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veyor to be paid out of the count}' treasury, on the order of the county 

 auditor, and the trustees out of the township treasury, on the order of 

 the township clerk. 



SEC. 4668. [Road vacated when unopened for seven years.] Any 



county road or part thereof, which has heretofore or may hereafter be 

 authorized, which remains unopened for public use for the period of 

 seven years after the order is made or authority granted for opening" 

 the same, shall be and the same is hereby vacated, and the authority 

 granted for erecting the same barred by lapse of time. 



SEC. 4669. [Alterations become part of road; parts vacated.] 



All alterations of county roads heretofore made and established, or which 

 shall hereafter be made and established, shall be and remain part of such 

 roads ; and so much of the original roads as is rendered unnecessary 

 by such alterations in the opinion of the viewers and county commissioners 

 shall be and remain vacated. 



SEC. 4670. [Commissioners must mark line of road by stone 

 monuments.] The county commissioners shall cause stone monu- 

 ments to be placed at the beginning, intermediate points, and termina- 

 tion of all roads laid out and established under the provisions of this 

 chapter, and said monuments shall be noted in their record of roads. 



(4670-1) SEC. i. [Cuyahoga county additional road levy.] 

 In counties containing a city of the second grade of the first class, the 

 commissioners, at their March or June session annually, in addition to 

 the levy authorized for road and bridge purposes by section 2824 of the 

 Revised Statutes, shall levy on each dollar of valuation of taxable prop- 

 erty within said county, five-tenths of a mill ; and in addition thereto, 

 on each dollar of valuation of taxable property within the township 

 outside of the cities and incorporated villages, which townships outside 

 of the cities and incorporated villages are hereby made a taxing district 

 for that purpose, one mill for the creation of a fund to be known as the 

 state and county road improvement fund, and to be used for the im- 

 provement of state and county reads outside of such municipal cor- 

 porations. 



(4670-2) SEC. 2. [Improvement of such roads.] The county 

 commissioners of such counties shall have power to improve any such 

 state or county road or any part thereof, by straightening or^altering the 

 same, and by grading, paving with steel rails, stone or brick or other 

 suitable material, or a combination of any or all of these materials, gravel- 

 ing, planking or macadamizing the same and shall use the funds herein- 

 before created for that purpose. 



(4670-3) SEC. 20. [Purchase of road.] The commissioners of 

 such county may purchase any turnpike or plank toll-road, or any part 

 thereof, lying within such county, at a price that may be agreed upon by 

 them and the owners of such turnpike or plank road ; and in case they 

 are unable to agree with the owners thereof, upon such purchase and 

 sale, they may appropriate the same; and for this purpose they shall 

 cause an accurate survey and profile of such turnpike or plank road 

 to be made, and shall file the same with the probate judge or court of 

 common pleas of the county, and thereupon the same proceedings shall 

 be had as are now provided by law for the appropriation of private 

 property by municipal corporation: and -upon payment of the agreed 



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