervisor, the person SO nominated, and
if more than one nomination be made
to appoint as such supervisor, one of the
persons so nominated and if no such nom
ination be made. the said state comisioner
of public roads, shall then appoint as such
supervisor any person whom he may con-
slider competent for such position; such
supervisor shall supervise all work done
under the contract shall Civ his whole
time thereto, shall require the provisions
of the contract to be strictly adhered to
by the contractor, n when the contract
provides for partial payments during the
progress of the work shall, as each pay
shall be made, present to the board his
certificates and also the certificates of the
surveyor or engineer, if any there be,
stating as near as may be the total
work has been done in all respects as re-
quired by the contract; the board shall
~thereupon direct payment to be made by
the county collector: provided that no