AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the First Congregational Society in the town of Freedom, Portage county," passed February 6, 1833. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section four of the "act to incorporate the First Congregational Society in the town of Freedom, Portage county," passed February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, be so far amended as to require the election of three trustees annually, by said corporation, and no more, in the place of five, as now required by said act. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SEABURY FORD, December 20, 1845. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To incorporate the Union Fire Engine and Hose Company of Cincinnati. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemby of the State of Ohio, That George W. Runyan, T. W. Hume, Ira Stout, John W. Gosling, Augustus G. W. Lilley, Henry Slight and Henry Gessart, their associates and successors, are hereby declared a body corporate and politic, by the name of the "Union Fire Engine and Hose Company of Cincinnati," and as such shall be capable, in law, of sueing and being sued, pleading or being impleaded in all courts of law or equity; to contract and be contracted with; to enact such regulations and by-laws as may be deemed proper for the government of the company: Provided, they be not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, or the constitution and laws of this state; to purchase and possess property, whether real or otherwise, sufficient to carry into effect the objects of said company: Provided, the income of said company shall not exceed two thousand dollars in any one year; to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter, renew or break at pleasure. SEC. 2. This act shall be taken and construed as a public act, and shall take effect from and after its passage. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SEABURY FORD, December 20, 1845. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the holding of Special Terms of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Muskingum, for criminal and other business. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a special term of the court of common pleas shall be held in the county of Muskingum, in each and every year, when, and if in the opinion of the president judge of said court, the same shall be necessary for the purpose of disposing of all criminal, probate and testamentary business, for the appointment of guardians and settling their accounts, and all appeals from decisions of county commissioners in relation to roads and highways, and for hearing all applications for licenses and remonstrances. SEC. 2. That the clerk of said court, and the sheriff of said county, when notified by the president judge, shall immediately proceed to draw a grand and pettit jury for said special term, and the clerk shall immediately give notice, by publication in the several newspapers of said county, of the time of holding said court, and by causing notices thereof to be posted up in the office of said clerk; and the sheriff shall, immediately after said juries are drawn, proceed to summon the same, and to specially notify the associate judges of said county to attend at the time appointed for said special term. SEC. 3. All recognizances of bail, subpœnas, and other process in criminal cases, shall be returnable to said special term in the same manner as they are made returnable to any regular term of said court. SEC. 4. All business of said court, except such as is enumerated in the first section of this act, shall be proceeded in, continued and disposed of at the regular terms thereof, as though said special terms were not authorized to be held. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. December 22, 1845. SEABURY FORD, AN ACT To amend "An act to incorporate and establish the City of Cincinnati, and for revising and repealing all laws and parts of laws heretofore enacted on that subject," passed March 1, 1834, and all other laws on that subject since enacted. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the city council of the city of Cincinnati shall have the exclusive power and authority to appoint one or more guagers and inspectors of foreign and domestic spirits, and one or more guagers and inspectors of molasses and linseed or other oils, and one or more inspectors of beef, pork, lard, butter and fish, and one or more inspectors of salt, one or more inspectors of flour, meal and biscuit, to act and exercise their respective duties exclusively within the corporate limits of said city of Cincinnati. SEC. 2. That all the inspectors, so appointed, shall hold their respective offices for the term of three years from the time of their several appointments, and until their successors shall be respectively appointed and qualified; and said officers, when so appointed and qualified, are hereby authorized and required to perform the same duties, respectively, within the corporate limits of said city of Cincinnati, and in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as is or may be required and provided for like officers by the general inspection laws of the state of Ohio, and shall be subject to the same liabilities and suits, and have the same powers which similar officers have, and are subject to, under and by the general inspection laws of the state of Ohio. SEC. 3. That all such officers, when so appointed, shall provide themselves, respectively, with like instruments as is or may be required, by law, of other like inspectors under the general inspection laws of the state of Ohio. SEC. 4. That before any inspector, appointed as aforesaid, shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall take an oath or affirmation faithfully and impartially to discharge his duties as such inspector, according to law, and shall, moreover, enter into bond payable to the state of Ohio, with freehold security, to be approved by the city council of said city, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such inspector, required by law, and which bond shall be deposited with the treasurer of said city, and suit may be brought thereon, in the name of the state of Ohio, by and for the use of any person injured or aggrieved by such inspector, in the discharge of the duties of his office. SEC. 5. That each of the said officers, so appointed, shall be entitled to charge and receive the following fees: for guaging, inspecting and marking each barrel of domestic