-as to railroad companies. of residence; if a corporation, they shall be left with the president or other principal officer, or the secretary, cashier or managing agent thereof; and if such corporation be a railroad company, such copy of the order and notice may be left with any regular ticket or freight agent of said company in any county in which said railroad may be located. SEC. 2. That said section two hundred and one of the above recited act be hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed May 16, 1868. For soldiers' claims. Clerks in auditor's office. AN ACT Making appropriations to pay soldiers' claims for local bounties, and clerks in the auditor's office, and necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the insurance laws; and the per diem of the members and officers of the General Assembly, and to transfer certain funds therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, there is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund of the state, the following sums: To pay soldiers' claims for local bounties already allowed, the sum of four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. To pay clerks in the office of the auditor of state, and the necessary expenses of carrying out the provisions of the several insurance laws of this state, the sum of three thousand four hundred dollars. Per diem of To pay members of the general assembly, their clerks, asmembers,&c. sistant clerks, sergeants-at-arms, assistant sergeants-at-arms, and messengers, under resolutions of the senate and house and the laws, ten thousand dollars; and for the payment of expenses of legislative committees, one thousand dollars. Boilers for lum. SEC. 2. For two new boilers for the central Ohio lunatic C. O. L. Asy- asylum, and for setting the same, and all the necessary apparatus thereto, four thousand dollars; said boilers to be each twenty-four feet long, four feet in diameter, with double flues eighteen inches in diameter; the iron of said boilers and flues to be of the best charcoal iron, one-fourth inch in thickness; and the furnishing of said boilers and necessary apparatus thereto, and the setting of the same, except such work as can be done by the inmates of said asylum, to be let by the trustees of said asylum, to the lowest responsible bidder, of which letting notice shall be given for six days, consecutively, in the daily papers in the city of Columbus; plans and specifications of said work to be prepared under the direction of said trustees before the letting. certain SEC. 3. That fifteen hundred dollars of the thirty-nine Transfer of hundred dollars to pay clerks in the office of the comptroller funds. of the treasury, and five hundred dollars of the one thousand dollars to pay the necessary contingent expenses of said office, appropriated by section one of an act "making appropriations for the year 1868, and the first quarter of the year 1869," passed April 30, 1868, are hereby transferred to the general revenue fund. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed May 16, 1868. AN ACT To prevent trespasses upon lands belonging to the state of Ohio, and further to prescribe the duties of the superintendent of the state house. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That if any person shall, without authority, enter upon any land belonging to the state of Ohio, or held in trust by the state, and cut down any standing timber, or shall remove therefrom any stone or timber, the same being the property of the state, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and be imprisoned in the jail of the proper county, any time not exceeding ten days. SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the superintendent of the state house to take possession and control of the tract of land belonging to the state, situate near Columbus, known as the "stone quarry tract," upon which is the soldiers' home, and to enforce the provisions of the first section of this act against all persons who shall offend against the same. SEC. 3. All prosecutions under the provisions of this act, shall be by indictment in the court of common pleas of the proper county. SEC. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Penalty for trespass on state lands. Duty of superintend ent of state house. Prosecutions by indict ment. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed May 16, 1868. Levy of extra taxes. Issue of bonds. Section repealed. AN ACT Amendatory and supplementary to "an act to authorize county commissioners to lay out and establish free turnpike roads," passed April 15, 1867. (L. O., vol. 64, p. 171.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section six of an act entitled "an act to authorize county commissioners to lay out and establish free turnpike roads, and to repeal certain acts therein named,” passed April 15, 1867, be so amended as to read as follows: Section 6. That for the purpose of constructing free turnpike roads, authorized by this act, extra taxes may be levied, as hereinafter provided, on all property, real and personal, within one mile on each side of said free turnpike road, except when any such free turnpike road, which has been macadamized or graveled, shall cross a free turnpike road which is either completed or in process of construction; then such lands and personal property as lie within one half mile on either side of where such free turnpike roads cross each other, shall be assessed and taxed in proportion to the benefit that may be derived by the owners of such lands and personal property from the construction and use of such free turnpike road, except when any state, county or free turnpike road shall run upon either side of such road within less than two miles, then the taxes shall be levied only on such lands and personal property as lie within one half of the distance of such macadamized roads as run parallel to said road. SEC. 2. That the commissioners of any free turnpike road, whenever they shall deem