Download or read book Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery, Vol. 76 written by Norman L. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery, Vol. 76: Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois; Containing a Portion of the Cases Submitted at the January Term, 1875 The 34th section of the road law of 1873, p. 158, for coun ties not under township organization, provides that county courts which adopt the system Of keeping up their roads by taxes in part and labor in part, shall fix the number Of days each able bodied man between the ages Of twenty-one and fifty, not exceeding three, shall perform on the public roads within the county during the year. And the 39th section of the same act provides, that in any city or town which shall be incorporated under a general or special law, no requisition in labor or money from the citizens thereof on property within the corporate limits shall be required, to improve roads in the county, different from the grant in the charter; but they shall be required to work and pay a tax to improve the streets and roads, and such improvements as shall be required by the charter or within the limits of the corporation, SO long as the charter remains in force. The 29th section of the same law requires the county commissioners to lay out and divide their respective counties into such road districts as they may deem convenient and proper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.