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§§ 594-599 county, and on the first Monday of July, annually, they shall cause a full and accurate statement of the assessments, receipts and expenditures of the preceding year to be made out in detail under separate heads, with an account of all debts payable to and by the county treasurer, and they shall have the same printed in at least one newspaper in their county, and if there be no paper in the county the same shall be posted up at the usual place of holding their sessions, and at one public place in each precinct of the county.

§ 594. Said board is authorized to procure for their county a copy of the field notes, as soon as practicable, of the original survey of their county by the United States, and cause a map of the county to be constructed therefrom on a scale of not less than one inch to a mile, and laid off in congressional townships and sections, to be kept open in the office of the county clerk, and the field notes to be deposited in the same office.

§ 595. They shall submit to the people of the county at any regular or special election any question involving an extraordinary outlay of money by the county, or any expenditure greater in amount than can be provided for by the annual tax, or whether the county will construct any court house, jail or other public building, or aid or construct any road or bridge, and may aid any enterprise designed for the county whenever a majority of the people thereof shall authorize the same as hereinafter provided.

§ 596. When county warrants are at a depreciated value, the said commissioners may in a like manner submit the question whether a tax of a higher rate than that provided by law shall be levied; and in all cases when an additional tax is laid in pursuance of a vote of the people of the county, or for constructing or ordering to be constructed any road or bridge, or for aiding in any enterprise contemplated by the preceding section, such special tax shall be paid in money and in no other manner.

§ 597. The mode of submitting questions to the people contemplated by the last two sections shall be the following: The whole question, including the sum desired to be raised or the amount of the tax desired to be levied or the rate per annum, and the whole regulation, including the time of its taking effect or having operation, if it be of a nature to be set forth, and the penalty of its violation if there be one, is to be published at least four weeks in some newspaper published in the county. If there be no such newspaper, the publication is to be made by being posted up in at least one of the most public places in each election precinct in the county; and in all cases the notices shall name the time when such question will be voted upon, and the form in which the question shall be taken, and a copy of the question submitted shall be posted up at each place of voting during the day of election.

§ 598. When the question submitted involves the borrowing or expenditure of money the proposition of the question must be accompanied by a proposition to lay a tax for the payment thereof in addition to the usual taxes under section 1589; and no vote adopting the question proposed shall be valid unless it likewise adopt the amount of tax to be levied to meet the liability incurred.

§ 599. The rate of tax levied in pursuance of the last four sections shall in no case exceed three mills on the dollar of the county valuation in one year. When the object is to borrow

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