The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-06-13
rGurnpike RooSs.
Free Turnpike Law.


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AN ACT TO authorize tho Comfy co,nmissonors
70 lay out and establ! IN free turnpike roads, and
to repeal certain acts therein named. ~.
Z SEcrtoN L. BE q enacted by ths
General Assembly of he State Of Ohio,
That after the passage of this act,
free turnpike roads shall be author.
lied, and commissioners appointed to
lay out and establish the Same in the
following manner, to.wit: When a
majority of all the resident landhold-
ers residing in the bounds of any free
turnpike, as provided IL this act,
shall present petition to the board
Of county commissioners, at any reg
u,ar session Of their board, asking
the appointment Of commissioners to
lay out aud establish FREQ turnpike
road between any points within such
county, aud shall satisfy such com.
missioners that public notice has been
given by advertisement in some news.
paper Of general circulation in such
county, of such intended application,
for at least four consecutive weeks
preceding such general meeting, said
commissioners shall appoint three ju-
dicious freeholders Of the county to
be commissioners of such free turn
pike road, who, by the name fixed by
said county commissioners, shall be o
body corporate, for the purpose of
laying out and establishing a free
turnpike road between the points
within such county named by the said
commissioners; such appointmcntand
points in, said road shall be entered
upon the minutes of said board of
county commissioners, and certified
copy Of such entry furnished to such
road commissioners on demand.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners
shall meet within three months after
their appointment, aud organize by
choosing one of their number presi-
dent Of said board; they shall then
take measures to view, locate and es-
tablish such roads; and of all such
locations they shall file a copy with
the auditor of the county in which
said road is located; provided, that
said commissioners, before entering
upon their duties, shall severally give
bond in such sum, and with such
security, as the county commissioners
of the county in which such road is
located, and to whom such bond may
be presented for approval, shall think
proper, and shall moreover eath take
an oath faithfully and, honestly to
discharge the duties required Of hin
by law.
SEC. 3. That the commissions
named in this act shall have power tC
appoipta superintendent. OF superiu
tendents, aud such other agents as
they may deem necessary to carry in
to effect the provisions of this act; I
majority of said commissioners shal
be quorum, having power to trans
act any business aud exercise any
power devolving upon or entrusted
to them by this act; and they shall
keep record Of their proceedings
which shall at all times be open foI
inspection by any person interested
or desiring to inspect the same.
SEC. 4. The com mmissioners shall
have power to receive subscriptions
and donations in money or property
real or personal, which shall be ap-
piled TO the constru ,tion of said road
they may make contracts for cons
tructing the same in solid and dura
bic manner, and keeping the same il
repair; they may open aud finish saiC
road, in the first instance, along suct
portions of the line thereof available
for travel er transportation, and they
shall have power 10 purchase anc
procure all necessary implements anc
fixtures to preserve said road; and the
said commissioners shall have the
power to contract for and purchase
such stone, gravel or other materia
as may be necessary for the construc
ton aud keeping in repair said road
and If the commissioners and the own
ers of such stone, gravel or other ma
terial cannot agree on price deemed
fair and reasonable, the commissioner
may apply to the judge of thelprobatt
court Of the county to appoint ap-
praisers to assess the value of sale
atone, gravel or other material, anC
on the fling of such application i
shall be the duty of such probate
Judge of the county 10 appoint thre,
\ disiuterested freeholders, who, afte
being duly sworn to impartially as
sess the value Of said materials, o.
any part of the same, shall enter up
on the premises Of the owner or own
e;s Of said materials, and assess th,
1 value thereof; they shall blso asses
the damages that viii accrue 10 tn
owner or owners Of said material b,
the removing of the same through hi
premises; the appraisers shall, within
ten days alter their appointment, re
4 turn theiraward to the probate court
the probate judge shall require th
said commissioners to pay for or Civ
security for the payment Of all mate
rials 10 DO taken, aud damages don