SECTION 3 This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER.. Speaker of the House of Representatives: Passed April 27, 1896. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 382.] AN ACT For the relief of H. M. Dunnick, sheriff of Pickaway county, Ohio, in the case of state of Ohio vs. Alonzo B. Coit. for H. M. Dun nick. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated Appropriation out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars for the purpose of paying H. M. Dunnick, sheriff of Pickaway county for services required of him in the case of the state of Ohio vs. Alonzo B. Coit. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To amend supplementary section 6946a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, passed April 12, 1888, with further supplementary amendment as amended April 6, 1893. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That supplementary section 6946a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, passed April 12, 1888, as amended April 12, 1892, and April 6, 1893, be further supplemented so as to read as follows: SEC. 6946a. Whoever sells or gives away any ale, beer, wine, cider or other intoxicating liquors at any place within one and one-half miles outside of the boundary line of the lands occupied by any home, retreat or asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers, or soldiers and sailors, which .has been or may hereafter be established by the government of the United States, shall be fined upon conviction not more than one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, and imprisoned thirty days; and on conviction of the owner Annual appropriation for enforcement. Prosecution of offenders. Repeals, etc. or keeper thereof, the place wherein such intoxicating liquor shall have been sold or given away shall be, by order of the court wherein such conviction is made, within ten days thereafter, shut up and abated as a nuisance; and the board of county commissioners of such county, shall appropriate from the funds of said county annually, a sum not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars, to be placed by them in the hands of the police directors of any city, if there be any, within the limits of said county in which said home, retreat, or asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers, or soldiers or sailors may be located, for the purpose of enforcing said section 6946a and for all services in state cases within the four mile jurisdiction, of the police court outside of such city. And it is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county in which any such institution is or may be located, to prosecute all offenders against the provisions of this act. SECTION 2. That said supplementary section 6946a of the Revised Statutes, passed April 12, 1888, and amended April 12, 1892, as amended April 6, 1893, be, and the same 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. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed April 27, 1896. President of the Senate. 353G Settlement of certain suits against state. [Senate Bill No. 394.] AN ACT To authorize the settlement of certain suits against the state, on behalf of J. W. and F. M. Stoker, Chester Birt and William Thomas, and repealing an act herein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the attorney-general be, and he is hereby authorized to settle certain suits now pending against the state in the court of common pleas of Auglaize county, Ohio, namely: The suit on behalf of J. W. and F. M. Stoker, who are the owners of the west part of the west half of the northeast quarter of section seventeen (17), township six (6) south, range four (4) east, said county, containing about forty-five (45) acres, for the sum of fourteen hundred dollars ($1,400); the suit of Chester Birt, who is the owner of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of said section, for the sum of nine hundred dollars ($900); and the suit of William Thomas, who is the owner of the west half of the southwest quarter of said section, for the sum of thirteen Effect of accept- hundred dollars ($1,300). The acceptance by said parties of said settlements, and the amounts herein specified, shall be in ance. full payment of all damages heretofore or hereafter sustained by said parties to said respective lands, by reason of the overflow of the Mercer county reservoir and shall vest in the state of Ohio a perpetual easement for overflow purposes in maintaining the Mercer county reservoir. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriations. money not otherwise appropriated to the credit of the general revenue fund, for the payment of said owners, the following sums: To said J. W. and F. M. Stoker, the sum of $1,400; to said Chester Birt, the sum of $900; to said William Thomas, the sum of $1,300. The auditor of state is hereby authorized and directed, on the approval of the attorney-general, to issue his warrant on the treasurer of state to said respective owners for said respective sums payable out of said fund. And said treasurer of state is hereby authorized to pay the amount of said warrants to said respective parties. And that the attorney-general shall prepare proper releases and conveyances to carry into effect the foregoing provisions. And the said parties shall duly Releases and execute and deliver said releases and conveyances to the state of Ohio as a condition precedent to receiving the aforesaid amounts. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 27, 1896. DAVID L. SLEEPER, ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. conveyances. [Senate Bill No. 398.] AN ACT To repeal an act passed May 11, 1886 (83, O. L., 136), entitled "An act to establish workshops for the blind" and providing for the disposition of the property heretofore acquired thereunder. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That an act entitled "An act to establish workshops for the blind" (83 O. L. 136) be and hereby is repealed. SECTION 2. That the governor is hereby authorized to deed all the real estate now in possession of the trustees of the working home for the blind, or any real estate of said state having been acquired under said act to the school board or trustees of the special school district of Iberia, Morrow county, Ohio. And that the governor be further authorized to sell at private or public sale any personal property heretofore held or in possession of the said trustees, and that the proceeds of such sale shall be covered into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. Disposition of balance of appropriation. SECTION 3. That the remainder of such sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) heretofore appropriated to and for the use of the trustees of such institution at this session, after paying the salaries and current expenses to the date of the abandonment, and repeal of this act, be and the same is hereby reappropriated and transferred to a special fund subject to the draft of the clerk of the board of state charities to be paid on vouchers approved by the governor and auditor of state, and to be used exclusively for the purpose of maintaining such inmates of said abandoned institution as have no present home and no means of support, until homes, or other suitable disposition of them, can be secured. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, Passed April 27, 1896. Bicycle as baggage. [Senate Bill No. 356.] AN ACT To regulate the transportation of bicycles. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That hereafter for the purposes herein specified, bicycles are declared to be baggage, and shall be transported as baggage for passengers, by all railroad companies operating in this state, and be subject to the same charges and liabilities, as other baggage and no passenger shall be required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect any such bicycle; provided, however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport under the provisions of this act, more than one bicycle for a single person. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, its Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 27, 1896. President of the Senate. 256G فا [Senate Bill No. 401.] AN ACT Making appropriation for expenses of legislative committees, and for expenses SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of For the expense of legislative committees, $2,000. DAVID L. SLEEPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed April 27, 1896. President of the Senate. i [House Bill No. 420.] AN ACT Providing for the payment to Gilman B. Thrift a balance due him WHEREAS, Gilman B. Thrift was on February 20, 1891, duly appointed and commissioned fish and game warden for the Lewistown reservoir for two years, that on June 20, 1892, said office was declared vacant, said Gilman B. Thrift serving as such fish and game warden for sixteen months, and WHEREAS, There is yet due said Gilman B. Thrift for such services the sum of seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents ($77.50) whose claim has for some reason been heretofore overlooked; therefore, Preamble. for Gilman B. Thrift. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated Appropriation out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents ($77.50) for the purpose of paying Gilman B. Thrift the balance due him for services as fish and game warden for the Lewistown reservoir from February 20, 1891, to June 20, |