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twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in a civil action before any justice oi 

 the peace. 



SEC. 4716. [Further powers of supervisors.] A supervisor may 

 also enter upon any lands adjoining or lying near the road, and make 

 such drains or ditches through the same as he may deem necessary for the 

 benefit of the road, but shall do as little injury to such lands, and the 

 improvement and timber thereon, as the nature of the case and the 

 public good will permit ; the drains and ditches so made shall be con- 

 ducted to the nearest water-course, and shall be kept open by the super- 

 visor ; and they shall not be obstructed by the owner or occupier of the 

 lands, or any other person having the same in charge, under the penalty 

 of forfeiting a sum not exceeding ten dollars for each offense, which 

 shall be collected by the supervisor, and paid by him to the township 

 treasurer, and applied to the road fund of the township. 



(4716-1) SEC. i. [Road taxes in Highland county; how may be 

 worked out.] In every county in the state of Ohio, having a popula- 

 tion of thirty thousand two hundred and eighty-one (30,281) at the 

 last federal census, or any succeeding census, all taxes collected for the 

 repair of all free turnpike roads, and all county roads in said counties, and 

 expended on said roads under the supervisor or any other authorized 

 agent, it is hereby made the duty of such supervisor or agent, to notify all 

 the tax-payers living in any road district in any of the foregoing specified 

 counties whose road tax shall exceed two dollars in any one year, of the 

 time and place of making said road improvements, and said tax-payers 

 shall have the right to work out so much of their several amounts of road 

 taxes as may be expended on said roads, under the direction of said super- 

 visor or agent, at such time and place as he may specify. 



(4716-2) SEC. 2. [Penalty for noncompliance with provisions 

 of this act.] Any supervisor or agent neglecting or refusing to notify 

 any of the taxpayers specified in section one [(4716 i)] of this act, 

 shall be liable for the amount of said taxes to be collected by the town- 

 ship trustees, or county commissioners, in an action of debt from the 

 supervisor or agent or their securities on their official bond, for the 

 benefit of any such road as the original tax was levied. 



For "Labor on Highways," etc. See (26644) et seq. 



SEC. 4729. [Road-beds to be leveled off.] Every supervisor 

 shall 'cause to be graded and leveled off, the earth and gravel that may 

 be scraped, shoveled, or hauled into any public road under his direction 

 or charge, at the time that such work is performed ; and for any neglect 

 or refusal on the part of such supervisor to cause such leveling or grading 

 in a reasonable degree, he shall forfeit not less than one dollar nor more 

 than five dollars, to be paid into the township road fund, to be recovered 

 by an action in the name of the township, before a justice of the peace 

 within the township \vhere such supervisor resides ; and the trustees of 

 the township, after having been notified by any resident freeholder of the 

 township of such neglect or refusal, shall, by one of their number, 

 examine the work, and if he find that it has not been performed in a rea- 

 sonable degree according to the provisions of this section, he shall pros- 

 ecute such supervisor as provided herein. 



SEC. 4730. [Destruction of brush, briers, weeds, etc., on high- 

 ways.] The superintendent of any improved or macadamized road, 

 .supervisor of county and township roads, or street commissioner of any 



