for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the before recited act; and whereas it has also been represented to this General Assembly that the said trustee is not vested with sufficient. powers to enable him to carry the provisions of the aforesaid act into full effect. Therefore,

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the said Cadwallader Wallace, trustee as aforesaid,be, and he hereby is authorised and empowered to sell and convey' all the lands to, which the said Nathaniel Massie, deceased, had in his life time, obtained a legal title, and also all the lands, the legal title to which has heretofore been or may hereafter be granted to the children of the said Nathaniel Massie, to or for which the said Nathaniel Massie, deceased, had right, claim or inerest at the time of his death, for the purposes contemplated in the act to which this is supplementary.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after the passage thereof.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE,

January 29, 1321.

Speaker of the senate.

CHAPTER LII

An act to amend the act entitled, "An act to prevent the sale of town lois for taxes in certain cases.

Sec, 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That when the owner or owners of unimproved or unoccupied town lots or parts of lots, do not residé within the limits of snch town,

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and the taxes assessed upon such lot or lots or part of a lot or lots shall not be paid within the time required by law, the collector shall make return of all such delinquent lots or parts oflots to the authority from whence he received his duplicate, whereupon a penalty of twenty five per centum upon the amount of each year's tax shall be incurred and each lot or such part thereof as may be delinquent, shall be bound for the tax and penalty due thereon, and the owner or subsequent purchaser shall be liable therefor.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That when a part of an in or out lot in any town of record in this state is owned by a resident proprietor, and it shall by the resident proprietor be made appear, to the satisfaction of the township lister, that he owns only a part of such lot, the lister shall list the same accordingly.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first section of the act, to which this is an amendment, passed January twenty ninth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby repealed.

This act to take effect and be inforce from and after the passage thereof.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE,

January 29, 1821.

Speaker of the senate.

CHAPTER LIII.

An act for the relief of Israel Haringt n and Alexander Morrison, and for other purposes.

Whereas Israel Harington and Alexander Morri

son, were appointed road commissioners, by an act of the last General Assembly, passed February 26th 1820, to lay and open a state road, from the town of Croghansville, in the county of Sandusky, to the house of William S. Drake, at the south line of Marion county, and no provision being made by the aforesaid recited act, for their compensation im laying out said road. Therefore:

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the said Israel Harington and Alexander Morrison be allowed the sum of two hundred and fifty one dollars for their services, as aforesaid, to be taken out of the next appropriation of the three per cent fund, for the counties of Sandusky, Seneca, Crawford and Marion, and the auditor of state, whenever said appropriation may be made. is hereby authorised to draw on the Treasurer for he aforesaid amount.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to Milton M'Neal, road commissioner on a road from Clarksburgh in the county of Ross, on the route by Vaughn's tavern and New London, to Urbana, the sum of two dollars per day, to the surveyor two dollars per day, and to the chain carriers and marker each seventy five cents per day, to be paid by the several counties, in proportion to the distance through which such road shall have passed; and also the several county commissioners shall allow said M'Neal such compensation as they may think just and reasonable for making out and returning the plat and field notes of the aforesaid road.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives.

ALLEN TRIMBLE,

January 29, 1821.

Speaker of the senate.

CHAPTER LIV.

An act making provision for carrying into effect the act for the

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Sec. 1.Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That every person sentenced to hard labor and imprisonment; agreeably to the provisions of the act for the punishment of crimes, shall within thirty days after his or her conviction, be transported at the expense of the state, to the state prison, by the sheriff of the county in which such conviction may be had, and there delivered into the custody of the keeper of said prison, together with a copy of the sentence of the court ordering such imprisonment, and the costs of the prosecution, including the constable's, justice's, sheriff's, witnesses', and clerk's, fees certified under the hand and seal of the clerk of said court attested by the presiding judge, or one of the associate judges of the proper county, there to be safely kept until the term of his or her confinement shall have expired, or until he or she shall be discharged by due course of law, for which service, the said sheriff shall receive ten cents per mile going to, and seven cents per mile returning from said prison, to be computed from the jail of the county in which the conviction took place, and the like sum for one guard for each prisoner, and the sum of one dollar fifty cents for every twenty five miles for transporting and sustaining each prisoner: Provided, that if at the term of any court, there should be more than one person convicted, it shall be the duty of the court to make an order di