or ordered by such municipal corporation; so that the maximum rate and amount of such taxes to be levied under the authority of this act for such bonds so hereafter to be issued for such sewer purposes, together with the rate and amount now by other acts authorized to be levied for such bonds, already heretofore issued for such purposes, shall be one mill over and above and additional to the aggregate rate and aggregate amount of all taxes now or hereafter to be authorized by law to be levied or ordered by such municipal corporation. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 14, 1884. President of the Senate. Alumni may elect trustees and appoint visitors. [House Bill No. 487.] AN ACT To amend section 3747 of the revised statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section thirty-seven hundred and forty-seven of the revised statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3747. After such acceptance by the board of any university or college, the alumni thereof may elect, as member of the board of trustees of such university or college, a class of trustees equal in number to the class of trustees elected by any conference or other religious body represented in such board of trustees, and for like terms, as provided in sections thirty-seven hundred and thirty-seven to thirtyseven hundred and forty, inclusive, and may likewise perpetuate such class of trustees; and they may annually appoint two visitors, who shall have powers and duties the same as visitors appointed by any conference or other religious body aforesaid; but the board shall be the judge of the validity of the elections, and returns thereof of the trustees and visitors elected under the provisions of this section; no alumnus shall be an elector of trustees and visitors until the third regular election therefor after receiving at least one of the degrees in course from such university or college; and every other person who has regularly attended the university or college as a student not less than two years, and has at any time received from its board the degree of master of arts, shall for the purpose of being an elector of trustees and visitors, be deemed and taken as an alumnus. SEC. 2. That said original section 3747 be and the same To authorize the sale of certain land belonging to the state. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor, auditor of state, attorney-general, Authorizing railroad commissioner, and state librarian, be and they are sale of cerhereby authorized to have platted and sub-divided into lots, tain state with necessary streets and alleys, and to sell said lots to the lands. highest and best bidder, for one-third cash, one-third in one year, and one-third in two years, to be secured by first mortgage, bearing six per cent. interest, and payable annually, the following described land belonging to the state of Ohio, and situate in the county of Franklin, in said state, to wit: A part of half section number fourteen, in township number five, range twenty-two, beginning at south-west corner of said half section; thence north with the section line thirty-four poles to the state road; thence with the said road easterly forty-nine poles and twelve links; thence south fifty-four poles to the post in the south line of said half section; thence west with the last named line forty-eight poles to the beginning, containing eleven acres and one hundred and twelve poles, more or less; being the same premises conveyed by Albert A. Bliss and wife to the state of Ohio, by deed bearing date February 19, 1852. And all moneys received from the sale of said land shall be paid into the state treasury, to the credit of the general revenue fund, except such sum as may be used to pay the necessary expenses of carrying out the provisions of this act; and in his next annual message, the governor shall lay before the legislature a statement of the cost of such sale, the amount of money received and paid into the treasury, and the name of each purchaser, or purchasers, and the amount paid by each, with the balance due. conditions. SEC. 2. The state officers above named are hereby further authorized to make and impose such other terms, conditions Terms and and instructions in and upon any sale of said lots as they may deem beneficial to the state, and they shall determine when such sale or sales of lots shall be made and how many Conveyances and mortgages. shall be sold at any sale, and whether any shall be sold in groups or not. SEC. 3. All conveyances for lots sold as aforesaid shall be made as provided in section 4115 of the revised statutes of the state. The notes and mortgages for the deferred payments aforesaid shall be made to the state, and it shall be the duty of the attorney-general to examine and determine the sufficiency of the same, and, when accepted by him as sufficient, they shall be delivered to the treasurer of state, who shall open upon the books of his office an account with said fund, and to him said notes and the interest thereon shall be paid when due, and the proceeds thereof by him placed to the credit of the general revenue fund, as herein before provided. Upon payment of such notes and the interest thereon, the said mortgages shall be released as provided in section 4124 of said revised statutes. