proper, not to exceed six per cent. per annum, payable an Resolution as to nually or semi-annually; provided, however, that no in such indebted ness. Repeals, etc. debtedness of any township, school district, or county shall be funded, refunded or extended unless such indebtedness shall first be determined to be an existing, valid and binding obligation, of any such township, school district or county by a formal resolution of the trustees, board of education or commissioners of any such township, school district or county, which resolution shall so state the amount of the existing indebtedness to be funded, refunded or extended, the aggregate amount of bonds to be issued therefor, their number and denomination, the date of their maturity, the rate of interest they shall bear, and the place of payment of principal and interest. SECTION 2. That an act entitled "An act to supplement section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio," passed February 3, 1896, is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 20, 1896. President of the Senate. 38G Intoxicating liquors: Annual tax upon [House Bill No. 225.] AN ACT To amend sections 1 and 9 as heretofore amended of an act entitled An act providing against the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors," passed May 14, 1886. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 1 of an act entitled “An act providing against the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors," as amended March 26, 1888 (O. L., vol. 85, p. 117), and also section 9 of said act as amended April 28, 1890 (O. L., vol. 87, p. 357), be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1. That upon the business of trafficking in liquor business. spirituous, vinous, malt, or any intoxicating liquors, there shall be assessed, yearly, and shall be paid into the county treasury, as hereinafter provided, by every person, corporation or copartnership engaged therein, and for each place where such business is carried on by or for such person, corporation or copartnership, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars. Distribution of revenues and fines. SEC. 9. That the revenues and fines resulting under the provisions of this act shall be distributed as follows, to wit: In every county three-tenths of the money paid as herein provided into the county treasury on account of any business aforesaid carried on in any city, village, hamlet or township therein shall be passed to the credit of the general revenue fund of the state and paid into the state treasury by the county treasurer as is provided in other cases; five-tenths of the money so paid, shall, upon the warrant of the county auditor, be paid on account of any business aforesaid carried on in any such municipal corporation into the treasury of said corporation, one-half to the credit of the police fund, and one-half to the credit of the general revenue fund thereof; provided, in corporations having no police fund the entire five-tenths shall be passed to the credit of the general revenue fund thereof; and the remaining two-tenths part thereof, together with all other revenues resulting hereunder in said county, shall be passed to the credit of the poor fund of said county; provided, that in all counties in which there is no county infirmary said remaining two-tenths part thereof shall be passed to the credit of the infirmary fund or the poor fund of the township, village or city in which the same shall have been collected; and in such counties, when the money. is paid on account of any business carried on in any township outside of any such municipal corporation, said fivetenths, also, shall be passed to the credit of the infirmary fund or the poor fund of said township; and provided, that in counties having a city of the first Hamilton grade of the first class with a city infirmary and a county in- county. firmary, the above two-tenths part shall be divided as follows: The city infirmary fund shall have passed to its credit two-tenths of all the money so paid in said city of the first grade of the first class; the county infirmary fund shall have passed to its credit two-tenths of all the money so paid in by any village, hamlet or township in said county outside of said city of the first grade of the first class; and the above five-tenths part of all the money so paid in by any township outside of any municipal corporation shall be paid into the treasury of such township, to be distributed by the order of the trustees of said township to the general revenue fund and poor relief fund, in such proportions as said trustees may deem proper. SECTION 2. That sections 1 and 9 of said act as Repeals, etc heretofore amended be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after School examin ers: Certificate a prerequisite to employment of teachers. Special studies or primary department [House Bill No. 244.] AN ACT To amend section 4074 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4074 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: SEC. 4074. No person shall be employed as teacher in a common school who has not obtained from a board of examiners, having competent jurisdiction, a certificate of good moral character, and that he or she is qualified to teach orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, the history of the United States, including civil government, and possesses an adequate knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching, and, if required to teach other branches, that he or she has requisite qualifications; but persons who desire or are expected to teach only special studies, such as music, drawing, painting, penmanship, gymnastics, German or French, or any one of them, or the primary department in any graded school, may be examined in regard to such study or studies above mentioned, or with special reference to their qualifications to teach in such primary department only, and having obtained a certificate of qualification therein, and of good moral character,, may be employed to teach such study or studies, or in such Physiology and primary department; provided, that after January 1, 1889,. no person shall be employed as a teacher in any common school, who has not obtained from such board of examiners. a certificate that he or she is qualified to teach physiology and hygiene. hygiene. Appropriation for expenses general assembly. [House Bill No. 402.] AN ACT To make an appropriation for expenses of the general assembly. