The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-11-05


at the Clerks Office on or before the
expiration of thirty days from the
first publication of such notice. The
notice shall specify tie amount o.
bonds offered for sale, the rate of in.
terest and the time when the princi.
pal and installments of interest shall
be due and payable. ANY and all
bids may he rejected If the
Commissioners shall deem 1t for the
interest of the county to do so, and
they may cause a new notice to be
given in like manner, inviting other
bids for said bords; provided, That
such bonds shall not be sold for less
than nnety-tive cents on the dollar
and in current money of the United
States of America.
Sec. II. The County Commission
ers may require of all bidders for
said bonds that they give security
by bond running to the County
Treasurer with sureties that the bid
der will comply with the terms of
the bid, and any bidder whose bid
shall be accepted shall, with his
sureties be liable to the county for
all damages on account of the nom
performance of the terms of his bid.
All bids for bonds shall specify the
amount of bonds to be paid for ana
the time when the bider will COM
ply with his bid. The County Com
missioners may prescribe the form of
the bond to be issued. The proceeds
of all bonds sold shall be paid over to
the Road Bond Trustees to be usel
by them for the purposes of grading
and building hard-surface roads and
certain public docks in the manner
in this Act provided; Provided, That
no money shall be expended by the
Road and Bond Trustees except upon
the public roads of the county of st.
Lucie, ard Tor the purposes provided
in this Act
Sec. IL. The Road Bond Trustees
shall pay over to any incorporated
town through which trunk lines shall
pass, an amount of money sufficient
to build the portion of such road
passing through such incorporated
town of same width and character as
balance of trunk lines.
= Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of County Commissioners t.
provide for the location Z. the roads
and parts of roads to be built, con-
sructed or improved under the terms
of this Act.
Sec. IA. 1t shall be the duty Of the
Board of County Commissioners to
levy annually, by tax upon the tax
able property In the county, sum
sufficient to meet the amount annual
ly required to be raised to pay the
interest and as a sinking fund to meet
the principal of the bonds, which
sinking fund shall be provided for
by resolution of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners before the issuing
of any of the said bonds. as
Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of
the said Road Bond Trustees i'm
mediately upon their election and
uualiHca. ion, in case the election Is
for the issuing of Donis, to organ
lie by electing Chairman ard a
Secretary from their own number,
and their meeting shall be pub
lie. and they shall keep minutes OF
their proceedings. 1t shall be their
duty to cause to DC constructed a
good hard surface road running the
full length of the county, from north
to south, and a good hard surface
road running west from Ft. Pierce
to where the county road crosses the
north prong of Ten Mile Creek land
It shall be the duty of the said Road
BOND Trus .ees to expend not less than
fifteen thousand dollars on the road
running west from said Creek cross
ing) and good hari-surface road
running west from Viii e City Sta
ton to the bridge across st. Luc!e
River at White City, and such other
roads as in their discretion they deem
necessary: it shall also be their duty
TO cause to be constructed a public
dock at the foot of the public road
which runs from the railroad sta
zion at Wabasse to the milan River,
the cost of which is not to exceed
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