The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-07-22

to road duty on dis rOsQ warner,
and such person shall be exempt
from road duty for the time he acts
as warner.
Sec. 20 If the County Board of
Commissioners conclude to adopt q
contract system for working, main.
taining and operating the several
sections of highways, roads, bridges
and ferries in the several townships
in the respective counties, or any part
thereof, the County Supervisor or
County Board OF Commissioners, as
soon as practicable thereafter, may
adve tise in the newspaper published
in the county, once week for three
weeks, and by notices posted in two
or more conspicuous places in the
several townships, or the township
to be worked by contract system, for
bids from responsible persons for the
performance of the work as above set
forth, and to furnish specifications
of all such work or contracts as has
been advertised. Any and all BIDS
shall be made in writing, sealed and
addressed to the C22nty Supervisor
and by him opened in the preserce
of and submitted to the County
Board of Commissioners, ard it shall
be the duty of said board to accept
the lowest bid made by responsible
person or party; Provided, The
County Board of Commissioners shall
have power to reject any ard all bids,
and shall require bond, who shal! ex-
ecu.e good and sufficient bond to
keep, repair and maintain said pub
lie highway for the period Of twelve
months from date of contract, such
contractor or contractors to execute
a bond in double the amount of his
or their contract, with two or more
sureties, to be approved by the
County Board of Commissioners;
and said boards is hereby empowered
to hire overeeers and laborers, and
have the work performed as in it's
Judgment may be most expedient and
for the best interest of the county:
Provided, further, That the County
Supervisors and County Board of
Commissioners of the counties of
this State ere hereby authorized and
empowered to arrange to work the
roads Of their respective counties with
the convicts of their several counties,
or to lease to or from the County
Board of Commissioners of any
county, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon by the respective
County Boards of Commissioners,
and convicts sentenced to perform
hard labor upon the public works Of
any county, and said convicts may
be worked upon the roads, highways,
bridges or other public works of the
county where convicts or of the
county to which they have been
leased.
Sec. 80. In the districts where the
working, maintaining and operating
the highway is done by contract, as
above provided, such persons as are
liable to road duty on such high
ways. respectively, and desire to
work the number of days required
instead of paying the commutation
tax, shall be allowed to work on said
highway, under the direction and
control of the contractor, and such
contractor shall account to the Su-
pervisor or Board of County Com
missioners, as the case may be, for
the days so worked by each person,
and in the sum per day as the num-
Der of days required of such person
bears to the communication tax per-
mitted in lieu thereof.
Sec. 81. The County Board of
Commissioners of said counties are
authorized to levy annually a sum
not exceeding one mill on all the tax
able property of the respective
counties, which shall constitute a