spirits, where the number does not exceed twenty, the sum of five cents; where the number is more than twenty, and less than seventy-five, the sum of four cents per barrel; and where the number of barrels is greater than seventy-five, the sum of three cents per barrel, and no more; and the whole number inspected or ready for inspection, at the same time and place, whether the same belong to one or several owners, shall be deemed and taken as one lot, for the purpose of fixing the price for the inspection thereof; and for inspecting each barrel of flour, meal or biscuit, two cents; and for inspecting each barrel of salt, three cents, and no more; and it is hereby made the duty of the inspector or inspectors of salt, to inspect, weigh and brand, or mark, with indelible letters and figures, each barrel of salt by him or them inspected, showing the true quality and weight thereof, and, at the same time, defacing or obliterating any former weight that may be marked thereon; for guaging, inspecting and marking each barrel of oil or molasses, three cents, and no more; and it shall not be lawful for any inspector, in the city of Cincinnati, to charge or receive any greater fees for inspecting, guaging and marking any of the articles above enumerated, than the fees hereinbefore specified; but for all other articles not herein enumerated, such inspector may charge and receive the same fees as are, or may be allowed for the performance of like services, by the general inspection laws of this state: Provided, that if any inspector or deputy inspector shall demand or receive any greater sum than is provided in this act, or shall directly or indirectly purchase, sell or deal in any article by him inspected, or if any inspector of salt shall, in any wise, purchase, sell or deal in any such article, whether by him inspected or not, he shall forfeit and pay, for any such offence, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, together with the costs of suit, to be recovered in the name of the state of Ohio, before any court having jurisdiction thereof, to, and for the use of the common schools of the city of Cincinnati, and shall, moreover, be removed from his office. SEC. 6. It is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the foregoing sections of this act, that no person or persons shall be permitted to exercise, execute or discharge any of the duties, or receive any compensation or reward, directly or indirectly, for any services rendered, as an inspector, of any kind whatever, within the corporate limits of said city of Cincinnati, except such as shall be appointed by said city council, and qualified in the manner prescribed in the foregoing sections of this act: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any officer, heretofore appointed as inspector by the said council, from acting under this law; and all inspectors so appointed, are hereby authorized to be qualified, and exercise their respective duties under this law, for the unexpired term of their respective appointments. SEC. 7. That all laws, or parts of laws inconsistent or conflicting with the several provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SEABURY FORD, December 24, 1845. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To amend the act entitled "An act to lay out and establish a Free Turnpike Road from the town of Fairhaven, in the county of Gallia, to the town of Jackson, in the county of Jackson," passed February 28, 1845. WHEREAS, the commissioners appointed by the act to which this is an amendment, to lay out and establish a free turnpike road in the counties of Gallia and Jackson, failed to meet and organize within the time limited by said act; therefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Nehemiah Atwood, John R. McCormick and Calvin Shepherd, of the county of Gallia, and Daniel Hoffman and James H. C. Miller, of the county of Jackson, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish said free turnpike road, and carry into effect the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment; and that said commissioners, hereby appointed, shall have all the powers granted, by said original act, to 2-L. L. the commissioners therein named, and may meet and organize at any time within six months from the passage of this act, and when so organized, shall be fully authorized to carry into effect all the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, and shall, in all respects, be governed thereby. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. December 29, 1845. AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of Pickaway county to borrow money and levy additional taxes for the purpose of building a new Court House and other public buildings. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Pickaway county, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow, on the credit of said county, from the fund commissioners of said county, or from any other person, or company, or corporation, a sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum, which money, when borrowed under the provisions of this act, shall be applied by said commissioners to the erection and completing of a court house and other public buildings in said county, and to no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, said fund commissioners shall not be authorized to make any loan of any portion of the principal of the surplus revenue, which shall conflict with the provisions of any existing law of this state requiring said fund commissioners to return said surplus revenue to the treasurer of state. SEC. 2. That said commissioners and their successors in office be, and they are hereby also authorized and empowered to cause to be levied and collected as other county tax, an additional tax not exceeding one and three-fourth mills upon each dollar of taxable property returned upon the grand list for taxation in said county, in each year; which said additional tax, when so levied and collected, shall be, by said commissioners, applied solely to the erection and completing of a court house and other public buildings in said county, and for the purpose of paying the interest upon and paying off and discharging any debt or liability contracted by and resting upon said commissioners, incurred in borrowing money under the provisions of the first section of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ELIAS F. DRAKE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SEABURY FORD, December 30, 1845. Speaker of the Senate. |