AN ACT Further to amend the act entitled "An act to incorporate the City of Chillicothe," passed March 14th, 1838. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the president and council of the city of Chillicothe be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to pass ordinances to prevent any person or persons from erecting, or causing to be erected, any wooden mansion or dwelling-house, store, shop, warehouse, carriage-house or stable within such parts of the said city as the president and council shall, by their ordi-. nances, from time to time describe and limit. SEC. 2. That so much of the tenth section of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Chillicothe, in the state of Ohio," passed March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as conflicts with the provisions of the first section of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. EDSON B. OLDS, February 8, 1847. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To incorporate the Urbana Lodge, No. 46, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Erastus Sheldon, Joshua Saxton, Abraham R. Caldwell, John A. Mosgrove, John A. Corwin, William T. Slater, Decatur Talbott and Samuel K. Robinson, and their associates, members of the Urbana Lodge, number forty-six, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the state of Ohio, and their regular successors, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, for the term of thirty years in succession, by the name and style of the Urbana Lodge, number forty-six, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the State of Ohio, for the purpose of more effectually rehieving the members and their families afflicted with sickness and disease, and who may be in distressed circumstances; and by that name, shall be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever, with full powers and lawful authority to acquire, hold, use, occupy and enjoy, by purchase, gift, grant or devise, any personal or real property, in the town of Urbana, in Champaign county, that is necessary for carrying out the objects of said lodge, and the same to sell, convey and improve, by erecting a building in said town of Urbana; to make, have and use a common seal, and the same to alter, break or renew at pleasure; to appoint or elect such officers as they may deem necessary, to prescribe their general duties, and require of them such security as they may deem proper to secure the faithful performance of their duties, and they may renew them at pleasure; to make, ordain, establish and put in execution such bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, and the United States, as shall be necessary for the good government of said society, and the prudent and official management of its concerns: Provided, that, in no case, shall any member be allowed more than one vote on the same question. SEC. 2. That William B. McAroy, J. K. Lawder, George Lane, John T. Eichelberger, William A. Sherey, Abia Zeller, and their associates and successors, members of Friendship Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of Friendship Lodge, number twenty-one, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Germantown, Ohio, and shall have all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the restrictions provided for Urbana Lodge, number forty-six, in the preceding section of this act. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representives. Speaker of the Senate. February 8, 1847. AN ACT To amend the act to incorporate the Carroll County Railroad Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Charles Fawsett, Samuel Sterling, William Thompson, Joseph G. Kennedy, James Cameron, C. V. McMillen, A. L. Littell, William Baxter, Thomas R. Harbaugh, and E. R. Eckley, are hereby appointed commissioners, in addition to those heretofore appointed, to open books for the subscription of stock to said company, any five of whom may open books for such subscription, at any time or place they may see fit, after giving the notice required in the acts to which this is an amendment, and whenever ten thousand dollars shall be subscribed, an election of directors shall be held. SEC. 2. That when compensation shall be claimed by any person for lands or materials taken by said company for the location or construction of said road, the court and commissioners shall set off against any such claim, any advantage said road may be to such claimant. SEC. 3. The president and directors of said company shall have power to purchase all cars and other fixtures that they shall deem necessary for the purpose of carrying freight and passengers on said road, which said cars and fixtures shall be paid for out of any funds belonging to said company. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. February 8, 1847. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the sale of lots number one and five of section sixteen, Beaver Creek township, Greene county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That lots number one and five of school section sixteen, being section sixteen, in township number three, range seven, in Beaver Creek township, Greene county, be and the same is hereby authorized to be sold: Provided, that no part thereof shall sell for less than the appraised value thereof; and such sales shall, in all respects, be governed by the provisions of an act entitled "an act to regulate the sale of ministerial and school lands, and the surrender of permanent leases thereto," passed February second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in accordance with the "act to fix the minimum price of the sale of school lands," passed March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. To authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Minster, in the county of Mercer, to levy a tax for making sidewalks and other improvements in said town. