oils, milk, breadstuffs, meats, fish, cattle, milk cows, sheep,
hogs, goats, poultry, game, vegetable and all food products.
Sec. 7u. To establish, maintain and regulate public
baths and bath houses, drinking fountains, water troughs
and public toilet stations; and free public band concerts;
to establish, maintain and regulate free public libraries and
reading rooms, and to purchase books, papers, maps, and
manuscripts therefor, and to receive donations and bequests
of money or property for the same, in trust or otherwise,
and to provide for the rent and compensation for the use
of any existing free public libraries established and managed
by a private corporation or association organized for that
purpose. -
Sec. 7tw. To provide for the rent and compensation for
the use of any existing free public hospital established and
managed by a private corporation or association organized
for that purpose.
Sec. 74. To restrain and prohibit the distribution, sale
and exposure for sale of books, papers, pictures and period-
icals or advertising matter of an obscene or immoral nature.
Sec. 73). To provide for the collection and disposition
of sewage, garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse,
dead animals and animal offal and to establish, maintain and
regulate plants for the disposal thereof.
Sec. 73. To hold and improve public grounds, parks,
park entrances and boulevards, to protect and preserve the
same and to acquire by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation
or otherwise and to hold real estate or any interest therein
and other property for the use of the corporation and to
sell or lease the same. -
Sec. 7aa. To take and authenticate a census of the
municipality.
Sec. 7bb. To require the employment of conductors
on all street cars within the corporate limits.
Sec. 7cc. To make the violation of ordinances a mis-
demeanor, and to provide for the punishment thereof by fine
or imprisonment, or both; provided, that such fine shall
not exceed five hundred dollars and such imprisonment shall
not exceed six months.
Sec. 7dd. All municipal corporations shall have the
power to regulate and license manufacturers and dealers
in explosives; pawnbrokers; chattel mortgage and salary
loan brokers; peddlers; public ball rooms, scavengers; in-
telligence offices; billiard rooms; bowling alleys; livery, sale
and boarding stables; dancing or riding academies or
schools; race courses; ball grounds, street musicians, sec-
ond hand dealers and junk shops. In the granting of any
license a municipal corporation may exact and receive such
sums of money as the council shall deem proper and ex-
pedient. In the trial of any action brought under the power
of licensing herein given, the fact that any party to such
action represented himself or herself as engaged in any
business or occupation, for the transaction of which a

license may be required, or as the keeper, proprietor or
manager of the thing for which a license may be exacted,
or that such party exhibit a sign indicating such business
or calling, or such proprietorship or management shall be
conclusive evidence of the liability of such party to pay the
license therefor.
Sec. 7ee. To establish and furnish the necessary equip-
ment for a municipal department to be known as the de-
partment of purchase, construction and repair. Said de-
partment shall be under the management and control of
the board of public service and through it when so estab-
lished and said board managing the same shall be made
all purchases of material, supplies, tools, machinery and
equipment, together with all construction, alterations and
repairs of every kind and thing in each of the departments
of the municipality whether established by law or ordi-
nance. No purchase, construction, alteration or repair shall
be made except, either upon requisition by the board or
officer at the head of the department for which the same is
to be made or done or upon the order of council; nor shall
any purchase, construction, alteration or repair for any
of said departments be made or done except on authority
of council and under the laws as to competitive bidding if
the cost thereof exceeds five hundred dollars. -
SECTION 2. That said section 7 as amended April 20,
1904, is hereby repealed.
FREEMAN T. EAGLESON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

To provide a brief and convenient title for an act therein named.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION I. That in all acts, resolutions and proceedings relating to an act entitled: “An act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts and loaning their credit, so as to prevent the abuse of such powers, as required by the constitution of Ohio, and to repeal all sections of the Revised Statutes inconsistent herewith,” passed October 22, 1902, or to any

act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, the term "Municipal Code of 1902" shall be sufficient designation Name or title

for 1902 code. and title of the said act of October 22, 1902.

FREEMAN T. EAĢLESON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS,

President of the Senate.
Passed January 28, 1908.
Approved January 30, 1908.

ANDREW L. HARRIS,

Governor.
4G

[House Bill No. 906.]

AN ACT

To make sundry appropriations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION I. That the following sums for the purposes hereinafter specified, be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, to the credit of the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated :

Drinking
intoxicants
aboard trains.

Exceptions.

OHIO STATE LIBRARY.

Salary of librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,833 33

For traveling library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 OO

STATE TREASURER.

Salary of treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - . . . . $339 O4

OHIO STATE REFORMATORY.

Salaries of managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $333 36

Construction of cold storage plant and store

building combined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,OOO OO

COLUMBUS STATE HOSPITAL.

Current expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000 OO

Ordinary repairs and improvements . . . . . . . . . . . 2,171 OO

DAYTON ST.ATE HOSPITAL.

Ordinary repairs and improvements . . . . . . . . . . . $2,144 63

BOYS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

Current expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 OO

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' ORPHANS' HOME.

Current expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 OO

FREEMAN T. EAGLESON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS,

- President of the Senate.

Passed February 4, 1908.

Approved February 5, 1908.

ANDREW L. HARRIs,

Governor.

Prohibiting the use of intoxicating beverages while aboard any

engine, car or train of cars in this state.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION I. It shall be unlawful for any person to drink
whiskey, beer, ale or any other intoxicating beverage while
aboard any engine or car or train of cars in this state, pro-
pelled by steam or electricity, except in a dining cafe or
other car with buffet or cafe attachment.

SECTION 2. Any one violating the provisions of this
act shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than Fine.
one hundred dollars for each offense.

JOSEPH D. CHAMBERLAIN,
Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS,

President of the Senate.
Passed February 14, 1908.
Approved February 14, 1908.

ANDREW L. HARRIS,

Governor.
6G

[Amended House Bill No. 748.]

AN ACT

To regulate the establishment, maintenance and inspection of

maternity boarding houses and lying-in hospitals.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION 1. Whoever for hire, gain or reward, receives, cares for, or treats within a period of six months, more than one woman during pregnancy, or during or after delivery, except women related by blood or marriage; or whoever for hire, gain or reward has in his custody or control at any one time two or more infants under the age of two years, unattended by parents or guardians, for the purpose of providing them with care, food and lodging, except in- Definition of fants related to him by blood or marriage, shall be deemed boarding to maintain a maternity boarding house or lying-in hospital. lying in Provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed hospital. to prevent a nurse from practicing her profession under the Nurses. care of a physician in the home of a patient, or in a regular hospital other than a lying-in hospital.

Section 2. The state board of health shall have the Licenses. power to grant licenses to maintain maternity boarding houses and lying-in hospitals. Every application therefor shall first be approved by the board of health of the city, village or township in which such maternity boarding house or lying-in hospital is to be maintained. Such license shall be granted for a term not exceeding one year, shall state the name of the licensee, the particular premises in which the business may be carried on, the number of women and infants that may be boarded, treated or maintained there at any one time, and, if required by the board of health of the city, village or township in which such maternity boarding house or lying-in hospital is located, it shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises. No greater number of women and infants shall be kept at one time on