The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-04-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Report Of th, Commissioners Of Wood Comfy, Ohis,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
September 2, A. ID. 1867.
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PERRYsBUR0, March IS, 1868. I

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PgRRYsBuR0, March IS, 1858. !
TO Hon. A. s.. EaRy, Oomsson Ptsas Judge, Third
Sabdipision Third Judicial District Of Ohio!
The Commissioners Of Wood Coupty beg leave
to present this their Annual Report Of official
transactions during the year ending September q
1867. This Report ahould have been placed be
fore your Honorable Court Al its last session, but
a season Of unusual activity in laying out new
bitches and examiuing the work upon the numer-
ous already under construction, together with
the new aud PerplexiDg duties pressing upon us
under the law for the improvement Of County
Roads, 40 completely engrossed the time we could
devote 10 official business, that we were obliged 10
ask and obtain an extension Of tune for the max
ing Of our Report
Of our official acts. When II Is known that we
have over one hundred several and distinct funds
in our county 10 look after, being many differ
ent purposes for which money Is to be expended
and to which our official action Is to be directed
II will be apparent At once that detail more than
Is found in our Financial Statement, hereto APP
pended, would prove so yolumnous as to be inn
practicable.
During the time embraced in this Report, we
have ordered the opening and establishment OF
niue 81 county roads. These have been estab-
lshed without expense TO the county other than
that involved in the payment Of fees to Surveyor
aud viewers, except ia one instance where we
deemed the road Of sufficient public Importance n
luStity an Order tnht One-nhlI Tue uNUdkth as
sessed amounting TO 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 (2i) diches drains
or water courses, making aggregate length OF
ut least fifty miles, which will afford, when COM
pleted IL is safe To estimate, good drainage tn
thirty-twO thousand acres of land, which is now
imperfectly drained, f drained at all.
Under the law passed March -, 1866, and the
amendalory law passed April -, 1867, authoriS-
ing the improvement Of county roads by the Com
missioncrs Of the county, upon petition nf major
ity of the resident landhOlders whose lnndsare To
be affected, we have ordered the improvement ot
six roads by ditchng aud turnpiking, aggregating
twcnty-sx miles in length at an estimated cost ol
thirty eight thousand dollars. The greater part
of the work Of i'm rOvcmeni on these roads is al
ready completed. The view and survey OF three
other county roads, with a view to similar i'm
provcmcnt, have been ordered.
We have built and repaired bridges exceeding
Fifty dlllars in value, to the number OF hity. The
account of the money thus expended, together
with that expended under our direct control, upon
the roads OF the county, vii! be found under tho
proper titles in thI appended Financial Statement.
At the election for Township 01icers, held on
the first Monday Of April, 1867, the people Of the
county by vote, authorized us to make sufficient
levy to purchase a farm for Poor purposes and t.
erect thereon Suitable lniirmary buildings. Under
this Nuthorizai m we made levy OF nine thous-
and dollars, to be placed on the Duplicate Of 1867,
and purcharci farm of one hundred and sixty
acres contracting to pay therefor the sum Of seven
THOUSAND dollars. On this farm is dwelling
house, barn and nut-h0uses, that, with few addi-
tions aud alterations, involving no heavy expense,
may be made To answer all the purposes Of lnGrm-
AIRY buildings for several years. Possession Of
the premises is to be given by the first OF April
1868.
The following are the levics made for the year
1867