lands and the surrender of permanent leases thereto," passed February second, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, provided that in no case shall said lands be sold for a less sum than five dollars per acre. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, March 6, 1844. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of Ashtabula county to transfer the bridge fund in the treasury of said county to the general county fund. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of the county of Ashtabula, be and they are hereby authorized to transfer the fund heretofore levied and collected by law for the erection and repairing of bridges within said county, and now on hand in the treasury of said county and unappropriated, to the general county fund, to be used and applied in the defraying of the expenses and indebtedness of said county. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 6, 1844. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the sale of School Section sixteen, in Centre Township, in the County of Williams." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That so much of the "act to authorize the sale of section, number sixteen, in Centre township, in the county of Williams," as provides that no part of said school section shall sell for less than five dollars per acre, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. March 6, 1844. AN ACT To authorize Israel Herrington to surrender a permanent lease. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Israel Herrington or his assignees, the lessee, holding a permanent lease ninety nine years, and renewable forever, for part of lot numbered two, in section numbered sixteen, in Clinton township, Seneca county, Ohio, containing ninety four acres, as described in said lease, be and is hereby authorized to surrender said lease to the state, and take a deed in the same manner that the balance of said section has heretofore been surrendered, by paying the aforesaid valuation and interest specified in said lease. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 6, 1844. AN ACT To provide for the repair and preservation of the Steubenville, Cadiz and Cambridge Turnpike Road. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the several townships through which the Steubenville, Cadiz and Cambridge Turnpike Road passes, be and they are hereby required to include the above named road in their several districts through which it passes, so that one third of the labor performed on the public highways may be performed on the above named road, and no more. SEC. 2. That whenever said Steubenville, Cadiz and Cambridge Turnpike Road Company shall determine to prosecute the construction of said road, agreeably to the act incorporating said company, the trustees of the townships through which the same passes shall, upon information of said determination, withdraw the labor required to be expended on the same by the first section of this act. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. March 11, 1844. AN ACT To amend an act passed January 20, 1838, entitled "an act to amend the act entitled 'an act to incor porate the town of Gallipolis, in the county of Gallia,' passed February 17th, 1808, and the several acts amendatory to the same." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the corporate limits of the town of Gallipolis, in the county of Gallia, be and the same are hereby so modified and changed, as not to include within said corporate limits any of the lots or parcels of land known and designated upon the recorded plat of said town as "seven acre lots." SEC. 2. That when any person shall commence merchandising in said town of Gallipolis, after the first day of May, in any year, and the amount of his capital is not entered on the assessor's list for taxation, such person shall report, under oath, to the recorder of said town, the amount of capital by him employed, and shall pay into the treasury of said town a per centum upon such capital, which shall bear the same proportion to the per centuni of taxes levied by the town council for such year upon the taxable property of said town, as the time from which he shall commence merchandising as aforesaid, to the first day of May next succeeding, shall bear to one year. SEC. 3. That if any person shall commence merchandising as aforesaid, and shall not, within one month thereafter, report to the recorder of said town the amount of his capital, and make payment to the treasury as required in the preceding section, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of three per centum on the capital so by him employed, to be ascertained as near as may be by the testimony of witnessess, and recovered by an action of debt, in the name and for the use of said town of Gallipolis, before any justice of the peace, or court having jurisdiction thereof. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 11, 1844. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Middletown and Hamilton Turnpike Road Company." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Middletown and Hamilton Turnpike Road Company, are hereby authorized to extend the line of said road from Middletown, in Butler county, to intersect the Great Miami Turnpike Road at some convenient point south of Franklin, in Warren county. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 11, 1844. AN ACT To provide for the payment of contractors on the Zanesville and Maysville Turnpike Road. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the president and directors of the Zanesville and Maysville Turnpike Road Company be and they are hereby authorized to appropriate all the tolls hereafter received on said road, after deducting all necessary expenses of repairs, and other incidental expenses connected with the collecting and disbursing the tolls, repairs and managing the road, as far as may be necessary, to the payment of contractors on said road, who performed labor on the said road prior to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty two, and who are yet unpaid therefor. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts, contrary to the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate, March 11, 1844. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Beverly College, at Beverly," passed February 28, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the synod of the Pennsylvania Cumberland Presbyterian Church be and they are hereby authorized to elect seven trustees annually, at such time and place as said synod holds its annual meeting; and that so much of the act entitled "an act to incorporate the Beverly College, at Beverly," passed February twenty eighth, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, in relation to said election, as conflicts with this amendment, be and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. March 11, 1844. AN ACT To amend the act entitled "An act to provide for the sale of part of Section Sixteen, in Township number four, Range six, in Monroe County. Whereas, some of the purchasers of section sixteen, in township number four, in range six, in Monroe county, have altogether failed to obtain a deed or execute a mortgage in the manner pointed out in the act entitled "an act to provide for the sale of part of section sixteen, in township number four, in range six, in Monroe county;" therefore SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That if any purchaser of any part of said section shall have failed, for one whole year, to make payment of any instalment or any interest which may have become due and payable thereon, the county auditor of said county shall, immediately after the first day of April next, proceed to sell the parcel or parcels of said land, bid off by such delinquent purchaser or purchasers, in the manner pointed out by the fifteenth section of the act entitled "an act to provide for the sale of section sixteen, granted by congress for the use of schools," passed January thirty, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 11, 1844. AN ACT To allow the Trustees of the township of Franklin, in the county of Mercer, to select a section of land for school purposes, in lieu of section sixteen of said township, which lies within the Mercer County Reservoir. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Thomas Lacy, William P. Long and Stephen Johnson, Trustees of the township of Franklin, in the county of Mercer, and their successors in office for the time being, be and they are hereby authorized to select, provided no such selection has been made by the county auditor of Mercer county, under the act of the twenty fifth of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, from the canal lands of the state, one section of land, in lieu of section number sixteen, of township number six, south, of range number three, east, which shall be, when so selected, approved by the governor, and entered on record at the land office, reserved, used or sold for the benefit of schools in said township, in the same manner as other lands granted by congress for school purposes within this state. 21-L. L. |