The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-04-02

terest Of the township may require.

pervisor at tho time OF the annual
settlement with the township trus-
tees, shall be paid over to his sue
cessor in office as socn as such sue
oessor shall be elected aud qualiiod,
taking receipt therefor, aud deposit
said receipt with the township clerk
1t shall be lawful for any supervisor
to suo out executions on any judg
ments that remain unpaid in his dis
trict, at any time when in his opinion
the same can be collected, aud tho
money so received aud collected shall
be expended as provided for in tho
foregoing section.
SIC. II. That supervisors Of
roads aud highways within this State
be aud are hereby authorised to con.
struot foot bridges over streams of
water on said highways.
SEC, 10. That each supervisor,
within his district, shall erect and
keep up at the expense of the town.
ship, at the forks or cross roads of
every State aud county road, post
and guide board or finger board, con
taining an inscription in legible let
ters, directing the way and distance
to the town or towns, or public place
or places, situated on each road re-.
spectively.
SEC. II. That If any person shall
willfully demolish, throw down, alter
or de(ace any guild board at the forks
or cross roads of any public road,
every person so offending shall, upon
conviction thereof before any justice
of the peace of the proper county,
be fined in any sum not exceeding
ten dollars and costs of suit; and the
money. when collected, shall b, by the
Justice Of the peace or constable col
lecting the same, paid over to the
supervisor in whose district the Of
fenso was committed, and be by him
applied to the repair of tho roads
aud highways within his district.
SEC. 10. That the township trus.
tees of several townships within this
State be and they are hereby author
lied to furnish plows aud scrapers
for the use of the several road dis
tricts within their townships, to be
paid for out of any moneys in the
township treasury not otherwise ap.
propriatcd. The trustees shall take
a receipt from each supervisor for
such implements as they may deliver
to him, showing the number, kind
and condition thereof and such su
2ervisor shall be liable for any in
'ury or damage that may result TO
SUCH i,Nploments, or any of them, by
the improper use thereof or by un
necessary exposure to the weather
during the tirc the same may be in
h,s possession; anG he shall, on the
first Monday in March, annually,
return the same to said trustees. The
amount for which such supervisor
may be liable for such improper use
or neglect, may be recovered by
action in the name of the trustees.
SEC. l6. That the trustees of any
township in this State are hereby au.
thorizcd to provide and maintain
suitable places for procuring water
for persons aud animals on the public
highways in their township: provided,
that not more than fifty dollars shall
be expended in any township, in any
one year, for such purpose, to be paid
out of any moneys in the township
treasury not otherwise appropriated
SEC. II. That the Commissioners
of the respective counties in this
State are hereby authorized to levy,
at the March session of their board
annually, for the road aud bridge
purposes, as follows; In counties
where the taxable: property exceeds
the sum of sixty millions Of dollars.
not less than one twentieth Of u mill,
nor moro than five ,tepths of mill;
in counties of thirty millions of taxa.
bic property, aud less than sixty mil
lions, not less than Que tenth Of a
mill, nor more than cue mill; 10 c5uu
ties of less thal thirty millions dol
lars taxah.e property. and more than
ten Eillion, not less than two tenths
of mill, nor more than two mills in
counties where the taxable property
is less than ten millions, and over FIVE
millions of dollars, not less than
seven .tenths of mill, nor more
than three mills; in counties where
the taxable property is less than FIVE
millions of dollars, tho levy shall moi
be less than seven. .teuths of a mill
nor more than FIVE mill; and the
Auditor of the county shall place the
same on the tax duplicate of the cur
rent year, to be included in and coll
lected in the December installment Of
taxes except as hereinafter provided
And the county commissioners shall
set apart such portion of the road tax
by them levied as they may deem
proper to be applied to the building
or repairing of bridges in their re-
spectiye counties, which proportion
so set apart shall be called bridge
luuuf uuu ohdll NC cHAcItu Ou tHt
duplicate Of taxes for the comfy, by
the auditor of the county, in a sepa
rate column from the other levies fol
road purposes, and shall be collected
in money aud expended under the
direction of the commissioners Of the
county in the building or repairing
/ of hridOas. or both
SEC. lS. That if the trustees O.
any township shall deem au addition
al road tax necessary, they shall de-
termin the per eentum to be leyieC
upon the taxable property Of thei
respective townships, not exceeding
three mills on the dollar, and shal
certify the same to the county audi
tor in writing, on or before tie frs
Monday in June in each year; Que
the auditor Of tine county shall asses
the same on the taxable property il
the township not included in an.
city, town or incorporated village, an'
the same shall DO collected in The De