The said commissioners maintaining the roads may, in case of emergency, repair such roads and bridges and keep the same in a proper state of repair without waiting until due advertisement shall be made; however, the amount so expended by them shall not in any one instance exceed the sum of Two Hundred Fifty dollars ($250.00).Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 7176; 1930, § 6450; 1942, § 8400; Laws, 1914, ch. 176; Laws, 1920, ch. 277.
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