road south of J. Hardin's residence; and from thence the nearest and most practicable route to the Louisville church; from thence to the Marble Furnace bridge, in the road already granted, leading from Tranquility to Peebles. SECTION 2. Said commissioners may, in their discretion, order at once. the construction of said road, but before ordering said road, shall require donations of not less than twenty per centum of the estimated cost thereof, and may issue bonds for the construction of the same, bearing six per .cent. interest, which shall not be sold for less than their par value; and may levy a tax not exceeding three mills on the dollar, annually, on the taxable property of said county, for the purpose of paying said bonds and interest. SECTION 3. A majority of said board of commissioners may, at any regular or special session, agree upon plans and specifications, and order said improvement, or any part thereof. SECTION 4. 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 6, 1889. [House Bill No. 1316.] AN ACT To authorize the county commissioners of Clermont county to purchase that part of Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike situated in said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of county commissioners of the county of Clermont be and hereby is authorized to purchase, for said county, that part of the Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike road situate in the county of Clermont, and thereafter to be a free turnpike, and kept in repair as other free turnpike roads in said county. When purchased, and before any payment is made therefor, the owner or owners to execute to the county of Clermont a good and sufficient deed of conveyance, and to the satisfaction of said board of county commissioners. SECTION 2. That before said purchase is made, there shall be filed in the office of said board of county commissioners, by the persons interested in the purchase of said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike, a guarantee by subscription or otherwise, to the satisfaction of said board, of twenty per cent. of the amount of purchase money of said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike road. When the purchase is made and deed of conveyance executed for said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike road, the board of county commissioners shall assign said guaranty of twenty per cent. to the late owners of the Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike company, and the same shall be received by them without rebate, in full payment of the one-fifth of the purchase money for said part of said Cincinnati. Columbus and Wooster turnpike road, to be collected by them in their own name. SECTION 3. That in case said board of county commissioners and the owners of said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike, cannot agree upon a purchase price, said board and owners may cause an appraisement thereof to be made by three disinterested freeholders of said county, one to be selected by said board, one by said owners and the third appraiser to be chosen by the two appraisers selected as aforesaid. SECTION 4. That the appraisers selected and chosen under the provisions of this act shall, under oath, upon actual view, appraise that portion of the Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike road located in said county, at its true value, and make return in writing of their appraisement, within ten days after making the same, to said board. The said board and owners of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike company, within thirty days after the return of said appraisement, may agree upon a sale and purchase of said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike at the appraised value or less. If the said board refuses to complete the purchase at the appraised value, in that case the said county shall pay the costs of appraisement. If the owners refuse to sell at the appraised value, the said owners of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike shall pay the costs of appraisement. The appraisers shall each be entitled to receive two dollars per day for their services rendered under this act. SECTION 5. That for the purpose of paying four-fifths of the purchase money for said part of said Cincinnati, Columbus and Wooster turnpike road, said board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said county, payable at such times not exceeding twenty-five years from the date of the same, as to said board may seem proper, bearing a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually. Said county bonds shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of at less than their par value. The bonds to be issued in denominations not to exceed five hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars. SECTION 6. That the county auditor of said county shall make and keep in the office of said board, in a book to be provided for registry of county bonds, an accurate registry of said bonds, showing date of issue, number of bond, amount of bond, to whom sold, when due, when redeemed and amount of interest and principal paid on each bond. Each of said bonds shall be signed by the county commissioners and countersigned in red ink by the county auditor of said county. SECTION 7. That for the payment of the interest on, and for the redemption of said bonds, the board of county commissioners of said county is hereby authorized to levy a tax upon all the taxable property of said county, at such a rate not exceeding one-eighth of a mill annually, in addition to other levies for road purposes, authorized by law, on each dollar of taxable property in said county, as may be found necessary to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sum sufficient to redeem and pay said bonds as they become due and payable. SECTION 8. 