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els produced; the number of acres in vineyard, the num ber of acres planted within the year, and the number of pounds of grapes gathered, and the number of gallons of wine produced; the number of pounds of wool shorn; the number of acres in orchard, and the number of bushels of apples, peaches, cherries, plums, and pears produced; the number of acres used for pasturage, and the number of acres not cultivated or pastured; the number of hives of becs, and the number of pounds of honey produced; the number of dozens of eggs shipped to places beyond the state. 1522.

Manufactures. The number of tons of cold blast pig. iron manufactured from native ore smelted with charcoal, and the number of tons of hot blast pig metal manufactured from the same material; the number of tons of pig metal made from native or foreign ore, smelted with stone coal; the number of tons of bar and nail-rod iron manufactured; the number of tons of nails; the number of tons of hoop-iron; the number of tons of sheet-iron; the number of tons of stoves and hollowware; the number of tons of all other castings; the number of tons of spikes and railroad chairs; the number of tons of car wheels; the number of tons of railroad iron; the number of locomotives built; the number of steam engines constructed; the number of plantation sugar-mills made; the number of portable saw-mills made and the number in use; the number each of reaping and mowing machines; the number of threshing machines. 1522.

Water crafts. The number of steamboats built upon the Ohio river and its navigable tributaries, and the number of barges, flat-boats, and store-boats, and the value of each; the number of steamboats and sail vessels built upon Lake Erie and its tributaries within the borders of this state, and the value of each; the number of canal boats built and used in navigating the canals. 1522.

Mines and miners.-The number of bushels of stone coal mined; the number of persons engaged in mining stone

coal, and the average rate of wages paid; the number of tons of iron ore mined; the number of persons engaged in mining ores, and the average rate of wages paid; the number of bushels of salt manufactured; the number of gallons of petroleum produced; the number of barrels of lime made; the number of barrels of water cement; the number of gallons of stoneware made. 1522.

Wages. The number of adult male persons engaged in each of the mechanic arts, and the average monthly or daily wages of each; the number of common laborers and the average daily wages of each; the number of common farm laborers and the average monthly wages of each; the average monthly wages paid to clerks and salesmen or saleswomen; the average monthly wages paid to bookkeepers. 1522.

Investments.-The amount of United States bonds owned; the amount of legal tender notes or moneys exempt from taxation; and the amount of state bonds or certificates. 1522

Social. The number of marriages between persons related to each other by blood, and the degree of such relationship; the number of persons born with imperfect senses or idiotic, and how many of such persons are the offspring of parents related to each other by blood; the number of houses of prostitution or assignation, and the number of prostitutes. 1522.

Enumeration of deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic persons. Beginning with the year 1882, and every fourth year thereafter, it is the duty of the assessor, at the time of taking the tax list, to take an enumeration of all deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic persons in the township, on the day preceding the second Monday of April. including all such persons in any jail or infirmary, with their names in full, their age, and duration of muteness, blindness, insanity, or idiocy. A list of such persons is required to be made out, designating those of each class, with the name and postoffice address of the parents or guardians

of each person, and returned to the county auditor on or before the third Monday of May in the same year. 1526.

Enumeration of adult males. - Beginning with the year 1883, and every fourth year thereafter, the assessor, at the time of taking up his tax list, is required to take an enumeration of all the male inhabitants about the age of twenty-one years residing in his township or precinct on the day before the second Monday of April, designating such as are of African descent by the word "colored," and to make out and deliver an alphabetical list of the same to the clerk of the court of common pleas at the time of returning the tax lists to the auditor. And for a failure to perform this duty the assessor is liable to a penalty of not more than fifty nor less than five dollars. 1527.

Return of statistics.-The assessor is required to make return of all his lists of statistics at the time that he returns his list of personal property to the auditor, and for a failure to do so is liable to a penalty of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. Any person refusing to furnish the required statistics is liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred nor less than fifty dollars. 1523, 1524, 1525.

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Saloons and all places where liquors are sold are to be listed by assessors, and a return thereof made, showing the names of the person, persons, or company engaged in the business, a brief description of the place and by whom owned-to be sworn to by the owner before the assessor. 85 Laws, 117.

Auditor to furnish blanks.—The county auditor is required to furnish the assessors with all blanks needed by them in their official duties, to be paid for out of the county treasury. For that reason no blank forms are inserted in this work for the use of assessors, other than the forms of official oath and bond. 1528.

Assessors may administer oaths.-Assessors are authorized and required to administer such oaths as may be necessary in the discharge of their official duties. 1521.

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Pay of assessors.-Each assessor is entitled to two dol lars per day for the time during which he is necessarily engaged in the performance of his duties. An account in detail must be made out by him, showing the date of each day in which he has thus been engaged, which he must verify by oath before the auditor; and if the auditor is satisfied that such account is correct, he is required to draw a warrant on the county treasurer for the amount of the same, but in no case can such warrant be drawn until the assessor has filed with the auditor his list of assessments, accurately made out, and the statements returned to him, and the books on which the original assessments were made, nor until the assessor has filed with the auditor the statistics and enumeration required of him by law, and the auditor is satisfied that the same are as full and accurate as could be made. 1535.

CHAPTER III.

OF BASTARDY.

Mother may commence action.—Any unmarried woman, who has been delivered of, or is pregnant with, a bastard child, may make complaint thereof, in writing, under oath, before any justice of the peace, charging any person with being the father of the child, and the justice must there. upon issue his warrant, directed to any sheriff or constable of the state, commanding him to pursue and arrest the accused person in any county of this state, and bring him forthwith before the justice to answer such complaint. 5614.

Proceedings on return of warrant.-On the return of the warrant, the justice, in the presence of the accused per son, is required to examine the complainant under oath, and the accused must be allowed to ask complainant any question he may think necessary for his justification, all of which questions and answers must be reduced to writing by the justice and subscribed by complainant. 5615.

Continuance. If either party desire it, upon good cause shown, the justice may continue the cause for a period not to exceed ten days, upon the defendant's entering into a recognizance to the State of Ohio to appear at any time fixed by the justice for the hearing of the complaint, with sufficient security, in a sum not less than three hundred no more than six hundred dollars, to answer the complaint and abide the order of justice. 5616.

Settlement before justice.—If, upon such examination, or at any time before judgment in the court of common pleas, the accused pay, or secure to be paid to the complainant, such sum or sums of money, or property, as she may agree to receive in full satisfaction, and further give bond to the

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