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SEC. 4921. [How surplus of tax to be disposed of.] All money 

 assessed and collected under the provisions of section forty-nine hundred 

 and nineteen, which remains in the hands of the county treasurer, un- 

 expended and unappropriated, for a period of six months 'after the annual 

 September settlement for [the] fiscal year during which the tax was col- 

 lected, shall be paid to the treasurer of the township or municipal cor- 

 poration from which the same was collected, and shall be expended on 

 the public roads, under the direction of the trustees of the proper town- 

 ship or municipal corporation, in such manner as may seem to them 

 most advantageous to the interest of the township or 'corporation, for 

 the construction, reconstruction, or repair of roads, and in building or 

 repairing bridges. 



SEC. 4922. [When commissioners may build embankments.] 

 When any of the principal public roads in any county, except turnpike 

 roads, over which tolls are collected, are subject to overflow or inunda- 

 tion, so as to render the same at any time unfit for public travel, or 

 hinder free and necessary transportation, the commissioners of such 

 county may repair or reconstruct such roads by changing the beds of 

 small streams to avoid crossing, or to change roads to avoid bridges, 

 where the public travel would be better accommodated, or by. building 

 embankments or levee sufficiently elevated above all such overflows or 

 inundation; and the expenses of such embankment, changes, or levee 

 shall be paid out of the money in the county treasury, or that may be 

 hereafter raised by taxation, fo'r road or bridge purposes. 



SEC. 4923. [When the road belongs to adjoining counties.] 

 When any such road has been constructed by adjoining counties, the 

 commissioners of such counties, conjointly, may repair or reconstruct 

 such road above an elevation of such overflow or inundation, and the 

 expense of the same shall be paid from any money which may be in 

 or shall hereafter come into the treasury of such counties for road or 

 bridge purposes, in proportion to the aggregate amount of the tax dupli- 

 cate of their respective counties. 



SEC. 4924. [When commissioners may establish a ferry.] When 

 any county bridge has been destroyed by fire, flood or any other case 

 [cause], the county commissioners may establish or cause to be estab- 

 lished, a free ferry in lieu of such bridge. They may also establish or 

 cause to be established a free ferry over any of the interior streams of 

 the state of Ohio where it is not expedient to build a bridge. But the 

 cost of maintaining such free ferry shall not in any case exceed the in- 

 terest on the probable cost of constructing a bridge across the stream. 



SEC. 4925. [When county auditor may levy extra road tax.] 



When two-thirds of the resident freehold taxpayers living on the line 

 of any state road, county road, or turnpike road, file a petition with the 

 auditor of any county for in extra tax for the purpose of constructing, 

 improving, or reoairing such road, he shall levy such tax, of any amount 

 that may be required, not exceeding six mills on the dollar valuation, 

 in any year, on all the lands and taxable property for any distance on 

 each side of such road not exceeding one mile, and in no case more than 

 half the distance from such road to any other state, county, or free turn- 

 pike road running parallel or nearly parallel thereto. 



SEC. 4926. [How long such tax to continue.] When any such tax 

 is levied it shall continue for the term of three years and no longer, unless 



