and shall take effect and be in force from and after its A. G. REYNOLDS, Passed April 16, 1900. JNO. A. CALDWELL, President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 359.] AN ACT To supplement section 4 of an act entitled "An act to create a state supervisor of elections, with deputy state supervisors, for the conduct of elections in the state of Ohio," passed April 18, 1892 (O. L., p. 455), as reenacted and amended April 25, 1898 (93 O. L., p. 361), by the enactment of section 4a. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: tions: SECTION 1. That section 4 of an act entitled "An act Conduct of electo create a state supervisor of elections, with deputy state supervisors, for the conduct of elections in the state of Ohio," passed April 18, 1892 (89 O. L., p. 455), as reenacted and amended April 25, 1898 (93 O. L., p. 361), be and the same is hereby supplemented by the enactment of section 4a, as follows: Salaries of depusors and clerk in ty state supervi Hamilton county. Sec. 4a. Each member of the board of deputy state supervisors and the clerk thereof in Hamilton county, shall be allowed and paid a salary in the sum of seven hundred and fifty ($750) dollars per annum payable monthly upon vouchers approved by the board out of the county treasury and the county commissioners shall make the necessary levy to meet the same. The judges and compensation of clerks of election in Hamilton county shall be allowed and judges and paid a uniform compensation for their services in accordance with the provisions of section 2926 of the Revised Statutes without regard to the exceptions therein named. SECTION 2. That section 4 of said act and all acts or parts of acts and all sections or parts of sections of the Revised Statutes in conflict with the provisions of this act are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed. SECTION 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 16, 1900. JNO. A. CALDWELL, President of the Senate. clerks. Repeals of concting provis ious. Forfeited lands: Publication of notice of list and sale of forfeited lands. [Senate Bill No. 231.] AN ACT To amend section 2904a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, relating to the sale of lands forfeited for taxes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 2904a of the Revised Statutes, as enacted on February 23, 1886 (83 O. L., 16), be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 2904a. In any county containing a city of the first grade of the first class, and in all cases in other counties, in which any county auditor by inadvertence or mistake, has omitted to cause the list of forfeited lands of his county, together with notice of the sale thereof, to be published according to the requirements of law, it shall be the duty of the county auditor and he is required, in case the taxes and penalty with which the lands and town lots stand charged upon the forfeited list shall not have been. paid before the first day of March of the next succeeding year after securing the said list from the auditor of state, as provided by section 2903 of the Revised Statutes, forthwith, after said first day of March, to cause said list, together with notice of the sale thereof, to be published in all respects as required in said original section two thousand nine hundred and four, saving and excepting that such notice shall specify that said sale will begin on the second Monday of April next, instead of upon the second Sale of lands ad Monday of December, and such auditors shall, beginning with said second Monday of April, proceed to sell the whole of each tract of land as contained in said list, in the manner and form provided for such sales in section 2904 of the Revised Statutes. vertised. Repeals, etc. SECTION 2. That said section 2904a of the Revised Statutes, enacted February 23, 1886, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 16, 1900. JNO. A. CALDWELL, President of the Senate. 235G [Senate Bill No. 162.1 AN ACT Making it a misdemeanor for one to represent himself as an astrologer, a fortune-teller, clairvoyant or a palmister. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That whoever shall represent himself to be an astrologer, a fortune-teller, a clairvoyant or a palmister shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall for each and every offense be fined not more than one hundred dollars and not less than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for a period not longer than three months nor shorter than thirty days, or shall, within the discretion of the trial court, be both so fined and imprisoned. SECTION 2. Nothing in this act contained shall apply to any astrologer, fortune-teller, clairvoyant or palmister to whom a license to practice has been legally granted. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. A. CALDWELL, Passed April 16, 1900. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 161.] AN ACT To repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide a license on trades, business and professions carried on in cities of the first grade of the first class, and providing for the enforcement and collection of fines and penalties for carrying on business without license, and for other purposes, passed March 24, 1884. Now section 2672-36 of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That an act passed March 24, 1884, en- Repeals. titled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide a license on trades, business and professions carried on in cities of the first grade of the first class, and providing for the enforcement and collection of fines and penalties for carrying on business without license, and for other purposes,' (81 O. L., page 71), be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 16, 1900. President of the Senate. Levying taxes: