Posting of time of arri val of trains. Penalty. [Senate Bill No. 114.] To require railroad companies to give notice at stations whether passenger trains are on schedule time or not. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That every company or person operating a railroad within this State shall, immediately after the taking effect of this act, cause to be placed in a conspicuous place in each passenger depot of such company, located at any station in this State at which there is a telegraph office, a black board, at least four feet in length and two feet in width, upon which board such company or person shall cause to be written, at least ten minutes before the schedule time for the arrival of each passenger train stopping regularly upon such road at such station, the fact whether such train is on schedule time or not, and if late, how much. SECTION 2. That for each violation of the provisions of this act, such company or person so neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, ($10 00) to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the State of Ohio, one-half of which shall go to the party commencing proceedings, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the township, village or city in which such proceedings are had. SECTION 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1886. DANIEL J. RYAN, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, Passed May 8, 1886. President of the Senate. Mode prescribed for leasing State property by Board of Public Works. [Senate Bill No. 135.] AN ACT Prescribing the method whereby the board of public works can lease property belonging to the State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be unlawful for the board of public works to lease any property belonging to the State which is under their control and management, unless the same be authorized by the general assembly. SECTION 2. Whenever such action has been taken by the general assembly, it shall be the duty of the board to have an accurate survey and plat made of the property to be so leased, with a proper description of the same, which shall be filed with the auditor of State, who shall record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, after which it shall be the duty of the board to offer the same as a whole, or if divisible it is so to be noted on the plat, and then to be leased in separate tracts; and in either case it is to be offered and sold at public outcry in the city or corporation where the same is located; and should it be located outside of any city or corporation, then in the city or corporation nearest such property to be leased; provided, however, before leasing the same, the board shall cause public notice to be published at least four weeks in some newspaper published in said city or corporation, and if none [be] published in such place, then in the county seat where such property is located, giving the location, condition and number of years to be leased. SECTION 3. After said property is leased, attested copies, and the collection of rents shall be the same as provided in sections 6 and 7 of the act of May 14, 187, (75 v. 584, 3 Rev. Statutes, page 374), entitled "an act defining the powers and prescribing the duties of the board of public works," provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the board from leasing for water power or purposes as provided in section 6 of such act. SECTION 4. That section 3 of the act of April 29, 1872, (69 v. 194, 3 Rev. Stats., page 677), be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DANIEL J. RYAN, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed May 8, 1886. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, [Senate Bill No. 123.] AN ACT To provide against the adulteration of candy. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That no person shall manufacture for sale, or sell or offer to sell any candy adulterated by the admixture of terra alba, bery tes, talc, or other mineral substance, or poisonous colors or flavors, or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health. SECTION 2. Every person manufacturing any candy, or offering or exposing the same for sale, shall furnish to any person interested or demanding the same, who shall apply to him for that purpose, and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis thereof. Manufacture and sale of adulterated candy. Samples. SECTION 3. Whoever refuses to comply, upon demand, with Penalties. the requirements of section 2, and whoever violates any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misd meanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than twenty five dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one hundred nor less than thirty days, or both; and he shall be adjudged to pay in addition all necessary costs and expenses incurred in the inspecting and analyzing such adulterated candy, and the same shall be forfeited and destroyed under the direction of the court. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. DANIEL J. RYAN, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, Passed May 8, 1886. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 110.] AN ACT To create the office of dairy and food commissioner. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of "Ohio Dairy Ohio, That there is hereby created the office of dairy and food and Food Commis sioner." Salary and expenses. General duties. His powers. Assistants. Expert. commissioner of the State of Ohio. Said commissioner shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the s-nate; he shall be known as the "Ohio dairy and food commissioner;" his term of office shall be for two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified; his salary shall be fifteen hundred dollars per year, and his necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties under this act, to be paid at the end of each calendar month on presentation of vouchers properly itemized and certified by him to be correct. Said expenses to be paid out of the general revenue fund, but not [to] exceed $600 in any one year. