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for the performance of said buildings; and on default in the undertaker or undertakers, for want of attention or competent knowledge to carry on the work with propriety, the said commissioners shall have power to displace him or them, and shall proceed again as in this section directed.

sioners'

appropriate

money, etc.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when commisever said commissioners shall proceed to erect power to any of the aforesaid public buildings, they shall have power to appropriate any money which may be in the county treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the erection and completion of said buildings; and said commissioners shall, in behalf of the county, enter into bond for the And enter faithful discharge of said contract or contracts.

into bond.

clause.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Repealing act directing the building and establishing of court houses and county jails, pillories, whipping posts and stocks, in every county, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force, from and after the passage thereof.

ELIAS LANGHAM,

Speaker of the house of representatives.

February 17th, 1804.

NATH. MASSIE,

Speaker of the senate.

Compensa. tion.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

An act, allowing compensation to James Denny.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Ohio, That the auditor is hereby authorized and required, to pay unto James Denny, a sum equal to the fees allowed by the United States, in auditors' warrants, for surveying eight hundred acres in the Scioto salt lick township, into twenty acre lots and water lots, as required by an act, entitled, "An act regulating the public salt-works," upon a return of such survey being made, to be paid out of the contingent fund.

ELIAS LANGHAM,

Speaker of the house of representatives.

February 18th, 1804.

NATH. MASSIE,

Speaker of the senate.

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

An act, to provide for fixing the permanent seat of justice in the county of Clermont.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this gene- Preamble. ral assembly, that the present seat of justice in the county of Clermont, is in a situation that renders it very inconvenient to a large proportion of the citizens of said county. Therefore,

ton, Isaac

Nathan

commission

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly william Patof the state of Ohio, That William Patton, Isaac Davis and Davis and Nathan Reeves, of the county of Reeves, Ross, be and they are hereby appointed and ers. constituted commissioners, to view and examine the several parts of the aforesaid county, or so much thereof as will, in their opinion, enable Their duty. them to determine whether a removal of the seat of justice in said county be necessary, for the convenience and accommodation of the citizens thereof; in determining of which, the said commissioners shall take into view the present and probable future population of the said county, the outlines that are likely to remain permanent as well as those that may be altered by future

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Proviso, in case one of

sioners fail to attend.

divisions, the proportion of the present inhabitants that will be incommoded by a removal of the present seat, and all other circumstances relative to the subject: Provided, That in case the commis- any one of the said commissioners should be prevented, by accident or otherwise, from attending on the duties hereby required of them, the other two being met, shall agree upon a third person, and the person thus agreed upon, shall be sworn and perform all the duties required of the original commissioner.

To view Obanion township,

make report, etc.

To make

report to

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners shall take a particular view of that part of Miami or Obanion township, which prayed to be attached to Warren county, and shall report their opinion to the next general assembly.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, after having made view and examination, agreeable to the provisions of this act, to certify their the clerk of opinion thereon, under their hands and seals, and make out duplicates of such certificate, one copy of which shall be left with the clerk of the county court, for the inspection of the citizens, and the other copy they shall inclose in a letter, addressed to the speaker of the senate.

the county and to the speaker of the senate.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid commissioners, previous to their entering on the duties of their office, shall each take the following oath or affirmation. I Ido solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and truly execute the duties of a commissioner for establishing the seat of justice in the county of Clermont, and that I will make a just report thereof, according to the best of my abilities; a copy of which oath, signed by the justice before whom it was taken, shall accompany the report made to the general assembly.

Oath.

tion.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That each commissiouer shall be entitled to receive two compensadollars, for every day they may be necessarily employed in the business required by this act, and going to and returning from the said county, which shall be paid out of the county treasury, upon the certificate of any justice of the peace within the said county.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That the court or commissioners shall be, and they are hereby prohibited from making any further appropriation of money, for the erection or completion of public buildings in said county, until

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certain time.

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