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supervisor for such impleme.nts as may be delivered to him, showing 

 the number, kind and condition thereof; and such supervisor shall be 

 liable for any injury or damage that may result to such implements, or 

 any of them, from the improper use thereof or by unnecessary exposure 

 to the weather during the time the same may be in his possession, to be 

 recovered in an action in the name of the trustees, and he shall, on the 

 first Monday in March, annually, return the same to the trustees. 



SEC. 4736. [Watering places may be provided.] The township 

 trustees are authorized to provide and maintain suitable watering places 

 for procuring water for persons and animals on the public highways in 

 their township, and the trustees of two or more townships may join in 

 providing and maintaining such watering place where it is located on or 

 near the township line, or on a v road leading from one township into 

 another; but not more than fifty dollars shall be expended in or by any 

 township, in any one year, for such purpose, to be paid out of any money 

 in the township treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



SEC. 4737. [Additional road tax.] If township trustees deem 

 an additional road tax necessary, they shall determine the per centum 

 to be levied upon the taxable property of their respective townships, not 

 exceeding three mills on the dollar, for the purpose of cutting down 

 hills, filling low places, and making repairs that may be necessary by 

 reason of any casualty that may occur in the public highways of their 

 respective townships, which shall not, in any year exceed the sum of 

 two hundred dollars, unless the question of a greater levy be submitted 

 to a vote of the qualified voters of the township, at a special election 

 called by the trustees for that purpose; if a majority of the qualified 

 voters at such election vote in favor of levying an increased tax, for 

 the purposes aforesaid, the trustees shall certify the same to the county 

 auditor, in writing, on or before the first Monday of June in each year, 

 and the auditor shall assess the same on the taxable property in the 

 township, not included in any municipal corporation, and the same shall 

 be collected in the December installment, and paid out as other taxes, 

 except as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 4738. [Rate of such levy to be published.] The auditor of 

 each county, immediately after the county commissioners and trustees 

 of townships at their annual sessions for that purpose, have determined 

 the amounts to be assessed for road purposes in their respective counties 

 and townships, shall give notice, in some newspaper in general circula- 

 tion in the county, of the per centum on each hundred dollars of the 

 valuation so determined to be assessed in such county and township re- 

 spectively, and that said tax may be discharged by labor on the roads 

 under the direction of the supervisors of the several districts; and he 

 shall make a list of the names of tax payers, and the amount of the 

 road tax with which each stands charged, and transmit the same to the 

 clerk of the proper township. 



SEC. 4739. [Tax to be certified to supervisors.] The township 

 clerk, immediately after the receipt of such list, shall make out and de- 

 liver to each supervisor an abstract of the amount of road tax each 

 person in his district is charged with. 



SEC. 4740, [Passways may be constructed.] Any landholder 

 through whose land a state, county, or township road is now or may be 

 hereafter laid out and established, is authorized, under the direction of the 



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