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sixteen and twenty-one in Lucas county, and extending not more than 

 one mile in length, without making an assessment upon private property 

 for any portion of the cost thereof, said county commissioners may pro- 

 ceed to make such improvement in a manner by them deemed proper 

 and pay for the same from the stone road building fund, 



[Bonds.] And may issue bonds of said county in a sum not to 

 exceed five thousand dollars to reimburse said fund in accordance with 

 the provisions and under the restrictions of section 4836^. 



SEC. 4837. [When remonstrant bound for costs.] If it appear 

 that any person who signed the petition asking for such improvement 

 afterward signed a remonstrance against the same, so that by counting 

 such person remonstrator instead of .petitioner the object and prayer of 

 such petition will be defeated, the person who is both petitioner and 

 remonstrator shall be held liable, and shall pay all costs growing out 

 of the presentation of the petition, and the proceedings had thereon ; 

 and if the costs are not paid within thirty days after the dismissal of 

 further proceedings in the case, the auditor shall tax the costs against 

 such person, and if there is more than one such person, the auditor 

 shall apportion the costs among such persons, in the proportion of the 

 appraised value of their several lands for taxation that are within two 

 miles of the route on which the improvement was prayed for, and shall 

 place the same on the grand duplicate for collection, to become due and 

 payable at the next December collection of taxes thereafter; and the 

 same penalties shall attach, and the same proceedings shall be had in 

 the collection, as in delinquent state and county taxes. 



(4837-1) SEC. i. [Applicability of certain statutes to Ashta- 

 bula, Licking, Wood, Holmes, Medina, Ottawa and Wyandot coun- 

 ties; portion of cost to be paid by county.] Except as otherwise 

 herein provided, and so far as the same may be applicable, sections 48360, 

 48366, 4836^ 48360*, 4836^ 48360-. of the Revised Statutes, shall apply 

 to, regulate and govern the laying out and constructing of all two-mile 

 assessment pikes that may hereafter be laid out and constructed in all 

 counties of the state having at the federal census of eighteen hundred 

 and ninety, or that may at any subsequent federal census have a popula- 

 tion of not less than forty-three thousand and not more than forty-five 

 thousand, and in all counties of the state having at the federal census 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety, or that may have at any subsequent 

 federal census, a population of not less than twenty-one thousand and not 

 more than twenty-two thousand; provided, in such counties not more 

 than ofce-fourth of the total cost and expenses of such improvements 

 shall be paid from the proceeds of levies upon the grand duplicates of 

 such counties, and the bonds so authorized may bear interest at a rate 

 not in excess of six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and may 

 be made to mature in not less than three and not more than ten years from 

 the date of their issue. 



(4837-2) SEC. 2. [All other sections relating to two-mile as- 

 sessment pikes to be in force.] All the other provisions of chapter 

 eight, title seven, of the Revised Statutes regulating two-mile assessment 

 pikes shall remain in full force and applicable to improvements made 

 under this act except where inconsistent with the foregoing special 

 provisions or with said sections 48360, 48366, 4836^ 48363/4836^, and 

 4836^, 



