152 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 4637?. SEC. 5. [Portion paid by county.] The commis- 

 sioners may order such part of the compensation, damages and cost as 

 they may deem equitable, to be paid out of the county treasury. 



SEC. 4637^. SEC. 6. [Notices of assessments.] Before adopting 

 the assessments so made, the county commissioners shall publish notices 

 for three weeks consecutively, in some newspaper of general circulation 

 in the county, that such assessments have been made, and that the same 

 is [are] on file in the office of the county commissioners for the inspec- 

 tion and examination of persons interested therein. 



SEC. 4637^. SEC. 7. [Objections to assessments.] If any per- 

 son objects to the assessment, he shall file his objections in writing with 

 the board of county commissioners within two weeks after the expiration 

 of the said notice, and thereupon the board shall appoint three disin- 

 terested freeholders of the county to act as an equalizing board. 



SEC. 4637^. SEC. 8. [Equalization of assessments.] On a day 

 appointed by the commissioners for that purpose, such board, after tak- 

 ing an oath before a proper officer honestly and impartially to discharge 

 their duties, shall -hear and determine all objections to the assessment 

 and equalize the same as they may think proper, which equalized assess- 

 ment they shall report to the board of county commissioners, which 

 shall have the power to confirm the same, or set it aside and cause a new 

 assessment to be made, and appoint a new equalizing board possessing 

 the same qualification, which shall proceed in the manner above provided. 



SEC. 4637?'. SEC. 9. [Confirmation.] When the assessment is 

 confir: .ed by the county commissioners, it shall be complete and final ; 

 provl " _cl, that whenever by any of the provisions of this act any act or 

 thing is required to be done by the county commissioners, the concurrence 

 of two-thirds of said county commissioners shall be deemed sufficient. 



SEC. 4637;. SEC. 10. [Laws applicable.] All of the provisions 

 of title 7, chapter 2, of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are not 

 inconsistent herewith, shall apply to all roads established, widened or 

 altered under the provisions of this act, and the same right to appeal to 

 the probate court as now exists under the provisions of title 7, chapter 

 4, of the Revised Statutes, is reserved. 



SEC. 4637^. [Widening and alteration of roads in Lorain county.] 

 That in any county having at the last federal census, a population of not 

 less than 40,295, nor more than 40,298, the commissioners may cause 

 to be widened or altered not to exceed the width of eighty feet such 

 county roads or parts thereof as may heretofore have been established, 

 and upon the petition of the owners of a majority of the foot frontage 

 along any county road, the county commissioners shall direct the county 

 surveyor, to establish a grade along such road, or any part thereof, sub- 

 ject to the approval of said commissioners ; provided, however, that 

 the petitioners therefor shall represent not less than one-half mile of the 

 foot frontage of said road. 



(4637^-1) SEC. 2. [Assessment of compensation and damages.] 

 in all cases where the county roads may hereafter be established widened 

 or altered by virtue of this action, the county commissioners who are 

 hereby created an assessing board for the purpose of assessing the cost 

 and expense as set forth herein, may, instead of requiring the compen- 

 sation and damages for the land taken and expense of grading and 



