men. Powers and duties. grounds, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as will promote the purposes for which it is incorporated; Special police and such corporation may have one or more special policemen appointed on application of the board of directors or general manager of the affairs of such corporation by any justice of the peace in either township in which a part of such grounds is situated. Such policemen shall be police officers with the same powers within and about the whole of such grounds as are vested in such officers in villages or cities in either county in which a part of such grounds are situated. Their duty when appointed shall be to preserve order and to prevent disturbances and breaches of the peace in and about the buildings and on and about the grounds used for such meetings and entertainments or on or in grounds or structures or buildings pertaining or leading thereto, and to protect and preserve the same from injury, and to arrest any and all persons making any loud or unusual noise, causing any disturbance or committing any breach of the peace, or committing any misdemeanor, or willfully violating any of the provisions of this act or the established rules and regulations of such corporation for the government of such grounds, or committing any willful trespass upon such grounds, or such structures or in, or upon such buildings or any part thereof, and to convey such person or persons so arrested, before any magistrate having jurisdiction of the offense, to be dealt with according to law. Penalty for trespass or injuries to property. Removal and compensation of policemen. SECTION 2. Any willful trespass in or upon any of the buildings, structures, or grounds provided or used for one or more of the purposes named in section 1 of this act, and any willful injury to any of such buildings, or to such grounds, or to any trees or shrubs, or to any fence, fixtures, or other property thereon or pertaining thereto and any willful disturbance of the peace and quiet of such grounds by intentional breach of the rules and regulations thereof shall be misdemeanors punishable by fine and imprisonment or either; and concurrently with courts of record of this state justices of the peace, mayors and police justices in either county in which a part of such grounds is situated shall have the same jurisdiction of such offenses as they have of other cases of misdemeanor committed within their jurisdiction and shall have the jurisdiction over the persons brought before them in the form and manner prescribed in the first section of this act. And the keepers of the jails, lockups or station houses in either of the counties in which a part of such grounds is situated shall receive all persons arrested under this act to be dealt with according to law. SECTION 3. Such policemen appointed under this act may be removed at the pleasure of the board of directors or general manager of the affairs of the corporations for which they are respectively appointed and their compensation shall be paid by the corporation in the form and manner agreed upon between them. making or fraudulent or SECTION 4. A person who with intent to defraud, Penalty for forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters or wrongfully utters using, etc., any ticket, contract or other paper or writing, entitling or counterfeit purporting to entitle the person whose name appears there- ticket. in, or the proprietor thereof, to entrance upon the grounds. or premises, or to entrance upon the grounds or premises of any corporation owning or conducting a camp ground or park or being thereupon to remain upon any such grounds. or premises, named in section I of this act, and a person who with intent to defraud, uses such forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered ticket, contract, or other paper or writing, to effect an entrance,upon such grounds or premises, and a person who, being upon such grounds or premises, with like intent, uses such forged, or counterfeited, or falsely altered ticket, or contract, or other writing, as evidence of his right to remain upon such grounds or premises, and a person who, with like intent, sells, exchanges, or delivers, or keeps, or offers for sale, exchange or delivery or receives upon any purchase, exchange or delivery, any such ticket, contract or other paper or writing knowing the same to have been forged, counterfeited or falsely altered, is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, and justices of the peace, mayors, and police justices in either county in which a part of such grounds are situated shall have the same jurisdiction of such offense as they have of other cases of misdemeanor comcommitted within their jurisdiction. SECTION 5. A person who, with intent to defraud any corporation named in section one of this act, or with intent to defraud any corporation owning or conducting a camp ground or park by means of a ticket, contract or other paper or writing, appearing on its face not negotiable, and which entitled or purports to entitle, the person whose name appears therein to entrance upon the grounds or premises, or being thereupon to remain upon such grounds. or premises of such corporation, shall falsely personate any individual or individuals named in such ticket, contract or other paper, or writing as the grantee or beneficiary thereof, with intent to wrongfully convert to his or her own use the benefits secured, or which purport to be secured, by such ticket, contract, or other paper, or writing, to the person or persons named therein as the grantee or beneficiary thereof, and who shall by such false personation secure such benefit, and a person who, with like fraudulent intent, shall attempt so falsely to personate the person or party named in such ticket, contract of other paper or writing, with intent to defraud such corporation and to wrongfully convert to his or her own use the benefit secured or which is purported to be secured by such ticket, contract or other paper or writing, to the person or party named therein as the grantee or beneficiary thereof, and also a person who remains upon such grounds or premises without a right or the evidence of a right to do so, and thereby secures the benefit of such privilege, and, with Penalty for of ticket, or for remaining without right. unlawful use on grounds Penalties. intent to defraud, attempts to leave such grounds, ignoring the demand for payment of just remuneration, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, and justices of the peace, mayors and police justices in either county in which the part of such grounds are situated shall have the same jurisdiction of such offense as they have of other cases of misdemeanor committed within their jurisdiction. SECTION 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of any of the sections of this act shall be fined in any sum not less than $25, nor more than $100, or imprisoned in a workhouse, or county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. F. B. ARCHER, President pro tem. of the Senate. 