etc. Advertise for bids, when. Contract of successful bidder. 4. To lay out, maintain, control, erect and manage Lay out roads, public roads, turnpikes, ferries and bridges within the county; Provided, Where the cost of the erection of any bridge exceeds the sum of two hundred dollars, ther must advertise for bids, together with plans and specifications, strain sheets, and working details thereof. and shall let the contract therefor upon the plans adopted by them, which shall be attached to and made a part of such contract. And the person or corpor ation whose plans are adopted, and to whom the contract is awarded, shall be required to execute a bond. to be approved by said board, for the faithful performance of such contract; Provided, further, That the public highway board shall not change or alter the location of any public highway that has had public money, or poll tax expended upon it, unless a petition signed by a majority of the freeholders of the precinct ask for such change, nor shall they declare any road not a public highway that has had money appropriated and expended upon it by act of the Legislature of the Territory or State of Utah, without the consent of the Legislature. Changing, etc., gent, sick, etc. 5. To provide for the care and maintenance of the Care for indi- indigent sick or otherwise dependent poor of the county; erect, officer and maintain hospitals and poorhouses, in their discretion, or otherwise provide for the same; and for such purposes to levy the necessary property or poll tax, or both, therefor; Provided, The board of county commissioners shall appoint (not let to the lowest bidder) some suitable person or persons to take care of and maintain such hospitals and poorhouses, and the board shall also appoint (not let to the lowest bidder) some suitable graduate in medicine to attend such indigent sick or otherwise dependent poor. Farm at hospital, etc. 6. To provide a farm, in connection with the county hospital, or poorhouse, and make regulations for working the same. 7. When there are no necessary county buildings. Provide rooms to provide suitable rooms for county purposes. for county pur poses. Obtain real or personal prop erty or water rights for county. Sprinkling. Storage of water, pumping, etc. 8. To purchase, receive by donation, or lease any real or personal property or water rights necessary for use of the county, and to purchase or otherwise acquire the necessary real estate upon which to sink wells to obtain water for sprinkling roads, and other county purposes, and to erect thereon tanks and reservoirs for the storage of water for such purposes, and to erect pumping apparatus for obtaining the same, to pre tention to pur serve, take care of, and manage, and control the same; but no purchase of real property may be made unless a notice of the intention of the board to Notice of inmake such purchase, describing the property to be chase real purchased, the price to be paid therefor, from whom estate. it is proposed to be purchased, and fixing the time when the board will meet to consummate such purchase, shall be published for at least three weeks in some newspaper of general circulation, published in the county; or if none be published in the county, then by posting such notices at least three weeks prior to the time when the board will meet to consummate such purchase, in at least five public places in the county. or repair county erected by con 9. To cause to be erected, repaired or re-built and Erect, rebuild furnished, a courthouse, jail, hospital and such other buildings. public buildings as may be necessary; Provided, That none of the aforesaid buildings shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications shall have been made therefor and adopted by the board. All Buildings to be such buildings must be erected by contract, let to the tract. lowest responsible bidder, after notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in such county, for at least twenty days; Provided, That the board of county commissioners may reject any or all bids. In case there is no newspaper published in such county, then such notice shall be given by posting in at least five public places in the county. property not county use. 10. To sell at public auction, at the courthouse Sell county door, after thirty days' previous notice, given either required for by publication in a newspaper published in the county or if no paper is published in the county by posting in five public places in the county, and convey to the highest bidder, for cash, any property belonging to the county, no longer required for public use, paying the proceeds into the county treasury for the use of the county. Provided, That the board of county commis- Give quit claim sioners may permit any person to redeem from any tax erty sold for sale, after a deed of the property sold has been made deemed after to the county, upon payment of all taxes, interest and county. costs, and when such redemption is made, the board shall cause a quit claim deed of such property to be made to the person so redeeming. deed to prop taxes and re title passes to audit accounts 11. To examine, and audit, at least every six Examine and months, the accounts of all officers having the care, of officers. management, collection or disbursement of moneys be longing to the county, or appropriated by law, or otherwise for its use and benefit. 12. To settle and allow all accounts legally chargeSettle accounts able against the county, after the examination of the same by the auditor and order warrants to be drawn on the county treasurer therefor. against county. Levy taxes. Submit tax levy to voters. 13. To levy taxes upon taxable property of their respective counties for all county purposes. To levy taxes upon the taxable property of any district, for the construction and repairs of roads and highways and other district purposes; Provided, That no tax shall be levied upon any district until the proposition to levy the same has been submitted to the qualified electors, property taxpayers of such district at a general election and received two-thirds of all the legal votes cast upon such proposition. 14. