[Senate Bill No. 525.] AN ACT To authorize the village of Reading, Hamilton county, Ohio, to issue and sell the bonds of the village for the purpose of purchasing a suitable site, and erecting thereon a building containing a town hall, and offices for the officers of the corporation. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the incorporated village of Reading, in the county of Hamilton, be and the said council is hereby authorized to issue the bonds. of the said village, not exceeding in amount $17,000.00, to sell the same and use the proceeds thereof in purchasing a suitable site, and erecting thereon a building containing a town hall, and offices for the officers of the corporation. SECTION 2. Said bonds shall be issued in such an amount not exceeding $17,000.00, in such denominations, and payable at such time or times as said council shall determine. They shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof; said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk of said village, and shall be authenticated by the seal thereof. SECTION 3. For the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, said council shall levy a tax, and in addition to the amount otherwise authorized by law, every year during the period the bonds have to run, sufficient in amount each year to pay the bonds falling due that year and the accruing interest. SECTION 4. When the total amount of said bonds so to be issued in pursuance hereof shall have been determined by said council, and before any bonds are issued or tax levied, as provided by this act, the question of issuing the bonds shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said village, at an election to be held at such time after the passage of this act, as the council may determine, and ten (10) days' notice of said election and submission shall be given by the mayor of said village, by posting said notice in at least five (5) of the most public places in said village; said notices shall state the amount of the bonds to be issued, the purpose for which they are to be issued, and the time and place of holding the election; and if the majority of the electors voting at such election, upon the question of issuing the bonds, vote in favor thereof, then the bonds may be issued and the tax levied. Those voting in favor of the proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots the words: "For the issue of bonds;" and those voting against the same, the words, "Against the issue of bonds." SECTION 5. Said election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as is now provided by law for holding municipal elections; and the clerks and judges of said election shall certify to the council of said village the result of the same. If a majority of the electors voting at said election, as provided for in section 4 of this act, vote in favor of said proposition, the council shall proceed to advertise and sell said bonds, in the manner as provided for by law, for the sale of municipal bonds. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. Passed April 2, 1889. [Senate Bill No. 547.] AN ACT To amend an act entitled "an act to authorize the council of the city of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, to borrow money and issue bonds for the construction of a main sewer," passed February 19, 1889. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That "an act to authorize the council of the city of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, to borrow money and issue bonds for the construction of a main sewer," passed February 19, 1889, be amended so as to read rs follows: SECTION 2. The council of the city of Warren, Ohio, be and hereby is authorized to borrow not exceeding $25,000, for the purpose of constructing main sewers, from such point or points in said city, and to terminate. at such point in the Mahoning river, as said council may by resolution. determine; and said council is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said city for the money so borrowed. SECTION 3. Said bonds shall have plainly written or printed on their face, Warren city sewer bonds; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, shall be made payable at the office of the treasurer of said city, shall mature at such times, not exceeding ten years, as said council shall determine, and shall not be sold par value. for less than their SECTION 4. Said council is hereby authorized to levy such amount of tax, upon all the taxable property of said city, as may be necessary to pay the principal and interest of such bonds, when the same become due. SECTION 5. After the course and termination of such sewers shall be determined upon by said council, it shall cause plans and specifications thereof to be made, together with a map of the same, and an estimate of the cost, and shall appoint three competent persons to estimate and report what amount shall be charged and assessed to each lot or parcel of land afforded local sewerage by the construction of such main sewer. SECTION 6. The cost of such main sewer shall be paid in the manner following: So much thereof as would be equal to the cost of a local sewer for each lot or parcel of land not provided with local sewerage by public sewers already constructed, but provided with local sewerage by the construction of such main sewer, as estimated under the provisions of section five of this act, and the general laws for such purpose, shall be assessed upon each lot and parcel of land in the manner now provided by law, and the remainder of the cost of such main sewer shall be assessed and collected upon all the taxable property of said city, in the same manner as taxes for general purposes, and levied and collected in such amounts as will meet and pay the cost thereof, or the bonds issued therefor, and interest; provided, that no lot or parcel of land previously assessed for its local sewerage, and then paid and provided with such local sewerage, shall again be assessed for local sewerage, or any sewerage other than the general assessment. SECTION 7. The question of the propriety of constructing any main sewer or sewers, plans, specifications, maps, and estimates of which shall have been made and submitted to public inspection, shall first be submitted to the electors of said city, at an election called for that purpose by said council, of which at least ten days' notice shall be given in some news paper of general circulation in said city, and said notice shall be published at least twice, if in a weekly paper, and at least five times if in a daily paper. Such election shall be held at the usual place of holding elections, and conducted as other elections. The ballots shall have written or printed thereon, "Bonding city for sewers-Yes;" or, "Bonding city for sewers-No." If at said election a majority of those voting on the question, vote "yes," the council shall at once proceed to construct such sewer, make assessments, and if necessary, issue bonds therefor; but if otherwise, not. SECTION 8. Said original act is hereby repealed; and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 2, 1889. [Senate Bill No. 549.] AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Rush township, Champaign county, to control and regulate the flow of water from artesian or flowing wells. