Excerpt from The Laws Relating to Roads and Ditches: Bridges and Water-Courses in the State of Ohio, Including State, County and Township Roads; Free Turnpikes or Improved Roads; Highways in Municipal Corporations; Toll-Roads and Turnpikes; Bridges and Culverts of All Kinds; County and Townships Ditches; Th It is hoped that the work is well done, and that it will be useful to the bench and bar, as well as to the various county and township officers and others whose rights and duties relate in part to the mat ters treated in it. It is regretted that the volume is so large; but it is believed that the omission of any thing that would materially diminish its size would make it incomplete. Much might be said in this preface, or a preliminary chapter might not inappropriately have been inserted, concerning the his tory, kind, and condition of roads and drainage, at least in Ohio, if not in other countries and times, such as the roads of Rome of old. 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.