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county having an outstanding indebtedness on the ness by issuing fourth day of January, 1896, evidenced by bonds or Fund and refund indebted bonds. warrants thereof, by an affirmative vote of all the members thereof are empowered, if they deem it for the public interest, to fund and refund the same and issue bonds of the county therefor in sums not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each, having not more than twenty years to run, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form: No- The county of, in the State of Form of bond. Utah, for value received, promises to payor order, at the office of the treasurer of said county. in -on the first day of hundred and (twenty years after date), or at any time before that date and after (ten years after date), at the pleasure of the county, the sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States, with interest at the rate of per cent per annum, payable at the office of said treasurer, semi-annually, on the first day of——— and- -in each year, on presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached. This bond is issued by the board of county commissioners, in conformity to a resolution of said board, dated the day of and under authority conferred upon said board by the provisions of an act of the Legislature of Utah, entitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of County Government," approved (insert date of approval of this act. hundred and In testimony whereof, the said county, by its board of county commissioners, has caused this bond to be signed by the chairman of the board, and attested by the county clerk, with his seal attached, this day of—eighteen hundred and Chairman of the board of county commissioners. Attest:County Clerk. And the interest coupons shall be in the following Interest form: The treasurer of the holder hereof, on the hundred and county, Utah, will pay to -day of at his office in lawful money, for interest on county bond No Attest: Chairman of board of county commissioners. coupons. receive and dis value and ac (b) Whenever bonds issued under this section Treasurer to shall be duly executed, numbered consecutively, and pose of bonds. sealed, they shall be delivered to the county treasurer, and his receipt taken therefor, and he shall stand charged on his official bond with all bonds delivered to him and the proceeds thereof, and he shall sell the same or exchange the same under the direction of the board of county commissioners, on the best available terms, for any legal indebtedness of the County outstanding on the 4th day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, but in neither case for a less Not to be sold sum than the face value of the bonds and all interest at less than face accrued on them at the date of such sale or exchange; crued interest. and if any portion of such bonds are sold for money the proceeds thereof shall be applied exclusively for the payment of liabilities existing against the county at and before the date above named. When they are ex- In exchange, changed for bonds or warrants or other legal evidences warrants to be of county indebtedness, the treasurer shall at once proceed to cancel the old bond and such other evidences of indebtedness by stamping on the face thereof the amount for which they were received, the word "cancelled," and the date of cancellation. He shall also Record. keep a record of bonds sold or exchanged by him, by number, date of sale, amount, date of maturity, the name and postoffice address of purchasers, and, if exchanged, what evidence of indebtedness was received therefor; which record shall be open at all times for old bonds or cancelled. to give notice of transfer. port of bonds. Holder of bond inspection by the public. Whenever the holder of any bond shall sell or transfer it, the purchaser shall notify the treasurer of such sale or transfer, giving at the same time the number of the bonds transferred and his postoffice address and every transfer shall be noted on Treasurer's re. the record. The treasurer shall also report, under oath, to the board, semi-annually, a statement of all bonds sold or exchanged by him since the preceding report, and the date of such sale or exchange, and. when exchanged, a list or description of the county indebtedness exchanged therefor, and the amount of a‹crued interest received by him on such sale or exchange, which latter sum shall be charged to him as money received by him on bond fund, and so entered by him on his books; but such bonds shall not be sold or exchanged for any indebtedness of the county, except by the approval of the board of county commisBonds sold after sioners of said county. No sale shall be made of any such bonds except to the highest bidder, after advertising bids for the purchase of the same for not less than three weeks in at least one newspaper published in the county, if there be a newspaper published in the county, and if not, then in some newspaper of general circulation published in the State, the right being reserved in such advertisement to reject any and all such bids. advertising. outstanding terest. (c) The board of county commissioners shall cause Levy of tax for to be assessed and levied each year, upon the taxable bonds and in- property of the county, in addition to the levy authorized for other purposes, a sufficient tax to pay the interest on outstanding bonds issued in conformity with the provisions of this act, accruing before the next annual levy; in the tenth year after the issue of such bonds and in each year thereafter a tax sufficient to pay one-tenth of the total amount of bonds issued: and the moneys arising from such levies shall be known as the bond fund, and shall be used for the payment of bonds and interest coupons, and for no other purpose whatever; and the treasurer shall open and keep in his books a separate and special account thereof, which shall at all times, show the exact condition of said bond fund. Bond fund. (d) Whenever, after ten years from the date of the bond, the amount in the hands of the treasurer, belonging to the bond fund after setting aside the sum required to pay the interest maturing before the next |
