[House Bill No. 10.] AN ACT To change the name of Daniel Spear. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the name of Daniel Spear, resident of the county of Morrow, in the state of Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed to Daniel Thayer Justin Spear. SECTION 2. That said change shall in no wise affect the rights, privileges and liabilities of said person. 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. Passed January 29, 1896. President of the Senate. 17L [House Bill No. 52.] AN ACT To change the name of Anna Sophia Hays. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the name of Anna Sophia Hays, a resident of Medina county, Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed to Anna Sophia Lunsmann. SECTION 2. Said change shall in no way affect the rights, privileges and liabilities of the person herein named. 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. Passed January 29, 1896. President of the Senate. 18L [House Bill No. 120.] AN ACT To change the name of Lydia Evalyn Ansel. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the name of Lydia Evalyn Ansel, resident of Corning, Perry county, Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed to Evalyn A. McCracken. SECTION 2. 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. Passed January 29, 1896. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. 19L f the ane To authorize the commissioners of Muskingum county to rent a room in the soldiers' and sailors' monumental building in the city of Zanesville for the use of the Muskingum county pioneer and historical society. WHEREAS, The Muskingum county pioneer and historical society was organized for the purpose of collecting and preserving all the historical data obtainable in relation to the early settlement of said county and to collect and preserve all rare and precious relics for the benefit of future generations; and, whereas, the said society has collected and is still collecting many such articles of much value which could never be replaced if destroyed, and, whereas, the society needs a room for its SL meetings (to which the public is cordially invited) and for the safekeeping of said valuable historical papers and relics, kept closely guarded but exhibited free to all, ES SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Muskingum county be and are hereby authorized to rent a suitable room in the soldiers' and sailors' monumental building in the city of Zanesville for the Muskingum county pioneer and historical society, the sole use of which shall be to hold its meetings in, and for a place of security for all such valuable historical papers and relics already secured, and that may be hereafter secured, and that the amount of said rent shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per annum. SECTION 2. 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. LEE Passed February 3, 1896. President of the Senate. 20L [House Bill No. 220.] AN ACT To provide for a transfer of funds in the incorporated village of Weston, Wood county, Ohio, and repealing an act passed January 23, 1896. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the incorporated village of Weston, Wood county, Ohio, be and hereby is authorized to transfer the sum of four hundred and fifty ($450) dollars from the sidewalk fund, or any other unexpended fund belonging to said incorporated village, to the cemetery fund of said village. This said amount of four hundred and fifty ($450) dollars, so transferred, to be returned to the fund from which taken in three annual payments of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars each, from levies made for cemetery purposes; the first payment to be made from the March receipts in the year 1897. SECTION 2. The act passed January 23, 1896, entitled "An act to provide for the transfer of funds in the incorporated village of Weston, Wood county, Ohio," is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To amend sections 7, 24 and 45 of an act for the government of cities of the second grade and first class, passed March 16, 1891 (O. L. Vol. 88, p. 105.) [CLEVELAND.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 7, 24 and 45 of "An act to provide a more efficient government for cities of the second grade of the first class," passed March 16, 1891, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 7. The council shall establish and maintain a sanitary police force which shall consist of a secretary, a plumbing and sewer inspector and his assistants, and such sanitary patrolmen as it shall from time to time deem necessary, and fix their compensation, but the officers and members constituting the sanitary police force at the time this act takes. place, i. e. the secretary, the twenty (20) sanitary patrolmen, the plumbing and sewering inspector and his two (2) assistants, shall constitute the present sanitary police force and shall continue to receive not less than their present salary per annum, and no member of the sanitary police force shall be removed from the said force or reduced in rank except for cause and as provided in section 24 of this act. SEC. 24. The head of any department, may, by written order, giving his reasons therefor, remove or suspend any officer or employe of such department, provided the same shall not be done for political reasons, and such written orders shall be recorded in the records of the department and a copy thereof filed with the mayor, and provided that no member of the police, fire or sanitary police force shall be removed or reduced in rank, except for cause, to be assigned in writing after due notice, and at public hearing, if demanded by the accused, before a tribunal composed of the mayor, who shall be chairman thereof, the director of