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioner or assistant to inspect any article of butter, cheese, lard, syrup, sugar or other article of food or drink made or offered for sale within the State of Ohio as an article of food or drink, and to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted, any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations engaged in the manufacture or sale of any adulterated or counterfeit article or articles of food or drink in violation of or contrary to any law or laws of the State of Ohio. SECTION 3. Said commissioner or any assistant shall have power, in the performance of his duties, to enter into any creamery, factory, store, salesroom or place where he has reason to believe food or drink is made, prepared, sold or offered for sale, and to open any cask, tub or package containing or supposed to contain any article of food or drink, and to examine or cause to be examined and analyzed the contents thereof; and it shall be the duty of any prosecuting attorney in any county of the State, when called upon by said commissioner or any assistant, to render him any legal assistance in his power to execute the laws, and to assist in the prosecution of cases arising under provisions of this act. SECTION 4. Said commissioner may, with the consent and advice of the governor, appoint not more than two assistants, whose salaries shall not exceed one thousand dollars each, per annum, and their necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties, payable in time and manner like those of the commissioner, and on itemized vouchers approved by the said commissioner. The said commissioner shall have power, with the advice and consent of the governor and the secretary of the Ohio State board of agriculture, to appoint an expert, to be of acknowledged standing and ability and integrity, to examine samples of food and drink submitted to him by the commissioner or his assistants; the compensation of said expert shall be for the actual number of determinations or examinations required and made, and shall not exceed for each determination or examination two-thirds the price usually paid experts for a single determination or examination of a similar kind; the compensation of said expert shall be aid at the end of each quarter of the calendar year, on itemized vouchers certified by the said commissioner; which amount of expense shall not exceed in any one year the sum of $600, the same to be paid out of the general revenue fund. of fees and fines. Office room; report. SECTION 5. All fines assessed and collected under prosecutions Disposition begun or caused to be begun by said commissioner or his assist ants, shall be paid, one-half into the State treasury, and one-half into the county treasury where the prosecution took place; and all license fees, if any, shall be paid into the State treasury. SECTION 6. Said commissioner shall be furnished a suitable office in the department of the State board of agriculture within [the] State capitol building, and shall make an annual report to the governor, containing an itemized statement of all expenses incurred and fines collected, with such statistics as he may regard of value; and said report shall be published each year as a supplement to the annual agricultural report, and two thousand copies thereof shall be published separately, in pamphlet form. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DANIEL J. RYAN, Passed May 8, 1886. [Senate Bill No. 200.] AN ACT To authorize certain cities to levy a tax and issue bonds for the purpose of constructing sewers and draius. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of any municipal corporation which, by the federal census of 1880, had a population of nine thousand six hundred, is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purposes herein set forth, to issue bonds upon the terms herein named, entitled as follows, and to the amounts severally set forth: The East Main street sewer district number one bonds, thirty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars ($36,375.00); the South Fourth street sewer district number two bonds, thirty-six hundred and twenty-five dollars ($3,625.00). Said bonds are to be issued to enable the city councils of said cities to construct sewers or drains in a portion of said cities in two sewer districts named and numbered as follows: "The East Main street sewer district number one," and "The South Fourth street sewer district number two," according to the plans and specifications adopted by the city councils of said cities and now on file in the office of city clerk of said cities. Said bonds shall be of such denominations as the said city councils shall deem best, in any sum not in excess of the amounts heretofore named, and for a length of time not exceeding twenty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. Said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, and the proceeds Newark authorized to issue sewer bonds thereof, together with such premiums as may be derived therefrom, shall be applied to no other purposes than the purposes herein mentioned. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and clerk of said cities, and be sealed with the seal of the corporation. SECTION 2 The council of said cities are hereby authorized to levy an annual tax not in excess of nine-tenths of one mill on the dollar on the general duplicate of said cities. in addition to the amount now allowed by law, for the redemption of said bonds and the payment of interest thereon, until said bonds and the interest thereon are paid and said bonds redeemed as the same may become due. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DANIEL J. RYAN, Speaker pro tem. of the Hou e of Representatives. Passed May 10, 1886. S. A. CONRAD, President pro tem. of the Senate. General appropriations. [House Bill No. 333.] AN ACT Making appropria ions for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15th, 1886, and the first quarter o' the fiscal year ending February 15th, 1887. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and hereby are appropriated out of any moneys in the general revenue fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, for the purposes hereinafter specified, to-wit: Adjutant-General's Department: Salary of adjutant general, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) Salary of assistant adjutant-general, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($1,125). Salary of chief clerk one thousand and fifty dollars ($1,050). Salary of assistant clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars ($450). Salary of four transcribing clerks, three thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-four cents ($3,543.34). Salary of superintendent of state arsenal, nine hundred dollars ($900). Contingent expenses, and inspection of Ohio national guard, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($1,125). Repairs, state arsenal, fif y dollars ($50). Transportation of indigent soldiers, one hundred dollars ($100). For making copy of soldiers' roster for publication, seven thousand dollars ($7,000). Care of military stores and freight on arms, nine hundred dollars ($900). For two new closets for senate and repair of old ones, one thousand dollars ($1,000). |