Henry, Lucas, Pike, Cuyahoga, Medina, Mercer, Lawrence, Gallia, Miami, Summit, Delaware, Wood, Ottawa, Carroll, Guernsey, Monroe, Lorain and Scioto, and the repeal herein of chapter four of an act defining the jurisdiction and regulating the practice of probate courts, passed March 14, 1853, shall not apply to the counties named in this section, but the jurisdiction of the probate court in said counties shall remain the same as if this act were not passed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. April 9, 1856. AN ACT Further defining the duties of county treasurers. Treasurers of counties of retain certain taxes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That hereafter, the treasurer of each county in this state, which, according to the last federal census, had a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, less than shall retain in his hands for disbursement, as hereinafter 100,000 inprovided, all the taxes by him collected, which shall have habitants to been levied for any purpose whatever within the township, in which by law the county treasury is located, whether for township purposes, school purposes, or the purposes of municipal corporations; also, all funds of every kind which shall be paid into the county treasury, and are applicable to any such purpose within the limits of aforesaid township: Provided, That this section shall not apply to taxes levied for state purposes. SEC. 2. The said taxes, thus retained by said county treasurer, shall be disbursed by him as follows: Disbursement The taxes collected under the levy made by the township of said taxes.! trustees, for all purposes, shall be paid out on the order of the said trustees, or any two of them. The taxes collected under the levy made by the council of any municipal corporation within said township, shall be paid out on the order of such person or persons as may be appointed by the council of said corporation. The taxes collected under a levy, made by the township board of education, organized under the "act for the reorganization, supervision and maintenance of common schools," passed March 14, 1853, shall be paid out on the Settlement with town &c. order of such person or persons, as said board of education may prescribe. The taxes collected under a levy, made by a board of education, organized under the "act for the support and better regulation of common schools in the town of Akron," passed February 8, 1847, and the acts amendatory thereof, or under the "act for the better regulation of common schools in towns and cities, &c.," passed February 21, 1849, and the acts amendatory thereof, shall be paid out on the written order of the president of said board, countersigned by the secretary of the same. SEC. 3. That said county treasurer shall settle and account with the several boards of township trustees and of ship trustees, education, and with the council of municipal corporation herein named, as often as is or may be provided for the settlement of the treasurers of township and municipal corporations respectively. No township or municipal treasurer to be elected in township where office of county treasurer is located. SEC. 4. That hereafter there shall not be elected within the limits of the township, in which by law the office of the county treasurer is located, any township treasurer, nor any treasurer of a municipal corporation, and no person shall be allowed any compensation for the disbursement of the taxes herein required to be disbursed by said county treasurer: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to municipal corporations, in which the taxes of such corporation are collected by its treasurer N. 1. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 8, 1856. Sec. amended. AN ACT To amend the act entitled “an act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages," and the act amendatory thereto, passed March 11, 1853. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty-second of said amendatory act be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 22. That the powers granted to the council of any city, by sections sixty four and sixty-five of the "act to provide for the organiza- N. H. VAN VORHES, President of the Senate. April 8, 1856. AN ACT commission ers. To amend the act to regulate the fees of officers in civil and criminal cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section fourteen of the act entitled "an act to regulate the fees of officers in civil and criminal cases," passed March 5, 1831, be amended so as to read as follows: Fees of county Sec. 14. That each county commissioner shall be allowed two dollars per day for his services, to be paid out of the county treasury, upon the order of the county auditor; except in counties in which, by the last federal census, the population amounted to one hundred thousand or upwards, in which counties each commissioner shall be allowed five dollars per day for his services, to be paid out of the county treasury as aforesaid. SEC. 2. That original section fourteen of the act afore- Sec. repealed. said, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That the act entitled an act to fix the compensa- Act repealed. tion of the commissioners of Hamilton county, passed March 20, 1850, be and the same is hereby repealed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, April 8, 1856. President of the Senate. Commission ers of sinking fund shall iscates of stock. sue certifi Limitations. Proceeds AN ACT To prvide for the payment of the public debt of the state, due January 1, 1857, and for the payment of the interest on the public debt. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of the sinking fund be, and they are hereby authorized, to issued in accordance with the provisions and conditions of the act of February 4, 1825, creating the state debt, and of the several acts amendatory thereof, transferable certificates of stock bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually at the transfer agency in the city of New York, the principal to be redeemable at the pleasure of the state, at such time between the year 1875 and the year 1886, as the commissioners of the sinking fund may determine; the certificates to be transferrable at said agency in the manner prescribed by law, or coupon certificates as the said commissioners may deem most advisable to be registered at said agency. SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall not, by authority of this act, issue certificates to an amount greater than the principal of the funded debt of the state, made payable at the pleasure of the state after the year 1856, after the application of the sinking fund available for that purpose, to the payment thereof; nor shall they sell any certificate of stock at a rate less than the per value thereof. SEC. 3. The moneys arising from the sale of the certifihow applied. cates authorized by this act, shall be applied by the commissioners of the sinking fund, to the redemption of the certificates of the funded debt of the state, made payable as stated in the second section of this act, and to no other purpose. Appropriatious. SEC. 4. The following sums are hereby appropriated of any moneys in the treasury belonging to the sinking fund including the amount that may be raised by the sale of certificates as provided in the first section of this act for the year 1856, viz: For the payment of the semi-annual interest to become due on the foreign debt of the state, on the first day of July 1856, and the first day of January 1857, and the semi-annual interest to become due on the domestic debt of the state on the first day of May, and the first day of November 1856, the sum of eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the payment of interest on school and trust funds, held by the state, one hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. For the payment of the foreign debt of the state, payable at the pleasure of the state after the year 1856, two millions five hundred and nine thousand dollars. For the payment of the debt of the state past due, the certificates of which have not been presented for payment and not bearing interest, two thousand three hundred and fifty dolloars. For the payment of the salaries of the transfer agent and registrar in New York City and contingent expenses of their offices for the year 1856, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its pas- In force. sage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. April 8, 1856. AN ACT To enable mutual insurance companies to become joint stock companies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That any corporation authorized, or that may hereafter become authorized by any law of this state, to insure property against loss or damage by fire, or any other cause or risk, to make insurance upon lives, to make insurance against loss or damage on goods or merchandise in the course of transportation, whether on land or water on any vessels or boats, to lend money on bottomry or respondentia, or to cause itself to be insured against any loss or risk they may incur in the course of its business, and which is bound by law to distribute the net profits of its business, in whole or in part, among those who have paid premiums to the said company for insurance, or are otherwise holders of its policies of insurance, may become a joint stock company, with all the powers and privileges as to the kind of business it may be authorized to prosecute, and as to the mode and manner of prosecuting the same it previously possessed, by accepting the provisions of this act, in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. That when the board of directors for the time being, of any such company desire to become a joint stock company, by accepting the provisions of this act, they shall pass a resolution to that effect, calling a meeting of those holding the certificates of said company, and all others entitled to receive on distribution, any proportion of the net profits of said company, of which meeting at least thirty days notice shall be given in two newspapers published in, or of general circulation in the county in which the principal office for business of said company is situated, specifying 8-LAWS. Mutual insur ance companies may become joint panies. stock com Proceedings. |