The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-04-10
NEW ADVERTIsEMENTs
Report Of Ihs Commissioners Of Wood County, Ohio,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
September 2, A. ID. 1867.
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PrRRTsBURo, March Is, 1903.
To hon. A. s.. Laay, Common Pleas Judge, Third
SoDicisioa Third judicial Disirict Of 0lio,
The Commissioners OF Wood County beg leave
70 present this their Annual Report Of Official
transactions during the year ending September 2,
1861. This Report should have been placed be
fore your Honorable Court Al its last session, but
a season Of unusual activity in laying out new
bitches and examining the work upon the numcr-
Gus already under construction, together with
the new aud perplcxiUg duties pressing upon us
under the law for the improvement Of County
Roads, 80 completely engrussed the time could
devote 10 official business, that we were obliged to
ask and obtain an extension of time fot the max
ing OF our Report.
We can give but mere abstract In this Report
Of our official acts. When Il Is known that we
have over one hundred several and distinct funds
in our coHnty to look after, being so many differ
ent purposes for which money ia Ia be expended
and 70 which our official action Is to be directed,
II will be apparent NJ once that detail more than
Is found in our Financial Statement, hereto APP
pended, would prove 80 yoluminous to bo i'm
practicable.
During the time embraced in this Report, we
have ordered the opening and establishment Of
nine ( 81 county roads. These have been estab-
llshed without expense to the county other than
that involved in the payment Of fees TO Surveyor
and viewers, except in one instance where
deemed the road of sufficient public Importance n
justify an order that One-half tho damages
sesscd, amounting 10 thirty-twO and half dollars,
be paid from the county treasury
Two county roads have been ordered vacated
during the year.
In the same period we have ordered the opening
and construction of twenty zone t2l) dit ches drains
or water-courscs, making aggregate length Of
ut least ioY miles, which will aflurd, when COM
pleted, 1t Is safe to estimate, good drainage to
thirty-twO thousand acres ot land, which is now
inperlectly drained, if drained at all.
Under the law passed March -, 1906, and the
amcndaiory law passed April 49,, 1867, n0lhoriz-
ing the improvement of cnunty roads by the Com
missioncrs Of tho county, upon petitiuh Of major
ity Of the resident lnndholders whose lands are to
be affected, we have ordered the Improvement Of
six roads by ditcling aud urnpiking, uggrcgating
twcnty-six miles in length, at an estimated cost oi
thirty eight thousand dollars. The greater part
Of the work Of i'm .rovcm ,ni on these roads is al
ready completed. The view and survey Of three
other county roads, with q view TO similar i'm
provemcnt, have been ordered.
We have built and repaired bridges exceeding
fifty dollars in value, to the number oi fifty. The
arcnunt Of the money thus expended, together
with that lei un Ter our direct control, upon
the roads of the county, vii! be found under the
proper titles in thc appended Financial Statement.
At the election for Township 0,haers. hud on
the first Monday Of April 1867, the people of the
county, by vote, authorized us to make sufficient
levy to purchase farm for Poor purposes aud t.
erect thereon suitable lnRrmory buildings. Under
this authorization we made lcvy of nine thnul-
and dollars, to be placed ON the Duplicate of 1867,
aud purchased farm of one bundled and sixty
acres, CONTRACTING u pay tleIe'nrthc sum seven
thousand dollars. Un this farm Is q dwelling
house, barn aud out-houscs, that, with few addi-
tiOns and alterations, involving nO heavy expense
may be made to answer all the purposes Of lniirm-
airy buildings for several years. Possession of
the premises is to be given by the first Of April
1868.
The following are the leves made for the year
1887