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SEC. 4874. [Owners of certain roads may sell the same.] A per- 

 son owning the right to take toll on any toll road, or the road of any 

 incorporated turnpike company, which right has been purchased under 

 the provisions of the act of the general assembly passed February 8 

 1826, entitled "an act for the regulation of turnpike companies," may 

 sell such right to the county commissioners of the county in which the 

 road or any part thereof is located, in conformity with the provisions 

 of this chapter, so far as the same may be applicable. 



SEC. 4875. [To be a free road.] After the purchase of such right 

 by the commissioners, the road shall immediately thereafter become a 

 free road, for the period over which such right extends. 



REPAIR OF IMPROVED ROADS. 



SEC. 4876. [Improved roads to be repaired.] All macadamized 

 or graveled roads which are free roads, whether constructed under gen- 

 eral or local laws by taxation or assessment, or both, or converted by 

 purchase or otherwise from a toll road into a free road under any law, 

 and all turnpike roads, or parts thereof, unfinished or abandoned by 

 any turnpike company, and appropriated or accepted by the commis- 

 sioners of the county, shall be kept in repair as provided in this chapter." 



SEC. 4889. [Townships in certain counties made road districts.] 

 Each township in the counties of Belmont, Butler, Carroll, Champaign, 

 Clermont, Clinton, Columbians, Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware. Erie, 

 Franklin, Geauga, Greene, Hamilton/Harrison, Licking, Lucas, Mont- 

 gomery, Muskingum. Ottawa, Preble, Portage, Pickaway, Ross, Stark, 

 Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Washington, Warren and Wayne in 

 which any such free road is located, shall be a road district for the care 

 and maintenance thereof. 



SEC. 4889(7. [Certain repairs in Pickaway county.] In Pickaway 

 county, the county commissioners shall repair all embankments or levees, 

 on which free turnpike roads are located, which have been constructed 

 to prevent overflows and inundations of said free turnpikes, and the 

 expense of repairing such embankments or levees, or free turnpikes 

 constructed thereon, shall be paid out of the money raised by taxation 

 for road or bridge purposes in said county. 



SEC. 4890. [Auditor to give notice to township clerk.] Unless 

 such notice has heretofore been given, the auditor of each of said coun- 

 ties shall immediately give notice to the clerk of each township in which 

 any such road is located, that the trustees are required to take the charge 

 and control thereof; and the auditor shall give the like notice upon the 

 acceptance or appropriation of any other macadamized or graveled road 

 by the county commissioners. 



SEC. 4891. [Township trustees charged with the repair of im- 

 proved roads.] The township clerk, on receipt of such notice from 

 the auditor, shall immediately notify the township trustees of such fact, 

 who shall, upon receipt of the notice, have full charge and control of 

 all such roads as are herein provided for within their townships; and 

 the trustees shall divide such road, or roads, into sections of not less 

 than one-half mile each, a-nd shall keep them in repair, and in good 



