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Also for steamboats, railways, and dry docks.

Printing, publishing, quarrying,

mining, etc.

1852, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a canal or canals for hydraulic purposes, with necessary culverts, water ways and fixtures; building and repairing steamboats and other water-craft; constructing, building and repairing railways, roads and canals; erecting and maintaining tanks for the storage of oil; building and operating dry docks and marine railways; printing and publishing a newspaper or newspapers, or books or other publications; quarrying stone, marble or slate; boring or digging for oil, salt, or for other vegetable, medicinal or mineral fluid in the earth, and for refining or purifying the same; mining coal, ores, and other minerals, or manufacturing the same in whole or in part, or both, and carrying on business usually connected with the main objects of the corporations aforesaid; and when organized shall be a body corporate, having all the privileges, immunities and powers conferred upon manufacturing companies by said act, and shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of said act, and the acts supplementary and amendatory thereto.

SEC. 2. That the first section of the act hereby amended be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

GEO. L. CONVERSE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

EMERY D. POTTER, President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 15, 1875.

Culvert to be constructed in Madison county.

Work may be

let to the lowest bidder.

AN ACT

To authorize the Board of Public Works to construct a culvert across the national road in Deercreek township, Madison county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works are hereby authorized and directed to construct a culvert across the national road, in Deercreek township, Madison county, being about four and one-half miles west of the village of West Jefferson in said county, at a point near where the lands of Catharine Flanegan, Jonathan Booth, George Carter and Cornelius Bradley a join and corner. Said enlvert to be lowered sufficiently for the drainage of the lands adjoi ing.

SEC. 2. Said board of public works are authorized to let the whole or any part of said work by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, or cause the same to be done under the supervision of some judicious and competent engineer, as they may deem best for the interest of the state.

SEC. 3. To enable the board of public works to carry into Appropriaeffect the provisions of this act, a sum of money not exceed- tion therefor. ing two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated from the

general revenue fund.

SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and

after its passage.

GEO. L. CONVERSE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
EMERY D. POTTER,
President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 17, 1875.

AN ACT

To amend sections one and four of an act entitled an act to provide for the repair of free turnpike roads in certain counties, and to authorize the county commissioners of any county in this state to constitute a board of directors to regulate the hauling of heavy burdens on any free turnpike or improved road, passed and took effect April 20, 1874. (O. L., vol. 71, p. 120).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections one and four of the above recited act shall be amended so as to read as follows:

County commissioners to board of directors in certain coun

constitute a

ties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That, by virtue of their office, the commissioners of any county having a population of more than eighteen thousand seven hundred (18,700), and less than twenty-two thousand (22,000); also counties having a population of more than twenty-nine thousand one hundred (29,100) and less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty (32,750), at the last federal census, are hereby constituted a board of turnpike directors, under whose management and control all the free turnpikes in such county shall be exclusively vested. That it shall be the duty of such directors, at their first Their duties. meeting of such board, to divide the county into three districts as near equal in number of miles of turnpike and conveniently located as may be practicable; and each director shall have the personal supervision of one of such districts, subject to all rules and regulations that may be from time to time agreed upon by said board. It shall be their duty to hold a meeting as such board at such time within sixty days after the passage of this act as they may determine, and at least once in three months thereafter, at their office at the county seat of the county, and shall be governed in all transactions of business by the rules governing county commissioners. They shall have power to appoint suitable persons to superintend Their powthe work of repairs on the several turnpikes, and a suitable ers. person to serve as clerk of such board, who shall record all

