240 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



purpose he shall have all the powers and privileges of road supervisors 

 for drainage, and for the removal of timber, logs, cord wood or. other 

 obstructions found within the limits of the road from time to time. He 

 may, subject to the will of the trustees, contract for all material necessary 

 for repairs, and in cases of floods or freshets, giving rise to breaks in 

 the road-bed, or washing off large quantities of gravel, he may contract 

 for repairs, either by day or job work, and shall certify the same with 

 itemized account to the trustees, who, upon rinding the accounts correct 

 and satisfactory, shall pay them out of the township treasury from funds 

 raised for road purposes. The trustees shall furnish such superintendent 

 with plows, scrapers, or other implements as are necessary for the proper 

 and economical care of the roads. The road superintendent shall, at 

 the regular March meeting of the trustees each year, make an itemized 

 report of the receipts and expenditures in his district for road purposes 

 the preceding year ; the number of persons in his district who are re- 

 quired by law to perform two days' labor on the public highway, and 

 the number who have performed such labor ; the number of miles and 

 the condition for public travel of all roads in his district, and the probable 

 wants of such roads for the ensuing year. The township clerk in his 

 annual statement shall specify the amount of money received and ex- 

 pended for road purposes in each district of the township. The road 

 superintendent shall receive for his services under the preceding sections, 

 not exceeding two dollars per day as the trustees may determine, for the 

 time actually employed in the care of such roads, which shall be paid out 

 of the road funds of such township. The superintendent shall not, either 

 directly or indirectly, work out any of the taxes herein provided for in 

 this act ; nor shall he receive any compensation for the work of any team 

 of which he is the owner, on any such roads, nor shall he employ any 

 member of his own family in such work by which he shall himself be 

 financially benefited. And the trustees shall not certify any account to 

 the township clerk in favor of any superintendent for work on such roads, 

 other than is herein provided for superintending and caring for such 

 roads. 



SEC. 48gs/ : . [Penalty for violation by superintendent.] Any 

 such road superintendent who neglects or refuses to perform the duties 

 enjoined on him herein, or who, under any pretense whatever, gives or 

 signs any certificate for labor or work performed, or material furnished. 

 when the labor has not been performed or material furnished before 

 the giving or signing of such certificate, shall forfeit for every such offense 

 not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered bv 

 an action before a justice of the peace within the township where such 

 superintendent resides, and the trustees of the township shall prosecute 

 all offenses against the provisions of this section. 



SEC. 4895^. [Levy of tax.] The township trustees shall pro- 

 vide means for keeping in repair all such roads within their township, 

 and in addition to the two days' labor required by law, but which shall 

 not be required to be performed during the days' of corn-planting and 

 wheat-harvesting, which shall be worked under the direction of the road 

 superintendent in their respective districts, they shall levy upon the 

 taxable property of the township, a sum sufficient for said purpose, not 

 to exceed two mills on the dollar in any one year, and the same shall be 

 collected as other taxes, and when collected shall be paid by the county 

 treasurer to the township treasurer upon the order of the county auditor. 

 The trustees, in determining the division of the fund, shall be governed, 



