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LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



which submission shall be made at any annual spring or fall election ; 

 and the commissioners shall cause public notice of such vote to be given 

 by publication in all the newspapers printed and of general circulation 

 in the county, and also by causing hand-bills to be posted up. at the 

 usual place of holding elections, in each township and ward throughout 

 the county, at least fifteen days prior to such election ; provided, that in 

 any county in which such question has heretofore been submitted, 

 under the authority of an act entitled "an act to authorize county com : 

 missioners to locate and construct turnpike roads," passed April 36, 1869, 

 and acts amendatory thereto, and in which, at such election, the ma- 

 jority of the votes cast were in favor of such policy, no vote shall be 

 again required to authorize the commissioners to continue such tax 

 and improve roads as provided for in this chapter. 



Six. 4764. [Conduct of the election.] The judges of such elec- 

 tion in the several townships and wards in any county in which such 

 question is submitted, and such notice given, as aforesaid, shall open 

 a poll for taking such vote, receive and count the ballots cast, and within 

 three days thereafter return to the auditor of the county a full and cor- 

 rect abstract of the votes, and shall in all respects be governed by the 

 laws regulating general elections, and be entitled to the same compen- 

 sation for returning the poll-books, which shall be paid out of the county 

 treasury on the order of the auditor ; and the poll-books so returned 

 shall, within five days from the day of holding such election, be opened, 

 and the votes counted by the commissioners and auditor of the county, 

 and a correct statement of the result shall be kept by the auditor on 

 file in his office for public inspection. 



SEC. 4765. [Question may be again submitted.] If at such elec- 

 tion a majority of the votes so cast be against the policy of constructing 

 such turnpikes, the commissioners shall not assess any tax for that 

 purpose, but they may, on petition of not less than one hundred tax- 

 payers of the county, again submit the same question at any regular 

 annual election, either in the spring or fall, to the qualified voters of 

 the county, notice of which shall be given and the election conducted 

 in all respects in the manner prescribed in the two preceding sections. 



SEC. 4766. [Effect of an affirmative vote.] If at any such elec- 

 tion a majority be found in favor of the construction of such turnpikes, 

 the commissioners may proceed to levy taxes, issue bonds, and appro- 

 priate and expend money in the construction of such turnpike roads, 

 as in their judgment may be necessary to the public convenience, and 

 promotive of the public interest. 



SEC. 4767. [When an assessment may be made.] When the 

 county commissioners receive or require donations of money, or written 

 agreements on the part of taxpayers subjecting their taxable property 

 to taxation annually, to aid in the location and construction of such 

 roads, and a majority of the taxpayers within the boundaries of the road 

 sign such subscription or agreement, the commissioners shall there- 

 upon be authorized to levy the amount thereof upon all the taxable 

 property within the boundaries of the road, according to the benefits to 

 said property, taking into consideration any assessments that have been 

 heretofore made ; and the boundaries of the road shall not be taken to 

 include any property that does not lie within two miles of such contem- 

 plated improvement. 



