Pennsylvania Act 1921-404 — HIGHWAYS, REIMBURSEMENTS TO CONTRACTORS

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HIGHWAYS, REIMBURSEMENTS TO CONTRACTORS
                 Act of May 24, 1921, P.L. 1102, No. 404              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and empowering the several counties of this
        Commonwealth to reimburse and pay highway contractors under
        road construction contracts entered into between said
        counties and such contractors, approved by the State Highway
        Department prior to the order of the Interstate Commerce
        Commission of the United States of America of the twenty-
        ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty,
        increasing railroad freight rates, the additional amount of
        freight charges required to be paid by such contractors by
        reason of such increase in rates.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the several counties of
     this Commonwealth shall have the power and they are hereby
     authorized, by resolution of the county commissioners or a
     majority of them, to reimburse and pay to contractors, in
     addition to the contract price, on account of the improvement of
     any highways, within the respective limits of said counties,
     under contracts between said counties and such contractors
     approved by the State Highway Department prior to the order of
     the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States of
     America, increasing railroad freight rates, made the twenty-
     ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the
     additional or excess amount of freight charges necessary to the
     performance of such contracts occasioned by said increase of
     freight rates.
        Section 2.  In the case of all such contracts still in course
     of performance, such reimbursement and payment may be made from
     time to time during the progress of the work.