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SEC. 4776. [Road to be laid out, and returns to county commis- 

 sioners.] The commissioners, so appointed by the board of county 

 commissioners, and who qualify as hereinafter provided, shall, within a 

 reasonable time, proceed to lay out and establish such free turnpike road 

 within the points named in the petition, and as soon thereafter as the 

 same can be done return to the board of county commissioners a map 

 and profile of such road, including upon the map, as near as can be done, 

 the names of the landowners whose property may be liable to be taxed for 

 its construction, as hereinafter provided, together with a statement of 

 the probable cost of building and completing the road. 



SEC. 4777. [Levy of taxes to construct and repair one-mile as- 

 sessment pikes.] The board of county commissioners shall immedi- 

 ately thereafter transmit to the auditor of the county said map, profile 

 and statement as returned to them by the road commissioners, and shall 

 at the same time direct the auditor to levy upon the grand duplicate of 

 the county, for the purpose of constructing, improving and repairing such 

 road, the amount of the tax, and for the number of years petitioned for; 

 and the auditor shall enter the same upon the duplicate for collection, on 

 all the lands and taxable property within the bounds of the road, as laid 

 out and established, in the same manner and subject to the same penalties 

 and forfeitures as other taxes are entered thereon for purposes of col- 

 letcion ; but no such tax shall be levied for an amount or for a term of 

 years greater than that set forth in the petition, unless the petition be 

 renewed, or the county commissioners order an extension of the levy 

 for the purposes stated in section forty-eight hundred and tivelve, and 

 when an extension of the tax is granted on petition, such tax shall be 

 levied for any number of years that may be set forth in the petition as, 

 when added to the first levy, will not, in the aggregate, exceed ten years. 



SEC. 4778. [Abatement of taxes.] If at any time after the first 

 levy is made, the commissioners of any free turnpike road are satisfied 

 that the road can be built with a less sum than is provided in the preceding 

 section, the auditor shall, on the order of the commissioners of the road, 

 reduce the extra tax, or abate it entirely. 



SEC. 4779. [Collection of tax; definitions.] The county treas- 

 urer shall collect the extra tax in the same manner as state and county 

 taxes are collected ; provided, that the words "bounds of the road," and 

 "line of the road," wherever used in this chapter, shall be held to include 

 so much land on either side of such road as may be charged with such 

 extra tax. 



SEC. 4780. [Bond and oath of road commissioners.] The road 

 commissioners shall severally execute a bond payable to the state, for 

 the use of the county in which the road is located, with good and suffi- 

 cient sureties, to be approved by the board of commissioners of the county, 

 and in such sum as the board think proper, conditioned for the faithful 

 performance of their duties as such road commissioners, and shall more- 

 over each take an oath faithfully and honestly to discharge their duties, 

 before they shall be authorized to do or perform any matter or thing 

 under this chapter; and the commissioners after qualifying shall imme- 

 diately meet, and organize their board by choosing one of their number 

 as president thereof, and within a reasonable time thereafter proceed to 

 view, locate, and establish such free turnpike road, in the manner pro- 

 vided in this chapter. 



