Legislature: For salaries and mileage of members of the general assembly, per diem of clerks, sergeants-at-arms and employes, eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000.) Senate contingent expenses, one thousand dollars ($1,000.) House clerk's contingent expenses, one hundred dollars ($100.) For Frederick Blenkner, third assistant sergeant-at-arms of the house, for taking charge of the senate chamber and hall of the house, and committee rooms after the adjournment of the general assembly in the spring of 1886, and taking care of the same until the meeting of the general assembly in January, 1887, and preparing the same for said meeting, and for taking charge of the bill-books and other property of the members as requested by them, seven hundred and twenty dollars ($720, to be paid to him at the rate of three dollars ($3) per day, on the warrants of the auditor of state. For an assistant for said Frederick Blenkner, in the performance of the foregoing duties, at the rate of two dollars per day, when by him necessarily employed, four hundred dollars ($400), to be paid to said assistant on the warrants of the auditor of state; provided, that the moneys appropriated in this section shall not be used to pay liabilities or deficiencies existing prior to February 15, 1886. 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 April 6, 1886. President of the Senate. Clerk of police court; his powers. [Senate Bill No. 106.] AN ACT To amend sections 1804, 1808 and 1809 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 1804, 1808 and 1809 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1804. The clerk of the police court shall have power, when an affidavit is filed with him for a peace warrant, search warrant, or charging any person with the commission of an offense, to issue a warrant under seal of said court to arrest the accused or search the place described; to admit to bail any person accused of a misdemeanor or violation of an ordinance, for his appearance at the next setting of the police court or mayor, as the case may be; and the bond given to continue until the case is finally disposed of; and also to admit to bail. any person accused of a felony, when the amount of bail has been fixed by the court or mayor, as the case may be; to appoint one or more deputies, to be approved by the council, to administer oaths and to perform all other things which may be performed by the clerk of the court of common pleas in like cases. SEC. 1808. He shall give such bonds, with sureties, as may be His bond; required by the council and county commissioners, and shall salary. receive for his services in city cases a fixed salary to be prescribed by ordinance of the council, of not less than twelve hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars per year, and for State cases such further allowance as the county commissioners may deem proper, but not exceeding one thousand dollars per year. SEC. 1809. A deputy clerk of the police court may perform Deputy; salany duty of the principal; he shall receive such compensation as ary; bond. the council shall prescribe, but not exceeding fifteen nor less than seven hundred dollars per year; and such further compensation in cities of the first class of the second grade as the county commissioners shall determine, but not exceeding five hundred dollars per year; and the principal may take from him an undertaking, with sureties, for the faithful performance of such official duties. SECTION 2. That original sections 1804, 1808 and 1809 be JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Passed April 6, 1886. ROB'T P. KENNEDY, [House Bill No. 66.] AN ACT To prescribe the manner of selling the sulphate and other preparations of morphine in this State and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall not be lawful for any person, other than a wholesale druggist or other dealer in drugs and medicine, to sell or offer for sale at wholesale, or for any person other than a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist, to sell or offer for sale at retail, morphine or any of its salts, in this State, and it shall not be lawful for such persons to sell or offer for sale morphine or any of its salts in any bottle, vial, envelope or other package, unless the same shall be wrapped in a scarlet paper or envelope and all bottles or vials used for the above purpose shall contain not more than one drachm each and shall have in addition to said scarlet wrapper, a scarlet label lettered in white letters, and the same must be upon both vial and wrapper when vials are used, plainly naming the contents of said bottle, and further, that no person shall have the right to change any preparation of morphine from its original package to any other receptacle whatever for the purpose of retailing or dispensing therefrom, but it must be retailed or dispensed only from the original package with scarlet wrapper and scarlet label as aforesaid. Morphine: by whom be sold. and how to Penalty. SECTION 2. That any one violating the provisions of the above section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court, for each and every violation of the preceding section. SECTION 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after September 1st, 1886. