The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-04-21
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
J. A. Rice Gets Contract for Working
Public Roads. $3.50 Appro-
prlated to be Used as
Premiums at Fair.
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week.)
Wednesday morning, April 5-All
members present.
Contract was entered into with ]. A.
Rice to work all the public roads in
beats /, 4 and 5, and such other roads
as the board may hereafter open, &C.
cording to plans and specifications
now on file in the chancery clerks
Office.
l That the sale contractor agrees
and binds himself to work the road or
roads hereinafter described in accord
ance with the plans and specifications
heretofore adopted by the board of su-
pervisors of said county.
2 The road or roads covered by this
contract or included herein are public
roads of the said county and such as
may be hereafter created by the board
in district No., and are roads classi-
fed and described as follows, to-wit:
8 The contractor agrees and binds
himself to put the roads herein con-
tracted for in the condition required by
the plans and specifications heretofore
adopted, on or before the lst day of De-
cember, 1911, and agrees to keep the
said roads in the condition as required
during the continuance of this con-
tract.
In case any person liable to work
on the roads herein contracted for, de-
sires to work out his time, as provided
for in section 447O of the code of 1906,
instead of paying his Communication tax,
the said county shall be allowed credit
for such work rendered at the rate of
three dollars for every eight days labor
performed, on the amount due the said
contractor.
The contractor shall on the first
Monday of October of each year re-
port to the board of supervisors. in
writing, the names of all parties who
have worked out their time under this
section.
| 6 In case the board of SUPERVISOR
should desire the county convicts to be
worked on the public roads herein spec
flied, the said contractor agrees to take
such convicts and work the same or
such terms as may hereafter be agreed
upon by the parties to this contract.
Z Should the roads, or any particu
lar road, included in this contract, b.
discontinued by the order Of the boart
. of supervisors, then such road or road
/ 80 discontinued, shall be eliminatet
from this contract. But the boar
shall pay the contractor for such worl
, thereon as may have been done prio
to this discontinuance, and the con
/ tractor herein shall work all roads i
; his district allotted to him now laid ou
and located, and any new road laid ou
: and designated by the board shall b
worked by the contractor as thoug
the same was in existence at the tim
: of the making of this contract. Bu
the price to be paid therefor shall b
t agreed upon by the board and the cor
: tractor, which price shall be base
upon the nature of the territor
o through which the new road may ru
, and the class of the road to be col
structed, All such new roads laid o,
l. and designated by the board shall
Immediately worked by the contracts
and brought into the condition require
= by the plans and specifications as sot
' as possible thereafter, and the bond
the contractor shall cover all roa
now in existence as well as all roa
. that may hereafter be created in al
contractors district.
3 The said county shall furnish 8
:, nails, lumber and other timbers,
- the building and keeping in repair
:. all bridges, culverts and causeway
- - which the said contractor is by t
;. terms and requirements of the pla
= and specifications required to bull
:. make or keep in repair.
- 9 Such material is to be furnish
by the county at as convenient a pla
of purchase as possible. But the &C
tractor shall haul the material to t
r! place where needed after the mater
- shall have been delivered within
~ ~ county and shall be paid for by t
county only when the supervisor of
district where the material is USE
. shall certify that the same has be
m :. used on said public roads. All mi
~ posts and sign-boards required by
:. plans and specifications shall be fl
nished the contractor at the co.
. house in the city of Grenada. The CT
tractor is to place these mile-posts a
sign-boards at the proper places, as
quired by the above mentioned pls
and specifications.
or 10 It is expressly agreed and und'
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