SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed March 10, 1873. President pro tem. of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the County Commissioners of Muskingum county to issue bonds for the building of a Court House. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Muskingum county be and they are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of the said county; no bond to be issued shall exceed ten thousand dollars, and in the aggregate not exceed ing one hundred thousand dollars. None of said bonds to extend beyond January first, A. D. 1881, and all to bear interest not exceeding eight per centum per annum, interest payable semi-annually; said bonds shall not be disposed of for less than their par value. SEC. 2. That said bonds shall be signed by the county commissioners and the county au litor of said county, and said bonds and their proceeds shall be applied to the construction and erection of a court house in said county, and to no other use or purpose. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed March 10, 1873. President pro tem. of the Senate. AN ACT To amend section one of an act entitled an act to authorize New Paris and vicinity, in the township of Jefferson, Preble county, to elect Trustees for the New Paris Meeting House and property belonging thereto, passed April 27th, 1872. (O. L., volume 69, page 274.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one of the above entitled act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. That the citizens of New Paris and vicinity, in the township of Jefferson, Preble county, be and they are hereby authorized to elect trustees to fill any vacancy or vacancies that exist or may exist in the number of trustees for the public meeting house in New Paris, as fixed in said original grant, whenever and as often as a vacancy may occur, on giving ten days notice by posting up in five of the most public places in the village of New Paris and vicinity, as aforesaid, written notice signed by any five of said citizens, showing the time and place of such election; each person receiving a majority of the votes cast at any such election shall be and is hereby vested with the same rights, and authorized to discharge the same duties as a trustee mentioned in the original grant. SEC. 2. That section one of the act to which this is an amendment be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 12, 1873. AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of Jefferson county, Ohio, to purchase the materials and contract for the labor therein mentioned by private contract without publication or public letting. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Jefferson county may, if they are of opinion that the interest of the public will be best subserved thereby, make private contracts without publication or public letting, for purchasing a bell and clock for the new court house building now being erected for said county, as also for such furniture as may be necessary and proper for the use of the court room and county offices in said building, and for grading, paving and fencing the grounds belonging to said county, in which said court house is being erected, including the furnishing of the materials for such paving and fencing. SEC. 2. The cost of said bell, clock, furniture, labor and materials mentioned in the foregoing section, shall be paid on the warrant of the auditor of said county, drawn by order of said commissioners, out of any moneys in the treasury of said county which have been or shall hereafter be raised by taxation or from the sale of the bonds of said county, for the purpose of erecting and completing said court house building, under the provisions of the act passed April 27th, 1869, (Ohio Laws, vol. 66, page 52,) authorizing county commissioners to purchase land and erect court houses and for other purposes. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed March 14, 1873. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Clermont county, Ohio, to complete certain free turnpike roads. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio That the board of county commissioners of Clermont county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to complete, at the expense of the county, out' of the general county fund, the unfinished free turnpike road leading from the town of Georgetown, in Brown county, to the town of Bethel, in Clermont county, or that part of said road lying in Clermont county, being a distance of about two and one half miles, lying between the said town of Bethel and the county line between the counties of Clermont and Brown. SEC. 2. That said commissioners of Clermont county be and they are hereby authorized to complete, at the expense of the county, out of the general county fund, the free turnpike road leading from the town of New Hope, in brown county, and the Ohio turnpike road at Bethel, Clermont ounty, or that part of said road lying within Clermont county, between the said town of Bethel and the county line between the counties of Clermont and Brown, being in distance about one-half mile. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 14, 1873. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Keene township, Coshocton county, to pay costs in a certain case. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Keene township, Coshocton County, be and they are hereby authorized to pay out of the treasury of said township the costs in the case of George Smith against John Foster, Liverton Beall and Morris Failing, which said suit was finally decided in the supren e court of this state at its fall term, A. D. 1872: Provided, that before they shall be authorized to make such payment out of the township treasury, the question shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said township at some general spring or fall election, and the electors shall either write or print upon their ballots, "Pay Costs-Yes," or "Pay Costs-No;" and if a majority of the electors voting at said election shall vote "Pay CostsYes," then the said trustees shall be authorized to pay said costs; provided, further, that previous to submitting said proposition to the electors as aforesaid, said trustees shall give at least twenty days notice by posting in at least three of the most public places in said township, of the time and manner of submitting said proposition. 22-LAWS. SEC. 2. That if it shall become necessary in order to pay said costs. the said trustees are hereby authorized to levy a tax on all the taxable property of said township, in addition to that now authorized by law, sufficient for that purpose, and upon making such levy to certify the amount thereof to the auditor of said county, whose duty it shall be to place the same upon the tax duplicate of said township, to be collected and paid to the treasurer of said township the same as other funds. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Passed March 14, 1873. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of the township of Elk, Vinton county, to levy a tax to pay an existing indebtedness. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That the trustees of the township of Elk, in the county of Vinton, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax of two thousand dollars on all the taxable property of said township for the year 1873, to pay an existing indebtedness of said township, which levy shall be certified to the county auditor and collected as other taxes for township purposes are for the year 1873. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Passed March 14, 1873. AN ACT To authorize the county commissioners of Coshocton county to build a bridge. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. That the commissioners of Coshocton county be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax upon the taxable property of said county, not exceeding one and one-half mill on the dollar of the taxable valuation of said county, for the purpose of building a bridge across the Muskingum river, at or near the ford known as Robinson's ford, about eight miles below the town of Coshocton. SEC. 2. That said county commissioners shall be governed in the erection of said bridge by the act amending section seven, Ohio laws, volume 68, page 21, passed February 16, 1871. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 14, 1873. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Parkman township, Geauga county, Ohio, to levy a tax for certain purposes therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Parkman township, Geauga county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to levy and assess a tax, the amount of which to be by them determined, and submit the same to a vote as herein provided, for the purpose of purchasing a hearse for the use of the township and erecting a suitable building in which to keep the same; the said hearse and building to be under the control of said trustees, or some person by them appointed: Provided, that the trustees shall first submit the question of tax or no tax for either of the above named purposes to the qualified electors of the township at a general election, having given at least ten (10) days notice of the same, in at least three public places in the township, which notice shall state the amount to be raised and for what purpose. SEC. 2. The electors voting at said election shall have written or printed upon their ballots the words "Tax-Yes," or "Tax-No;" and if a majority of all the electors voting at said election upon the question submitted shall vote "Tax-Yes," this act shall thereupon be considered and holden to be adopted by such majority. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 17, 1873. AN ACT President of the Senate. To authorize the commissioners of Hamilton and Clermont counties to build a bridge across the Little Miami river at or near Fuller's Mills and Montgomery Station, on the Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Hamilton and Clermont counties are hereby authorized to build a free bridge across the Little Miami river at or near |