LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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203 D. It shall be the duty of each of the several District
Boards of Road Commissioners, or some member thereof, to
inspect and investigate, at least quarterly each year, the condi-
tion of the roads in their respective districts, and the repairs
and improvements necessary or desirable, and make a full report
thereof to the Board of County Road Commissioners, and they
shall cause an estimate to be made, to accompany said reports,
of the probable expense of such repairs and improvements ;
one of said reports shall be made on or before the first day
of May and another on or before the first day of November,
in each and every year. They shall carefully inspect each sec-
tion of " High Roads " and roads of the first and second class,
so as to ascertain what will be a fair compensation for the
working of the same, all of which shall be reported to the said
Board of County Road Commissioners through their respective
representatives thereon ; and upon the recommendation of such
board, if approved and with the consent of the County Com-
missioners, all work upon the county roads which shall have
thus been determined upon shall be given out by contract, and
the Board of County Road Commissioners shall advertise for
proposals to do said work, which advertisement shall be pub-
lished at the expense of the county in the newspapers doing
the county printing ; the contract shall be awarded by the Board
of County Road Commissioners to the lowest responsible bid-
der, and the Road Commissioners, by whom said contracts are
awarded, shall immediately report the same and all their pro-
ceedings in reference thereto to the County Commissioners.

Inspect and
Investigate.

203 E. The District Boards of Road Commissioners shall, in
addition to having the supervision of all public roads of their
respective districts, be the custodians of all the tools and ma-
chiney used for road purposes ; shall make report when required
by the County Commissioners, giving the condition of the road,
the work needed to be done, the machinery, implements and
tools owned by the county, the condition of the same and how
distributed, the tools and machinery that may be needed, and
shall perform such, other duties as may from time to time be
deemed expedient by the County Commissioners.

Custodians of
tools and
machinery.

203 F. No contract for any permanent road improvement
work shall be awarded, or be valid for any purpose if awarded,
unless a notice specifying the work and materials, and
inviting bids or propositions to do or furnish the same, shall
have been published by the County Commissioners at the
request of the Board of County Road Commissioners for at
least three weeks in some paper published and circulating in

No contract
awarded
or valid un-
less notice
shall have
been pub-
lished.