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 6, 1889. [House Bill No. 1404.] AN ACT To authorize the village of Fort Jennings, Ohio, to transfer certain funds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the village of Fort Jennings, Putnam county, Ohio, be and is hereby authorized to transfer from the surplus in the general revenue fund the sum of six hundred dollars ($600.00) to the street improvement fund. SECTION 2. 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 6, 1889. [House Bill No. 1405.] AN ACT To change the name of Robert Cox to Robert C. Slusser. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the name of Robert Cox, a resident of West Brookfield, Stark county, Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Robert C. Slusser. SECTION 2. 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 6, 1889. [House Bill No. 1406.] AN ACT To authorize the village of Glouster to issue bonds for general purposes and pay debts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of the incorporated village of Glouster, in Athens county, be and is hereby authorized to issue bonds in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, to pay debts and to supply the general street and police funds of said village, as follows: General fund, five hundred dollars; street fund. one thousand dollars; police fund, four hundred dollars; and to pay debts now due, six hundred dollars. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and clerk of said village, and may be issued in denominations of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars; said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall not be sold for less than their par value; said bonds shall be made payable as follows: fifteen hundred dollars in two years and one thousand dollars in three years from the date of issue. SECTION 2. For the payment of principal and interest of said bonds, as the same shall become due, said council are hereby authorized and required to levy a tax on all the taxable property of such village, in such assessment as will meet each year the principal and interest then falling due upon such bonds. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. ELBERT L. LAMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 6, 1889. [House Bill No. 149.] AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Monroe county, Ohio, to refund to Samuel Gates a part of forfeited recognizance paid by him. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Monroe county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to refund to Samuel Gates any sum not exceeding four hundred dollars, out of the general expense fund of said county, being to reimburse the said Samuel Gates in part for the sum paid by him on forfeited recognizance of said Samuel Gates, in which case he afterward voluntarily appeared in court, plead guilty to the charge, and paid the full amount of the fines and costs. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. NOAH H. ALBAUGH, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives Passed April 9, 1889. WM. C. LYON, President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 612.] AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Miami county, Ohio, to purchase a turnpike. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Miami county, Ohio, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase from the owners of the same that part of a turnpike road lying within said county, and known as the Piqua and St. Mary's turnpike road company, incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Ohio, passed February 24, 1844, together with the bridges. culverts, gravel banks and gravel beds thereunto belonging, at such price and upon such terms as may be agreed upon by and between the commissioners and the owners of said road; and the said commissioners may levy such part of said purchase money, as they may deem just and equitable, upon the lots and lands adjacent thereto, within the two-mile limit, as per the free turnpike laws of Ohio, now in force; and said road, when so purchased, shall thenceforth be a free turnpike road, and shall be improved and kept in repair in the same manner as is provided by law as to other free turnpike roads in said county. SECTION 2. When the terms of sale shall have been agreed upon between the commissioners of said county of Miami and the owners of said road, then said commissioners shall take conveyance for said road, gravel beds, bridges and culverts thereunto belonging, from the owners thereof; and to provide for the payment of said road, the commissioners of said county are hereby authorized to issue bonds of the county in suitable denominations, not exceeding five hundred dollars each, which bonds shall be paid in semi-annual installments, not to exceed seven years, and draw interest at the rate of six per cent., payable semi-annually. SECTION 3. For the purpose of paying said bonds named in this act, and the interest thereon, the county commissioners of said county are authorized and empowered to annually levy upon the grand duplicate of the county an amount, which, in their opinion, may be sufficient for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. NOAH H. ALBAUGH, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed April 9, 1889. WM. C. LYON, [House Bill No. 1089.] AN ACT To provide for the improvement of a certain county road in Crosby township, Hamilton county, Ohio, and to provide funds therefor. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of county commissioners of Hamilton county, Ohio, are hereby authorized to levy upon the grand duplicate of said county a tax of at least one-twentieth (5) of one mill against all the taxable property in said county, in the year 1889, for the purpose of improving, grading and macadamizing the county road leading from the village of New Haven, in Crosby township, in an eastwardly direction and intersecting the county road which leads from the village of New Baltimore to Miami, at a point on the lands formerly owned by John Breese. said SECTION 2. The board of county commissioners of said county shall, when said tax shall be collected, proceed immediately to improve unty road according to law. |