J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      655

BE OF SUFFICIENT WIDTH TO ALLOW VEHICLES TO CON-
VENIENTLY PASS EACH OTHER. THE COUNTY COMMIS-
SIONERS MAY PURCHASE ALL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT
AND MATERIALS NECESSARY TO MAKE SPECIAL OR PER-
MANENT IMPROVEMENTS OR REPAIRS; AND, EXCEPT
WHERE MADE BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THEM-
SELVES, IN ALL CASES IN WHICH ANY SUCH PERMANENT
IMPROVEMENT IS MADE TO ANY OF THE MAIN COUNTY
ROADS, THE IMPROVEMENTS, EXCEPT AS HEREIN OTHER-
WISE PROVIDED, SHALL BE LET OUT ON CONTRACT. PUB-
LIC BIDS SHALL BE RECEIVED FOR THESE CONTRACTS,
AFTER DUE NOTICE, UPON SUCH TERMS AS THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS MAY PRESCRIBE. THE POWER AND
AUTHORITY TO BUILD, CONSTRUCT, WIDEN, RECON-
STRUCT AND RELOCATE COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES
IN CARROLL COUNTY IS VESTED IN THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [When a bridge costing over five
hundred dollars is to be built, a road engineer may be consulted as
to kind, character, cost and approved method of building the same
before a bid for its construction is accepted, and in event the bids
for making any special or permanent improvement or repair to any
of said roads or for building any of said bridges shall be deemed
excessive, the County Commissioners shall reject them and call for
new bids or construct the same themselves, under the supervision of
the road engineer; all expense connected with the building of bridges
costing over one hundred dollars, and the permanent improvement
of, or temporary repairs to, the main roads hereinbefore provided
for shall be paid out of the said general road fund, or if it shall be
insufficient, the deficiency shall be made up from the general funds
of the county not otherwise appropriated. In making the general
repairs to the county roads they shall require three-fourths of the
amount allotted to each road district to be expended before the 15th
of June and the balance before the 1st of November in each year,
and in case of bills coming in from any road district before the levy
is collected for the same, they may advance from the general funds
of the county enough to meet them, reimbursing the county as the
collection from such districts may be made. No bills shall be paid
unless sworn to and duly approved by the Road Commissioners for
such district.]

[329. Whenever any doubt exists as to the proper location or
width of a county road or the County Commissioners deem it ex-
pedient that the same be re-surveyed, they shall cause the same to be
surveyed by the county surveyor and a description and plat made
thereof and recorded and filed among their records. Whenever possi-
ble such description shall be made by reference to the original de-
scription of said road, when the same "was acquired, by grant or con-
demnation, if such description can be found, but if the same can not
be found, then such description and plat shall be made of said road
as actually laid out and used, the existing centre of the road being
taken for the centre of the road as re-surveyed, the width thereof as
re-surveyed, marked and plated by the surveyor, being in all cases
not less than thirty feet; upon a return of said certificate and plat,
notice shall be published in at least one newspaper in the county that
the same without objection will be confirmed at the expiration of
twenty days.]