Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-07-08

supply the several parts of the road thus
destroyed or injured and the SAID trus-
tees and surveyor shall make report Of
their doings, in the manner pointed out
as the duty of the viewer and surveyor,
in the fourth section of the act for open
ing and regulating roads and highways,
passed March 18th, 1881 and the au-
ditor and commissioners of the proper
county, shall be governed in the recep-
ton and recording of said report, as is
prescribed in the aforesa act: Proud
ed, That any person or persons, through
whose lands such alteration or new road
shall be laid out, shall feel injured there
by, may apply to the county commits
sioners for redress, in the manner point
ed out in the sixth section of the above
recited act.
Sec. l2. That the surveyors shall re-
ceive for each day they are necessarily
employed, under the provisions of the
eleventh section Of this act, the following
compensation, to wit: surveyor one dol
lar and fifty cents, to be paid out of the
county treasury, on the order Of the
county auditor; and the trustees seven
ty-fve cents, to be paid out of the town.
ship treasury on the order Of the town.
ship clerk.
Sec. 13. That if any person or per-
sons shall feel aggrieved by any super
visor's cutting or carrying away any
timber or stone for repairing any road,or
bridge or cross ways, they make COM
plant thereoft to the county commission
ers of the proper county, at any regular
meeting, within six months after the
cause Of such complaint shall exist :; and
the commissioners shall appoint three
disinterested freeholders of the county,
whose duty it shall be, after having ta-
ken an oath or affirmation to discharge
their duty faithfully and impartially, to
proceed and examine the matter CON-
planned of by the complainant, and as
sess and determine the damages, if any
and they shall report the same, in writ
ing, to the commissioners, at their next
meeting thereafter, who shall cause the
amount aforesaid to be paid to the COM
painant, out of the county treasury ;
but if, upon view, the said freeholders
should be of opinion that there is no
grievance, or cause OF complaint, then
the person or persons, so complaining
shall pay the costs thereof.
Sec. ID. That each supervisor with
in his district, shall erect and keep up
at the expense of the township, at the
forks of every State and county road
a post and guide board, or finger board
containing an inscription in legible let.
ters, directing the way and distance, tc
the town or towns,or public'place or pla.
ces, situated on each road respectively.
Sec. Is. That if any person shall
wilfully demolish throw down, alter or
deface any mile board or guide board
or at the fork of any public road, every
person so offending shall, upon convic-
ton thereof, before any justice of the
proper county, be fined in any sum not
exceeding Ten dollars, with cost of suit /;
and the money, so collected, shall be by
the justice ofthe peace or constable COL
lecting the same, paid over to the super
visor, in whose district the offence was
committed, and be appropriated to the
repair of roads and highways, agreeably
to the provisions Of this act.
Sec. l6 That any person charged
with road tax on the grand levy, may,
either personally or by an agent, dis
charge the same by labor, to be perform
ed on the road. within the proper dis
trict within that township where such
tax may be charged, by an able bodied
man, at the rate Of seventy-fve cents for
each days work, and rateable proper
ton per day for any team furnished by
such person which labor shall be per-
formed under the direction of the SUI per.
visor ofhighways in such township, and
within the proper district and it shall
be the duty Of such supervisor to give to
any person for whose benefit such labor
was performed, a certificate to the am
mount of such labor, which certificate
shall specify the amount Of tax so paid
in labor, and the district and township
wherein such labor was performed; AL
so, that the said work was done between
the first day of April and the first day
Of October; which certificate shall in no
case be available for any greater sum
than shall be charged against such per-
son, in the district where such labor
was performed; and the treasury shall
receive such certificates as money, in
he discharge of such road tax.
Sec. II. That the supervisors of the
highways of the several Districts shall