Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-05-20

shall have full control Of all such
roads as are herein provided for
within his township, and shall keep
them in good repair, smooth, and
in good cor dition for all kinds of
public travel, and for this purpose
shall have all the powers and priyi.
leges of road supervisors as to
drainage and for the removing and
procuring of material for repair;
also to make contracts for repairs
from time to time, either for day or
job work, certifying the same, with
amounts due under any such con
tracts, to the township clerk, who,
on the order Of the township trus-
tees, shall issue an order to the
township treasurer for the amount
so certified, or such part thereof as
shall be allowed by the township
trustees, in favor of the party to
whom such certificate was issued,
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SEC. 8. The township trustees
shall provide means for keeping in
repair all such improved roads
within their township, and for that
purL ose shall set off persons and
districts, who shall perform their
two days labor required by law,
and also labor in commutation of
taxes, the same to be worked out
under the direction of the improved
road superintendent, who is. hereby
authorized to give receipts therefor
as other road supervisors, and they
shall set Off from the common road
fund of their township such amount
as to them shall seem equitable to
an improved road fund especially
applicable to the care and improve
ment of such roads, and may also
give the improved road superinten-
dent the use of any plows, scrqpers
or other implements owned by the
township for road purposes, prOvi-
ded that the trustees shall levy and
expend the full amount of taxes
provided for in an act relating to
roads and highways, passed March
9th, 1868, before they shall expend
any of the county funds provided
for in section II of this act.
SEQ. 10. That each improved road
superintendent shall receive for his
services two dollars per diem for
the time actually employed in the
care of such roads.
Sec. IL. If the tax levied by the
township trustees and the road Ia
Dor provided for an act relating TO
roads and highways passed March
9, 1868, when applied to such i'm
proved roads as are herein provided
for in compliance with the provis
ions of this act, is found by the
county commissioners to be insult.
ficient to keep such roads in good
repair, then it shall be the duty of
the county commissioners to deter
mine and levy such an additional
per centum of extra road tax to be
levied upon the taxable property
of the county, not exceeding two
mills on the dollar in any one year,
and the same shall be collected as
other taxes, and when collected
shall be paid out by the county
treasurers to the township treasur-
ers in such proportions, upon the
order Of the county commissioners,
as they may determine to be just
and equitable between the Several
townships in which said roads are
located, as are herein provided for,
and shall be expended upon such
improved road in accordance with
the provisions of this act.
SEC. II, That the county com
missioners shall build and keep in
repair all bridges and culverts upon
the roads provided for in this act
SEC. 10. That SO much of an act
entitled "an act relating to roads
and highways" passed March 9,
1868, except sections twelve, (12)
thirteen, (13) fourteen, (14) six
teen, (16) seventeen, (l7) twenty
two, (22) thirty-one, (31 and thir
ty-two 1927, as places the roads and
highways of the townships and
counties of this state in the charge
and under the control Of township
trustees and road supervisors, and
defines their duties, shall not apply
to such roads as are herein provid-
ed for but that the township trus-
tees and road supervisors of such
townships and districts in which
there are roads located that have
been constructed and improved [by
graveling, macadamizing or plank
ing are hereby relieved and pro
hibited from exercising any other
control over such roads, except
such powers as are conferred in the
sections of the "act relating to
roads and highways" as are herein
excepted,
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SEC, 81, This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
passage.
Mrs. Cady Stanton is SO years
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