So of persons. except at the falls aforesaid, shall build oz. construct any dam in or across said river, unless such person or persons shall insert in such dam such sink as before described; nor shall any person or persons obstruct the navigation of said river in any manner inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. That every and all persons who shall offend against the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court, to be recovered by indictment in the court of common pleas of the county where the offence shall be committed; which fine shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which such indictment shall be prosecuted, to be laid out by the commis sioners of said county in improving the navigation of said river; and the person or persons so indicted and fined, shall be subject to indictment and fine as aforesaid, at every subsequent term of the court of common pleas in said county, so long as such offence shall be continued, and shall moreover be liable to the party injured for all damages sustained by reason of such offence. Sec. 3. That the second, fifth, sixth and seventh sections of the act to which this is an amendment and so much of the third section of said act as requires a slope to be erected in the dam at the great falls in said river, be and the same are hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. M. T. WILLIAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives An Act in addition to the act, entitled "an act, authorizing the com missioners of Hamilton county to erect two bridges across Mill creek in said county. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the commissioners of Hamilton county be, and' they hereby are authorized to contract for the building of the bridge across Mill creek, near Walker's Mills, named in the ́act to which this is an addition, with any person or persons, whose propositions shall appear to them most advantageous, and to take from such person a bond with sufficient security, conditioned that the contractor or contractors will build and complete said bridge on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty six, any thing in the act to which this is an addition to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. That such contractor or contractors shall have full power and authority to enter upon any lands near or adjoining said bridge or the levee connected therewith, and to dig or cause to be dug any earth, gravd or stone wherever they can find the same most convenient and to apply the same to the building said levee of a sufficient Keight and width the whole distance thereof; and if any person or persons owning any such lands shall think him, Ber or themselves aggrieved thereby, and shall make complaint thereof to the commissioners, the said commissioners Shall proceed to ascertain and satisfy the damages which such complainant or complainants shall have sustained in the same manner as is provided in the sixth section of the act entitled an act, defining the mode of laying out and es tablishing state roads." This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage thereof. M. T. WILLIAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives: January 22, 1825. Speaker of the Senate. "An Act, to "amend the act, entitled "an act to incorporate the Ashtabula Harbour Company." Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That Roger W. Griswold Thomas Smith, Matthew Hubbard, John Sabins, Amos Fisk William W. Reed, Anon Harman, John R. Reed, Edwin Wheeler, Eliphalet Austin, Philo Booth and Elijah Coleman and their associates be, and they are hereby constituted and declared a body corpor ate and politic, with perpetual succession, to be known and distinguished by the name and style of "The Ashtabula Harbour Company," and by that name, they and their suc cessors, shall be in law, capable of contracting and being con tracted with, suing and being sued, pleading and being mp'ea. ded answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts of law and equity and shall have a com mon seal which they may alter at pleasure; and said Company shall be in law capable of purchasing, receiving, holding and enjoying and of granting, selling and conveying any estate or property. real or personal or mix which may be necessary for the purpose of constructing a convenient and safe Har bour at the confluence of the Ashtabula creek wit Lake. Erie in the county of Ashtabula, and it is hereby declared that he granting of these corporate powers, is for the sole and only object of building and keeping in repair the Harbour aforesaid, store houses and wharves. Sec. 2. That the first section of the act to which this is an amendment, and so much of the second section of said act as requires the books of said company to be opened for subscription of stock ir said company, on or before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty four be and the same is hereby repealed, and that on or before the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty six, the persons named in the first section of this act. or any three of them may open books at Ashtabula, and such other places as they may think proper for subscriptions to th capital stock of said company. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the passage. M. T. WILLIAMS, January 22, 1825. Speaker of the Senate. An Act authorizing an alteration of a certain state road in Seneca county. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That so much of the state road leading from Croghansville in Sandusky county to the northern boundry line of Dela aware county, as lies between the southern boundary of the Seneca reservation, and the south line of township number two, of the fifteenth range in said county, be and the same is hereby declared to be vacated; and that the said state road, beginning at the south line of the Seneca reservation as aforesaid, shall run on the section line between sections nine and ten in the aforesaid township, and continue in a direction due south until it intersects the Croghansville road in township number one in the aforementioned range. M T WILLIAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 22, 1025. Speaker of the Senate. An Act to provide for laying out and establishing a state road from Circleville in the county of Pickaway to Lancaster in the county of Fairfield. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That Thomas Evans of the count of Pickaway, and Michael Nigh, of the county of Fairfield be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners with authority to lay out, survey and establish a state road from the town of Circleville, in said county of Pickaway, to the town o' Lancaster, in sai county of Fairfield, as follows, viz: Beginning at the east end of east main street in said town of Circleville thence. along the road as now travelled, by the dwelling houses of Philip Leiger, Peter Row, Thomas Mace and Isaac Griffith, to Propeck's sign post, thence by such route as said commis. sioners shall deem most suitable for a good road, to the dwelling house of Joseph Young, thence along the road as now travelled by Wilson's tavern to the west end of King's turnpike, near Lancaster; and in laying out, surveying and establishing said road, said commissioners shall be governed by the provisions of the act, entitled "an act, defining the mode of laying out and establishing state roads.” Sec. 2. That in case either of said commissioners should die, remove out of the county in which he now resides, or refuse to perform the duties hereby assigned him, the county commissioners of that county are hereby authorized and required to appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy; and the persons so appointed, shall proceed to discharge the duties of commissioner, and have the same authority as if ap→ pointed by this act. M. T. WILLIAMS, Speaker of the Senate. January 22, 1825. C An Act authorizing a revaluation of the north-west quarter of section number twenty nine, in Millcreek township, in the county of Hamilton. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That it shall be lawful for the trustees of section num ber twenty-nine, in Millcreek township being the third fractional township, in the second fractional range of townships in the Miami purchase, upon application being made to them at any time within six months from the passage of this act, by the lessee or lessees interested in the same to order a re valuation of the north west quarter of said section, in conformity to the eleventh section of the act, entitled "an act to incorporate the original surveyed townships: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent a revaluation of the same at the expiration of fifteen years from the date of the existing leases thereon. M. T. WILLIAMS, December 29, 1824. Speaker of the Senate. An Act to incorporate the Circleville Academy. Whereas a number of the citizens of Circleville and its vicinity, in the county of Pickaway, have heretofore associated themselves together for the purpose of facilitating and promoting the education of youth, and have erected a suitable building in said town, for the reception and accommodation of students-and Whereas it would greatly conduce to the proper manage ment of said institution if said association were incorpora ted-Therefore, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That Andrew Huston, Francis Kinnear. Erastus Webb, Henry Sage, Guy W. Doan, James Bell, John Groce, and their associates, present stockholders of the Circleville Academy, be and they are hereby declared a body corporate and politic. by the name of the Circleville Academy; and as such they shall have perpetual succession; by that name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in any court of law or equity; they may |