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Improvement of such roads.

Engineer.

Bond.

as the state and county road improvement fund, and to be used for the improvement of state and county roads outside of such municipal corporations, but no part thereof shall be used for construction or repair of bridges.

SECTION 2. The county commissioners of such county shall have power to improve any such state or county road or any part thereof, by straightening or altering the same, and by grading, paving, graveling, planking or macadamizing the same, and shall use the funds herein before created for that purpose.

SECTION 3. When the commissioners determine to make any such improvement they shall employ a competent engineer to superintend the performance and completion of said work, who shall enter into a good and sufficient bond in a sum not less than one thousand dollars, to be approved by the county commissioners, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties hereunder. The engineer shall make all necessary surveys, profiles, estimates and specifications, and submit the same to the commissioners of said county for their approval, and the same shall be filed Compensation. and preserved in their office. He shall receive such compensation for his services as is fixed by law for the compensation of the county surveyor for like services in other cases.

Surveys, pro Ales, estimates and specifications.

Advertisement for bids and contracts for improvements.

SECTION 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 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 may deem expedient.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

LEWIS C. LAYLIN.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ANDREW L. HARRIS,

President of the Senate.

Passed March 31, 1892.

170G

County ditches:

Sale of work when esti

mated cost is

[House Bill No. 534.]

AN ACT

To supplement section 4475 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4475 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, be supplemented with sectional number as follows:

Sec. 4475a. That when the estimated cost of construction of a ditch or ditch improvement shall be five hundred dollars

per mile.

or more per mile, and a petition shall be filed with the board ave hundred of commissioners, signed by persons who are taxpayers and dollars or more who are assessed for the construction of said ditch or ditch improvement, representing two-thirds () of the amount of the estimated cost of construction of said ditch or ditch improvement, the commissioners may advertise and sell the same as an entirety, or in one or more sections of not less than five hundred feet, but in all other respects they shall be governed by the provisions of said section 4475.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ELVERTON J. CLAPP,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

Passed March 31, 1892.

171G

ANDREW L. HARRIS,

President of the Senate.

[House Bill No. 543.]

AN ACT

To authorize cities of the third grade of the first class to issue bonds for

dredging purposes.

improving of

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Bonds for of Ohio, That the city council of any city of the third grade of the dredging and first class be and the same is hereby authorized and empowered, watercourse for the purpose of procuring funds for the dredging and im- (Toledo). proving of any watercourse situated within the limits of such corporation, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and issue the bonds of said city therefor in denominations of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each, payable in not less than five years nor more than twenty-five [years] from the date of their issue, and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed four and onehalf per cent. per annum, payable annually or semi-annually as such council may determine. Such bonds shall be designated, issued and sold in all respects in such manner as is or may be prescribed by law.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ELVERTON J. CLAPP,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
ANDREW L. HARRIS,

Passed March 31, 1892.

President of the Senate.

Schools:

Control of

in board; ap

pointees.

Salaries.

Terms.

Vote on appointments;

record thereof.

[House Bill No. 600.]

AN ACT

To amend section 4017 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 28, 1890.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4017 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 28, 1890, be so amended as to read as follows:

Sec. 4017. The board of education of each district shall schools rested have the management and control of the public schools of the district with full power to appoint a superintendent and assistant superintendents of the schools, a superintendent of buildings, and teachers, janitors, and other employes, and fix their salaries or pay, which salaries or pay shall not be either increased or diminished during the term for which the appointment is made; but no person shall be appointed for a longer time than that for which a member of the board is elected. At said appointment, the clerk shall call publicly the roll of all the members comprising the board, and as each member's name is called, he shall verbally announce the name of the candidate who is his choice, and the clerk shall enter on the records required to be kept, the names of those voting and for whom they voted. And such board may dismiss any appointee for inefficiency, neglect of duty, immorality or imDarke county. proper conduct. Except that in all counties which by the last federal census had, or which at any subsequent federal census may have a population not greater than 42,975 nor less than 42,950 no person shall be appointed to any position named in this section for any period longer than one year unless the same be done by a vote of three-fourths of all the members of said board.

Dismissals.

Repeals.

