[House Bill No. 308.] AN ACT To authorize the trustees of the Bellaire cemetery association to sell a portion of their lands. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the Bellaire cemetery association of Bellaire, Belmont county, Ohio, be and are hereby authorized to sell and convey any portion of their lands unsuitable for burial purposes. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To authorize the commissioners of Huron county, Ohio, to issue bonds and borrow money. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Huron county, Ohio, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the coupon bonds of said county in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), in addition to the amount now authorized by law, which bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, and payable as follows: one-fifth of said issue in one year from July 1st, 1884; one-fifth of said issue in two years from July 1st, 1884; one-fifth of said issue in three years from July 1st, 1884; -one-fifth of said issue in four years from July 1st, 1884; one-fifth of said issue in five years from July 1st, 1884, which bonds shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi annually, on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January of each and every year, until said bonds shall have been paid. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall have coupons attached thereto, representing the semi-annual interest thereon as it shall become due, and said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value. SEC. 3. The commissioners and auditor of said county are hereby constituted a board, and authorized to apportion the money arising from the sale of said bonds, among the several funds of said county in proportion to the requirements thereof, as may be determined by the judgment of said board. 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. JOHN G. WARWICK, Passed March 7, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 324.] AN ACT To authorize the village council of Canal Fulton, Stark county, to transfer certain funds. and SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the village of Canal Fulton, Stark county, Ohio, be and is hereby authorized to transfer the sum of two hundred fifty dollars from the general fund, and two hundred dollars from the sanitary fund of said village, to the street fund. Also said village council is authorized to transfer fifty dollars from the sinking fund to the fire department fund. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. To create a new election precinct in Liberty township, Seneca county, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a new election precinct be created in Liberty township, Seneca county, with boundaries as follows: Commencing at the north-east corner of said Liberty township, and running west along the line of Sandusky county, to the east line of Jackson township; thence south along said Jackson township line to the two-mile section line; thence east on a line parallel with the Sandusky county line, to the west line of Pleasant township, thence north along said Pleasant township line to place of beginning; said precinct so created to be known as Bettsville precinct, Seneca county, Ohio. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force fron and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 7, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 210.] AN ACT To authorize the incorporated village of Bluffton, Allen county, Ohio, to borrow money and issue bonds for certain purposes therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the incorporated village of Bluffton, Allen county, Ohio, be and the same is hereby authorized to purchase ground, build an engine house and purchase a fire engine, in and for said village, and to raise money for that purpose, not exceeding seven thousand dollars ($7,000), in the manner hereinafter provided. The council of said village are hereby authorized to issue bonds not exceeding in amount the sum of seven thousand dollars (87,000), which may be used in payment of grounds, material, work and labor, to be performed in the building of said engine house, and to purchase a fire engine for the use of said village, and said bonds shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof, and the proceeds of such sale shall be applied to said purpose. SEC. 3. Said bonds as aforesaid authorized to be issued, shall be signed by the mayor of said incorporated village, and countersigned and regis tered by the clerk of said village and may be issued in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, bearing interest at the rate of six (6) per cent. per annum, payable annually. The principal and interest to be paid in three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine years from the time of issuing said bonds, and in such amounts each year as the council of said village may direct. SEC. 4. For the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds as the same shall become due, the council of said village is hereby authorized and required to levy a tax on all taxable property within the corporate limits of said village, in such amounts as will each year meet the principal and interest then falling due upon said bonds, which levy shall be placed on the tax duplicate by the auditor of said county and collected as other taxes. SEC. 5. Before the council of said village shall have the right to issue said bonds, the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said incorporated village at a regular or special election called by said council of said village, of which at least ten days' notice shall be given by publication in any newspaper published within the limits of said village, of the time and place of holding such election, and if two-thirds of the electors voting at said election on said question shall vote in favor of the same, then, and not otherwise, shall the council of said village be authorized to issue said bonds as herein before provided. Those voting in favor of the proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots, "For the issue of bonds-Yes;" and those voting against the proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots, "For the issue of bonds-No." SEC. 6. Said election shall in all respects not otherwise herein provided, be held the same as municipal elections are now required by law to be held in said incorpórated village. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and afterits passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN G. WARWICK, Passed March 7, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 227.] AN ACT To divide Paris township, Union county, Ohio, into two election precincts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the township of Paris, in the county of Union, be and the same is hereby divided into two election precincts, as follows: The line dividing said precincts shall begin where the Marysville and Pharisburg gravel road crosses the north line of said township; thence southerly with said road to Main street in the village of Marysville; thence southerly with said. Main street to the track of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railway; thence westwardly along the track of said railway to the Marysville and London gravel road; thence southwardly along said last named road, to the south line of said township. The territory lying east of said line shall be known as the eastern precinct, and the territory lying west of said line shall be known as the western precinct. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Passed March 7, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 259] AN ACT For the relief of John A. Murlin, of Union township, Mercer county, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That John A. Murlin, treasurer of the village school district of Mendon, Mercer county, Ohio, and his bondsmen, as such treasurer, are hereby released, and forever discharged from the payment of the sum of four hundred dollars of the school funds of said district, or such part thereof as was stolen from said treasurer in the year A. D. 1884. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To authorize the commissioners of Clermont county, Ohio, to provide for the deficiency in the county funds of said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Clermont county, Ohio, for the purpose of meeting and providing for a deficiency in the county funds of said county, are hereby authorized and required to issue bonds in an amount not exceeding $20,000. Said bonds shall bear a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be of such denominations, from fifty dollars (850) to five hundred dollars ($500), each, and shall be due and payable at such times not exceeding five years, as the commissioners may determine. SEC. 2. Said commissioners of Clermont county, shall provide for the payment and redemption of the bonds provided for in section one of this act, and for that purpose they are hereby authorized and required to levy annually a tax not exceeding one-half of one mill on the dollar on all the taxable property of said county. in addition to the taxes now authorized by law, and said levy shall not extend beyond the period of five years, beginning with the year 1884. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. L. A. BRUNNER, To authorize the transfer of certain funds in the village treasury of the incorporated village of Marion, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the incorporated village of Marion, Marion county, Ohio, be and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer the sum of fifteen hundred dollars from the general fund to the street improvement fund of said village, also to transfer from the marshal and police fund of said village the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars to the street improvement fund. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JOHN G. WARWICK, President of the Senate. Passed March 11, 1884. [House Bill No. 221.] AN ACT To authorize the village council of the incorporated village of Lorain, Lorain county, Ohio, to issue bonds for the purpose of providing said village with a system of public water-works. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the village council of the incorporated village of Lorain, Lorain county, |