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the commissioners shall improve such extension of such free turnpike 

 road, in the same manner as the other parts of the same. 



SEC. 4826. [Time for construction extended, and county to pay 

 for bridges.] When the commissioners of a free turnpike road fail 

 either for want of time or sufficient means, to complete such road, the 

 county commissioners of the county or counties through which it '[is] 

 located may grant such extension of time for the completion of the same 

 as to them may seem reasonable and proper ; and in all cases of indebt- 

 edness for the erection of bridges upon the line of such free turnpike 

 roads, the county commissioners may discharge such indebtedness, from 

 the treasury of the county in which such bridge or bridges may be 

 located. 



SEC. 4-827. [Road commissioners to make final report.] When 

 the commissioners of a free turnpike road have completed the same, 

 they shall immediately thereafter make a final report to the county com- 

 missioners of the total expenditures on the road, and deposit their books 

 and papers with the county auditor, after which time the free turnpike 

 road shall be kept open and in repair as provided in chapter ten. 



SEC. 4828. [Vacation of free turnpike road.] When any part of 

 a free turnpike road becomes useless, or remains unopened for the term 

 of five years, after the same has been established, the commissioners 

 of the county may, on application of twelve freeholders of the county, 

 appoint three disinterested freeholders to view the same, and report 

 whether such road is useless, or whether it would be of public advantage 

 to vacate it ; and if such freeholders report in favor of such vacation, 

 the county commissioners may order the road to be vacated, and the 

 same proceedings shall be had on such application as are provided on 

 applications to vacate county roads. 



TWO-MILE ASSESSMENT PIKES. 



SEC. 4829. [County commissioners may construct or improve 

 roads.] The county commissioners of any county shall have power, 

 as hereinafter provided, to lay out and construct any new county road, 

 or to improve any state, county or township road, or any part thereof, 

 or any free turnpike road, or any part thereof not completed, or any 

 free road, by straightening or altering the same, and by grading, paving, 

 graveling, planking, or macadamizing the same, and by draining the 

 same in any direction required to make the most convenient and suffi- 

 cient outlet ; 



[Vacation of roads.] And for such purpose they may, upon 

 further petition, when by them deemed expedient, vacate any state, 

 county, or township road, or any part thereof, or any free turnpike 

 road, or any part thereof not completed, or any free road, and may im- 

 prove several roads or parts of roads, or free turnpike roads, or parts 

 thereof not completed, or any free road, when the same may be united 

 in one continuous road improvement. 



SEC. 4830. [County commissioners may improve unfinished turn- 

 pike or plank-road.] They may improve, by grading, graveling, or 

 macadamizing any unfinished turnpike road, plank road, or other graded 

 road of five degrees or less, other than such as charge and receive tolls. 



