Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-03-10
The Turnpike Law Amendment.

1 L.
AN ACT, Supplementary to an act
passed April 30th, 1869, entitled Gan
act TO authorize County Commissioners
to locate and construct turnpike roads"
(Vol. 66, Ohio L. &c.
SECTION 1. Be It enacted 6y the Gsner-
al Assem6(y Of the State of Ohio, That
the commissioners of any county shall
not levy any tax or appropriate any
money (except so far as may be neces-
sary to pay the expense of preliminary
surveys already commenced, or any
other liabilities already incurred, to be
expended in the construction of free
turnplkes under the act to which this
is supplementary without first submit
ting to the qusli6ed voters of said
county the question as to the policy of
constructing said roads BY general tax,
which said submission shall be made at
the annual spring election in April, A.
D. 1870, or any annual spring election
thereafter. Aud said commissioners
shall cause public notice of such vote
to be given by publication in all the
newspapers printed and of general cir
culation in said county, and also BY
causing hand bills to be posted up at
the usual place of holding elections in
each township and ward throughout
the county, at least fifteen DAYS prior
to said election: Provided, however,
that nothing in this act, shall affect
any contract entered into before its
passage, in reference to the construc-
ton of any such road.
SEC. 9 1t shall be the duty ofthe
Judges of election in the several town
ships and wards in any county in which
such question may be submitted and
such notice given, as aforesaid, on the
day of the annual spring election, in
the year A. D. 1870, to open a pell for
taking said vote and to receive and
count the ballots cast, and within three
days thereafter to return to the audi
tor of the county full and correct alb
stract of said vote; and the said Judges
of election shall in all respects be gov
erned by the laws regulating general
elections, and shall be entitled to the
same compensation for returning said
poll books, which shall be paid out of
the county treasury on the order of the
auditor; and the poll books so returned
shall, within FIVE days from the day of
holding such election, be opened and
the votes counted by the commission
ers and auditor of the county, cor
rect statement of the result of which
vote shall be kept by said auditor on
file in his Office for public inspection.
SEC. 3. If at said election majority
ofthe votes so cast shall be against the
policy of constructing free turnpikes,
the commissioners shall not assess any
tax for that purpose; but the commits
sioners may, on petition of not less than
one hundred tax payers of said county,
again submit the same question at any
regular annual election, either in the
spring or fall, to said qualified voters
of the county, notice of which shall be
given and the election conducted in all
respects in the manner prescribed in
the first and second sections of this act.
SEC. 4. If at any such election ma
jority shall be found in favor of the con-
struction of free turnpikes, then the
commissioners shall be authorized to
proceed to levy taxes, issue bonds, and
appropriate and expend money in the
construction of such free turnpike
roads as in their judgment may be nee
essary to the public convenience and
promotive of the public interest; sub
ject, however, in all their proceedings
to the provisions, restrictions and limi-
tations of existing laws on that subject.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
A. J. CUNNINGHAM,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
]. C. LEE,
President Of the Senate.
Passed Eahruaru 18Th 1870