SECTION 2. That the time of holding the court of common pleas in Athens county fixed by the judges of said court to be held May 30, A. D. 1886, be changed so as to hold said term on the 31st day of May, 1886. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Passed February 9, 1886. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 9.] AN ACT To change the time for holding the November term of the common JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Passed February 16, 1886. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 55.] AN ACT To amend section 4889 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SEC. 4889. Each township in the counties of Belmont, Butler, Carroll, Champaign, Clinton, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, Geauga, Greene, Hamilton, Henry, Huron, Licking, Lucas, Madison, Montgomery, Muskingum, Ottawa, Pike, Preble, Ross, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington, Warren, and Wayne, in which any such free road is located, shall be a road district, for the care and maintenance thereof. SECTION 2. Said section 4889, as amended February 4, 1885, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Road districts for repair of improved roads. Passed February 16, 1886. President of the Senate. Changing time of Holmes common pleas court. [Senate Bill No. 41.] AN ACT To change the time for holding the March term of the court of common pleas in the county of Holmes for the year 1886. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the time for holding the March term of the court of common pleas, in the county of Holmes, as fixed by the judges of the sixth judicial district, be and the same is hereby changed, so that said term shall be held on the 24th day of May, 1886, instead of the time as fixed by said judges. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, Passed February 17, 1886. President of the Senate. Officers benevolent institutions [House Bill No. 135.] AN ACT To correct sections 628, 629, 634, 635, 752, 753, 754, 756, 758, 759, 760, 761 and 764 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 628, 629, 634, 635, 752, 753, 754, 756, 758, 759, 760, 761 and 761 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio are so ainended as to read as follows: SEC. 628. No trustee or officer of any benevolent institution may be, either directly or indirectly, interested in any purchɛse for, or contract on behalf of such institution, and in addition to not to be in the liability of any trustee, or officer, violating this inhibition to respond in damages for any injury sustained by the institution by his act, he shall be forthwith removed from office. terested in contracts. Eligibility as superintendent or steward. Board of trustees. Appoint ment of trustees. Boys' indutrial school; committal and discharge of youths. SEC. 629. No trustee of any benevolent institution is eligible to the office of superintendent, or steward of such institution during the term for which he was appointed, nor within one year after his term expires. SEC. 634. The control and management of the state benevolent institutions, including the boys' industrial school and the girls' industrial home, are under a board of five trustees for each institution. The trustees shall elect one of their number as president of the board. SEC. 635. The governor shall, annually, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint one trustee for each of the state benevolent institutions, including the boys' industrial school and the girls' industrial home, who shall hold his office for the term of five years from the first Monday in April next after his appointment. SEC. 752. The boys' industrial school situate in Fairfield county, has for its object the reformation of those committed to its charge; and all youth committed thereto shall be committed until they arrive at full age, unless sooner reformed; provided, that the judge of the court sentencing such youth may order their discharge whenever he is satisfied by a re-examination of the facts connected with the arrest, conviction, and detention of the person confined, due notice of the time and place of such rehearing having first been given by the court to the superintendent of the boys' industrial school, that the future welfare of such youth and the interest of society will not be endangered thereby. SEC. 753. Male youth, not over sixteen nor under ten years of age, may be committed to the boys' industrial school by any judge of a police court, judge of the common pleas court or probate court, on conviction of any offense against the laws of the state. SEC. 754. Any such youth convicted of any crime or offense, the punishment of which is, in whole or in part, confinement in the jail or penitentiary, may, at the discretion of the court giving sentence, in lieu of being sent to the jail or penitentiary, be committed to the boys' industrial school. SEC. 756. No such youth shall be received into the boys' industrial school unless the cause of commitment is set forth in the papers presented with such youth, and the trustees shall also require that the age of such youth and such other information as they may deem important, shall likewise be furnished. SEC. 758. Any fugitive from the boys' industrial school may, on the order of the superintendent, or other officer of the institution, be arrested and returned to the school, or to any officer or agent thereof, by any sheriff, constable or police officer, or other person, and may also be arrested and returned by any officer or agent of the school. SEC. 759. The costs in any case, and the expenses incurred in the transportation of a youth to the boys' industrial school, shall be paid by the county from which he is committed, to the officer delivering him, upon the presentation of his sworn statement of account, and the certificate thereto of the proper officer of the institution; if, however, such youth has been convicted of a crime, the punishment of which is confinement in the penitentiary, the costs in the case and the expenses of his transportation shall, on like statement and certificate, be paid out of the State treasury. An officer charged with the execution of the commitment of a youth, shall retain in his custody the person so ordered to be committed, until