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SEC. 4932. [Their powers and duties in relation thereto.] The 

 commissioners may cause gates and toll-houses to be erected on said 

 road within their respective counties, at such places as they shall desig- 

 nate, for the collection of tolls, appoint the necessary collectors of tolls, 

 and remove them at pleasure, and pay them reasonable compensation 

 for their services ; the collectors shall pay into the treasuries of their 

 respective counties, at the end of each month, all money collected and 

 remaining in their hands after deducting the compensation allowed for 

 their services, and the commissioners shall apply such money to the keep- 

 ing in repair of said road within their respective counties ; and in the 

 collection of tolls the collectors shall be governed in all respects by the 

 laws in force relating to the collection of tolls ; but no .toll shall be 

 charged or collected for travel on the part of said road situate in Madison 

 county, or on the part lying between the city -of Columbus and the Co- 

 lumbus asylum for the insane ; and all persons shall be permitted to travel 

 on said parts of said road free of toll. 



SEC. 4933. [May collect toll between toll-gates.] The commis- 

 sioners, if they deem it for the best interest of the road may require the 

 collection of toll from persons who may travel with horses and all kinds 

 of carriages and wagons between toll-gates, or between the county line 

 and the nearest gate thereto, at the same rate per mile as may be charged 

 for like travel on said road to persons traveling or hauling through the 

 toll-gates thereof, and may make such rules and regulations with regard 

 to the collection of such intermediate tolls as they may deem just and 

 proper, 



SEC. 4934. [Special provision for Madison county.] When the 

 consent of the congress of the United States shall have been obtained 

 thereto, the commissioners of any county through which said road passes 

 may, if they deem it for the best interest of the road, or the people whom 

 the road accommodates, submit to the legal voters of the county, at any 

 regular or special election, the question, "Shall the National Road be 

 a free turnpike road ;" and when the question is submitted, if a majority 

 of all those voting thereon vote "Yes," the commissioners shall sell the 

 gates, toll-houses, and any other property belonging to the road, to the 

 highest bidder, apply the proceeds of the sale to the repairing of the 

 road, and declare so much of the road as lies within their county a free 

 turnpike road, to be kept in repair in the way and manner provided by 

 law for the repair of free turnpikes. 



SEC. 4935. [Unfinished portions of National road.] The com- 

 missioners of such counties in which said road has never been completed, 

 and in which no toll-gates are erected, or toll collected, may proceed 

 in accordance with the provisions of chapter seven to make and declare 

 such unfinished parts of the road a free turnpike or county road. 



SEC. 4935fl. [Road records, how restored; publication and notice 

 of; costs of; how paid.] AYhenever an application shall be filed in 

 the court of common pleas of any county by the commissioners thereof, 

 showing that the records of any specified road or roads of said county 

 were lost or destroyed by fire, riot or civil commotion, and that copies 

 thereof or of some of them are in existence, and praying that the verity 

 of such copies as may be produced shall be ascertained and declared lr. 

 the court, said court shall require notice to be given by publication for 

 *ix weeks, upon such days, not less than once a week, and in such news- 

 papers as said court shall direct, of the filing and prayer of said applica- 



