Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-04-16
Relative to Improved Road Repairs

! The county commissioners in performing
a merely prefunctory duty have notified the
trustees of Napoleon tp. that the repairs OF
the gravel roads in said tp. are to be consien-
ed to their care.
Section 1881 of the revised statutes pro-
vides for such repairs that the trustees shall
set of PERSONS who shall perform their two
days labor as required by law. Then, Sec
ton 1884 provides that:
If the tax and labor provided for in sec
tion 1881 be found insufficient to keep such
roads in good repair, the county commission
ers shall determine and lew such additional
pike repair tax as may be found necessary to
keep the same in good repair and condition
for public travel upon all the taxable proper
| ty of the county not exceeding one mill on
the dollar in any year, which shall be collect
ed as other taxes and paid by the county
treasurer to the pike superintendants in such
sums and proportions as the commissioners
may direct, they having first determined
what proportion of the fund shall be set
apart to the credit of each township; and the
commissioners, in determining the division
of the fund, shall be governed not by the
miles of pike in each township, but by the
necessities of the roads, the convenience OF
| getting material, etc., to be paid to
the superintendents on warrants of the au-
ditor,
al tax of one per centum of extra road tax if
the tax provided for in 1881 is not sufficient.
| The law here cited is concise az regards
the repairing of roads in the township, but
inasmuch as these improved roads extend
into and through Napoleon, how will their
repair be kept up and by what fund?
Section 1861 explicitly provides for this. It
reads:
No tax assessed upon property within the
territory attached to any corporation, shall
be applied otherwise than within the terri
tory in which the same is assessed; and all
! taxes charged for road purposes on the
property within the limits of the corporation,
or the territory so attached. and collected by
the county treasurer shall be paid over to the
corporation treasurer to be especially appro-
priated by the council to street and road
purposes within the corporation limits and
territory SO attached; and the trustees, of the
township in which such territory is located,
and the council may agree upon different
distribution or division of funds.
Pertaining to this same subject and follow
ing in the same trend, section 1862 reads:
1t shall be the duty of the council, and the
trustees of townships, respectively, in which
any such corporation is situated, when the
same has not already been done, where from
|
requires it, to attach to the corporation any
territory lying contiguous thereto, for the
purpose mentioned in this subdivision; and
any portion of territory SO attached may be
detached, and replaced under the control of
the township trustees for road purposes, by
the council, with the concurrence of the
township trustees
The only question now which presents it.
self to the council and trustees, whether or
not Napoleon can be reached by the last
quoted section? 1t reads, "Where from
sparseness of population" etc. Ifthis clause
is applicable to Napoleon, the council and
trustees can throw both municipal and town
ship road districts into one under the direct
control of the trustees, who shall control this
fund created as per section 1881 for the repair
of all improved roads. If not, it looks as
though the town would be compelled to
supervise her own roads and ditto the town
ship.