Appropriation cultural ex periment station. [House Bill No. 220.] AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled "An act to authorize the several counties of the state to raise money to secure the location of the Ohio agricultural experiment station, and to provide for such location," passed April 23d, 1891 (O. L., vol. 88, p. 353). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the S'ate for Ohio agri- of Ohio, That any funds paid into the state treasury under and by virtue of an act entitled "An act to authorize the several counties of the state to raise money to secure the location of the Ohio agricultural experiment station and to provide for such location," passed April 23d, 1891 (O. L., vol. 88, p. 353), shall be held and deemed to be and hereby are appropriated for the purpose for which donated, and shall be paid out by the state treasurer on warrants of the state auditor drawn upon duly authenticated requisitions of the board of control of the Ohio agricultural experiment station, such requisitions to be accompanied with vouchers showing the purposes for which the requisitions are drawn. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 10, 1892. 13G President of the Senate. Village board of improvement (Ravenna). Compensation and term. Vacancies. Removals. [House Bill No. 101.] AN ACT Providing for village boards of improvement in villages which at the last federal census had, or which at any subsequent federal census may have a population of not less than three thousand four hundred, nor greater than three thousand four hundred and fifty, and prescribing the duties and authority of such boards. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sate of Ohio, That the mayor, by and with the consent of the council in any village in Ohio, which at the last federal census had, or which at any subsequent federal census may have a population of not less than three thousand four hundred nor greater than three thousand four hundred and fifty, shall appoint within five days after the passage of this act, six electors of such village, to be styled "the village board of improvement," not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party. Said board shall serve without pay, and until all the funds which shall come into its possession shall have been expended. All vacancies, however, occurring in said board, shall be filled by the mayor, with a like consent of council, the non-political character of the same being preserved, and any member of the board may be removed for cause by the mayor. lations. SECTION 2. Said board when so appointed shall forth- Organization; with organize by electing from their number a president, sec- rules and reguretary and treasurer and shall prescribe rules and regulations for the board and its officers. park, etc. SECTION 3. Said board when duly organized as above Purchase of provided, may expend the whole or any part of any funds real estate for coming to its possession by gift, bequest or otherwise for the purchase and improvement of real estate for park and other purposes, for the benefit of said village. Said board is als Sale or lease of further empowered to sell at public or private sale for such real estate. price, and on such terms of credit as it may see fit, and convey to purchasers so much of the present or hereafter acquired real estate as said board shall secure by gift, bequest, purchase or otherwise, and may lease for such time, and upon such terms as it may see fit, either the whole or any part of such real estate. Said bonds [board] may also pay any necessary ex- Expenses. penses properly pertaining to the business herein provided. vote. SECTION 4. It shall require a two-thirds affimative vote Affirmative of all members of said board to purchase, sell, lease, improve or incumber any real estate for the purposes herein provided. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN. President of the Senate. Passed February 12, 1892. 14G [House Bill No. 186.] AN ACT For the benefit of Mrs. Henry P. Camp. for Mrs. Henry P. Camp. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Appropriation of Ohio, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated and allowed to Mrs. Henry P. Camp, widow of Hon. Henry P. Camp, the late member of the house, who died on the 19th day of January, 1892, the same being the amount which would have been due the said Hon. Henry P. Camp, for one year's services as member of this house, and that the same be paid from any money in the treasury to the credit of the legislative fund for salaries of members. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 12, 1892. President of the Senate. Offenses [House Bill No. 55.] AN ACT To amend section 6968 of the Revised Statues of Ohio, as amended March 3, 1891. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sate against public of Ohio, That section 6968 of the Revised Statutes, as amended March 3, 1891, be so amended as to read as follows: policy: Unlawful catching of fish in Lake Erie and Sandusky, Maumee and Gill-net. Reefs in Lake Portable fishnet in Lake Erie. Mouth of stream flowing into Lake Erie. Mercer county reservoir. Lewistown reservoir. Net fishing in and Sec. 6968. No person shall draw, set, place, locate or maintain any pound-net, seine, trap or fish-net in Lake Erie, nor in Sandusky bay, nor in Maumee bay as far up as Maumee bridge, nor in Portage bay as far up as Oak Harbor bridge, from the fifteenth day of June to the tenth day of September, inclusive. No person shall set, place, locate or maintain, or catch fish with a gill-net in any of the waters of the state, except in Lake Erie. No person shall set, place, locate or maintain any fish-net on any of the reefs in Lake Erie. No person shall set, place, locate or maintain in Lake Erie any portable fish-net within one-half mile of any stationary fishnet or lead thereof. No person shall set, place, locate or maintain any net whatever within one-half mile of the mouth of any river or creek flowing into Lake Erie. No person shall catch fish in Mercer county reservoir between the twentieth day of May and the twentieth day of July, inclusive, or in the Lewistown reservoir between the first day of June and the first day of October, inclusive, with any device except hook and line, with bait or lure; and in the season in which Mercer county net