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out of which shall be paid all the costs and expenses of said improve- 

 ment, except the expense of the preliminary view and survey and the 

 fees of the auditor and commissioners, but the auditor shall keep a 

 separate account of each different improvement in a book to be kept 

 for that purpose. The provisions of "An act to authorize certain cities 

 .to build bridges and issue bonds therefor," passed March 4, 1883 (80 

 Ohio laws, page 73), requiring all levies upon the property within any 

 city of the third grade of the first class, made by the county commis- 

 sioners for road purposes, to be paid into the treasury of said city, shall 

 in no wise conflict with the provisions of this act, and shall not be ap- 

 plicable to the levies specifically authorized therein, the proceeds of 

 which are to applied and used by the county commissioners in the con- 

 struction and repair of such roads. 



SEC. 48360. [Issue of bonds for construction and repair of im- 

 proved roads. ] The commissioners of any such county, containing a 

 city of such third grade, first class, are hereby authorized, whenever, in 

 their judgment, it is desirable, to issue and sell the bonds of such county 

 to an amount not in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), for the 

 purpose of paying such county's share of the costs and expenses of 

 contracting [constructing] macadamized, stone or gravel roads, as pro- 

 vided in said preceding supplemental sections to said section 4836; said 

 bonds to state for what purpose issued, to bear interest at a rate not in 

 excess of four and one-half per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, 

 to mature in not less than ten years nor more than twenty years after 

 their issue, and not less than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty 

 thousand dollars of said bonds shall mature in any one year, and they 

 shall be sold according to law, and for not less than par and accrued 

 interest ; the proceeds of such bonds to be applied and used exclusively 

 for the same purposes and in the same manner as the levy of seven-tenths 

 of one mill provided for in said supplementary sections, and may be in 

 addition to such levy or any part thereof; and the interest and principal 

 of such bonds to be paid from said levy of seven-tenths of one mill, or 

 any part of same. 



SEC. 4836^. [Commissioners of Lucas county; bonds for repair 

 of roads.] The commissioners of any such county containing a city 

 of the third grade, first class, are hereby authorized to issue and sell 

 bonds of such county to an amount not in excess of fifteen thousand 

 dollars ($15,000), for the purpose of paying for the^ repair of macad- 

 amized, stone, or gravel roads built under the provisions of the said 

 section 4836 and sections supplemental thereto; said bonds to state for 

 what purpose issued, to bear interest at a rate not in excess of five per 

 cent per annum, payable semi-annually, to mature in not less than ten 

 nor more than twenty years after their issue, and they shall be sold 

 according to law and' not for less than par and accrued interest ; the 

 proceeds of such bonds to be applied and used exclusively for the same 

 purposes and in the same manner as the levy of two-tenths of one mill 

 provided for in said supplemental sections; and the interest of such 

 bonds is to be paid from the said levy of two-tenths of one mill, or any 

 part of the same. 



SEC 4836;. [Commissioners in Lucas county may construct road 

 without assessment upon private property.] If in the opinion of the 

 cotintv commissioners of any such county it is expedient and proper to 

 construct anv such road commencing at the intersection of sections 



