The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-09-18
Plans and Specifications for
Public Roads.

ieflere county, Mississippi.
All first class roads in Lelore county
shall be worked and kept in repair
eighteen nSl feet wide to a grade OF
eighteen tlsl inches In the middle and
rounded in middle and sloping on each
side trim the middle to the bitches.
All other roads in said County shall
be o ked and kept In repair sixteen
tl6l feet wide with a grade Of sixteen
tl6D inches in the middle, rounded in the
middle and sloping on each side from
the middle to the bitches.
All standing timber on all roads run
ming through woods or ~deadenings shall
be deadened thirty feet wide. Before
the end Of the first year all standing tim
Der for a space at least sixteen (i6) feet
wide on such roads shall be cut down
and before the end Of the second year all
stumps for said space in which said tim
Der has been cut down shall be either cut
of ever with the surface OF said roads
or entirely removed therefrom. Within
two years and one half from the letting
Of the contract under these specihca-
tions all Of said roads through said
woods or ~deadenIngs shall be worked
to the grade specified above in ac-
cordance with these plans and specih-
cations in all respects.
In all places In any Of the roads in
said County, where there are low places
or wet places, all water shall either be
drained away from said places or said
roads shall be raised not less than six
teen tl6l inches above the grade speci-
fed.
All roads shall be properly ditched on
each side so as to give drainage and
SO as to convey all water from the sur
face Of the roads with proper covered
drainage across the roads at necessary
places, said covered drains to be of good
heart lumber not less than two and one
bali inches thick, or tile, the same not
to be less in length than the width the
roads are required to be worked, and
all c~ulverts on river or lake banks where
the same are eaving or likely to cave
shall extend not less than six 10y feet
over the banks Of such river or lake.
The contractor shall do all necessary
causewaying on saiG roads, where order
ed by the Board Of Supervisors, the tim
bers used in said causeways to be not less
than twelve Q2j feet long and not less
than three 49, inches thick, and all cause
ways shall be covered with dirt not less
than four inches thick. The contractor
shall remove all roots, logs and other OBJ
stacles from said roads and shall cut all
limbs from trees on both sides OF said
road where they hang low enough to in
terfere with or impede travel. The
contractor shall keep In repair all the
flooring on bridges in said county and
shall construct, where necessary, .and
keep in repair all bridges in said County
which are not more than sixteen (lO)
feet in length. The contractor shall
cut down and remove all brush and
weeds within four feet Of the sides Of
every bridge within said county, and
shall remove all drift under and around
said bridges. The contractor shall re-
port to the Board Of Supervisors any
and all repairs needed on all bridges ov-
err sixteen t16) feet in length in said
county. The Board Of Supervisors is
to furnish all lumber, tile, timbers, nails
and bolts for all culverts, drains, bridges
and causeways, mileposts and material
for sign boards constructed by the con-
tractor.
The contractor shall haul all Of said
material at his W expense and shall
cut at his own expense all OF said tim
Der for said causeways. The Com
tractor shall put and keep In repair all
levees and fills that are now In said
County and shall erect guide boards on
suitable post for each mile Of road in
said County. Said boards shall dcsig-
nate the distance to the County Site
and the principal towns in said County
and such said boards shall be erected
by the contractor at each fork Of roads
and at all cross roads In said County.
1t shall be the duty Of the contractor
after receiving written notice from the
member of the Board Of Supervisors for
said County, that there is any place in
said County in need Of repairs, to re-
pair same at once, and should the said
contractor refuse or neglect to repair the
within ten days Of the receipt OF
such notice said contractor shall be fined
not less than ten or more than twenty
we dollars for each week or fraction
thereof, such places remain out Of re-
pair at the expiration Of such ten days
and such fine may be assessed by the
Board OF Supervisors and may be de-
Quoted from the pay Of such contract
or.
Bids for working and keeping in re-
pair said roads In said County, accord
ing to these plans and specifications,
for a term Of four years, shall be re-
but the contractor shall be al
lowed nine months from the letting Of
the contract within which to work over
all roads in said County according to
these plans and specifications, and to
INIT the same In repair AZ herein provided