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condition for all kinds of public travel, and for that purpose they are 

 invested with all necessary powers as to drainage, the purchase of stone, 

 gravel, or other material, or if necessary, the condemnation of such ma- 

 terial for the repair of the roads within their townships, as are, or may 

 be conferred by law upon county commissioners. 



SEC. 4892. [Trustees may assign roads to supervisors.] The 



trustees may at their regular March session each year apportion and 

 assign to the several supervisors of roads in their townships, or to other 

 suitable persons, such road or roads, or any part or parts thereof in the 

 road districts of such supervisors respectively, to be by such supervisors, 

 or by such other suitable persons kept in repair as required in section 

 forty-eight hundred and ninety-one and under the control and super- 

 vision of the trustees. And all money paid out of the township treasury 

 for the repair or improvement of such roads shall be paid to the person 

 performing such labor, on the order of the trustees of such township. 



SEC. 4893. [Trustees to report annually to commissioners.] The 



trustees shall transmit to the commissioners of the county, prior to their 

 regular quarterly meeting on the first Monday of June in each year, a 

 statement showing the number of miles of free gravel roads in their 

 township, the amount of levy made for road purposes, and the pro rata 

 of the same set apart for keeping such roads in repair and expended on 

 the same, and the conditions in which such roads are for public travel. 



SEC. 4894. [Trustees shall set off persons and districts for repair 

 of roads ; labor on roads ; improved road fund ; use of tools owned by 

 township; transfer of certain funds to be used for such repairs.] The 

 trustees shall provide means for keeping in repair all such roads within 

 their township, and for that purpose shall set off persons and districts ; 

 such persons shall perform their two days' labor as required by law* 

 and also labor in commutation of taxes, the same to be worked out 

 under the direction of such supervisors or such other suitable persons, 

 as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and ninety-one and forty- 

 eight hundred and ninety-two, and under the control and supervision of 

 the trustees, and such supervisors or other suitable persons shall be 

 authorized to give receipts therefor ; and such trustees shall set off, from 

 the common road fund of their township, such amount as to them shall 

 seem equitable, to be an improved road fund, especially applicable to 

 the care and improvement of such roads, and may also allow the use 

 of any plows, scrapers, or other implements owned by the township for 

 road purposes, and in any county in which said improved roads have 

 been placed under the control of the county commissioners, any funds 

 set apart or collected in any township for the repair of such roads, or 

 any balance thereof remaining in any township treasxiry, may, by the 

 township trustees, be transferred, and used for the repair of any roads 

 in the township, as said trustees may deem necessary. 



SEC. 4895. [County commissioners may levy additional tax for 

 road purposes.] If the tax levied by the township trustees and the 

 road-labor where applied to such improved roads are found by the county 

 commissioners to be insufficient to keep such roads in good repair, they 

 may determine and levy an additional per centum of extra road tax, 

 to be levied upon the taxable property of the county, not exceeding two 

 mills on the dollar in any year ; and the same shall be collected as other 

 taxes, and when collected, shall be paid by the county treasurer to the 

 township treasurers, upon the order of the county commissioners in 