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Rush township, Champaign county, are hereby authorized and empowered, and, upon the filing of a petition with the township clerk, signed by at least five persons, residents of the township and owners of artesian or flowing wells, setting forth the necessity thereof, they are required to make and enforce such regulations as will prevent the unnecessary waste of water from such wells, by requiring owners to attach reducers to the pipes through which the water goes to waste, or in any other way by which the flow of said wells may be regulated. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the township clerk of the said township, upon the filing in his office of the petition mentioned in the first section of this act, to forthwith notify the trustees of such action, and the trustees shall then proceed to make and enforce such regulations as may be just and proper, and conformable to the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. Any person the owner of an artesian or flowing well, or occuping any property, either by lease or otherwise, where such well is situated, neglecting or refusing to comply with such regulations as may be prescribed by the trustees, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of said township, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be paid into the general expense fund of the township. SECTION 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 2, 1889. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 526.] AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Benton township, Paulding county, Ohio, to borrow money, purchase lands for a cemetery and place the same in proper condition for such purpose. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Benton township, Paulding county, Ohio, are hereby authorized to borrow any sum of money, not to exceed one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of purchasing lands, laying out the same and putting in proper condition for cemetery purposes for the said township. The said trustees may issue the township bonds for the same, which shall be advertised and sold as provided by law, and may levy on the tax duplicate of said township, in addition to the levy now authorized, a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal on said bonds as they may become due; provided, however, that the total amount for which said bonds may be issued shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and the said bonds shall be due in not longer than ten years from the date of their issue. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. Passed April 2, 1889. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 671.] AN ACT To authorize the board of county commissioners of Fairfield county, Ohio, to transfer certain funds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of county commissioners of Fairfield county, Ohio, be and are hereby authorized to transfer from the dog tax fund to the building fund of said county the surplus in excess of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars of said dog tax fund in the county treasury of said county. SECTION 2. The said board of commissioners are likewise hereby authorized and empowered to transfer from the dog tax fund of said county to the building fund thereof, in each year for the next succeeding four years, the surplus of said dog tax fund in excess of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, that may accumulate each year within that time. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. Passed April 2, 1889. [House Bill No. 1200.] AN ACT To authorize the village of new Bremen, in Auglaize county, Ohio, to borrow money and issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of encouraging manufacturing enterprises in said village, by furnishing a site or natural gas free. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the village of new Bremen, Auglaize county, Ohio, be and it hereby is authorized to issue its bonds for an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of encouraging manufacturing enterprises in said village, by furnishing a site or natural gas free, either by drilling wells or contracting with any company now furnishing the citizens of said village with natural gas. SECTION 2. Before such bonds or any of them shall be issued, the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of such village at a special election to be held at such time as the council of such village shall appoint. The tickets voted shall have written or printed thereon the words, "Authority to issue bonds-Yes;" or, "Authority to issue bonds-No." If the proposition to issue bonds be approved by two-thirds (3) of those voting upon the proposition, the village shall have authority to issue such bonds for the purpose provided in this act. SECTION 3. The council of such village, within ninety days after the passage of this act, shall publish notice of the submission of such question in the village newspapers, for at least ten days prior to such election; and such election shall be held in all respects, not otherwise herein provided, as municipal elections are now required by law to be held in such village. SECTION 4. Such bonds, when so authorized, shall be issued by the council of such village, in denominations not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, payable in such times, not exceeding ten years, as the council shall provide, with interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, principal and interest payable at such place as the council may determine; they shall express upon their face the purpose for which, and the act under which issued, and shall be signed by the mayor, and countersigned and registered by the clerk of the village, and shall not be sold for less than their face value. SECTION 5. The council of such village is hereby authorized to levy a tax, annually, not exceeding 5 mills on the taxable property within such village, in addition to the tax now by law authorized to be levied, in such an amount as will each year be sufficient to pay the principal and interest then falling due upon such bonds; provided, that the money so raised shall not be used for any other purpose than paying said bonds and the interest thereon. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect on its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. Passed April 2, 1889. |