Fourth District-The counties of Darke, Shelby, Mer- Congressional apportionment. cer, Auglaize and Allen shall compose the fourth district. Fifth District-The counties of Williams, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert shall compose the fifth district. Sixth District-The counties of Greene, Warren, Clinton, Highland, Brown and Clermont shall compose the sixth district. Seventh District-The counties of Miami, Clark, Madison, Fayette and Pickaway shall compose the seventh district. Eighth District-The counties of Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Champaign, Union and Delaware shall compose the eighth district. Ninth District-The counties of Lucas, Ottawa, Wood and Fulton shall compose the ninth district. Tenth District-The counties of Pike, Jackson, Gallia, Lawrence, Adams and Scioto shall compose the tenth district. Eleventh District-The counties of Meigs, Athens, Vinton, Ross, Hocking and Perry shall compose the eleventh district. Twelfth District-The counties of Franklin and Fairfield shall compose the twelfth district. Thirteenth District-The counties of Erie, Sandusky, Seneca, Crawford, Wyandot and Marion shall compose the thirteenth district. Fourteenth District-The counties of Lorain, Huron, Ashland, Richland, Morrow and Knox shall compose the fourteenth district. Fifteenth District-The counties of Washington, Morgan, Noble, Muskingum and Guernsey shall compose the fifteenth district. Sixteenth District-The counties of Carroll, Jefferson, Harrison, Belmont and Monroe shall compose the sixteenth district. Seventeenth District-The counties of Wayne, Holmes, Coshocton, Tuscarawas and Licking shall compose the seventeenth district. Eighteenth District-The counties of Stark, Columbiana and Mahoning shall compose the eighteenth district. Nineteenth District-The counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Geauga, Portage and Summit shall compose the nineteenth district. Twentieth District-The counties of Lake and Medina and that portion of Cuyahoga county composed of the townships of East Cleveland, Bedford, Chagrin Falls, Euclid, Independence, Mayfield, Newburg, Orange, Solon, Warrensville, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Dover, Middleburg, Olmsted, Parma, Rockport, Royalton and Strongville, and wards 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, Congressional apportionment. Repeals, etc. 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st and 42d, as constituted January 1, 1896, in the city of Cleveland, shall compose the twentieth district. Twenty-first District—The remaining portion of Cuyahoga county shall compose the twenty-first district. SECTION 2. That said originial section 1 be and the same is hereby repealed and this act shall take effect on its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed February 26, 1896. 38G Repair of improved roads: Certain repairs in Pickaway county, [Senate Bill No. 81.] AN ACT To supplement section 4889 of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly [of the State of Ohio], That section 4889a be enacted supplementary to section 4889 of the Revised Statutes as follows: SEC. 4889a. In Pickaway county, the county commissioners shall repair all embankments or levees, on which a free turnpike road is located, which have been constructed to prevent all overflows and inundations of said free turnpike, when the estimated cost of repairing the same shall exceed five hundred dollars and the expenses of repairing such embankments or levees, or free turnpikes constructed thereon, shall be paid out of the money raised by taxation for road or bridge purposes in said county. SECTION 2. its passage. This act shall take effect from and after D. L. SLEEPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 26, 1896. School funds: [House Bill No. 175.] AN ACT To supplement section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended March 20, 1891. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended March 20, 1891, be supplemented as follows: university SEC. 3951a. For the purpose of affording adequate Ohio and Miami support to the Ohio university and to the Miami university, fund. there shall be levied annually a tax on the grand list of the taxable property of the state of Ohio, which shall be collected in the same manner as other state taxes and the proceeds of which shall constitute the "Ohio and Miami university fund." The rate of such levy shall be designated by the general assembly at least once in two years, and if the general assembly shall fail to designate the rate for any year, the same shall be for the said "the Ohio and Miami university fund" three one-hundredth (.03) of one mill upon each dollar of valuation of such taxable property. Said Ohio Admission of university and Miami university shall admit free of tuition all pupils. residents of this state who shall conform to the standards of admissions. fund. SEC. 39516. The said "Ohio and Miami university Distribution of fund" shall be distributed and paid annually, seven-twelfths (7-12) thereof to the treasurer of the Ohio university upon the order of the president of the board of trustees of said Ohio university, and five-twelfths (5-12) thereof to the treasurer of the Miami university upon the order of the president of the board of trustees of the said Miami university. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. DAVID L. SLEEPER, JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, President pro tem. of the Senate. Appropriating money to pay deficiencies growing out of the employment of the national guard in 1894, by order of the governor, in aid of the civil authorities. