[House Bill No. 35.] AN ACT Providing for the redistricting of cities of the second grade of the second class. Dayton redistricting com mission. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the S'ate of Ohio, That in any city of the second grade of the second class, the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which such city is located shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, appoint a commission of five citizens, electors of said city, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party, whose duty it shall be to Wards. redistrict such city into wards composed as far as practicable of adjacent territory, and bounded as far as possible by streets, Boundaries. lanes, alleys, avenues, highways, watercourses, corporation lines and railroads. SECTION 2. The members of such commission shall, as Oath of memsoon as possible after their appointment, be sworn to faith- bers. fully and honestly perform their duties and shall thereupon proceed to the discharge of the same. The wards formed by Numbering of the commission shall be numbered consecutively from one wards. upwards. Three members of such commission shall consti- Quorum. tute a quorum for the transaction of business. Maps and descriptions of wards. Filing of copies. expenses. SECTION 3. The members of such commission or a majority of them shall cause maps and descriptions of the wards as finally fixed to be made, and shall certify and file one copy thereof with the mayor, one copy with the city clerk and one copy with the board of elections of such city. SECTION 4. Said commission is authorized to employ such Assistants and assistants as it may need and to incur such other expenses as may be necessary to the discharge of their duties, and Compensation the commissioners shall each receive five dollars per day for of commistheir services while in the actual performance of their duties. The compensation of the assistants o employed, the amount Payment of of such expenses and the compensation of the members of compensation such commission shall be paid out of the city treasury of such city upon warrants of the proper officers, which shall be drawn upon the requisition of the commission or a majority thereof. sioners. and expenses. precincts. SECTION 5. When, in such redistricting, one or more Preservation entire election precincts as they existed at the next previous of election election before such redistricting, shall without change of the precinct boundaries be embodied in any ward or wards, they shall be preserved and shall constitute election precincts in the new wards for the next ensuing election; and only such Registration. registration shall be required in such precincts as would have been required by law had such redistricting not taken place. new election 5 precincts. SECTION 6. Where part only of an election precinct as Formation of aforesaid is incorporated into a ward after the redistricting, it shall constitute a separate election precinct for the next ensuing election, unless it lies contiguous to part only of one or more other election p ecincts as aforesaid incorporated in General registration. Legal residence after redistricting. the same ward, when the said parts of precincts shall together constitute one election precinct for the next ensuing election, and in the precinct or precincts so formed from part or parts of former precincts, a general registration shall be held for the next ensuing election in the manner provided by law for general registr tions. SECTION 7. At the next ensuing election after such redistricting, the electors of such city shall vote in the precincts in which they respectively reside and are registered, Designation of and the board of elections of such city shall assign to each precinct the number of the ward in which it is situated and such other letter or number as they may see fit to designate it by. election precincts. Establishment of new and abolition of old wards. SECTION 8 Immediately upon the filing with the said mayor, city clerk and board of elections of the said maps and descriptions of wards as aforesaid, the new wards as set forth in said maps and descriptions shall be deemed established and the former wards shalt be abolished, and the offices of board of educa- members of council and of members of the board of education of any such city from a ward or wards of number not found on such maps and in such descriptions shall at that time cease and be abolished and be so deemed. Members of council and tion from abolished wards. First election for members of SECTION 9. No election of members of council, members council, board of the board of education or of ward officers shall be held in any such city after such redistricting until the next ensuing April election. of education and ward officers. Designation of members of council and board of edu sent wards. SECTION 10. The said commissioners, or a majority tereo, shall designate what wards shall be represented by the members of council and of the board of education elected cation to repre- from wards of numbers found on such maps and descritions of wards, and holding over until the expiration of their terms, pd the said mayor, city clerk and board of election shall be notified thereof. Elections for members of council and of the board of education at the next ensuing April election after such redistricting shall be held only in such ward or wards as are wholly or partly unrepresented in said bodies, or either of them, after such redistricting and designation. Election in wards unrepresented. Force and effect of redis- Copying of descriptions. Repeals. SECTION 11. The redistricting into new wards of such city by said commission shall have the same force and effect as if made by ordinance of the council of such city, and the wards of any such city so redistricted shall not again be changed un i after the fourth regular meeting of the council after the April election next ensuing after such redistricting, and the city clerk shall copy the descriptions of such new wards into the general ordinance book of any such city. SECTION 12. That an act entitled "An act to redistrict cities of the second grade of the second class," passed March 27, 1890, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LEWIS C. LAYLIN, Passed February 19, 1892. 28G President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 62.] AN ACT To amend section 1166 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 25, 1890. