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(4686-371 SEC. 8. [Roads free; repairs.] The roads graveled, 

 paved or macadamized under the provisions of this act shall be free to 

 the public travel, and shall be kept in repair by the trustees out of the 

 funds that come into the township treasury from the county treasurer, 

 as provided for in section one thousand four hundred and fifty-nine 

 (1459) of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 



(4686-38) SEC. I. [Township trustees may create township 

 into road district for purpose of improving public way.] That the 

 trustees of any township, whenever in their opinion it is expedient and 

 necessary, and for the public convenience and welfare, to improve the 

 public ways of said township, in whole, or in part, by grading, macadam- 

 izing or graveling, draining, culverting, and bridging, may, by resolu- 

 tion, create said township into a road district for the purpose of improv- 

 ing the public ways therein, or any number of them ; and when, in any 

 such township, there may be a municipal corporation, or municipal cor- 

 porations, such trustees may, by such resolution, erect the portion, or 

 portions, of such township not included within the corporate limits of 

 any such municipal corporation, or municipal corporations, into such 

 road district ; and in like manner the township trustees may erect any 

 election precinct, or part of election precinct, in such township, into such 

 road district : and any road district, so created, shall be given an appro- 

 priate name, by which it shall be known and designated. 



(4686-39) SEC. 2. [May borrow money and issue bonds.] That 

 in order to provide means for improving the public ways in any such 

 road district, -the township trustees may, if in their judgment it is ex- 

 pedient and necessary to do so, borrow money and issue bonds of such 

 road district for the payment of the same ; such bonds to be issued at 

 such times, and in such amounts, as the work progresses, as may, in the 

 judgment of the to\vnship trustees, be necessary for the purposes of 

 such road improvements : and such bonds shall bear interest at a rate 

 not exceeding five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, shall 

 be in denominations of not less than one hundred and not more than one 

 thousand dollars each, as may be determined by the trustees, shall not 

 run longer than twenty years, as may be determined by the trustees, 

 and shall be signed by the township trustees, or a majority of them, 

 and attested by the township clerk: and the interest shall be evidenced 

 by appropriate coupons attached to each bond, and authenticated by the 

 signature of the township clerk : 



[Limit of issue.] Provided, that it shall not be lawful for the 

 township trustees to cause to be outstanding more than one hundred 

 thousand dollars par value of such bonds of such road district, at any 

 one time : nor to issue, under any single vote, more than the aggregate 

 amount stated in the notice of the election therefor. 



{4686-401 Src. 3. [Question to be submitted to electors.] That 

 before the improvement of any such public ways shall be undertaken, 

 and before any bonds shall be issued under this act to pay for such 

 improvements, the question of improving said public ways and of issu- 

 ing bonds under, and in accordance with this act, shall be submitted to 

 the qualified electors of such road district, at a general or special elec- 

 tion of which, of the purpose, time and place, within such township, of 

 holding which, and of the aggregate amount of bonds proposed to be 

 issued, said trustees shall have caused not less than ten days' notice to 

 be given hi the manner as provided by the laws of Ohio for other gen- 

 eral or special elections, as the case may be. 



