Southern Prison Co. v. Rennels

JACKSON, Justice.

The record shows that the commissioners’ court of Wilbarger county, at a reg* ular session thereof, ordered notices to be published advising that the court would receive bids from contractors to improve, remodel, and rebuild the jail of said county.

Notices were duly published and, among other things, contained this clause: “Attention- of bidders is directed to the provision of H. B. 54 passed by the Forty-third Legislature in its regular session requiring that not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which…