fishing is permitted in the said Mercer county and Lewistown reservoirs, the net known as fyke-net or set-net only shall be used, and with hoop or mouth of not over six feet in its greatest width, and with wings or leads of not over fifty feet in length; and said nets shall not be set closer to each other than 100 feet and when nets may be used having wings or leads the outer ends of such wings or leads shall not be closer to each other than 100 feet. No person shall in any of the waters, either natural or artificial, lying in the state of Streams flow Ohio, or part therein, shoot or spear fish, except in streams flowing into the waters of Lake Erie persons may catch fish of the sucker variety known as suckers, mullet and red-horse with a spear. No person shall draw, set, place, locate or maintain or catch fish with a device called a trammel-net or with fyke-net or set-net except as heretofore stated. No person shall, in any of the waters of the state, except those heretofore named in this section, catch fish with any device whatever, except hook and line, with bait or lure. No person shall draw, set, place, locate or maintain any fish-trap, pound-net, seine or any device for catching fish as in this section forbidden; and any nets, seines, pound-nets or other devices for catching fish, set, placed, located or maintained in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be confiscated wherever found, and the same shall be sold to the highest bidder, at public outcry, at a place to be selected by the fish Application of commissioners, and the proceeds derived from such sale shall Shooting or spearing fish. ing into Lake Erie. Trammel-net, fyke-net and set-net. Hook and line, with bait or lure. Confiscation and sale of devices used unlawfully. proceeds. be placed to the credit of the fish and game fund, and subject Black bass. caught; minnows for bait. Stocking ponds, lakes hatcheries. and rivers; Penalty for first violation. to the warrant of such commissioners. No person shall catch or have in his position [possession] any black bass of less than eight inches in length; buy, sell or offer for sale or have in Buying, selling, etc, fish his possession any fish caught out of season, or in any man- unlawfully ner prohibited; provided, that nothing in this act shall prevent the taking of minnows for bait with nets, or shall prevent the fish and game commissioners of this state, or their agents, from taking fish at any time or place, in any manner, for the purpose of stocking ponds, lakes and rivers, and for the maintenance and cultivation of fish in hatcheries. Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be fined for the first offense not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in case of neglect or refusal to pay said fine be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days; and for the second or any subsequent violation of this act, Subsequent shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and in default of payment of fine and costs shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty days; and all fines collected under this act shall go to the Disposition of county fish and game fund in the county wherein the offense fines collected. was committed, unless otherwise directed and ordered by the fish and game commissioners of this state. And it is hereby Prosecutions. made the duty of the wardens and assistant wardens of this state to prosecute all violations of this act in connection with the prosecuting attorneys of the counties wherein such offense shall have been committed, and such prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to the same fees as are now allowed by law ney. for the collection of forfeited bonds. Provided, that nothing in this act shall apply to artificial fish ponds; or be so con strued as to prevent persons to gig or spear fish in the backwaters of the Ohio or in its tributary streams. violations. Fees of prose cuting attor Artificial fish river and its tributaries. ponds; Ohio SECTION 2. That said original section 6968, as amended Repeals, etc. March 3, 1891, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect on its passage. state uni SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Appropria of Ohio, That there is appropriated out of any moneys in the tion for Ohio state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the credit of the versity. "Ohio state university fund" the sum of eighty-four thousand two hundred dollars ($84.200.00) for the uses and purposes of the Ohio state university according to the provisions of section 3951 of the Revised Statutes, as amended March 20, 1891 (88 O. L., p. 159). SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed February 17, 1892. 17G Appropria cation of list of cities and villages entitled to [House Bill No. 153.] AN ACT To provide for a deficiency caused by the publication of lists of cities and villages entitled to be advanced under the federal census of 1890. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sate tion for publi- of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred advancement. and forty six dollars and eighty-seven cents ($246.87), to pay for the publication of lists of cities and villages entitled to be advanced under the federal census of 1890, in accordance with section 1618 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. The same shall be paid upon the warrant of auditor of state, upon vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed February 17, 1892. 18G Bonds authorized in aid of manufactur ing establishments (Fremont). Amount. Denomination. Interest. [House Bill No. 164.] AN ACT To authorize certain cities herein designated to issue bonds for the purpose of aiding, encouraging and maintaining manufacturing establishments in said cities. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sate of Ohio, That the council of any city of the fourth grade of the second class, which at the federal census of 1890 had, and at any subsequent census may have, a population of seven thousand one hundred and forty-one (7,141), be and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of such ci y in any sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars ($35 000), in denominations not exceeding one thousand dollars each, bearing interest not exceeding six per cent. per |