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the mayor and common council of the town of Minster, in the county of Mercer, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax of not exceeding five mills on the dollar, on all property in said town entered on the grand levy for taxation, which sum, so levied and collected, shall be expended by the said authorities of said town in constructing sidewalks, and such other improvements in said town as the said authorities shall deem proper: Provided, that every person so taxed, shall have the liberty of discharging said tax by labor, at seventy-five cents per day, or by furnishing materials at such price as may be agreed upon by said town authorities. SEC. 2. The said authorities shall, annually, on or before the first Monday of March, return to the auditor of Mercer county the per centum they determine to levy, according to the provisions of this act, which shall be included by said auditor in the tax against the taxable property of the person, resident in said town, or owning property therein, as appears by the duplicate, and collected by the treasurer of the county, in the same manner as the two mills extra road tax, levied by township trustees, is now collected; and the amount of such tax shall be returned to the mayor of said town, by the county auditor, in the manner that said taxes are now returned to the clerks of townships. SEC. 3. The said mayor and town council shall give notice to the persons resident in said town having such tax to pay, of the amount thereof, and of the time when the same can be discharged by labor or otherwise, and when so discharged, shall give certificate, which shall be received by the county treasurer in payment of such tax. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1847. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Guernsey county to levy a sufficient tax for county purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Guernsey county are hereby authorized to levy a tax sufficient for county purposes, and no more, on all the taxable property of said county entered on the duplicate for taxation, any thing in the fifty-fifth section of the "act for levying taxes on all property in this state according to its true value," passed March second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, to the contrary notwithstanding. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1847. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the Springfield ane Urbana Turnpike Company to surrender to the trustees of the Springfield and Sandusky Free Turnpike Road Company all their powers and privileges. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the stockholders of the Springfield and Urbana Turnpike Road Company are hereby authorized to cede and surrender to the trustees of the Springfield and Sandusky road, all their rights, powers and privileges contained in the act passed January twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to incorporate the Springfield and Urbana Turnpike Road Company. SEC. 2. That the trustees of the Springfield and Sandusky road shall create so many shares of stock, of twenty dollars each share, as may be needful to take up the shares of stock now subscribed to the capital stock of the Springfield and Urbana Turnpike Road Company, but the shares so exchanged shall not exceed the sum of four thousand dollars. SEC. 3. That the persons who became stockholders in the Springfield and Sandusky road may meet in Urbana on the first Monday in May next, and choose, by ballot or vote for each share, five trustees, who shall serve for one year, and until their successors be chosen and qualified; the subsequent annual elections shall be held on such days as the trustees may, from time to time, appoint; the trustees so chosen shall perform all the duties now confered, by law, to the trustees of the Springfield and Sandusky road. SEC. 4. The trustees shall have power to demand and collect the amount of all subscriptions made to the capital stock, or to said road, and to apply the same in constructing and repairing said road between Springfield and Urbana; and when the sum of four thousand dollars shall have been expended in grading and graveling said road, they shall be authorized to erect gates, and collect the rates of toll authorized in the above recited act; they shall be authorized to pay to the stockholders an annual dividend, in money or in stock, not exceeding six per centum per annum, and all the remaining tolls shall be applied to paying expenses, and to maintaining, improving and extending said road, until the same be finished to Bellefontaine, in Logan county. SEC. 5. That the trustees of said road shall have power to agree with the directors of the Mad River, Urbana and Kenton Turnpike Company, and with the Mad River and Dayton Turnpike Company, for the making and maintaining such parts of the above road as may be used in common between them, and to make such apportionment of tolls as may be equitaable: Provided, that no toll gate shall be erected or toll charged on said road between Urbana and Bellefontaine until the commissioners of Logan county shall, at some regular session of said commissioners, assent to the provisions of this act. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. EDSON B. OLDS, February 8, 1847. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of Preble county to borrow money for certain purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Preble county are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow, temporarily, upon the faith and credit of said county, any sum of money not exceeding two thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, which money, when so borrowed, shall be expended to pay the debts of said county, and in no other way. WILLIAM P. CUTLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 8, 1847. Speaker of the Senate. |