he is notified by the officers of the boys' industrial school that there is room for him. SEC. 760. The inmates of the boys' industrial school shall Education receive such education, and shall be instructed in such branches of inmates. of industry, agricultural or mechanical, or otherwise as the board, from time to time, determines, the reformation of such inmates, and preparation for usefulness being kept in view in the administration of the institution; and for this purpose the board may introduce and carry on any branches of industry that are thought to be conducive to these ends. SEC. 761. The governor may, upon the written application of the superintendent of the boys' industrial school, or when it other wise is made to appear to him that it is expedient, cause any juvenile offender, confined in the penitentiary, or in any house of refuge, to be transferred to the boys' industrial school, the expense of such removal to be paid by the State; and, any person so Power of governor as to juvenile offenders. School made removed from the penitentiary, or sentenced to the penitentiary, shall, while at the boys' industrial school, be governed by the same rules and regulations, relative to deportment and discharge, as other persons committed to such institutions; and the governor may, for satisfactory reasons, remand to the penitentiary, offenders so transferred to the boys' industrial school, to serve out whatever there remains of the period covered by the sentence. SEC. 764. The boys' industrial school, with the lands thereto special road attached, is declared to be a special road district, and the superintendent is vested with all the powers of a supervisor of roads for such districts; he is authorized to alter the public roads on such lands in such manner as is found to be necessary for the general plan and outline of the same; but no alteration shall be made by which existing roads shall be greatly lengthened, or their grade materially increased, or their general use to the public materially impaired; all such alterations must be approved by the commissioners of the county of Fairfield before they can be made.. district. Term of trustees now in office SECTION 2. That sections 628, 629, 634 and 635 as amended April 14, 1880, (77 v. 203), 752 as amended February 18, 1885, (82 v. 64), 753 as amended April 18, 1881, (78 v. 167), 754, 756, 758, 759, 760, 761 as amended April 19, 1881, (78 v. 220), and 764 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio are repealed. SECTION 3. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to vacate the term of any such trustee now in office. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. DANIEL J. RYAN, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed February 23, 1886. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. Repeal of an act relating to fair grounds. [House Bill No. 180.] AN ACT To repeal an act entitled "an act relating to agricultural fair grounds," passed January 31, 1881, (Ohio Laws, vol. 78, page 20.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the act entitled "an act relating to agricultural fair grounds," passed January 31, 1881, (Ohio Laws, vol. 78, page 20), be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. 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 February 23, 1886. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 107.] AN ACT To amend sections 4814, 4815 and 4817 of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 4814, 4815 and 4817 (of the Revised Statutes) be so amended as to read as follows: SEC. 4814. When the right of any free turnpike road com- Unpaid inpany to levy special taxes to pay the orders, bonds or other debtedness indebtedness issued by it has ceased, leaving outstanding orders, of free turnbonds or other indebtedness unpaid, and their payment unpro- pike road vided for, the commissioners of such road company shall immedi- company. ately make out and deliver to the auditor of the county in which such road or any part thereof is situated, a complete and perfect list of all such indebtedness for the payment of which they have no funds or means of payment, with a description in detail of such indebtedness as to date, amount, rate of interest, if any, and when payable; which list shall be verified by said commissioners, and the county auditor shall lay the same before the county commissioners at their next regular session thereafter. SEC. 4815. At any regular session of the county commission- Taxation to ers, at which such list is laid before them, they shall immediately pay same. proceed to ascertain the aggregate amount of such indebtedness, including interest in case it draw interest, and adding thereto an amount sufficient to pay the expense of assessment and collection, and to cause the same to be assessed upon the same lands and lots as were subject to taxation for the construction of the road, or to pay for the same at the time when the right to tax such lands and lots ceased, according to their true value in money as shown by their valuation contained in the county dupli cate. SEC. 4817. Immediately after the annual settlement of the County treasurer with the county auditor of any year next after that in which any assessment has been made, as provided in the two preceding sections, the county auditor shall proceed to ascertain the net amount of money collected on account of the indebtedness of such free turnpike road company, and if the amount so collected is sufficient to pay the whole of such indebtedness, he shall proceed to pay all indebtedness of such road company on presentation by his warrants drawn on the county treasurer, payable out of the proper fund, and shall cancel the evidences of such indebtedness and keep them on file in his office; but if the net amount so collected shall be insufficient to pay the indebtedness in full, or the amount of indebtedness has been ordered to be collected in annual installments, the county auditor shall divide the net amount so collected pro rata among the holders of the indebtedness, taking up and canceling the original evidence of indebtedness and issuing new vouchers for the balance unpaid SECTION 2. That sections 4814, 4815 and 4817 of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed. Payment of such indebtedness. |