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ART. 15. ] MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
for any section or sections shall in the opinion of the
board of commissioners be too high, they shall have
the power of rejecting said bids; and are authorized
and empowered to appoint a supervisor, with such
compensation as the county commissioners shall deem
just and proper, and shall be held to perform the duties
and give the bond required under the contracts herein-
before provided for.
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55. The contracts or specifications for the repair of
said road sections shall specify the manner in which
the road shall be made and kept, wherever neces-
sary and practicable, in the judgment of the com-
missioners, highest in the middle, with convex surface,
and good side drains to carry off the surface water and
the water that filters through the adjacent lands, with
good breaks on hills at proper distances from each
other, and that the principal repairs on said roads shall
be made between the first of May and the first of Sep-
tember in each year, and the lessee or contractor shall
be required under proper bond to keep such section
or sections in such order as specified for one year, and
he shall erect guide posts on the public roads at such
places as directed by the said commissioners, for the con-
venience of travelers, pointing and directing the way and
expressing the distances to other prominent places.
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Ibid s. 3.
Contracts for
repair of road
sections.
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56. All male residents of the county above the age
of twenty-one years, except those residing within the
limits of incorporated towns, provided such excepted
persons pay a corporation tax or work one day on the
streets or roads within the corporate limits of said
town, shall be compelled to labor one day in each year
on the public roads in the road district in which they
may reside; and the contractor or supervisor for any
section or sections shall summon all such persons in his
road district as shall be designated or allotted by said
road commissioners, or such number as may be neces-
sary for the repairs of such section, giving at least two
days' notice of the time and place of meeting; and the
contractor or supervisor shall furnish such tools as may
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Ibid. B. 4.
Road service.
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