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. O'NEILL, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 8, 1886. When and where commissioners may build turnpikes. Repairs by commissioners of streets in municipalities. [Senate Bill No. 130.] AN ACT To amend section 4758 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4758 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: SEC 4758. The county commissioners of any county, when they become satisfied that the public interests of their county demand and justify special action for the improvement of the roads therein, may appoint three disinterested freeholders of their county as commissioners, to view, survey and locate one or more roads, beginning at and leading from the county seat of the county, or such other and eligible points as may be deemed proper, and running by such direct and eligible route as they may find best for the public convenience, and terminating at any point within or at the county line; but they are not authorized or required to construct any such road within the corporate limits of the town or city where the county seat is located, when according to the last federal census, more than one thousand inhabitants are contained in such corporate limits; and for the purpose of improving and repairing those streets in such towns or cities as are a continuation through the same, of the roads heretofore improved under the provisions of this section, the county commissioners shall cause to be expended, in the manner prescribed by law for repairing such roads, so much of the tax collected therein for turnpike purposes as may be necessary to keep such streets in good repair. SECTION 2. That said original section 4758 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, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. O'NEILL, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 8, 1886. [House Bill No. 284.] AN ACT To amend section 897 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 897 of the Revised Statutes be so amended as to read as follows: SEC. 897. Each county commissioner shall be allowed three dollars for each day that he is employed in his official duties, and five cents per mile for his necessary travel for each regular or called session, not exceeding one session each month, or twelve in any one year, and five cents per mile when traveling within their respective counties on official business, to be paid out of the county treasury on the warrant of the county auditor, except in counties in which, by the last federal census, the population amounted to one hundred and ninety-five thousand or upwards, and in counties in which, by the last federal census, the population amounted to not more than seventy-nine thousand nor less than sixtyseven thousand, in which counties such commissioners shall be entitled to receive a salary at the rate of ($2,000) two thousand dollars per annum, and counties having by the last federal census a population of eighty-six thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and no more, shall have a salary at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum each and necessary traveling expenses when traveling outside of the county on official business. Each commissioner in all other counties except those having, by the last federal census, a population of one hundred and ninety-five thousand or upwards, and those having by the last federal census a population of eighty six thousand seven hundred and ninetyseven (86,797), and no more, for his services, when necessarily engaged in attending to the business of the county pertaining to his office under the direction of the board, other than in attending regular or called sessions of the board, and when necessary to travel on official business out of his county, shall be allowed in addition to his compensation and mileage as herein before provided, any other reasonable and necessary expense actually paid in the discharge of his official duty, and each commissioner shall present an itemized statement of his account [for] per diem, mileage, services and expenses as aforesaid, which, before it is allowed by a full board, shall be certified to by the prosecuting attorney of the county, and approved by the probate judge thereof. SECTION 2. Said original section 897 as amended May 4, 1885, is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect on and after its passage. Compensation of county commissioners. Passed April 8, 1886. sheriff of Butler county to appoint turnkey for jail. [House Bill No. 387.] AN ACT To authorize the sheriff in certain counties to appoint a turnkey for the county jail. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Authorizing Ohio, That in counties having a population, at the last federal census of forty-two thousand five hundred and eighty (42,580), and no more, the sheriff may appoint a turnkey for the county jail whenever, in his opinion, the same shall be necessary, which appointment shall be in writing and shall be approved by the judge of the court of common pleas, and shall be filed with the county commissioners, and the person so appointed turnkey shall receive such compensation as the sheriff shall determine, not exceeding two dollars per day, which shall be certified at the time of the appointment by the sheriff to the county commissioners, who shall thereafter pay the same monthly out of any county funds applicable for that purpose. 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. JNO. O'NEILL, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 8, 1886. Chattel mortgages: where to be deposited. [House Bill No. 418.] AN ACT To amend section 4151 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section four thousand one hundred and fifty-one be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 4151. The instruments mentioned in the last section shall be deposited with the township clerk of the township where the mortgagor resides at the time of the execution thereof, if a resident of the State, and if not such resident, then with the clerk of the township in which the property so mortgaged is situated at the time of the execution of the instrument; but when the mortgagor is a resident of a township where the office of county recorder is kept, or when the mortgagor is a resident of a township entirely merged in a city or incorporated village in which the office of county recorder is kept, or when he is a non-resident of the State, and the property is within such township, the mortgage shall be filed with the county recorder. SECTION 2. That section 4151 be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. O'NEILL, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 8, 1886. |