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proper notice has been given, and no injustice will be done thereby, they 

 shall, at their next regular meeting, declare the same vacated, and give 

 notice thereof to the township clerk, who shall enter the same on the 

 records of the township ; but any person in the township feeling aggrieved, 

 shall have a right to appeal from the final decision of the trustees to 

 the probate court in like manner as provided in 'chapter four. 



SEC. 4684. [Alteration.] The trustees of any township are au- 

 thorized, upon petition for that purpose, to alter or change the direction 

 of any township road in their respective townships, in such manner as 

 shall be reasonable and as the public convenience may require. 



SEC. 4685. [Proceedings therefor.] Upon application for an 

 alteration or change in any township road, the same proceedings shall be 

 had by and before such trustees in all respects as required by section 

 forty-six hundred and seventy-tivo. 



SEC. 4686. [Are public highways; Washingtbn township, Pick- 

 away county.] All township roads heretofore or hereafter estab- 

 lished are hereby declared to be public highways ; provided, that in town- 

 ships which by the federal census of 1890 had, or by any subsequent 

 federal census may have a population of 1,140, in counties which by the 

 last federal census had, or by any subsequent federal census may have a 

 population of 26,959, all roads which commence in an established road 

 and pass on and intersect another established road, and which have been 

 open and used by the public for more than twenty-one years as public 

 highways shall be considered township roads, and shall be kept in repair 

 by the supervisors, the same as other established roads and highways. 



(4686-1) SEC. i. [Submission of improvement question to elec- 

 tors of township and village therein.] The trustees of any township 

 in this state, shall, when the petition of one hundred or more of the tax- 

 payers of such township is presented to them praying for the improve- 

 ment of the public roads within such township, and including any road 

 running into or through any village or city of the second class, 'fourth 

 grade, submit the question of the improvement of said roads to the quali- 

 fied electors of such township, at the next general election held after 

 the presentation of such petition. 



(4686-2) SEC. 2. [Form of proposition and ballot; notice.] 



The qualified electors of such township shall at said election have sub- 

 mitted the policy of the improvement of its public roads by general tax- 

 ation. Those voting in favor of 'such proposition shall have on 

 their ballot, "Road improvement by general taxation Yes :" 

 and those opposed, "Road improvement by general taxation No." 

 The township trustees shall cause notice of said election to be pub- 

 lished in two newspapers in general circulation if such are printed in 

 said township for at least ten days, and shall also cause handbills, an- 

 nouncing the same, to be posted at the usual places of holding elections, 

 at each precinct in such township at least ten days previous to such 

 election. 



(4686-3) SEC 3. [Judges and clerks of election; returns.] The 

 trustees of such township shall appoint three judges and two clerks for 

 each precinct therein, who shall conduct such election in like manner 

 as is by law provided for holding other elections, and who shall within 

 three days thereafter return to the clerk of said township a full and 

 correct abstract of the votes cast at such election, and shall be <r O verned' 



