held the same in law as though they had been published in a newspaper, as now required by law. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Exposing for sale game killed in violation of law. To amend an act entitled "an act to amend section 6964 of the revised statutes of Ohio," passed April 19, 1881. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section sixty-nine hundred and sixty-four of the revised statutes, as amended April 19, 1881, be amended as follows: Section 6964. Whoever purchases, sells, exposes for sale or has in his possession any of the birds, game, or animals mentioned in sections sixty-nine hundred and sixty, sixty-nine hundred and sixty-one, and sixty-nine hundred and sixty three, during the time when the killing thereof is made penal, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars nor less than two dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not be construed as applicable to any common carrier into whose possession any of the birds, game, or animals herein mentioned shall come in the regular course of their business for transportation, whilst they are in transit through this state from any place without this state, where the killing of said birds, game, or animals shall be lawful. SEC. 2. Said act entitled "an act to amend section 6964 of the revised statutes of Ohio," passed April 19, 1881, is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. R. A. HORR, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 6, 1882. [House Bill No. 226. AN ACT To authorize villages to regulate and prohibit interment of the dead, in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That villages which, at the last federal census, had a population of not less than two thousand five hundred and forty, nor more than three thousand, shall have the power to prohibit the interment of the dead in any cemetery in use at the incorporation of such villages, and provide for the removal of the remains interred therein, whenever the board of health of such villages, by resolution duly passed, certifies to the village council thereof that the same is necessary and essential to the sanitary welfare of such villages. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. R. A. HORR, President pro tem. of the Senate. Certain villages authorized to prohibit burial of the dead in certain cases. Passed April 6, 1882. [House Bill No. 93.] AN ACT To amend section 1706 of the revised statutes of Ohio, as amended March 11, 1881. [O. L., vol. 78, p. 76 [46.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 1706 of the revised statutes of Ohio, as amended March 11, 1881, be amended to read as follows: Section 1706. The officers of a village shall consist of a mayor, clerk, sealer of weights and measures, treasurer, and marshal, and the council may, when in its opinion expedient, create by ordinance the offices of solicitor and street commissioner, or, when no territory is attached to a village for road purposes, may provide by ordinance that the marshal shall, in addition to his duties prescribed by law, perform the duties of street commissioner; and all officers shall be elected by the electors of the village except when territory is attached for road purposes, the street commissioner, who shall be elected by the electors of said village and the territory thereto attached for road purposes, and for said elections of street commissioner the council shall provide a separate ballotbox and poll books, and the judges of said municipal election shall act as judges, and the clerks of said municipal election shall act as clerks of the election of street commissioner; provided, that in villages divided into wards or election precincts the council Officers of villages. shall apportion the territory so attached to the several wards or election precincts. SEC. 2. That section 1706 of the revised statutes of Ohio, as amended March 11, 1881, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Passed March 3, 1882. Division of Cleveland into districts for street cleaning purposes.. Board of im provements to advertise for proposals for cleaning streets, etc. How contractors for cleaning streets paid. [House Bill No. 321.] AN ACT To amend sections 2197, 2198, and 2203 of the revised statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections two thousand one hundred and ninetyseven, two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight, and two thousand two hundred and three of the revised statutes be amended so as to read as follows: Section 2197. In cities of the second grade of the first class, the board of improvements shall divide the city into not less than five nor more than eighteen districts, for the purpose of contracting for cleaning the ditches, avenues, streets, alleys, and market places within such districts. Section 2198. The board in such city shall advertise, for ten days, in not less than three newspapers of general circulation therein, for sealed proposals for cleaning all paved avenues, streets, alleys, and market places, and such unpaved avenues, streets, and alleys, or parts thereof, as the board may deem advisable, within each of such districts, at a stated sum per mile for each cleaning; the same to be cleaned whenever ordered by the board for the term of not less than one nor more than five years; provided, that separate proposals may be received, and contracts made for any particular branch or division of the work herein provided for, at the option of the board of improvements. Section 2203. At the end of every two weeks, if the contracts have been faithfully performed, the board shall give, upon demand by the contractor, a certificate to the city auditor for the amount due under the contract; but the board may retain therefrom, as an additional guaranty for the faithful performance of the contract, such proportion thereof as it may deem just and equitable, which amount shall be stated in the contract; and upon presentation of such certificate to the city auditor, that officer shall draw his warrant upon the city treasurer for the amount stated in the certificate, less the amount reserved under the contract as an additional guar anty, which shall be paid by the city treasurer from the proper fund. SEC. 2. That the said original sections 2197, 2198, and 2203 be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and Supplementary to chapter one, title one, section twenty-two of the revised statutes of Ohio, and to prevent errors and irregularities in the several state departments. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following section be enacted as supplementary to chapter one, section twenty-two of the revised statutes of Ohio, with sectional number as hereinafter provided: Section 22a. That before the sixth day of each month, the governor, secretary of state, chief justice of the supreme court, treasurer of state, adjutant-general, attorney-general, commissioner of common schools, state board of charities, commissioner of railroads and telegraphs, superintendent of insurance, clerk of the supreme court, state librarian, commissioner of labor statistics, mine inspector, president of the board of public works, commissioners of public printing, sinking fund commissioners, supervisor of public printing, president of the state board of agriculture, president of the board of commissioners to improve the Ohio river, president of the board of fish commissioners, reporter of the supreme court, and president of the board of directors of the Ohio penitentiary, or the president of any other state board or other state officer, shall furnish to the auditor of state a detailed and itemized statement, with their respective certificates attached, as to the truth thereof, of all checks or requisitions issued by their several departments upon the auditor of state, for warrants upon the treasurer of state during the preceding month, said detailed and itemized statement to be made upon blanks to be prepared and furnished by the auditor of state; and the said auditor of state shall, as soon as said statements have been received, compare the same with the accounts in his office, and certify to each of the heads of said several departments a list of checks or requisitions which have not been presented, if any, and warrants issued upon the treasury for the payment of requisitions presented during the month next preceding, which do not Auditor of state to com pare and file such statements. appear upon the certified list of the proper department, and shall file the original statement in his office, and carefully preserve the same, and the said auditor of state shall not issue his warrant upon the treasurer of state for the salary of any such officer herein named, until said officer shall fully comply with all the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 7, 1882. [House Bill No. 437.] President of the Senate. Council of may grant power to AN ACT To amend section 2122 of the revised statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section two thousand one hundred and twenty-two of the revised statutes be amended so as to read as follows: Section 2122. The council may grant power to the board of health to make such orders and regulations as it may deem necescity or village sary for the public health and for the prevention of disease, and such orders and regulations shall have all the force and effect of ordinances of the corporation, and the council of cities of the second grade of the first class may grant power to the board of health to employ such number of scavengers for the removal of swill, garbage, and offal from the houses, buildings, yards, and lots within the city as it may deem necessary. board of health to make such regulations and orders as are necessary. SEC. 2. That said original section 2122 be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. R. G. RICHARDS, Passed April 7, 1882. President of the Senate. |