SECTION 2. That section 4017, as amended April 28, 1890, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ELVERTON J. CLAPP,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

Passed March 31, 1892.

173G

ANDREW L. HARRIS,

President of the Senate.

Repair of improved roads:

[House Bill No. 601.]

AN ACT

To amend section 4889 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 25, 1890, and to repeal an act entitled "An act to create township supervisors in certain counties, and require the letting of certain portions of the road work by contract," passed March 26, 1891.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4889 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows:

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Sec. 4889. Each township in the counties of Belmont, Townships in Brown, Butler, Carroll, Champaign, Clinton, Columbiana, tie made road Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, Geauga, districts. Greene, Hamilton, Harrison, Henry, Licking, Lucas, Madison, Montgomery, Muskingum, Óttawa, Preble, Ross, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Washington, Warren and Wayne in which any such free road is located, shall be a road district for the care and maintenance thereof.

SECTION 2. That said original section 4889 and the act Repeals. entitled "An act to create supervisors in certain counties, and to require the letting of certain portions of road work by contract," passed March 26, 1891, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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Board of world's fair Ohio:

managers of

appointment,

To amend section 4 of an act passed March 26, 1891 (88 O. L., p. 234), entitled "An act to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the products of the state of Ohio at the world's Columbian exposition of 1893, and to make an appropriation therefor," and to appropriate an additional sum of money for the purposes of said act, and to authorize the commission appointed under the provisions of said act to contract for and have placed a suitable memorial design. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4 of the above entitled act, passed March 26, 1891 (88 O. L., p. 234), be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 4. The board of world's fair managers is authorized Executive and directed to appoint an executive commissioner and to fix commissioner: his salary, subject to the approval of the governor, which salary and exsalary shall not exceed four thousand dollars per year, penses. and necessary expenses while engaged in the discharge of his official duties; an itemized statement of such expenses to be Itemized staterendered by said executive commissioner to the board of ment of exmanagers, to be audited and approved by said board before payment thereof, which salary and expenses shall be payable Payment of monthly out of the appropriation hereinafter authorized, and salary and exsaid executive commissioner shall be authorized and required Powers and to assume and exercise, subject to the supervision of said board, duties. all such executive powers and functions as may be necessary to secure complete and creditable display of the interests of the state at the world's Columbian exposition of 1893; and as the executive agent of said board he shall have personal charge of the solicitation, collection, transportation, arrangement, and exhibition of the objects sent under the authority of the

penses.

penses.

Schools:

Control of schools vested in board; appointees.

Salaries.

Terms.

Vote on appointments;

record thereof.

[House Bill No. 600.]

AN ACT

To amend section 4017 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 28, 1890.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4017 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 28, 1890, be so amended as to read as follows:

Sec. 4017. The board of education of each district shall have the management and control of the public schools of the district with full power to appoint a superintendent and assistant superintendents of the schools, a superintendent of buildings, and teachers, janitors, and other employes, and fix their salaries or pay, which salaries or pay shall not be either increased or diminished during the term for which the appointment is made; but no person shall be appointed for a longer time than that for which a member of the board is elected. At said appointment, the clerk shall call publicly the roll of all the members comprising the board, and as each member's name is called, he shall verbally announce the name of the candidate who is his choice, and the clerk shall enter on the records required to be kept, the names of those voting and for whom they voted. And such board may dismiss any appointee for inefficiency, neglect of duty, immorality or imDarke county. proper conduct. Except that in all counties which by the last federal census had, or which at any subsequent federal census may have a population not greater than 42,975 nor less than 42,950 no person shall be appointed to any position named in this section for any period longer than one year unless the same be done by a vote of three-fourths of all the members of said board.

Dismissals.

Repeals.

SECTION 2. That section 4017, as amended April 28, 1890, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and he in force from and after its passage.

ELVERTON J. CLAPP,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW L. HARRIS,

Passed March 31, 1892.

173G

President of the Senate.

Repair of improved roads:

[House Bill No. 601.]

AN ACT

To amend section 4889 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 25, 1890, and to repeal an act entitled "An act to create township supervisors in certain counties, and require the letting of certain portions of the road work by contract," passed March 26, 1891.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 4889 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows:

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