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy thousand ($70,000) dollars for salaries and mileage of members, per diem of clerks, sergeants-at-arms and other officers and employes of the general assembly. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 12.] To amend section 1271 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 1271 of the Revised Statutes Prosecuting of Ohio as amended March 8, 1889, as amended March 8, attorney: 1893, be hereby amended so as to read as follows: Assistants in Hamilton, Cuyahoga, Franklín and Lucas coun ties; appointment. SEC. 1271. In Hamilton county the presiding judge of the court of common pleas, the presiding judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, and the probate judge, may appoint a first assistant and a second assistant prosecuting attorney. In Cuyahoga county the judges of the court of common pleas may appoint two assistant prosecuting attorneys who shall also be assistant court solicitors. And said judges may, from time to time, appoint such special assistants to aid the prosecuting attorney, as in their opinion the public business may require, who shall be paid out of the treasury of the county, on the warrant of the county auditor, such sum as the court may approve and order. In Franklin county the judges of the common pleas court residing therein may appoint a first assistant and a second assistant prosecuting attorney. In Lucas county a majority of the judges of the court of common pleas residing therein may appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney. Such assistant prosecuting attorneys shall be appointed as aforesaid only upon the nomination of the prosecuting attorney of such counties, respectively, and shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by the judges appointing them, not exceeding, in Hamilton County, twenty-five hundred dollars to the first assistant or eighteen hundred dollars to the second assistant; and not exceeding, in Cuyahoga county, twenty-five hundred dollars nor less than two thousand dollars per annum; and not exceeding, in Franklin county, two thousand dollars per annum to the first assistant prosecuting attorney or twelve hundred dollars per annum to the second assistant prosecuting attorney; and not exceeding, in Lucas county, eighteen hundred dollars per annum to the assistant prosecuting attorney. Such salary shall be paid out of the treasury of the respective counties on the warrant of the auditor of such county. The term of appointment for such assistant prose- Term. cuting attorneys and such second assistant prosecuting attorneys shall be one year from and after the day of appoint Salary Repeals. ment, and when there is a vacancy the appointing judge or judges may renew the appointment as hereinbefore provided. SECTION 2. Said section 1271, as amended March 8, 1893, is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force DAVID L. SLEEPER, JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, President pro tem. of the Senate. 37G Passed February 26, 1896. Congressional districts: Congressional apportionment. [Senate Bill No. 40.] AN ACT To amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to apportion the state of Ohio into congressional districts under the eleventh census of the United States, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, passed 1890," passed March 31, 1892. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 1 of an act entitled "An act to apportion the state of Ohio into congressional districts under the eleventh census of the United States, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, passed 1890," passed March 31, 1892, be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 1. That the state of Ohio shall be divided into twenty-one districts for the election of representatives to congress, and each district shall choose one representative in the manner following, to wit: First District-That so much of the county of Hamilton as is now contained within the limits of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 26th and 27th wards of the city of Cincinnati, as they are now constituted, and the townships of Anderson, Columbia, Spencer, Symmes and Sycamore, and Avondale, and the Northeast, Southeast, St. Bernard, Bond Hill and Clifton precincts of Millcreek township shall compose the first district. Second District-The remaining portion of the county of Hamilton now contained within the limits of the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 28th, 29th and 30th wards of the city of Cincinnati, as they are now constituted, and the townships of Springfield, Colerain, Greene, Delhi, Storrs, Miami, Whitewater, Harrison and Crosby, and Elmwood, College Hill, Winton Place and Western precincts of Millcreek township shall compose the second district. Third District-The counties of Preble, Butler and Montgomery shall constitute the third district. |