State v. Vice
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Jackson county. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. In 1892 the board of supervisors of Jackson county, acting under § 3929, code 1892, determined to work the public roads of district three of said county by contract. Accordingly, publication was made, and the contract was awarded to M. A. Dees, he being the lowest bidder, at $4.75 per capita for all persons liable to road duty in said district. He gave boud, and proceeded to work the roads.
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From the circuit court of Jackson county. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. In 1892 the board of supervisors of Jackson county, acting under § 3929, code 1892, determined to work the public roads of district three of said county by contract. Accordingly, publication was made, and the contract was awarded to M. A. Dees, he being the lowest bidder, at $4.75 per capita for all persons liable to road duty in said district. He gave boud, and proceeded to work the roads. The appellee, Lesel Yice, was liable to road duty in said district, and, at the instance of the contractor, was .duly summoned to work…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
Section 3929, code 1892, is in these words: “The board of supervisors may determine to work the public roads, or some part thereof, by contract, and may thereafter so work the same, letting the contracts in such cases as other contracts are let by the board of supervisors, each road or division under a separate contract. But a contract to work and keep iu repair a public road shall not be made for a shorter time than two years,” etc. The statute confers authority to work by contract all the public roads, or some part of all the pub-*917lie roads less thau the whole number, and requires each road…
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