take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May next. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of Representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE. Speaker of the senate. January 29, 1821. CHAPTER XLVII. An act for the relief of the three idiot children of Charles D. Wells, of the county of Harrison. Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly that the three idiot children of Charles D. Wells of Harrison county, are likely to become a charge to the township of Cadiz in said county, and that the said Wells wishes so far as it may be in his power to indemnify said township for the expence it may thus incur. Therefore, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the stare of Ohio, That the trustees of the township of Cadiz in Harrison county, may if they judge it for the interest of said township receive any conveyance of land from the said Wells as an indemnity for such expenses as said township may incur in the support of those idiots, and if necessary they may advance to the said Charles D. Wells for the support of said idiots, any sum of money, which to the said trustees may seem just and reasonable; and said trustees or their successors in office, shall have power to make any deed or other instrument in writing to reconvey to said Wells or to convey to any other person such land, at any time where they may judge it for the interest of said township of Cadiz, to sell or release the title of said township to the same. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. January 29, 1821. Specker of the senate. :::000 CHAPTER XLVIII. An act relating to section No. twenty nine, in the original surveyed township of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton. Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly that fractional section, No. 29, fourth township, first fractional range, in the Miami purchase, in the county of Hamilton, which was granted by Congress for religious purposes is situated so that its principal value consists in timber and wood thereon standing. Therefore, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the trustees of fractional section uumber twenty nine, fourth township, first fractional range in the Miami purchase, in the county of Hamilton which was granted by Congress for religious purposes, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered with the consent of the present lessee, to release the same upon any terms, which, in their opinion would best secure the interest of the township to which it belongs. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE, January 29, 1821; Speaker of the senate. CHAPTER XLIX. An act for the relief of John Kerr. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the commissioners of the counties of Gallia, Athens and Hocking, are authorised and required to pay John Kerr, for his services as road commissioner, in laying out and surveying a state road from Gallipolis to Wilksville and Logan in the county of Hocking, two dollars for each mile of said road; to be paid by said counties in proportion to the distance said road was laid out and surveyed, in each of the ame; to be paid so soon as said commissioner shall make returns of said road agreeably to the provisions of the law that authoris, ed the laying out and surveying the said road. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 29th, 1821. Speaker of the Senate. :0:0:0: CHAPTER L. An act to enable the trustees of the fractional school section, number sixteen, in the sixth township and tenth range, in the county of Clark, to make a permanent lease to William Roberts, for part of said land. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the trustees of the school section, number sixteen, in the sixth township and tenth range in the county of Clark, be, and they are hereby authorised to make to William Roberts, a lease for the term of ninety nine years, for twenty acres of the south part of the fractional school section, number sixteen, in the sixth township and tenth range in the county of Clark, so as to include the seat where the saw mill now stands, and so much of the mill race as is now situate on said school land. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That before any lease shall be executed, the said trustees shall apply to the court of common pleas of Clark county, who, upon such application, shall appoint three disinterested freeholders of said county, who shall not be residents of said township, and whose duty it shall be, under oath or affirmation, to set a valuation upon said twenty acres of land, and make report of such valuation, in writing, under their hands and seals, to said trustees; and said land shall not be leased for less than six per cent. per annum, on such valuation. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the lease so to be given shall contain a provision that, at the end of every thirty three years from the execution thereof, there shall be a revaluation of the premises aforesaid made by three disinterested freeholders of Clark county, in the same manner as is provided in the second section of this act, on the application of the trustees as aforesaid, or the lessee then in possession of the premises, to be valued agreeably to the rates of unimproved lands in the same neighborhood, taking into consideration however the value of said mill seat without any improvement thereon, and from and after every such revaluation, the rents for the thirty three years next succeeding, shall not be less than six per cent. per annum, upon such revaluation, and shall be recovered in the same manner that rents are in cases of other school lands. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That if the said William Roberts, his heirs or assigns, shall not, within nine months from the passage of this act, accept, and execute on his or their part a lease in pursuance of the provisions herein contained-then, and in that case, this act shall be null and void, and cease to have any effect; and if the said William Roberts, his heirs or assigns, shall fail after the term of one year from the date of such lease so to be executed, to erect and have in operation on said premises, a good saw mill as aforesaid, then in case of such failure, the lease to be given as aforesaid to be void and of no effect. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That if the said William Roberts, his heirs or assigns, shall at any time for any one year together, neglect or omit to keep in operation a good saw mill upon said premises, his or their estate therein shall be forfeited, and the trustees shall enter thereon, and dispose of the same as though no estate had been created by this act. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 29th, 1821. Speaker of the Senate. :0:0:0: CHAPTER LI. An act supplementary to the act entitled. An act appointing William Creighton, Jun'r. trustee for the heirs of Nathaniel Massie, deceased' passed February twenty fifth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly, That in consequence of the resignation of the above named William Creighton, Jun'r. Cadwallader Wallace was, on the twenty fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty, by the court of common pleas of Ross county, appointed trustee |