HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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cient bond, with ample security, to the County
Commissioners in a penalty double the amount
of his contract, conditioned for the faithful
discharge of the duties imposed upon him by
law; said bond to be approved by the said Road
Commissioners and County Commissioners in
their respective election districts and filed
with the contract of said person, in the office
of the County Commissioners; but if the Road
Commissioners and County Commissioners
should fail to dispose of any section of road at
public letting the County Commissioners shall,
as soon as practicable, contract privately for

To file bond.

the same with some resident of the road dis-
trict in which the section is located, at the
lowest reasonable amount, under the same con-
ditions that regulate the keeping in good re-
pair of other sections, and failing in this they
shall p]ace said section under the special
charge of the Road Commissioner in whose
road district it is located, and who shall ex-
pend in repairs and improvements thereon
such amount of money as the County Commis-
sioners may order; and not more than one sec-
tion of road shall be contracted for with any
one person, unless it shall be wholly impossi-
ble to do otherwise; and the said Road Com-
missioners and County Commissioners shall
report promptly to the Board of County Com-
missioners all the proceedings under this sec-
tion, and when a new road shall have been
opened the County Commissioners shall con-

In event of
failure to con-
tract.

tract for the repair of the same in the same
manner as for other roads until the next regu-
lar awarding of contracts for roads shall occur;
and it shall be set forth in all contracts under
this section that the persons contracting shall
be bound to keep the roads in their charge in
the condition required by this Act without
reference to the amount bid by them at the
public letting of said roads, or agreed upon be-
tween them and the Road Commissioners and
County Commissioners as the contract price
for keeping the same in repair, and that for
each month that the roads in their charge may
be and remain in a condition contrary to the

New road.