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reasons for the same, to the commissioners ; and if the viewers report in 

 favor of vacating the road, or any part thereof, the commissioners may, 

 if they deem it reasonable and just, declare the road vacated, agreeably 

 to the report of the viewers. 



SEC. 4663. [Penalties against viewers and surveyor.] If a per- 

 son appointed by the county commissioners as a viewer, reviewer, or 

 surveyor of any road, refuse or neglect to perform the duties required 

 by this chapter, without making satisfactory excuse for such refusal or 

 neglect, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five dollars, to be 

 recovered by action by any person suing for the same, before a justice 

 of the peace within the township wherein the person so appointed, and 

 refusing or neglecting, may reside ; and the recovery shall be paid with- 

 out delay, by the justice of the peace or constable collecting the same, 

 to the treasurer of the township, taking his receipt therefor; and the 

 trustees shall cause all fines which shall be paid into the township treas- 

 ury, under the provisions of this chapter, to be expended on roads and 

 bridges within their townships. 



SEC. 4664. [Fees of viewers, markers, etc.] All persons re- 

 quired to render services under this chapter shall receive compensation 

 for each day they are necessarily employed, as follows, to-wit: viewers 

 and reviewers, one dollar and fifty cents; chain-carriers and markers, 

 one dollar each; and surveyor, five dollars; to be charged as costs and 

 expenses, and paid out of the county treasury, on the order of the 

 county auditor. 



SEC. 4665. [Repair of roads washed out.] When a county road 

 is injured or destroyed by the washing of any lake, river, or creek, or 

 by any washing or sliding of land occasioned by natural drainage, the 

 trustees of the township in which such injury or loss of road has oc- 

 curred, upon petition of any six freeholders of the township, shall call 

 to their aid a competent surveyor, and proceed to examine such road; 

 and if, upon such examination, the trustees, or a majority of them, are 

 satisfied that such road has been destroyed, or so much injured that the^ 

 public good requires an alteration of the same, they shall proceed to alter 

 and lay out so much of the new road as may supply the several parts, 

 of the road thus destroyed or injured. 



SEC. 4666. [Application for damages, and proceedings thereon.] 

 If a person through whose lands any such alteration or new road is laid' 

 out, feels injured thereby, he shall make application to the trustees, at. 

 the time of making the alteration on his premises, to assess and deter- 

 mine, according to the provisions of this chapter, the compensation to 

 be made in money for the property sought to be appropriated, and how 

 much less valuable, if any, the premises will be rendered by the alteration i 

 of the road ; and the trustees and surveyor shall make a report of their 

 doings in the manner pointed out as to the duty of viewers and sur- 

 veyors in cases of new roads ; and the auditor and commissioners of the 

 proper county shall be governed in the reception and recording of such 

 report in all respects as is prescribed in this chapter in cases of new 

 roads. 



SEC. 4667. [Fees under the last two sections.] The surveyors 

 and trustees shall receive for each day they are necessarily employed 

 under the provisions of the two preceding sections, the same compen- 

 sation allowed to surveyors and viewers in cases of new roads the sur- 