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State County surof Ohio, That section 1166 of the Revised Statutes, as veyor: amended April 25, 1890 (87 O. L., page 295), be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: sibility for Sec. 1166. He may appoint deputies not exceeding Deputies; three, and take from them such bond as he requires, and he bond; responshall be responsible for their official acts; all surveys made acts. by any deputy shall be signed by such deputy and counter- surveys made signed by the county surveyor, and when so signed and coun- by deputies. tersigned shall have the same validity and effect as the sur veys of the county surveyor. SECTION 2. Said section 1166, as amended April 25, Repeals. 1890, is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force LEWIS C. LAYLIN, from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW L. HARRIS, President of the Senate. Passed February 19, 1892. 29G [House Bill No. 125] AN ACT To provide for admission to the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' home, with provisions for removal of inmates becoming insane or imbecile or improperly admitted, to define and provide penalties for certain misdemeanors, to provide for bond of quartermaster and to provide for such inspection and supervision of said home as any act of congress may require. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who have served the United States government in any of its wars, and who are citizens of Ohio at the date of Ohio soldiers' and sailors' eligible to admission. home: who Preference. Insane or imbecile ineligible; transfer to asylum. Expenses of inquest, removal and clothing. Return of misrepresented person to county; expenses of return. Liability of Erie county for expenses. By whom transfer to asylum to be made. Misdemeanor to purchase to member or article be longing to home; penalty. the passage of this act, or shall have been citizens of Ohio one year or more at the date of making application for admission, who are not able to support themselves, and are not entitled to admission to the national military homes, or can not gain admission thereto, and all soldiers of the national guard of Ohio who have heretofore lost, or may hereafter lose an arm or leg, or his sight, while in the line and discharge of duty, and are not able to support themselves, may be admitted to the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' home under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by its board of trustees; provided, that as to honorably discharged soldiers who have served the United States government, preference shall be given to those who served in Ohio military organizations, and as to such sailors and marines preference shall be given to those who were credited to Ohio in the late civil war. SECTION 2. That no insane or imbecile person shall be admitted to said home, and provided that if any member of said home shall become insane or imbecile and be so adjudged by the probate judge of the county of Erie, such insane or imbecile person shall be transferred to the asylum for the insane or imbecile in the district where he formerly resided, the expense of so adjudging him insane or imbecile, and so moving him to the asylum, and clothing him while there, to be borne by said home; and provided further, if any insane or imbecile person through misrepresentation as to his condition shall be sent to said home, he shall be returned to the county whence he came and the expense of such return be borne by the county whence he came; and in no case shall any portion of the expenses involved in the care, transfer or treatment of the insane or imbecile be borne by the county of Erie, save in case the person adjudged insane or imbecile was insane or imbecile at the time he was admitted and was then a resident of Erie county, and the quartermaster of said home or an officer of said home, designated by said quartermaster, shall be appointed by the probate judge of said county of Erie to transfer such insane or imbecile person to the asylum. SECTION 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to clothing issued purchase of a member of said home any article of clothing issued to said member for his use, or any other articles belonging to the home, and any person so purchasing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof before the probate judge of the county of Erie, shall be punished by a fine not less than double the value of the articles purchased, and the probate judge of said county shall have jurisdiction in such cases. Jurisdiction. Bond of quartermaster. Inspection and SECTION 4. The board of trustees shall require of the quartermaster of said home a satisfactory bond, in amount not less than twenty-five thousand dollars, for the proper discharge of his duties and the custody and expenditure of the funds received by him. SECTION 5. That the home shall be subject to inspection supervision by and such supervision as to its management and control by any person appointed or designated under act of congress of United States official. the United States, as may be made a condition of appropria tions by congress for the maintenance of such home, such Rights and official appointed under and by virtue of act of congress to privileges of have and exercise the rights and privileges of a member of the board of trustees if so required by act of congress. SECTION 6. All acts or parts of acts so far as they may Inconsistent be inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby declared acts. void as to such inconsistency, but not otherwise. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To supplement section 4715 of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Supervisors of Ohio, That said section 4715 be supplemented as follows: and road work: Unlawful ditches an highways. making of op n Sec. 4715a. It shall be unlawful for any supervisor to excavate or make any open ditch on and along a public highway in front of any dwelling-house or yard surrounding the same, or entrance thereto, or in front of the entrance or approach to any barn on that side of the road on which the said buildings are situate, unless he forthwith puts in a sufficient under-drain and fills up the excavation to the original level, except when authorized to make such open ditch at said points, by the owner of such buildings or trustees of the township. And any road supervisor violating this section Penalty. shall forfeit and pay to the owner of any such buildings twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in a civil action be ore any justice of the peace. 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 19, 1892. President of the Senate. |