law and the president of the city council, but the head of the police, fire or sanitary police. force, as the case may be, may suspend the accused pending the hearing of the charge preferred against him. SEC. 45. The director of police shall appoint a health officer, a secretary, a sewer and plumbing inspector and his assistants, and such sanitary patrolmen whose duties pertain to the public health as may be necessary to secure the inhabitants of such cities from the evils of contagious, malignant and infectious diseases, and shall prescribe their duties and fix their compensation subject to the provisions of section 7 of this act, and the city council. But from and after the passage of this act, no such appointment in said sanitary police force shall be lawful, unless made under and in pursuance of rules and regulations providing R for the ascertaining of the comparative fitness of all applicants for appointment, which rules and regulations it shall be the duty of the mayor and the head of the department to make and submit to the council; and when approved by the council, they shall be promulgated and enforced as permanent rules, and shall only be changed as herein provided for their adoption, provided that no member of said sanitary police force shall be appointed until such rules and regulations have been promulgated, except to fill any vacancy caused by death or resignation. SECTION 2. That said original sections 7, 24 and 45 be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following described territory, to wit: Beginning at a stone at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section thirtyfive (35) in Paris township, Stark county, Ohio; thence due east one hundred and sixty-two and 84-100 (62.84) chains to a stone at the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six (36) of said township; thence due south one hundred and twenty-five and 98-100 (125.98) chains to a point in Augusta township, Carroll county, Ohio; thence due west twenty (20) chains; thence due north ten (10) chains; thence due west forty (40) chains to a bridge over Still Fork creek; thence along said stream in a westerly direction to the section line on the west side of the farm now owned by John Murray; thence north nine (9) chains to the south line of the farm now owned by S. Hart; thence north seventy-six (76) degrees east, twenty-seven and 50.100 (27.50) chains; thence west six and 14.100 (6.14) chains; thence north thirtytwo and one-half (321) degrees, east five and 45-100 (5.45) chains; thence west fourteen (14) chains; thence north seven (7) chains to the Malvern road; thence west one and 43-100 chains (1.43); thence north eight and 50-100 (8.50) chains; thence east nine and 11-100 (9.11) chains; thence north thirteen and 30-100 (13.30) chains; thence east 93-100 chains; thence north forty and 57-100 (40.57) chains; thence west along county line thirty-nine and 90-100 (39.90) chains; thence north to the place of beginning, thirty-eight and 50-100 (38.50) chains, be and the same hereby is created into a special school district, to be known as the Minerva village school district. SECTION 2. Said territory shall, for all school purposes, be under the control and jurisdiction of the board of education having control of the schools and school property in the village of Minerva in Stark and Carroll counties. SECTION 3. All qualified voters, having legal residence in said described territory shall have the right to vote for members of such board of education, at all elections at which a member or members of such board of education may hereafter be elected. And such voters shall be eligible to be chosen members of such board of education. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed February 4, 1896. DAVID L. SLEEPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. 23L [House Bill No. 5.] AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'an act authorizing the trustees of Newark township, Licking county, Ohio, to levy a tax for the purpose of erecting a soldiers' memorial building,' passed April 9, 1891," passed April 19, 1894. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of trustees of Newark township, Licking county, Ohio, is hereby empowered and directed to issue bonds of said township in a sum not to exceed eighteen thousand ($18,000) dollars, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and to sell the same at not less than par. Said bonds shall be in all respects in conformity with the requirements of the acts recited in the title of this act, and shall be sold and the proceeds thereof disposed of by said board of township trustees in like manner as in said acts provided. SECTION 2. Said board of township trustees, for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of the bonds provided for in section 1 of this act, shall levy a special tax upon the real estate and personal property of said township, the said levy not to exceed one mill on the dollar of valuation of any one year. SECTION 3. The board of trustees of the soldiers' memorial building referred to in the title of this act shall receive the proceeds of the bonds provided for in section 1, and are hereby authorized to expend the same or such portion thereof as may be necessary in the payment of the debts incurred in finishing and furnishing said memorial building; and in case of any surplus not required for the purpose above set forth, the same shall become a sinking fund to reduce the obligations of said township incurred under this act and the acts to which this act is supple mentary. SECTION 4. The same provisions as to the duty of officers and their compensation shall govern in regard to what is authorized by this act as are provided under this act referred to in the title hereof. |