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and hereby is appropriated from any money in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred dollars for the purpose of paying the costs and expenses for per diem, transportation and subsistence of the officers and men of the regiments of the national guard called into service by the governor to act in aid of the civil authorities during the disturbances in 1894, the sum thus appropriated having been already approved by the state emergency board; and also to pay the interest as provided in section two hereof, on money advanced to pay such liabilities. Appropriation ohio national guard. to pay expenses Payment of claims and interest. SECTION 2. The auditor of state is hereby authorized and directed to compute and allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, on claims for money advanced to pay a portion of such deficiencies, and to issue his warrants on the state treasury for the amount of such liabilities, including interest on money advanced; provided, all claims payable under this act shall be first approved by the governor and adjutant-general. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BOSLER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, President pro tem. of the Senate.. 41G Passed February 26, 1896. ation: Semi-annual detailed and spe cific appropriations in Cincin nati. [House Bill No. 241.] AN ACT To amend section 2690h as amended March 1, 1894 (O. L., 91, p. 48), and section 2690j of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Pinance and tax- the State of Ohio, That sections 2690h and 2690j of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 2690h. In all cities of the first grade of the first class, the board of legislation shall make, by the first week of each fiscal half year, detailed and specific appropriations for the several objects for which the city has to provide, apportioned to each month, of the moneys known to be in the treasury, or estimated to come into it during the six months next ensuing, including in their estimate the next semiannual December collection of taxes and all other sources of revenue, and be careful to provide in their appropriations for every legitimate city expenditure, and to apportion the means fairly and legally among such expenditures; and their action theron they shall transmit to the board of supervisors for approval, amendment or rejection as they may determine. All expenditures within the following six months shall be made in accordance with and within said. appropriations. Balances thereof, or credits remaining over at the end of the year, shall then no longer be open for payment therefrom, and shall be recredited to the funds from which they were taken; but in making the semi-annual appropriation and apportionment hereby required it shall be the duty of the board of legislation to deduct and set apart, out of the fund for general purposes, the sum of twenty-fivethousand dollars as a contingent fund to provide for any deficiency in either of the detailed and specific appropriations so to be made which may lawfully and by any unforeseen emergency happen, which contingent fund and any part thereof may be expended for any such emergency only by Contingent fund. an ordinance first recommended by the board of administration, passed by the votes of two-thirds of all the members of the board of legislation and approved by the mayor, or in case of his disapproval, upon its passage over his veto, in the manner provided by law. tain liabilities and tax levies in Cincinnati. SEC. 2690j. No liability whatever shall be created Validity of cer against any city of the first grade of the first class, and no expenditures shall be made for the same, except for school and educational purposes as provided for by the boards of education therein, unless it be previously covered by an appropriation sanctioned both by the board of supervisors and board of legislation and common council as above provided, except from the contingent fund of twenty-five thousand dollars herein provided for; and any taxes levied for any purpose whatever, except for schools and educational purposes, as provided for by the boards of education therein in such city without the concurrence of the board of supervisors and board of legislation, as herein provided, shall be void; and all laws and parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Any attempt to create a liability against any such city contrary to the provisions of this act shall be null and void. SECTION 2. That the present sections 2690h and Repeals, etc. 2690j of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BOSLER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, [House Bill No. 260.] Supplementary to an act entitled An act to amend sections 1708a, 1709a and 1713 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio," passed April 20, 1894. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following section be enacted as supplementary to section 1709a of the Revised Statutes (91, O. L.), with sectional numbering as herein provided: SEC. 1709b. In cities of the first grade of the first class, the term of office of the mayor, auditor, treasurer, corporation counsel, police judge, prosecuting attorney and clerk of the police court, shall commence on the first Monday in July after their election or appointment: and the term of office of the above officers at the time of the passage of this act shall be extended to the first Monday of July following the expiration of their present term. Officers of cities: Commencement tain officers in Cincinnati. of term of cer Extension of bents. term of incum |