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COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

taxes, levy on the assessable property of the county a sum sufficient
to pay for the bridge and its embankments and abutments.

Id s 50
1856, c 308, s 4
To be built by
contract

Proposals to be
advertised for

64. All bridges shall be built or repaired by contract, and the
county commissioners shall advertise in one or more newspapers,
and, if there be no newspaper published in the county or counties,
then by such public notice as they shall deem most advisable, set-
ting forth the place where said bridge is to be built or repaired, with
full specifications of the plan and materials, and that sealed pro-
posals for building or repairing said bridge will be received until a
day named in the advertisement.

Id s 51
1856, c 308, s. 4.
Contract
awarded to
lowest bidder.

65. On the day named in such advertisement the proposals shall
be opened, and the contract awarded to the lowest bidder, who in
the opinion of the county commissioners shall be qualified to build

Bond of
contractor

or repair the bridge; and the contractor shall be required to enter
into bonds, with approved security, in d6uble the amount of the con-
tract, conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract.

Id s 52
1856, c 301, s 5
Inspection of
work.

66. When a contractor shall notify the county commissioners
that the bridge is finished, the county commissioners shall inspect
the work, and if in their judgment it has been constructed accord-
ing to the contract and specification, they shall take the same from
the hands of the contractor, and open it for public traval, and then,
and not before, the contractor shall be entitled to receive the last
instalment due thereon.

Id s 53
1856, c 308, s 6
Appointment of
examiners
where bridge
between two
counties.

67. If, upon petition in writing of any citizen or citizens of any
county to the county commissioners, praying for a bridge to be built
or repaired, over any stream or place dividing two adjoining coun-
ties, and the said county commissioners shall deem the prayer in the
petition reasonable, they shall, by message in writing, ask the con-
currence of the county commissioners of the adjoining county, and,
upon the concurrence of the last-named county commissioners, the
county commissioners of each county shall appoint three disinter-
ested and discreet examiners, and each shall notify the other of such
appointment.

Id s 54
1856, c 308, s 6
Examiners to
report.

68. The said examiners shall, with all convenient dispatch, meet
and examine, and determine as to the expediency of building or
repairing the bridge, the place where, the plan, material, and the
relative portion of the cost, each of the adjoining counties should
pay, and estimate the whole cost, and report their opinion and all
other proceedings to their respective county commissioners.

Id s 55
1856, c 308, s 6
If report con-
firmed, to adver-
tise for pro-
posals

69. If the said report be approved, and a bridge be reported as
proper and expedient to be built or repaired, the said several county
commissioners shall direct the examiners to advertise for sealed pro-
posals to build or repair such bridge as in their report may be men-
tioned, stating the place, plan, material, and workmanship, with
sufficient certainty for the purpose of obtaining proper proposals
for the same, and the time and place when such proposals will be
opened.