_Year_ _Tolls_ _Year_ _Tolls_ 1831 $2,777 16 1856 $6,105 00 1832 9,067 99 1857 6,105 00 1833 12,259 42-4 1858 6,105 00 1834 12,693 65 1859 5,551 36 1835 16,442 26 1860 11,221 74 1836 27,455 13 1861 21,492 41 1837 39,843 35 1862 19,000 00 1838 50,413 17 1863 20,000 00 1839 62,496 10 1864 20,000 00 1840 51,364 67 1865 20,000 00 1841 36,951 33 1866 19,000 00 1842 44,656 18 1867 20,631 34 1843 32,157 02 1868 18,934 49 1844 30,801 13 1869 20,577 04 1845 31,439 38 1870 19,635 75 1846 28,946 21 1871 19,244 00 1847 42,614 59 1872 18,002 09 1848 49,025 66 1873 17,940 37 1849 46,253 38 1874 17,971 21 1850 37,060 11 1875 17,265 12 1851 44,063 65 1876 9,601 68 1852 36,727 26 1877 288 91 1853 35,354 40 --------------- 1854 18,154 59 Total $1,139,795 30-4 1855 6,105 00 About 1850 Ohio began leasing portions of the Cumberland Road to private companies. In 1854 the entire distance from Springfield to the Ohio River was leased for a term of ten years for $6,105 a year. Commissioners were appointed to view the road continually and make the lessees keep it in as good condition as when it came into their hands.[53] Before the contract had half expired, the Board of Public Works was ordered (April, 1859) to take the road to relieve the lessees.[54] In 1870 the proper limits of the road were designated to be "a space of eighty feet in width, and where the road passed over a street in any city of the second class, the width should conform to the width of that street," such cities to own it so long as it was kept in repair.[55] Finally, in 1876, the state of Ohio authorized commissioners of the several counties to take so much of the road as lay in each county under their control. It was stipulated that tollgates should not average more than one in ten miles, and that no toll be collected between Columbus and the Ohio Central Lunatic Asylum. The county commissioners were to complete any unfinished portions of the road.[56] Later (1877) the rates of toll were left to the discretion of the county commissioners, with this provision: