LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Ill 



trustees, as the case may be, shall meet and determine at what time and 

 in what number of assessments they will require the same to be paid, 

 and order that the assessments so made by them be placed by the auditor 

 of the county on the duplicate accordingly against all lots or lands -or 

 corporate roads or railroads assessed ; they shall also determine whether 

 they shall issue bonds of the county or township, as the case may be, 

 to raise the money necessary to pay such costs and expenses, and, if 

 they so determine, tiny may issue such bonds, and the same shall be 

 issued for a term of years, not exceeding ten, at a rate of interest not 

 exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and they 

 shall cause an entry to be made on their journal, setting forth their 

 finding and determination under this section. 



(4510-32) SEC. 15. [Tax; how collected and accounted for.] 

 When the commissioners or trustees, as the case may be, make an as- 

 sessment, they shall cause an entry to be made on their journal, a certi- 

 fied copy of which they shall at once deliver to the auditor of the county, 

 directing him to make and furnish to the treasurer of the county a special 

 duplicate with the assessments arranged thereon, as required by their 

 order, and the auditor shall retain a copy thereof in his office, and all 

 assessments shall be collected and accounted for by the treasurer as 

 taxes ; provided, that if the same are not paid in one year they shall be 

 placed upon the general duplicate for collection as delinquent taxes. 

 All collections of money made by the county treasurer on account of 

 assessments made by township trustees, shall be paid by him to the 

 treasurer of the township on demand. 



(.4510-33) SEC. 1 6. [Levy not void for error.[ The collection 

 of taxes or assessments levied or assessed, or ordered to be levied or 

 assessed, to pay for the expenses of any improvement provided for in 

 this act, shall not be perpetually enjoined or declared absolutely void in 

 consequence of any error committed by the engineer or surveyor, or 

 county treasurer or township treasurer, in the proceedings in this act, 

 authorized for by reason of any error or merely technical informality 

 appearing in the petition or record of the proceedings, or by reason of 

 any want of notice hereinbefore provided for. 



(4510-34) SEC. 17. [When bonds issue, assessment for costs and 

 interest must be made; form of bond.] If the commissioners or trus- 

 tees, as the case may be, determine to issue the bonds of the county or 

 township, as the case may be, for the necessary money to meet the ex- 

 penses of the construction of any improvement herein authorized and 

 provided for, they shall make an assessment upon all lots, lands, public 

 or corporate roads or railroads benefited by the improvement, or the 

 surface waters of which flow and drain into such sink-hole, fissure, break 

 or opening in the earth or rock thereof, in proportion to the apportion- 

 ment herein provided for, sufficient to pay all the costs and first-year 

 interest, and including the fees of the surveyor or engineer, made after 

 location, in superintending the construction of the improvement, and 

 order the same placed on the duplicate for collection as hereinbefore 

 provided, and they shall thereafter make such assessments as may be 

 required to raise the money for the prompt payment of such bonds. All 

 bonds issued by the commissioners shall be signed by them and counter- 

 signed by the auditor, who shall affix his seal thereto, and all bonds 

 issued by the trustees shall be signed by them and countersigned by the 

 township clerk, and no bond shall be sold for less than its par value ; 



