The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-03-20

siOess anu the TeSluenCe OF any Olner per-
son shall be held to be where he boards, in
any road district in this state.
! SIC. 9. That the several supervisors,
within their respective districts, shall collect
by suit or otherwise all fines, forfeitures and
penalties arising and accruiDg under the
provisions of this act, unless the collection
thereof is otherwise herein provided for;
and they are hereby authorized and requir-
ed, before their settlement with the township
trustees, to prosecute to final judgment all
persons neglectiDg or refusing 10 comply
with the provisions OF this act, from whom
snch fine, forfeiture use or penalty, in the
opinion of the supervisor, can be collected
by execution: and the said judgments, if not
paid, together with the costs thereon, shall
remain and be IN force against the Judgment
debtor as other judgments at law.
SIC. 10. That the several supervisors
shall expend all moneys by them collected
for the benefit of the roads and highways in
their respective districts; and every supervi-
sOr is hereby required TO account to the
trustees of the township, at the annual set
tlement for all moneys expended under this
act and they shall also return full and
true list and statement of the names of all
persons within their respective districts who
have been ordered out to perform the two
days labor as required by this act, and thos e
who have refused or neglected to perform
the same; and all fines aud forfeitures sued
for and recovered under the provisions of
this act shall be paid over on demand by
the Justice of the peace or constable collect
ing the same to the supervisor of such road
district wherein such fine or forfeiture oc-
crued, and the sveral supervisors shall also
render an account to the trustees, at the an
nual settlement of all the moneys that re-
main in their hands at the time of settle
ment; also all judgments that remain unpaid
and the name of the judgment debtor, and
the Justice before whom such judgments
were obtained, with the amount thereof; and
the trustees shall make such order as to the
prosecution of suits by the supervisors of
the proper districts against such delinouents
as in the judgment of the trustees the inter-
est of the township may require.
SEC. ii. That all moneys that may re-
main in the hands of any supervisor at the
time of the annual settlement with the town
cessor in office as soon as such successor shall
be elected and qualified, taking a receipt
therefor, and deposit said receipt with the
township clerk. It shall be lawful for any
supervisor to sue out executions on any
judgments that remain unpaid in his dis
trict, at any time when in his opinion the
same can be collected, and the money so re-
ceived and collected shall be expended as
provided for in the foregoing section.
SIC. -. That supervisors of roads and
highways within this state be and are here
by authorized to construct foot bridges over
streams of water on said highways.
SIC. l3. That each supervisor, within
his district, shall erect and keep up at the
expense of the township, at the forks or
cross roads of every state and county road, a
post and guide board or finger board, con-
tanning an inscription in legible letters, di-
recting the way and distance to the town or
towns, or public place or places, situated on
each road respectively.
SEc. IA. That if any person shall will
fully demolish, throw down, alter or deface
any guide board at the forks or cross roads
of any public road, every person so Offend
ing shall, upon conviction thereof before any
Justice cf the peace of the proper county, be
fined in any sum not exceeding ten dollars
and costs of suit; and the money, when col
lected, shall be by the justice of the peace
or constable collecting the same, paid over
to the supervisor in whose district the Of
fense was committed, and be by him applied
to the repair of the roads and highways with
in his district.
SEc. ID. That the township trustees of
several townships within this state be and
they are hereby authorized 10 furnish plows
and scrapers for the use of the several road
districts within their townships, to be paid
for out Of any moneys in the township treas
ury not otherwise appropriated. The trus-
tees shall take a receipt from each super
visor for such implements as they may de-
liver to him, showing the number, kind and
condition thereof; aud such supervisor shall
be liable for any injury or damage that may
result 10 such implements, or any of them,
by the improper use thereof or by unneces-
sary exposure to the weather during the
time the same may be in his possession; and
he shall, on the first Monday in March, an
nually, 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. I6. That the trustees of any town
ship in this state are hereby authorized to
provide and maintain suitable places for
procuring water for persons and animals on
the public highways in their township; pro-
vided, that not more than fifty dollars shall
be expended in any township, in any one
year, for such purpose, to be paid oct any of
moneys in the township treasury not other
wise 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 and bridge
purposes, as follows: In counties where the
taxable property exceeds the sum of sixty
millions of dollars, not less than one
twentieth of a mill, nor more than FIVE
tenths of mill; in counties of thirty millions
of taxable property, and less than sixty mil
lions, not less than one-tenth of mill, nor
more than one mill; in counties of less than
thirty millions dollars taxable property, and
more than ten millions, 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, the levy shall not be less
than seven-teuths of a mill, nor more than
five mills; and the Auditor of the county
shall place the same on the tax duplicate of
the current year, to be included in and col
lec;ed 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 a,
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 fund, and shall
be entered on the duplicate of taxes for the
county, by the auditor of the county, in
separate column from the other levies for
road purposes, and shall be collec ed in
money and expended under the direction of
the commissioners ofthe county in the build
ing or repairing of bridges, or both.
SEC. is. That if the trustees of anv
township shall deem an additional road tax
necessary, they shall determine the per
centum to be levied upon the taxable prop
erty of their respective townships, not ex.
ceeding three mills on the dollar, and shall
certify the same to the county auditor in
writing, on or before the first Monday in
June in each year; and the auditor
of the county shall assess the same
on the taxable property in the township not
included in any city, town or incorporated
village, ard the same shall be collected in
the December Installment, and paid out as
ether taxes, except as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 10. That the auditor of each county,
Immediately after the county commissioners
and trustees of townships at their annual
sessions for that purpose, have determined
the amounts to be assessed for road purposes
in their respective counties and townships
shall give notice in some newspaper in gen
eral circulation in the county of the per
centum on each hundred dollars ofthe valu-
alton SO determined to be assessed in such
county and township respectively, and that
said tax may be discharged by labor on the
roads under the direction of the supervisors
of the several districts, and shall make out
list of the name of each tax payer, of the
amount of the road tax with which each
stands charged, and transmit the same to