107G Passed April 14, 1902. Excise tax law. Electric light company. Natural gas company. [House Bill No. 55.] AN ACT To amend sections 2780-17, 2780-18, 2780-19, 2780-20, 2780-21 and 2780-22, and to supplement said section 2780-22 by supplementary section 2780-23 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: That section 2780-17, 2780-18, 2780-19, 2780-20, 2780-21 and 2780-22 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows, and said section 2780-22 be supplemented by section 2780-23 as follows: Sec. 2780-17. That any person or persons, joint stock association or corporation, wherever organized or incorporated, when engaged in the business of supplying electricity for light, heat or power purposes to consumers within this state, shall be deemed to be an electric light Gas company. Company; when engaged in the business of supplying artificial gas for lighting or heating purposes to consumers within this state, shall be deemed to be a gas company; when engaged in the business of supplying natural gas for lighting, heating or power purposes to consumers within this state, shall be deemed to be a natural gas company; when engaged in the business of transporting natural gas or oil through pipes or tubing, either wholly or partially, within this state, shall be deemed to be a pipe line company; when engaged in the business of supplying water, through pipes or tubing, or in a similar manner, to consumers within this state, shall be deemed to be a waterworks company; Pipe line company. Waterworks company. Street, subururban rail ban or inter road company. company. when engaged in the business of operating a street, suburban or interurban railroad, either wholly or partially within this state, whether the cars used in such business be propelled by animals, steam, cable, electricity, or other motor shall be deemed to be a street, suburban or interu.ban railroad company; when engaged in the business Express comof conveying to, from or through this state, or any part pany. thereof, money, packages, gold, silver, plate or other article, by express, not including the ordinary lines of transportation of merchandise and property in this state, shall be deemed to be an express company; when engaged in the Telegraph business of transmitting to, from, through, or in this state, telegraphic messages, shall be deemed to be a telegraph company; when engaged in the business of transmitting Telephone to, from, through, or in this state, telephonic messages, shall be deemed to be a telephone company; when engaged in the business of supplying messengers or of signaling or calling by electrical apparatus, or in similar manner, for any purpose, shall be deemed to be a messenger or signal company; when engaged in the business of operating a union depot or station for railroad purposes, shall be deemed to be a union depot company; when engaged in the business Railroad of operating a railroad, either wholly or partially within company. this state, whether on rights of way acquired and held exclusively by such company or otherwise, shall be deemed to be a railroad company. company. Messenger or pany. signal com Union depot company. ments of such companies. Sec. 2780-18. Every electric light, gas, natural gas, Annual statepipe line, waterworks, street, suburban or interurban railroad, express, telegraph, telephone, messenger or signal, and union depot company, defined in section (1) one hereof, doing business in this state shall, annually, between the first and thirty-first days of May, and every such railroad company shall, annually, on or before the first day of September, under the oath of the person constituting such company, if a person, or under the oath of the president, secretary, treasurer, superintendent or chief officer in this state, of such association or corporation, if an association or corporation, make and file with the auditor of state a statement, in such form as the auditor of state may prescribe, containing the following facts: First. The name of the company. Second. The nature of the company, whether a person or persons, or association or corporation, and under the laws of what state or county organized. Third. The location of its principal office. Fourth. The name and postoffice address of the president, secretary, auditor, treasurer and superintendent or general manager. Fifth. The name and postoffice address of the chief officer or managing agent of the company in Ohio. Sixth. In the case of express companies the entire receipts (including all sums earned or charged, whether State board of tuted and of- actually received or not) for business done within this state of each agent of such company doing business in this state (giving the name of the office) for the year then next preceding the first day of May, for and on account of such company, including its proportion of gross receipts for business done by such company within this state in connection with other companies; also, the total amount of such receipts for business done within this state. Seventh. In the case of telegraph and telephone companies, the entire gross receipts (including all sums earned or charged, whether actually received or not) for the year then next preceding the first day of May, from whatever source derived, whether messages, telephone tolls, rentals, or otherwise, for business done within this state of each office within this state (giving the name of the office) and the total gross receipts of the company for such period in Ohio from business done within Ohio. Eighth. In the case of each railroad situated wholly within Ohio, the gross earnings from its operation, and in the case of each railroad located partly within and partly without Ohio, the gross earnings from the operation of the entire line, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June next preceding, with the miles of line within Ohio, and the miles of line without Ohio. Ninth. In the case of each street, suburban or interurban railroad situated wholly within Ohio, the gross earnings from its operation and in the case of each street. suburban or interurban railroad located partly within and partly without Ohio, the gross earnings from the operation of the entire line, for the year ending the first day of May next preceding, with the miles of line within Ohio, and the miles of line without Ohio. Tenth. In the case of companies, other than express, street, suburban and interurban railroads, and railroads, the entire gross receipts of the company (including all sums earned or charged, whether actually received or not) for business done within this state for the year then next preceding the first day of May, including the company's proportion of gross receipts for business done by it within this state in connection with other companies. Eleventh. Such other facts and information as the auditor of state may require in the form of return prescribed by him. Blanks for making the above statement shall be prepared, and, on application, furnished any electric light. gas, natural gas, pipe line, waterworks, street, suburban or interurban railroad, express, telegraph, telephone, messenger or signal, union depot and railroad company, by the auditor of state. Sec. 2780-19. The auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general and secretary of state shall constitute a board, named the state board of appraisers and assessors, of which board the auditor of state shall be ex-officio president. In the absence or inability of the auditor, the board |