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SEC. 4939. [Joint county and railroad bridges.] The commis- 

 sioners of any county may contract with any railroad company for the 

 construction, use, and maintenance of wagon tracks in connection with 

 railroad bridges. 



SEC. 4940. [Construction of approaches to county bridges; pur- 

 chase of materials; appropriation of materials; lighting of bridges- 

 duty of township trustees.] The commissioners of any county shall 

 cause to be constructed without unnecessary delay, good and sufficient 

 approaches or ways to bridges which have been or may hereafter be 

 erected by them ; and they shall contract for the construction thereof in 

 the same manner as is provided by law for contracting for the erection 

 of bridges by county commissioners; and the county commissioners of 

 any county may contract for and purchase such stone, gravel, earth, dirt 

 or other material as may be necessary for the construction of 'such 

 approaches or ways to such bridges, or for keeping the same in repair; 

 provided, that if the commissioners and the owner or owners of such 

 stone, gravel, earth, dirt or other material can not agree on a price 

 deemed fair and reasonable, like proceedings shall be had and with like 

 effect as are provided by law for the procurement of material by the 

 commissioners in like cases under the two-mile assessment pike law'; and 

 the cost of constructing such approaches and procuring such material 

 shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county, on the order of the 

 county commissioners ; and said county commissioners may, when in their 

 opinion the safety of the public travel requires it, contract for the proper 

 lighting of any -of said bridges, when the span or two or more spans 

 of which cross the same stream or streams and which spans are connected 

 by levees, and when such span or spans and levees taken together have 

 a combined length of not less than five hundred feet; and the cost of 

 such lighting shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county on the 

 order of the commissioners ; but the trustees of the several townships 

 shall cause to be built and kept in repair all bridges and culverts except 

 upon improved and free turnpike roads, when the cost of construction 

 does not exceed fifty dollars, and shall keep in repair all bridges con- 

 structed by the commissioners ; provided, however, such repair by said 

 trustees of any such bridge, -in any year, shall not exceed ten dollars, 

 and they are authorized to levy a tax for the payment of the same. 



As to further duties of county commissioners and township trustees, regard- 

 ing approaches to bridges, see 861. 



SEC. 4941. [They may purchase toll bridge.] The commission- 

 ers of any county in which there is a toll-bridge may purchase the same 

 at such price as may be agreed upon by them and the owners of such 

 bridge. 



(4941-1) SEC. i. [Guard rails on county bridge.] It shall be 

 the duty of every board of county commissioners in this state to, within 

 two years after the passage of this act, erect or cause to be erected and 

 maintained where the same has not already been done, one or more 

 guard-rails on each end of every county bridge, viaduct or culvert, the I 

 same being more than five feet high ; and' also erect or cause to be erected, r 

 where the same has not already been done, one or more guard-rails on 

 each side of every approach to each and every county bridge, viaduct 

 or culvert wherever said approach or embankment is more than six feet 

 high ; and also within five years after the passage of this act, to protect, 

 by suitable guard-rails, all perpendicular wash-banks more than eight 



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