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the extra taxes shall only be levied upon such lands and personal property 

 as he within one-half the distance of such roads. 



SEC. 4787. [No division of territory or taxation to be made.] 



No division of territory, or division of taxation of lands or personal 

 property, shall be made with any other road improvement, free turnpike 

 road, or state or county road, except as herein provided for. nor with 

 any township road; but if the road commissioners report to the county 

 commissioners that the extra taxes levied within the bounds of the road 

 are insufficient to make a good and substantial road, the county com- 

 missioners, if in their opinion the public interest requires it, may order 

 the road commissioners to extend the bounds of the free turnpike road 

 to one mile on either side of the same, when a majority v of the resident 

 landowners owning land within the bounds of the territory proposed to 

 be extended sign a petition therefor ; but if a turnpike road runs upon 

 either side of such free turnpike road, within less than two miles, the 

 taxes shall be levied upon such lands and personal property as lie within 

 one-half the distance of such roads. 



SEC. 4788. [How township road tax and labor applied.] So 



much of the taxes annually levied for road purposes by the trustees of 

 township [s], which may be collected within the bounds of any free turn- 

 pike road, including the two days' labor authorized by law, shall be 

 applied in the construction and repair of the road, under the direction 

 of the road commissioners, or their agents, until the road is completed. 



SEC. 4789. [When trustees fail to apportion road labor.] If, be- 

 fore the completion of the road, the trustees fail to direct the supervisors 

 of any road district, the whole or any part of which is within the bounds 

 of any free turnpike road, to apportion the labor provided for in the 

 preceding section, annually, before the first day of May, and to give 

 notice thereof in writing to the commissioners aforesaid, then all persons 

 liable to do two days labor, annually, on the public highways, residing 

 within the bounds of any free turnpike road, shall do the same under the 

 direction of the commissioners or agents of such road. 



SEC. 4790. [When road work to be done.] All such persons 

 shall perform such labor, after being notified three days previous to the 

 time of doing the same, between the first day of April and the first day 

 of July ; but they may pay to the superintendent the sum of three dollars, 

 in lieu of said two days' work, if paid when notified to do the- work ; 

 and in case of refusal or neglect to do the same, the person so offending 

 shall pay a fine of one dollar, and shall further be liable, in case of non- 

 attendance, to the amount allowed for two days' work, to be collected 

 by the road commissioners, in the same manner that supervisors are 

 authorized to collect in similar cases. 



SEC. 4791. [Road tax paid into county treasury to be refunded.] 



So much of the taxes mentioned in- the preceding section which is not 

 discharged in labor, and which is paid into the county treasury, shall be 

 paid bv the treasurer, upon the warrant of the county auditor, to road 

 commissioners, to be expended by them, [in] constructing such free turn- 

 pike road ; when two or more free turnpike roads cross each other, the 

 county commissioners of any county through or in which any such rn-ids. 

 or any part thereof, may be located, may make such equitable division 

 or apportionment of the taxes, other than extra taxes, among such reads 

 as they deem proper, the same to be discharged in labor, under the direc- 



