158 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 4653. [Proceedings on report of reviewers.] If the report 

 of the reviewers be in favor of the road, the same shall be established, 

 recorded, and opened, agreeably to the provisions of this chapter, and the 

 persons bound for the same shall pay into the county treasury the amount 

 of the costs of such review ; but if the report be against the establish- 

 ment of such road, no further proceedings shall be had thereon before 

 the commissioners, and the persons executing the first bond shall pay 

 into the county treasury the costs and expenses of the view, survey, 

 and review. 



SEC. 4654. [To find the line of a road.] When the place of be- 

 ginning or true course of any state or county road, or any public high- 

 way not within the limits of any municipal corporation shall be uncer- 

 tain by reason of the removal of any monument or marked tree, by which 

 such road was originally designated, or from any other cause, the county 

 commissioners of the proper county may appoint three disinterested land- 

 holders of the county to review and find the line of the road, and if they 

 deem it necessary, a competent surveyor to survey the same, and the 

 reviewers and surveyor, after taking the oath required in section forty- 

 six hundred and forty-six (4646), shall view and survey said road, and 

 the same correctly mark throughout as in the case of new roads and 

 shall make a return of the survey and plat of the road to the commis- 

 sioners, who shall cause the same to be recorded as in other cases. 



[Establishment by judicial proceedings.] When such viewers are 

 unable to ascertain the boundary lines of such road or highway with cer- 

 tainty, the commissioners of the county may commence and" prosecute 

 a civil action in the courts of justice against any or all owners of land that 

 abut upon said highway, to ascertain and have the boundaries of such 

 road or highway judicially established in one action, and thenceforth 

 such road or highway so surveyed, or its boundaries judicially estab- 

 lished as aforesaid, shall to the full limits of such boundaries be a public 

 highway. 



SEC. 4655. [Application to turn road.] If any person through 

 whose land a county road is, or may be established, shall be desirous of 

 turning the road through any other part of his land, he may, by notice 

 and petition, agreeably to the provisions of this chapter, apply to the 

 commissioners of the county while in session, to permit him to turn the 

 road through any other part of his land, on as good ground, and with- 

 out increasing the distance to the injury of the public; and upon the 

 receipt of such petition, the commissioners shall appoint a surveyor, 

 and three disinterested freeholders of the county, as viewers of the road, 

 who shall proceed to view and survey the ground over which the same 

 is proposed to be turned, and ascertain the distance which it will be 

 increased by such proposed alteration and make a report, in writing, 

 stating the several distances so found, together with their opinion as to 

 the utility of making the alteration. 



SEC. 4656. [Application to change county road; proceedings on 

 report of viewers.] If the freeholders report to the commissioners 

 that the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable, and that the alteration 

 will not place the road on worse ground, or increase the distance to the 

 injury of the public, they shall upon receiving satisfactory evidence that 

 the proposed new road has been opened a legal width, and in all respects 

 made equal to the old road for the convenience of travelers, and if in 

 their opinion the same will be just and reasonable, declare such new road 