Levy for "state and county road improvement fund." Improvement of state and county roads. [Senate Bill No. 87.11 AN ACT To supplement sections 2824 and 4637 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 2822 of the Revised Statutes be supplemented as follows: Sec. 2822-1. The county commissioners, at their March or June session annually, in addition to the levy authorized for road and bridge purposes may levy on each dollar of valuation of taxable property within their county not to exceed five-tenths (5-10) of a mill for the creation of a fund to be known as the state and county road improvement fund, and to be used for the improvement of state and county roads in the county. Sec. 2822-2. The county commissioners of such counties as shall make such levy, shall have power to improve any state or county road, or any part thereof, by grading, draining, curbing, improving and paving the same with stone, brick or other suitable material, or with a combination of any or all of these materials, graveling, planking or macadamizing the same, and shall use the funds realized Petition of abut from such levy for that purpose; provided, however, that no such improvement shall be made until the owners of at least a majority of the foot frontage of the land abutting on said road or part thereof shall petition therefor, and the county commissioners shall assess one-fourth of the cost and expense thereof on said abutting land, and provided, however, that not to exceed ten percentum of the said levy may be used for making sidewalks or bicycle paths. ting landowners necessary. Cost Surveys, profiles, estimates and specifications. Bids; letting of contract. County roads: [Sec.] 2822-3. When the commissioners determine to make any such improvement, they shall direct and employ the county surveyor to make all necessary surveys, profiles, estimates, and specifications, and submit the same to them for their approval, and the same shall be filed and preserved in their office, and the county surveyor shall receive as compensation for his services, the same compensation as is provided in section 4664. [Sec.] 2822-4. Upon the approval of said surveys, profiles, estimates and specifications, the commissioners of said county shall advertise for bids in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, for a period of three weeks, and shall let the contract for making such improvement to the lowest and best bidder or bidders, who shall give such reasonable security for the proper performance of their contract within the time and in the manner prescribed therein, as the county commissioners shall require. But when the estimated cost of any improvement does not exceed five hundred ($500) dollars, the same may be let without publication in a newspaper as herein required. SECTION 2. That section 4637 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be supplemented as follows: missioners. Sec. 4637-1. On a petition there for signed by the Power of comowners of at least a majority of the foot frontage on any county road or part thereof, heretofore established or hereafter to be established, the county commissioners may do any one or more of the following acts or things: a. Cause the county surveyor to establish a grade along said road, or part thereof, subject to the approval of said commissioners. b. Cause said road or part thereof to be widened, altered or established to a greater width than sixty feet and not more than one hundred feet, to be determined by the viewers as provided in this chapter. c. Grade, drain, curb, pave and improve said road, or part thereof, proceeding in the making of the same in the manner prescribed in section 2824a of the Revised Statutes. [Sec.] 4637-2. The county commissioners may assess the damages on account of the widening, altering or establishing of said road or part thereof, also the costs and expenses of any or all of said improvements or such part of said damages, costs and expenses as they may deem equitable under the circumstances upon the taxable property abutting upon such road or part thereof, either according to the foot frontage or according to the benefits. The county commissioners are hereby created an assessing board for the purpose of assessing the damages, costs and expenses, as herein set forth, upon the abutting property as aforesaid. [Sec.] 4637-3. The commissioners may order such part of the damages, cost and expense of such improvement as they may deem equitable, to be paid out of the county treasury, or out of any state and county road improvement fund. Damages, costs how paid. and expenses; Part of expense from county may be paid treasury or improvement fund. ments. [Sec.] 4637-4. Before adopting the assessments so Notice of assessmade, the county commissioners shall publish notice for three weeks consecutively, in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, that such assessments have been made, and that the same are on file in the office of the county commissioners for the inspection and examination. of the persons intested therein. tions to assessments. [Sec.] 4637-. If any person objects to the assessment Filing of objeche shall file his objections in writing with the board of county commissioners within two weeks after the expiration of the said notice, and thereupon the board shall appoint three disinterested freeholders of the county to act as an equalizing board. [Sec.] 4637-6. Upon a day appointed by the commissioners for that purpose, such equalizing board, after taking an oath before a proper officer honestly and impartially to discharge their duties, shall hear and determine all objections to the assessment, and equalize the same as they may think proper, which equalized assessment they shall report to the board of county commissioners, which shall Hearings by board. equalizing |