The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-07-18

| tioAs herein provided. And the said
| sheriff shall be allowed a comm ission
OF not more than one fifth OF l per
cent for disbursing said funds.
! The court doth nov appoint John
| Banisrer, James n. Johnson and F. G..
| Burdett, the said last named being an
| efficient and duly qualified civil engi-
| nCer, as comm issioners to superintend
| the construction and improvements to
| b. made upon said roads with the pro-
| ceeds of said bonds and to make re-
ports thereon from time to time as
| this court may require.
| 5. All of said work shall be done
! BY contract as follows: The said COM
! miss!oners shall prepare complete and
| full plans and specifications for the
| improvements OF each of said main
lcounty roads beginning at the said
| CITY of Charleston, and after said
plans and specifications are completed
| a to any particular road which it is
proposed to improve, said commits
| siOnefs shall advertise for bids for the
! construction and improvement of said
| road according to said plans and spe-
| cifications; said advertisement to be
published in at least two newspapers
| OF opposite politics published in ka-
nawha County at least once week
| for Cd four weeks prior to the let
| ting of said contract, and in such 9th
| er manner as said com isS.oners may
deem proper. Bids for two or more
|roads may be asked for in the same
notice. And the cont act for doing
| said work shall be awarded to the
| lowest bidder, but the commisso toner's
may reject all bids if they think prop
| e. The person to whom the contract
is awarded shall be required to give
| bond and security to be approved by
said commissioners for the faithful
| performance of his contract which
| contract and bond shall thereupon be
| NH in, tad ia, 1n ,,rf 0f
| nawha County for its approval, to-
| gcther with copies of said advertise
| mcnts and of all bids received. And
| when such contract and bond shall
! nave been accepted and approved by
| said County Court. it shall be valid
| and binding upon all parties thereto.
8. The plans and specifications to
| be prepared for the permanent i'm
| provement of said roads by said COM
| missioners as aforesaid, shall provide
| for the use of matchmaking or other
processes Of equal merit. And none
OF the funds derived from said bonds
shall be used in making merely tenn
porary repairs to any of said roads,
but only in making the kind of per-
manent improvements hereinbefore
! mentioned.
| T.. Neither the said commissioners
| nor the sad County Court shall have
| the right or the power to use or ap-
propriate any of the proceeds of said
| bonds to the payment of any part OF
| the present existing Indebtedness OF
| hanawha County or any district there
in or'for any other county purposes or
other purposes of any kind, except
the permanent Improvement of the
main county roads of said Kanawha
County as herein provided. Provided
| however, that the purchaser 0: pur
chasers of said bonds shall not be re
CURED to see to the application OF
SAID purchase money. And none of
| the proceeds of said bonds shall be
used or appropriated either by said
| commissioners or by the County Court
to pay for any improvements upon
said main county roads, except such
as shall be constructed by contract
strictly in the manner hereinbefore
set forth.
s. Theacontracts that are made un
der this authority shall provide thai
the contractors shall be paid for the
WORK upon estimates to be made reg
ularly from time. to time by the engi
neer and commissioners, and that a
least ten per cent. of each estimate
shall be retained until the final com
pletlon of the work under the con
tract, as additional security for it:
completion in accordance with tn,
terms of the contract. And no pay
ments shall be authorized to be made
| by the County Court to any contracto
said engineer and approved by sait
commissioners or a majority of them
9. The said two commissioners
| who are not engineers. shall receiv,
$500 per day for each day they ma,
| be employed in attending to their du
ties under this order And the sal,
engineer commissioner shall receiv,
$500 per day for each day he may b,
SO employed.
10. In case of a vacancy in saiC
commission resulting from the death
disability. failure or refusal to act o
any one of said commissioners sue!
vacancy shall be filled by the remain
ing commissioners with the consen
and approval of the County Court il
every case; provided always that i
the vacancy is in the position of tn,
engineer commissioner it shall be file,
| by the appointment OF an efficient ant
| duly qualified civil engineer And a
least one of said commissioners shall
always be of Il different political part,
| from the other two
| II. 1t is further ordered that :
special election shall be held at all the
voting places of Kanawha County or
| the 1'th day of August, 1907. upon the
proposition for the issuance of said
| bonds in the manner and subject tC
| all the provisions. restrictions, auf
conditions set forth in this order