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 14, 1884. President of the Senate. for. [House Bill No. 393.] AN ACT Making appropriations to repair the canals of the state of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund the following sums of money for the purposes hereinafter named, to wit: to repair breaches in the banks, locks, aqueducts, culverts and dams on the Ohio canal, seventy-six thousand dollars ($76,000); three thousand dollars of the Repair of same, or so much thereof as may be necessary to clear of obcanals, ap- struction the feeder east of the Ohio canal, and enlarge the propriations submerged culvert under the canal in the city of Massillon, Stark county; to repair breaches in the canal banks, locks, aqueducts, culverts, reservoirs and dams in the Miami and Erie canal, eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000); to repair breaches in the canal banks, locks and dams in the Hocking canal, ten thousand dollars ($10,000); to repair embankments, locks and dams on the Muskingum improvement, ten thousand dollars ($10,000); for repairing the banks of and erecting a breakwater on the Walhonding canal at a point about one-half (4) mile west of what is known as the "six mile dam" on the Walhonding river, and at the point where the said river broke into and across said canal, the sum of $6,000. For the repair of the Columbus feeder, five thousand dollars (85,000). All of the said several sums of money shall be expended under the care and supervision of the board of public works of the state of Ohio. SE. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN G. WARWICK, Passed April 14, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 454.] AN ACT To amend section 2690c, section 2690i, section 2690j, and section 3958 and section 3959 of the revised statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections twenty-six hundred and ninety (c), twenty-six hundred and ninety (i), twenty-six hundred and ninety (); section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-eight and section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-nine of the revised. statutes of Ohio, as amended April 16, 1883, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2690c. That no tax shall be levied upon the property of any such city, by the council thereof, or any other authority therein, except by the boards of education in cities of the first grade of the first class, for school and educational purposes, until approved by the board of tax commissioners aforesaid. Tax commissioners to approve tax levy except for school purposes. Section 2690. In all cities of the first grade of the first Heads of declass, to enable the city comptroller and the boards afore- partments to said to estimate correctly the levies and appropriations report estiaforesaid, the authorities of all the city institutions, except mates. boards of education as well as every head of a department or office in the city, for whose wants provision is to be made, including the trustees of the commercial hospital, shall report to the comptroller, on or before the first Monday in March in each year, the amount of money needed for their respective wants for the ensuing year; said estimate to be given for each month. The comptr ller, as well as the boards of tax commissioners and common council, shall revise them, and if deemed proper, shall reduce them so as to prevent unnecessary expenditure, and to bring them within fair limits to the other expenditures required by the city. Section 2690j. No liability whatever shall be created Certain liabilities not against any city of the first grade of the first class, and no valid. expenditures shall be made for the same, except for school and educational purposes as provided for by the boards of Board of education to make estimate for expenses. Maximum of levy. education therein, unless it be previously covered by an appropriation sanctioned both by the boards of tax commissioners and common council as above provided, except from the contingent fund of fifty thousand dollars herein provided for; and any tax 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 tax commissioners and common council, 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. SEC. 2. That section thirty nine hundred and fifty-eight of the revised statutes of Ohio, and section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-nine of said revised statutes, as amended by an act to amend section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-eight and section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-nine, passed April 16, 1883, be amended to read as follows: Section 3958. Each board of education shall annually, at a regular or special meeting, to be held between the third Monday in April and the first Monday in June, determine by estimate, as nearly as practicable, the entire amount of money necessary to be levied as a contingent fund for the continuance of the school or schools of the district, after the state funds are exhausted, to purchase sites for school-houses, to erect, purchase, lease, repair and furnish school-houses, and build additions thereto, and for other school expenses. Section 3959. Such estimate and levy shall not exceed, in cities of the first grade of the first class, three and onefourth mills; provided, however, that the boards of education in said cities may levy one mill additional for every five thousand pupils over and above twenty-five thousand enrolled in the public schools of said cities, which levy, however, shall in no case exceed four mills; and in cities of the second grade, first class, five mills; and in all other districts, seven mills on each dollar of valuation of taxable property. SEC. 3. That said section 2690c, section 2690i, section 2690j, section 3958 and section 3959 of the revised statutes of Ohio, as enacted and amended April 16, 1883, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Passed April 14, 1884. |