The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-08
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.

In 1880 there was an amendment to the free
turnpike act, (and very wise one too) re-
quiring all the moneys collected on free turn
pike roads to be expended in the townships
where collected. These laws and proceed
ings under them made that portion Of the
state road between Indiana Avenue and the
south line of Freedom township free turn
pike road in the sense in which they are un-
Iderstood, and subject to the amended clause
of the free turnpike act. Major Wood is the
first man, to my knowledge, who has ever.
disputed it.
If he should attempt to expend the money
on hahd in Montgomery or Perry townships,
would there not be a dust kicked up at once |?
Yet it would be no more illegal and unjust
to do that than to do as he now proposes
to expend it in Webster township. 1t is
unlawful and wrong to do either. | believe,
on the verbal statement of the county audi
tor, it is admitted on all hands that great
deal more money has been collected in the
township Of Perrysburg than has been ex
pended therein. I think it safe to say that
in the town of Perrysburg alone, nearly as
much has been collected as has been expend-
ed IN the town and township together If
any one doubts these statements, the proof
is in the books at the auditors office.
In personal interviews that have had
with Major Wood in reference to that fund,
! [ have presented to him facts something like
| the following: That by the construction of
the McCutchensville road, water is brought
from great distance south to and emptied
into Crane Creek by the construction of a
side drain. From this side of that point
the water is taken into the main branch of
Grassy Creek, cutting across the south branch
near South Boundary street, and carrying its
water along. That in high water, the road
near South Boundary street and adjoining
land are overfowed. That Crane Creek some
times rises so high as to empty its waters by
the way of the road bitches into GrassyCreek
and that the waters in Grassy Creek at the
lands and even run in the road bitches into
Third street in Perrysburg. That near the
school house the road has very much settled
and the bitches become partly filled up, so
that stagnant water remains there some time
after a rain, to the detriment Of the health
of the near Inhabitants. / have solicited
him to repair the road near the school house
and at Grassy Creek to make side drain
near South Boundary street, (probably along
the south side of the street is the proper
place sufficient to carry off the proper share
: of water that should be discharged down the
south branch. have also called his atten-
ton to the necessity of extending the outlet
down Crane Creek. have done this to show
him the necessity of using the money on
hand in Perrysburg township, and acquaint
him with our wants. TO all of which he
replied as have above stated.
) One of the Majors special pleas why he
= should not make side drain at South Boun-
Diary street is, that it will cost three or five
; hundred dollars to do it. If he is in earnest
in that assertion, he is either not familiar
, with the cost of that kind of work, or is en-
tirely unacquainted with the ground. One
! hundred dollars will accomplish all that is
/ required for that place.
BY way of special plea, he again says, thai
no loss has accrued by his delay in not let
ting out jobs before this time, because the
summer has been so wet that no work could
: have been done. This plea is like the Tex
= e l. l.