The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-29

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over one mile distant from each township.
Now will admit that Esq. Way can match
most men in his t,vistifcution8, but how he
can tWist the McCutchensvlle road in op-
pOslte directions 50 as to throw an angleout
into both townships, for the purpose Of hav-
ing the funds that are collected in them
worked out there. is problem that presume
no man except Mr.. Way can solve.
The idea OF treating the road as free turn
pike is an absurdity, the pretence is ridcu-
IouS, and every lawyer in Ohio would laugh
al such decision. Mr.. Way says am the
first person who has denied that the Nc
Cutchensville road was free turnpike. Adj
mitted, for he is the first man (and now for
the first time) to my knowledge. that has
claimed it to be- such. The present auditor
has been in office nearly four years, and he
has not heard word in all that time from
any man pretending that such was the case.
Esq. Gorriil was elected commissioner in 81
and has had charge of the McCutchensville
road until last fall, and has never heard Mr..
Way or any other man claim that it was a
free turnpike until now. The funds have
always been expended along the whole road
wherever most needed without pretence
from any quarter that it was not legal and
just. After Mr.. Way has looked on and
seen the money expended as it has been since
1880 up to the present time without saying
anght against it, it is with bad grace that
he now pounceS upon me- as he does because
intend to dispose of the funds as they al
ways have been. Admitting for the sake Of
illustration, that the McCutchensville road
is "a free turnpike, according to the meaning
and intent of that law, and Mr.. Way is still
wrong; the principle that he advocates is
not only wrong, but if carried into effect
would do an injury to Perrysburg, and be an
act of great Injustice to the tax payers along
the McCutch.nsville road outside Of Perrys
burg township. Mr.. Way claims that all
the McCutchonsville road fund now in the
treasury, amounting to some 1871, in law
and justice belongs wholly to PerrySburg
township. The corporation has not been
taxed for that fund, and OF the 1871, Perrvs-
burg township has paid bat 1904 O5, the bal
ance has been collected from Webster, Troy,
Center and Freedom townships. Now Mr.
Way wants me to violate that Uerv Just law
of his, that he claims governs the road, by
expending oil the funds in Perrysburg town
ship, when in fact it is only entitled to 800 t.
I05 if the road is treated as free turnpike
To expand all the fund in Perrysburg town
ship and leave the balance of the road un-
touched, the consequence would be, that ex-
cept some five or six miles of the road from
Perrysburg out to the township line, would
become impossible. 1t would destroy the
very communication between the country
and the town which the citiz9ns of Pertys-
burg have exerted themselves so much to
make. 1t would prevent the farmers and
millers living in this section Of the county
from carrying their produce and lumber to
market, thus imposing loss upon them as well
as greatly injuring the trade and prosperity
of Perrysburg, With man Of Mr.. Way S
sagacity, it is not probable that he is honest
in advocating such a course. lam the more
convinced of that fact from what he has
said to different individuals in private con-
versaton, and that he has other objects IN
view, of selfish and revengeful character,
in pursuing the course he has. He said to
Esq Gorrill that if would come to him
and agree to expend some $500 just rUhere he