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§§ 607-610 with attendants, fuel, lights, and stationery, suitable and sufficient for the transaction of their business. If the commissioners neglect, the court may order the sheriff to do so, and the expense incurred by him in carrying the order into effect, when certified by the court, shall be county charge.

§ 607. Said board shall have authority and power, under the provisions of this chapter, to provide for the erection and repairing of court houses, jails, and other necessary buildings within and for the county, and to make contracts on behalf of the county for the building or repairing of the same; but no expenditure for the purpose herein named greater than can be paid out of the annual revenue of the county for the current year, shall be made unless the question of such expenditure shall have first been submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of such county, and shall have been approved by a majority of the votes so cast; and the board shall determine the amount and rate of taxes to be submitted to a vote for such purpose.

§ 608. After a building fund has been accumulated, either from the proceeds of the sale of town lots or from any other source, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners within one year from the time such fund becomes available, to proceed to the erection of the necessary county buildings, including a jail, if such fund shall in the judgment of the board be sufficient for that purpose.

§ 609. The board shall cause an advertisement for bids for the erection of such buildings to be printed in some newspaper published in the county, for at least three months prior to the opening of the bids, and in such other newspaper in the territory and for such period as the board may deem advisable. Such advertisement shall state where the plans and specifications may be examined, and the time allowed for the completion of such buildings, and when the bids will be opened and passed upon by the board, which must be at one of the regular sessions of the board, and must be public. The lowest responsible bid must in all cases be accepted, and the contracts for such buildings shall be so conditioned that not more than one-half of the payment for the same shall be made until the contract shall be executed and the buildings completed to the satisfaction and acceptance of the board. Said board may further require a bond to accompany each bid, conditioned that the bidder will enter into a contract, with approved security, for the performance of the work in accordance with the plans and specifications, in case his bid is accepted.

§ 610. From all decisions of the board of commissioners upon matters properly before them, there shall be allowed an appeal to the district court by any person aggrieved, upon filing a bond with sufficient penalty, and one or more sureties to be approved by the county clerk, conditioned that the appellant will prosecute his or her appeal without delay, and pay all costs the he or she may be adjudged to pay in the said district court; said bonds shall be executed to the county, and may be sued in the name of the county upon breach of any condition therein; provided, that any district attorney, upon the written demand of at least seven taxpayers of the county, shall take an appeal from any action of the board of county commissioners of any county within his district when said action relates to the interests or affairs of the county at large or any portion thereof, in the name of the proper county, when he deems it to the interest

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