act, be a sufficient number of electors assembled Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That it Commission ers author ized to alter the bound aries of townships Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That whenever and so often as the board of commissioners of any county, may deem it conducive to the public convenience, to divide or alter the boundaries of any township, they shall be and they are hereby authorized to alter the boundary lines, or to divide the township in the most convenient manner: Provided, That nothing herein shall Proviso. be construed to empower the boards of commissioners to divide any township in such manner, as to reduce the same below the size hereinafter prescribed; and that the trustees of each Eighty elec- tled to be set ship. and every township in this state, shall have power to determine on the place of holding elections within the township, and shall give public notice thereof, as is provided in case of township meetings. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That whenever and so often as there shall be eighty square entit electors inhabiting in any tract of five miles square, where, by the original survey of the county or district, the same was located into townships of that size, and whenever there shall be the same number of electors inhabiting` in any tract of six miles square, where, by the original survey of the county or district, the same was located into townships of that size, the inhabitants of said tract or township of five or six miles square, shall be entitled to be set off as a township by themselves, entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities, by law given Commission to and vested in any township in this state: cation, to set Provided, That townships in the Virginia military district, shall not be of less contents than seven miles square. Proviso. ers, on appli off a town- Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That any township, desirous of being set off as aforesaid, shall, for that purpose, apply to the board of commissioners of the proper county, and on satisfying the board that they are entitled by 1 law to be set off, it shall be the duty of the board to direct their clerk to record the boundaries of said township in a book to be provided for that purpose, and give said township such name as the board of commissioners shall think proper: Provided, That no two townships in any one Proviso. county in this state, shall be set off and incorporated by the same name; and whenever, by the original survey of any county or district in this state, there shall be any gore or tract of land of less area than four and a half miles square, the same shall be, by the board of commissioners, annexed to and shall be a part of some township of five or six miles square, which may be contiguous to and most convenient for, the inhabitants of said gore or tract. ment of this Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That this commenceact shall commence and be in force from and act. after the passing thereof, and that all powers now vested in the several township officers, shall be and remain, until superseded by the several officers chosen under this act. clause. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Repealing act, entitled, "An act to establish and regulate township meetings," and all other laws and parts of laws, coming within the purview of this act, be and they are hereby repealed. ELIAS LANGHAM, Speaker of the house of representatives. NATH. MASSIE, Speaker of the senate. January 21st, 1804. Agent ap pointed for from and after the first day of May next. To give security. CHAPTER XVII. An act, regulating the public salt works. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly three years of the state of Ohio, That an agent be appointed, by joint ballot of both houses of the general assembly, for three years, to commence from and after the first day of May next, who shall, previous to entering on the duties of his office, enter into a bond with good freehold security to the governor and his successors, for the use of the state, in the penal sum of four thousand To reside at dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required by this act, and shall reside at the said works during his continuance in office; and the said agent shall not carry on the the salt works. Prohibited from making salt during his agency. this S e ཟླ making of salt, either directly or indirectly, by The present certain sur agent to do veying at the salt works prior to the March next. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the present agent, prior to the first day of March next, to lay off by actual survey, the land at the Scioto salt-works, along the Art of creek where salt water may be had, in convenient lots and in such manner, that those who may hereafter obtain a license to erect furnaces and sink wells, or occupy those already erected or sunk at the said works, may have a sufficient quantity of salt water for their respective furnaces; also to lay off, by actual survey, eight hundred acres of land, adjoining the works, including all the lands that may be enclosed and under cultivation, in lots of twenty acres each, leaving a space along said creek as far as the surveys of lots may extend, of at least four poles wide, on the most eligible ground for a road, and leaving at suitable distances from each other, fronting the works, spaces of at least thirty feet wide, for the purpose of convenient roads and pass-ways, into said works, for which service the said agent shall receive such compensation as shall be allowed by the legislature; and the said agent is hereby authorized to permit any For which shall receive pensation allow such com as the legislature shall |