it necessary for the purpose of constructing a free turnpike road, are hereby authorized to issue bonds payable in installments or at intervals not exceeding in all the period of five years, bearing interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, payable semiannually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than par, and the extra taxes levied under the provisions of this act shall be divided in such manner as to meet the payment of the interest and principal of said bonds, and the said taxes shall be placed upon the tax duplicate of the county for collection, in the same manner as other taxes, and when collected the money arising therefrom shall be applied to no other purpose than the payment of such bonds. SEC. 3. That section six of the act to which this is amendatory and supplementary be and the same is hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect rights already acquired. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and shall apply so far as applicable to any free turnpike already authorized to be constructed. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed May 16, 1868. LOCAL AND SPECIAL ACTS. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Monroe county to build a court house. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Monroe county be and they are hereby authorized and required to erect a court house, with suitable fire proof public offices, on town lots numbered twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) in the town of Woodsfield, being the county seat of said county; the first of said lots being that on which the former court house stood, and the other adjoining it, and being also the property of said county. SEC. 2. To enable said commissioners to carry into effect the provisions of this act, they are authorized to raise by taxation whatever sum may be needed tor said purpose, not to execed thirty thousand dollars, by levies not exceeding ten thousand dollars in any one year, and to issue the bonds of the county bearing a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum. SEC. 3. Before determining upon a plan for said building, said commissioners may personally examine similar structures anywhere in the state; and they shall call to their assistance a competent architect or engineer to prepare drafts and specifications of the plan determined upon; and the erection of said building may be done either under their own supervision or that of a superintendent to be appointed by them and subject to their control, in accordance with the plan determined upon by them; provided, that not more than five hundred dollars shall be expended by said commissioners in making such personal examination of similar structures. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. F. W. THORNHILL, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. January 27, 1868. President of the Senate. AN ACT To transfer certain funds therein named to the township school fund of Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio WHEREAS, The township of Cross Creek, Jefferson county, Ohio, has fully paid the amount of the bonds, with interest due, on their subscription of stock to the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad Company, and that there remains in the treasury of said township an unappropriated surplus belonging to said fund; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, be and they are hereby authorized to transfer said surplus fund to the township school fund of said township, to be applied in the building and repair of school houses, and such other school purposes as the board of education of said township may determine. SEC. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. C. LEE, Passed January 30, 1868. President of the Senate. AN ACT To define the boundaries of the township of "Kelley's Island," in Erie county, and the township of "Put-in-Bay," in Ottawa county, and to declare part of the boundary lines of Erie and Ottawa counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the boundaries of the township" of Kelley's Island" shall be and the same are hereby established as follows: Beginning at a point in Lake Erie, where a line drawn due north from the eastern extremity of Danbury township, in Ottawa county, would intersect a line drawn midway between said Kelley's Island and the main land; thence running west northwest to a point in Lake Erie, whence a line drawn north northeast will pass midway between said Kelley's Island and the Bass Islands; thence north northeast to the boundary line between the dominion of Canada and the United States; thence eastwardly along said line to a point whence a line drawn south will pass three miles east of said Kelley's Island; thence south to a point where a line drawn west northwest will strike the place of beginning; thence west northwest to the place of beginning. SEC. 2. That the boundaries of the township of "Put-in-Bay," in Ottawa county, shall be and the same are hereby established as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of the township of Kelley's Island; thence running north northwest, midway between the south point of south Bass Island and Hat (or Mouse) Island, so called, to a point in Lake Erie, three miles west of a line drawn between said south point of Bass Island and said Hat (or Mouse) Island, so called; thence running north to the boundary line between the dominion of Canada and the United States; thence down the lake along said line to the northwest corner of the township of Kelley's Island; thence south southwest, along the southwest line of Kelley's Island township, to the place of beginning. SEC. 3. That the first and second named lines in section one of this act, are hereby declared boundary lines between said Erie and Ottawa counties. SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN F. FOLLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. C. LEE, Passed February 7, 1868. President of the Senate. |