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free turnpike or other road in the county, and direct that the taxes levied 

 and collected for such road, and not otherwise appropriated by law, shall 

 be paid over to such turnpike company, to be expended in constructing 

 or repairing the road, to construct or repair which the same were levied. 



SEC. 4820. [Tax-payers to have stock.] Any turnpike company 

 receiving such surrender shall issue to the persons upon whose property 

 taxes have been levied to construct or repair such road, certificates ^ of 

 stock for the amount of taxes by them respectively paid, upon which 

 they shall be entitled to dividends, pro rata, as other stockholders may 

 be, upon their stock. 



SEC. 4&2i. [Toll-gates and toll.] When three consecutive miles 

 of such road has [have] been constructed and finished, according to law, 

 the directors of such company may establish a toll-gate thereon, and for 

 every additional five miles finished as aforesaid an additional gate, and 

 may' demand and receive tolls thereat, at rates not exceeding the rates 

 allowed by law to other companies. 



SEC, 4822. [Elections of directors.] In elections for directors 

 of such company each stockholder shall be allowed one vote for each 

 share of stock by him held, and one vote for each fraction greater than 

 half a share. 



SEC. 4823. [Villages may assist in constructing such roads, and 

 may issue bonds.] Councils of villages are authorized to levy a tax 

 to construct free turnpike roads, or a 'part thereof, in counties wherein 

 such villages are situate, and terminating or running through such vil- 

 lages, and for this purpose such councils are authorized to issue the bonds 

 of the villages, payable with legal interest at such times as the councils 

 may deem advisable, and such bonds shall not be sold for less than their 

 par value. 



SEC. 4824. [Tax to be submitted to electors.] For the purpose 

 of paying such bonds, and the interest thereon, as the same become due, 

 the councils are authorized to levy a tax upon the taxable property of 

 such villages sufficient for the purpose, not exceeding five mills on the 

 dollar in any year ; but such tax shall in no case be levied, nor shall such 

 bonds be issued, until at some regular election, hekl in such villages, 

 the majority of the qualified electors thereof approve the tax; and in 

 case the amount to be appropriated for any one road does not exceed 

 the sum of five hundred dollars, the councils may appropriate and apply 

 the same in money for said road improvement, out of any money on 

 hand, or funds not otherwise appropriated, without issuing bonds- or 

 levying a tax, such appropriation to be made by an ordinance passed for 

 the purpose, specifying particularly the amount, and for what road 

 appropriated. 



SEC. 4825. [When road may be extended to village.] When a 

 free turnpike road in progress of construction terminates within one 

 mile, by way of a public road, of any such village, the council of such 

 village shall have the same power to levy a tax and issue bonds to aid in 

 the construction of such free turnpike road that it would have if the road 

 terminated in the village ; and if the county commissioners having in 

 charge the construction of such road accept such bonds, such free turn- 

 pike road shall be deemed to be extended, by way of the public road 

 oefore mentioned, to the corporate limits of the village; and the com- 

 missioners shall make and publish an order to that effect, and thereupon 



