Duplicate warrant in favor of J.J. McMaken. [Senate Bill No. 29.] AN ACT Authorizing the auditor of state to issue a duplicate warrant for original warrant No. 6705. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the auditor of state is hereby authorized to issue a duplicate warrant in favor of J. J. McMaken, a member of the 71st general assembly, in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00), being the salary due him as senator for the last half month of the session of the general assembly. Said original warrant, No. 6705, for seventy-five dollars ($75.00), issued May 9, 1894, having been destroyed. 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 24, 1896. President of the Senate. 3G Appropriation for Ohio soldiers' and sailors' home. [House Bill No. 161.] AN ACT To appropriate funds for furnishing a hospital, improving the grounds, and for ordinary repairs at the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' home at Sandusky, Ohio. 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 nine thousand ($9,000.00) dollars for furnishing a hospital, improving grounds and ordinary repairs at the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' home. 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. President of the Senate. 4G Municipal corporations: [Senate Bill No. 71.] AN ACT To amend section 16556 of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 16556 of the Revised Statutes. of Ohio, be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 16556. In cities of the first grade of the first class, no ordinance, resolution, or order, for granting a franchise or creating a right, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property, and no resolution declaring it to be to the interest of such city that any property of any kind or description shall be sold, shall take effect, unless such ordinance; resolution or order is concurred in by the board of administration of such city, and unless approved by the mayor, or, in case of his disapproval, is passed over his veto in the manner provided by law. SECTION 2. Said original section 1655b, as enacted Repeals. March 5, 1894 (91 O. L., 49), and all other acts inconsistent with this act be and the the same are hereby repealed. 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. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed January 30, 1896. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 10.] AN ACT To supplement section 897 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 897p be enacted as supple- county commismentary to section 897 of the Revised Statutes as follows: SEC. 897p. In counties which by the last preceding federal census had a population of not less than 26,950 nor more than 26,970, or which at any subsequent federal census may have such population, each county commissioner shall on and after March 1, 1896, devote his entire time to the duties of his office, if so required, and shall receive a salary at the rate of eight hundred (800) dollars per annum, to be paid in equal monthly instalments upon the warrant of the county auditor; said salary shall be in full payment for all services rendered, mileage or expenses incurred, except when traveling on official business outside the county each commissioner may be paid his actual expenses, after filing with the county auditor an itemized statement of the same, attested by his oath. 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. ASAHEL W. JONES, sioners: Duties, salary and expenses in Pickaway county. Passed February 3, 1896. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 16.] AN ACT To supplement section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be supplemented as follows: SEC. 2834a. The trustees of any township, the board of education of any school district, except a city district of the first class, and the commissioners of any county, for the purpose of extending the time of payment of any indebtedness which, from its limits of taxation, such township, school district or county is unable to pay at maturity, or when it appears to said trustees, board of education or commissioners, for the best interest of said township, school district or county, shall have power to issue bonds of such township, school district or county, or borrow money, so as to change but not to increase the indebtedness, for such length of time, in such amounts, and at such a rate of interest as the said trustees, board of education or commissioners may deem proper, not to exceed six per cent. per annum, payable annually or semi-annually. 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. To amend original sections 871, 872 and 873 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of County commis- the State of Ohio, That original sctions 871, 872 and 873 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: sioners: Objects for which money and bonds issued. SEC. 871. The commissioners, for the execution of may be borrowed the objects stated in the preceding section, or for the purpose of erecting any court-house, buildings for county officers, jail, county infirmary, or bridge, or for the purpose of enlarging, repairing, improving or rebuilding any such building or bridge, or for the relief or support of the poor, may borrow such sum or sums of money as they deem necessary, at a rate of interest not to exceed six per cent. per annum, and issue the bonds of the county to secure the payment of the principal and interest thereof; such interest shall be paid semi-annually, at the county treasury, and the Payment of in terest and prin cipal. principal shall be paid at such treasury, at such times as the commissioners prescribe, within twenty years from the date of such indebtedness; the interest on all the bonds issued for any of said purposes, shall become due and payable at the same time, and the first payment of interest on any such bond shall be for such portion of the six months as has elapsed between the date of its issue and the time specified therein for the first payment of interest thereafter. SEC. 872. The bonds so issued shall be signed by the commissioners, or any two of them, and countersigned by the auditor, with or without coupons attached, in sums not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars each, payable to bearer at the county treasury, with interest, as aforesaid, at such times, not exceeding twenty years after date, as the commissioners prescribe, and such bonds shall specify distinctly the object for which they were issued. SEC. 873. The commissioners shall, annually, at their June session, levy such amount of taxes as will pay the interest on such indebtedness, and at least one-twentieth of the principal; but where such indebtedness is created by the purchase of lands, the erection, repair, alteration, or improvement of a building or buildings for an infirmary, the property of any city which supports the poor thereof at its own expense exclusively, shall not be taxed for such pur pose. SECTION 2. That original sections 871, 872 and 873 Repeals. of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. CHARLES H. BOSLER, ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed February 3, 1896. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 31.] AN ACT To authorize the canal commissioners and board of public works of the state of Ohio to lease a portion of an embankment of the Miami and Erie canal. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the canal commission and board of public works of the state of Ohio are hereby authorized to lease for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) years, and upon such terms as they may deem satisfactory, to the Troy wagon works company or its assigns, to be used for a roadway or railway purposes, that portion of the embankment of the Miami and Erie canal in the city of Troy, Miami county, Ohio, commencing at the westerly right of way line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway company at its intersection with the berme-bank of the Miami and Erie canal and running thence northwesterly along the westerly line of said canal a distance of four hundred and twenty-five (425) feet, except that portion occupied by the main building, boiler house and corn crib of Allen and Wheeler under Reservations. the terms and restrictions following: The state reserves all right in the premises for canal purposes. The state reserves the right to regulate the occupancy of the said premises by the said party of the second part, all change in the towing path, the moving and rebuilding of the change bridge and the necessary piling and planking and occupancy to be under the supervision of the chief engineer of public works, and at the expense of the said party of the second part. SECTION 2. This act to take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. CHARLES H. BOSLER, ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed February 3, 1896. President of the Senate. 9G Appropriation for common schools. [House Bill No. 116.] AN ACT To make appropriation for the support of common schools. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated from any moneys raised or coming into the state treasury, for the support of common schools, for the fiscal year ending November 15, 1896, and for the fiscal year ending November 15, 1897, the sum of three million, four hundred ninetytwo thousand, seven hundred and seventy-four dollars ($3,492,774.00), or as much as may come into the state treasury for that purpose, to be distributed and paid in the manner provided by law, agreeable to section 3956 of the Revised Statutes. 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. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed February 3, 1896. President of the Senate. 10G |