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its improvement, and to prepare specifications for, and an estimate of 

 the cost of each working section of the improvement, which shall be 

 tfiled and recorded in the office of the clerk of the township. 



(4686-45) SEC. 8. [How contract made.] That the contracts 

 for furnishing the materials and performing the labor in and about such 

 improvement, shall be made by such sections and in like manner as is 

 provided by law for other township improvements. 



(4686-46) SEC. 9. [How payments to be made.] That pay- 

 ments shall be made on account of such work and materials, upon esti- 

 mates of the engineer as the work progresses, ten per centum of each 

 'estimate being retained until the final completion and acceptance of the 

 ivork. 



(4686-47) SEC. 10. [Advertisement and sale of bonds.] That 

 the bonds provided to be issued hereuncler shall be sold at not less than 

 par and accrued interest, in such quantities as may be deemed expedient 

 by the township trustees ; and shall be advertised and sold in the manner 

 provided by law for the advertisement and sale of any other township 

 'bonds. 



(4686-48) SEC. ii. [How repairs to be kept up.] That such 

 public ways, when improved, shall be maintained and kept in repair 

 by the county commissioners, and the expense thereof shall be paid out 

 of the county road fund. 



(4686-49) SEC. 12. [Tax levy.] That the township trustees 

 shal provide means to pay the expense and cost of such improvements, 

 -and to pay the principal and interest of such bonds, by a general tax 

 levied upon the taxable property of the respective road district. The 

 levies for which tax shall be certified to the county auditor as is pro- 

 vided by law in the case of other levies of other township trustees. 



(4686-50) SEC. 13. [Supervisor of improvement; compensation.] 

 That the township trustees shall designate one of their number to super- 

 vise the improvement of each working section of said public ways, im- 

 proved under this act, and the trustee so designated shall receive for his 

 services in that behalf not to exceed two dollars a day for the time 

 actually and necessarily employed in such supervision ; and the trustees 

 shall provide such blanks, books and records, as shall be necessary to 

 meet the requirements of this act ; and shall allow to the township clerk 

 for the services to be rendered by him, reasonable compensation ; all of 

 which shall be paid out of the funds provided for such improvement on 

 the order and allowance of the township trustees. 



APPEALS IN ROAD CASES. 



SEC. 4687. [When order to open road may be executed.] No 



order of the county commissioners for the establishment of a county road, 

 or for the alteration or vacation, in whole or in part, of a state or county 

 road, or changing the width of a county road shall be executed until 

 twenty days have elapsed after the entry of such order in the record of 

 the commissioners, and no 'order shall issue to open any township road 

 until fifteen days after the same has been established, at which time the- 

 clerk of the township may issue such order, by direction of the trustees, 

 -unless an appeal has been perfected. 



