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or at intervals not exceeding in all the period of twenty years, bearing 

 interest at the rate not to exceed six per cent, per annum, payable semi- 

 annually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value; 

 the assessment shall be divided in such manner as to meet the payment 

 of principal and interest of the bonds; be placed upon the duplicate 

 for taxation against the lands assessed, and collected in the same man- 

 ner as other taxes; and when collected, the money arising therefrom 

 shall be applied for no other purpose than the payment of the bonds 

 and interest; but the county commissioners shall build all bridges and 

 culverts on the improvement, and pay for the same out of the bridge 

 fund of the county ; and no bonds shall be delivered, or money paid to 

 any contractor, except on the estimate of work done, as the same pro- 

 gresses, or is completed. 



SEC. 4847. [When assessment is insufficient.] If it be ascer- 

 tained by the county auditor that the assessments on land upon the dupli- 

 cate are not sufficient to pay for the construction of any such road, he 

 shall add to the assessments, pro rata, the amount that the actual ex- 

 pense is found to be more than the assessments on the duplicate, and 

 the additional assessments shall be placed upon the same duplicate with 

 previous assessments for the construction of the same road, and shall 

 be collected in like manner. 



SEC. 4848. [How excess of assessments on two-mile turnpikes 

 distributed.] Any balance of assessments made for the construction 

 of any such road remaining in any county treasury, after the payment 

 of all expenses incurred on account of the road, shall be certified by the 

 county auditor into the treasuries of the townships through which the 

 road is located, proportionately to the amount paid for the making of 

 the same in each of the townships, to be expended under the order of 

 the township trustees in repairing the road ; but in counties where the 

 county commissioners are constituted a board of turnpike directors, such 

 unexpended balance shall be transferred to the general improved road 

 repair fund of such county. 



SEC. 4849. [Compensation and fees.] The compensation of per- 

 sons employed under this chapter shall be fixed by the county com- 

 missioners, and shall not exceed three dollars per day; but the sur- 

 veyor or engineer and the county auditor shall receive such compensa- 

 tion for their services as is fixed by law for the compensation of the 

 county surveyor and county auditor respectively for like services in 

 other cases. 



SEC. 4850. [Cities and villages may assist in constructing im- 

 proved road. | When any road to be improved under and by virtue of 

 this chapter begins or terminates in a city or village, the corporate 

 authorities thereof may, upon the recommendation of the county com- 

 missioners, if they deem the same expedient, agree to pay in the bonds of 

 such city or village, in the manner and proportions described in sections 

 forty-eight hundred and forty-sir, in addition to any amount that may 

 be assessed upon the real property within such corporation by virtue 

 of the provisions of this chapter, an amount not exceeding one-fifth 

 of the entire cost of the road ; but the entire tax to be imposed for roacj 

 purposes, by virtue of this section, shall not in any year exceed five mills 

 on the dollar of the taxable property in the corporation. 



SRC. 4851. [Cities in adjoining counties may aid.] When it is 

 desirable or expedient to continue any road contemplated under this 