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the proceedings of said board in a book to be provided for such purpose by the county commissioners, which shall be open for examination to all persons interested on all proper occasions; they shall cause notice to be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county, of such rules as may adopted for the regulation of labor and travel on said turnpikes, notice of the regular meetings of said board, and on or before the second Tuesday of April in each year. a statement of receipts and expenditures in detail for the year. They shall have power to contract for labor and material, either at public sale or private contract, as may best subserve the interest of the different roads, and shall certify to the county auditor, on or before the first Monday of June in each year, the amount of money necessary for the purpose of keeping such turnpikes in good repair; Provided, that when, in the opinion of said board, the interes of any of said turnpikes require, they are hereby authorized to enter upon any lands in said county and take the gravel or other tion of gravel material necessary for the repair of said turnpikes, and shall give a certificate to the owner or owners of such material so taken, which shall state the value thereof, together with the amount of damages to said lands by reason of the removal of said material, and the county auditor, upon the presentation of said certificate, shall issue an order upon the county treasurer for the amount so certified, who shall pay the same out of the township fund; Provided further, that in case said owner or owners are not satisfied with the value, so certified by said board, shall have the right to appeal to the probate court of said county, subject to all the provisions of the statutes now in force relating to the condemnation of material for road purposes; Provided further, that a notice of such appeal shall be filed with the probate judge of said county within ten days after the delivery of said certificate. SEC. 2. That section four of said act be amended so as to read as follows:

or other material.

Right of appeal.

Penalty for violation of rules, etc.

Section 4. Any person who shall violate, either by himself or agent, any of the rules or regulations adopted by said board, and recorded in their book of records, authorized in section three of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county, be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars for each offense. All fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of the turnpike fund created by this Definition of act. Whenever the word turnpike occurs in this act, it shall word turn- be taken and held to include all turnpikes constructed under pike." general or local laws, as well as all roads constructed or improved under the act entitled an act to authorize the county commissioners to construct roads on petition of a majority of resident land owners along and adjacent to the line of said road, and to repeal an act therein named, passed March 29, 1867, and the acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

SEC. 3. That the original sections one and four of the act above referred to be and are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and

after its passage.

GEO. L. CONVERSE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

EMERY D. POTTER,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 17, 1875.

AN ACT

To amend section 59 of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act for the reorganization and maintenance of common schools," passed March 3, 1874. (O. L., vol. 71, p. 15.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section fifty-nine of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows:

Section 59. If any board of education shall in any one year fail to estimate and certify the levy as required in this act, or to provide sufficient school privilege for all the youth of school age in the district, or to provide for the continuance of any school in the district for at least six months in the year, or to provide for such school an equitable share of school advantages as required by this act, or to provide a suitable school house or houses in each sub-district, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county to which such district belongs, upon being advised and satisfied thereof, to do and perform any or all of said duties and acts, in as full a manner as said board of education are by this act authorized to do and perform the same; and the members of said board causing said failure, shall be each severally liable. in a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than twentyfive dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state of Ohio, upon complaint of any elector in said district, which sum shall be collected by the prosecuting attorney of said county, and when so collected shall be paid into the treasury of said county for the benefit of the school or schools of said district.

SEC. 2. That section 59 of the above recited act, as amended March 3, 1874, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

GEO. L. CONVERSE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
EMERY D. POTTER,

County Commissioners to

act in certain cases.

Penalty of board of education for delinquency.

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 17, 1875.

Appropriation for recording journal of 1865.

AN ACT

For the payment of George C. Wilson for indexing the Journal of the House of Representatives for the year 1865.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be appropriated out of the general revenue fund the sum of seventy dollars for the payment of indexing the recorded journal of the House of Representatives for the year 1865, and the auditor of state is hereby authorized, on the delivery to the secretary of state of the recorded journal aforesaid, and the index to the same, by George C. Wilson, to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in his favor for seventy dollars as payment for indexing the journal aforesaid; and there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury belonging to the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of seventy dollars.

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

GEO. L. CONVERSE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ALPHONSO HART,

Passed March 20, 1875.

President of the Senate.

Townships, cities or villages may as

sist in building monuments.

Bonds there

for.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act to provide for the apportionment of trustees and disposition of money, property, and assets held in trust for building soldiers' monuments, passed May 22, A. D., 1871. (68 O. L., 122).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That whenever any township, incorporated village or city, in which a soldiers' monumental building, such as is contemplated in the act to which this is supplementary, is proposed to be created shall desire to unite in the erection of such building for township, village or city purposes, each such township shall have a right to aid and assist in the same to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and each city or incorporated village to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and to issue bonds therefor, payable in ten years from date of issue, and bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent. payable semi-annually, ⚫ on the first days of July and January in each year until paid, and the faith and credit of the township, village or city, shali be pledged for the full and faithful payment of the principal and interest upou said bonds, when and as the same may re

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