The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-15
April

mo. .174] AN ACT
For the relief of the holders of orders issued
by Free Turnpike Road Companies.
Sec. l.. Be It enacted Gy the General as
sens5ly of the State Of Ohio, That whenever
the right Of any free turnpike road company
to levy special road taxes to pay the orders is
sued by it, as provided in its act of incorpora-
ton, or by acts amendatory thereof or supple
mentary thersto, shall cease, or in case said
right to levy such tax has already ceased leav-
ing outstanding orders unpaid, and their pay
ment unprovided for, it shall be the dutyof the
commissioner of such road company, immediate
" to make out and deliver to the auditor of
the county, in which such road or any part
thereof shall be situated, a complete and per
feet list of all outstanding orders of said road
company, for the payment of which they have
no funds or means of payment, with a descrip-
ton of each of said orders, as to date, amount,
rate of interest (f on interest), and when pay
able. Said list shall be verified by said COM
missioners, and the county auditor shall lay
the sam: before the county commissioner at
their next regular session thereafter.
Sec. 2. At any regular session of tie
county commissioner at which a certified list
of free turnpike road orders shall have been
laid before them, as provided in the hrst sec
ton of this act, ;t shall be the duty or SAID
county commissioners Immediately to proceed
dSceTLslH tue dESECSdLS dmOuh1t VI SoO -
ders including interest, and adding thereto an
amount sufficient to pay the expense of assess
ment and collection, to cause the same to be as
sessed upon the same lands and town lots ada
cent to and lying near said free turnpike road,
as were subject to taxation for the construction
of said road or to pay for the same, at the time
when by the expiration of its charter, or 9th
erWise,Tsthe right to tax such land and town
lots ceased. Eaid amount shall be assessed
mann ar1ab@ landa and rnWr Lotto oaoor1inn IN
their true value in money, as shown bytheir
valuation Fcontained in the county duplicate;
and whenever by the laws in force Immediate
" preceding the time when the right to levy
taxes for the benefit Of any such road ceased,
different rates of taxation were authorized upon
the lands adjacent TO or lying near any such
road, according to their proximity to such road,
the amount authorized to be levied by this act
shall be so assessed upon those lands, as to pre-
serve the same relative proportions between
the taxes on the several tracts as formerly:
provided, that said county commissioner may.
in their discretion divide the aggregate OF such
indebtedness into installments not exceeding
FIVE in number, and order that one of those in
stallments be assessed and collected annually
the amount so assessed shall be collected in
the same manner as state and county taxes.
Sec. 3. Immediately after the settlement
of the county treasurer with the county audi
tor In~AuguStt OF aSy year next a1ter tnaL III
which any assessment has been made, as here
in provided, to pay the indebtedness of any
free turnpike company, the county auditorshall
proceed to ascertain the net amount of money
collected on account of the indebtedness Of
such free turnpike road company; and if the
amount so collected is sufficient to pay the
whole. of such Indebtedness, he shall proceed
to pay all orders of said road company on pre-
sentation, by his warrants drawn on the county
treasurer parable OFT cf the proper fund, and
shall cancel said orders and keep them on file
in his Office, but if the ma; anssEnt SO collected
shall be sufficient to pay said orders in full, or
said amount of Indebtedness shall have been
ordered to be collected in observation-disclosures,
the county auditor shall divide tie net amount
collected pro. rata among the holders of said
orders, taking up and cancelling the original
orders, and issuing new orders for the balances
unpaid. s
Sec. Whenever any free turnpike road
hall have been finished according to law with
an outstanding debt unproyided for, and the
right to levy special taxes for the benefit Of
such road shall not have ceased, such special
taxes, when collected shall be applied exclu-
sively to the payment of such Debt, till the
same shall be paid in full.
Sec. S. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate.
Anrsl . 1870