[House Bill No. 325.] AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Montgomery county, Ohio, to provide for a deficiency in the county or general expense fund of said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Montgomery county, Ohio, for the purpose of meeting and providing for a deficiency in the county or general expense fund of said county arising from insufficient levies for county purposes, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax for the years 1884, 1885 and 1886, not exceeding five-tenths of one mill on the dollar, each year, in addition to all levies now authorized by law for said purposes on all the taxable property in said county; provided, said levy shall not increase the total of the levies for all purposes now authorized to be made. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1884. [House Bill No. 394.] AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Scioto county to issue bonds to raise money to redeem fifty thousand dollars of free turnpike bonds falling due January 1, 1885. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Scioto county, for the purpose of raising money to redeem fifty thousand dollars of the bonds of said county, issued under the act of April 19, 1872, entitled "an act supplemental to an act entitled an act to authorize the location and construction by the county commissioners of Scioto county of free turnpike and plank roads," passed April 5, 1866, falling due January 1, 1885, be and they are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said county, not exceeding in amount fifty thousand dollars; such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be payable at such time and place as the commissioners may determine; but no part thereof shall be payable at a later date than September 1, 1897, and no part of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be used for any pur pose other than as herein specified. SEC. 2. That for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon, the commissioners are authorized to levy such taxes annually as will pay the interest on said bonds and such part of the principal as may become due from year to year, and so continue until such indebtedness shall be entirely discharged. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1884. [House Bill No. 339.] AN ACT To authorize the village council of the incorporated village of Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, to transfer funds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the village council of the village of Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, be and is hereby authorized to transfer to the fire department fund the following amounts: From the town hall fund the sum of $375.14; from the marshal police fund the sum of $623.76; and from the general fund the sum of $2,100.58. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1884. [House Bill No. 420.] AN ACT To change the time for holding the April term of the court of common. pleas in the county of Coshocton for the year 1884. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the time for holding the April term of the court of common pleas, in the county of Coshocton, as fixed by the judges of the sixth judicial district, be and the same is hereby changed, so that said term shall be held on the 21st day of April, 1884, instead of the time as fixed by said judges. 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. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1884. [Senate Bill No. 181.] AN ACT To create two new sub-school districts in Antrim township, Wyandot county, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That two new sub-school districts are hereby created in Antrim township, Wyandot county, Ohio, composed respectively of the following described territory, to wit: Sections four (4), nine (9), ten (10), and the south half of section three (3), in the southern end of said township, to compose the first of said sub-districts, numbered two (2); and sections five (5), six (6), seven (7), and eight (8), in said southern end of said township, to compose the second of said sub-districts, numbered ten (10); provided, however, that the provisions of this section be ratified by the electors residing upon said described territory, in the manner hereinafter pro vided. SEC. 2. Written notices shall be posted in at least five (5) of the most public places within said described territory, signed by at least three resident electors thereof, giving at least five days' notice of meeting, requesting the qualified voters residing upon said territory, to assemble at an hour and place therein designated, then and there to vote upon the provisions of said section one (1), as follows: The said electors so assembled, at the time and place so designated in said notices, shall appoint of their number a chairman and two clerks, who shall be the judges of said election, which shall continue at least two hours, and shall not close before five o'clock P. M. Those electors favoring the provisions of said section one (1) shall have written or printed upon their ballots: "Two new sub-districts-Yes;" those opposed thereto, shall have so written or printed on their ballots: "Two new sub-districts-No;" and a majority of the ballots so cast shall determine whether or not said section one shall become operative. SEC. 3. Should said election prove favorable to the creation of said two sub-districts, then the resident electors of each shall at once proceed to elect by ballot, three local directors for their respective sub-districts, to serve one, two and three years from the third Monday of April next; and after said local directors are so chosen and qualified, said subdistricts so created shall pass to the supervision and control of the board of education of said Antrim township. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1884. [Senate Bill No. 52.] AN ACT To authorize the board of education of the Union school district of Alliance, Stark county, to compromise with the sureties of Cyrus K. Greiner, late treasurer of said board of education. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of education of the union school district of Alliance, Stark county, be and they are hereby authorized in their discretion, to settle and compromise with the sureties on the official bond of Cyrus K. Greiner, late treasurer of the said board of education, which bond was executed by the said Greiner and sureties on the twenty-second day of August, 1874, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), by said Greiner as said treasurer of said board of education, or any judgment rendered or that may be rendered thereon, upon the payment, or securing to be paid, upon such time as said board may deem reasonable to the treasurer of said board of education, for the use of said union school district, such sum or sums of money as said board of education shall deem proper and expedient; provided, that not less than fifty per centum of the amount of the defalcation of said Cyrus K. Greiner, as said treasurer, for which said suretiess are liable under said bond, shall in the aggregate be paid or secured to be paid, as aforesaid, to said treasurer of said board of education, for the use of said school district, as aforesaid. SEC. 2. Said board of education of said union school district of Alliance, aforesaid, are hereby, in like manner and subject to the same limitations, authorized and empowered to settle and compromise with the sureties upon the official bond of the said C. K. Greiner, executed April 19, 1875, in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), as treasurer of said board of education, or any judgment that may have been rendered thereon, in any action brought upon said bond against said Greiner, as treasurer aforesaid, and said sureties; hereby authorizing, upon such settlement, said board of education to release said sureties from any judgment rendered on said bond; provided, however, that nothing in this act, for any settlement effected under either section hereof, shall be construed to have the effect of discharging the said Cyrus K. Greiner, in whole or in part, from his liabilities on either of the aforesaid bonds or judgments. Provided, that before said board of education shall make any compromise with said bondsmen, the proposition to settle shall first be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of said union school district of Alliance at the general election to be held in said district on the first Monday of April, 1884; and those voting in favor of said compromise shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, "Compromise-Yes;" and those opposed to said compromise shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, " Compromise-No;" and if a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of said compromise, then said board of education may make said compromise, but if a majority of the votes shall be against said compromise, then said compromise herein before provided for shall not be made. SEC. 3. 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. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 20, 1884. [House Bill No. 475.] AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Saint Joseph township, Williams county, Ohio, to join with the council of the incorporated village of Edgerton, in the construction of a town hall for the joint use of said township and village. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the township of Saint Joseph, Williams county, Ohio, and the council of the incorporated village of Edgerton, be and they are hereby authorized to join in the purchase and selection of grounds for a town hall, and in the construction of said hall in said village of Edgerton, for the joint use of said township and village. SEC. 2. That said trustees and village council be and they are hereby authorized to let the contract for the building of said hall, in anticipation of the funds which have been provided for by a levy of taxes heretofore made and to be made for the year 1884, all of which funds will be paid into the treasury before the completion of said town hall; said trustees and village council are hereby authorized to locate said hall in the "Public Park" of said village, unless the terms upon which the village accepted said public park should prevent its location within the same. SEC. 3. 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 20, 1884. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 147.] AN ACT To authorize the city council of the city of Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, to transfer certain funds therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the city council of the city of Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, be and it is hereby authorized to transfer the sum of six thousand three hundred dollars, now to the credit of the sinking fund of said city, to the street and alley fund of said city, for the purpose of repairing the damages caused to the streets of said city by the recent floods. |