ACTS OF A LOCAL NATURE. AN ACT To provide for the payment of the claim of Charles Boesel for damages sustained by canal boat Robert Blum, and cargo, by breaking in of lock No. 23, on the Miami Extension canal, on the sixth day of October, 1850. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the sum of six hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-five cents be and the same is hereby appropriated to be paid, without interest, to Charles Boesel, for damages, as set forth in the title of bill, to be paid out of the treasury according to law. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. March 22, 1856. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Madison township, Franklin county, to convey a portion of school section sixteen for school house purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the township trustees of the township of Madison, in the county of Franklin, are hereby authorized to convey to the township board of education of said township of Madison, such portion not exceeding one-half acre in quantity, of school section sixteen of said township, as may be necessary for the site of a school house for the use of the common school of district No. thirteen of said township; provided that whenever the ground conveyed shall cease to be used for the purpose for which the conveyance is herein authorized, the same shall revert to its original uses. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. March 5, 1856. President of the Senate. AN ACT To declare the First Range Free Turnpike, in Ashtabula county, a county road, and to repeal a certain act therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the road known as the First Range Turnpike, in Ashtabula county, leading from the north line of township number twelve, in the first range of townships of the Connecticut Western Reserve, to the south line of township number ten, in said county, be and the same is hereby declared a county road. SEC. 2. That said road shall be governed and regulated in all respects as other county roads in said county of Ashtabula. SEC. 3. That the act passed February 8, 1847, creating said road a free turnpike, be and the same is hereby repealed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Represent tives. LESTER TAYLOR, President of the Senate, pro tem. February 20, 1856. AN ACT Supplementary to "an act to confirm the charter of the Covington and Cincinnati bridge company, incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Kentucky," passed February 17, 1846, with certain limitations, passed March 9, 1849. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Covington and Cincinnati bridge company, as incorporated by the laws of Kentucky, is hereby authorized to construct a bridge across the Ohio river, under the provisions of the act to confirm the charter of said bridge company, with certain limitations, passed March 9, 1849; provided that the said bridge may be of less span than fourteen hundred feet, but shall not be of less span than one thousand feet; provided, further, that the height of said bridge in the centre shall not be less than one hundred and twenty-two feet above the surface of the water, at low water mark; and provided, also, that the southern side of the northern tower of said bridge shall be at least twenty-five feet north of the line of low water on the Ohio side. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. March 29, 1856. AN ACT To repeal section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate certain towns therein named, passed March 19, 1850; also, to repeal an act entitled an act in relation to common schools in the town of Attica, Seneca county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate certain towns therein named, passed March 19, 1850; also, an act entitled an act in relation to common schools in the town of Attica, Seneca county, passed March 4, 1851, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of April, 1856. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. March 29, 1856. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Miami county to issue bonds to raise money to pay the debts of said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Miami county, for the purpose of raising money to pay the debts of said county, are authorized to issue bonds, not exceeding the sum of sixty thousand dollars in the aggregate, and in bonds not less than one hundred dollars each, bearing a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, one-eighth part of which shall be made payable in each year. SEC. 2. That said bonds shall be signed by the commissioners of said county; shall be made negotiable, and shall not be disposed of by said commissioners at less than their par value. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, March 29, 1856. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Washington county to borrow money to pay the interest of July, 1856, on certain bonds issued by said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of the county of Washington, in this state, be and they are hereby authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars for the purpose of paying the interest to be due in July next on the bonds issued by said county to the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad company. Said loan shall not bear an interest exceeding seven per centum per annum, and shall not extend beyond the 20th day of December next. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tem. April 3, 1856. AN ACT To provide for the enlargement of the Lewistown reservoir. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works be and they are hereby authorized to enlarge the Lewistown reservoir, to any extent the members of said board shall think the interests of the state demand; and for this purpose said board of public works may enter upon and condemn any and all lands necessary for that purpose. Provided, that before said board shall commence the enlargement of said reservoir as aforesaid, they shall sell enough of the surplus water of the Miami and Erie canal to pay the entire cost of constructing or enlarging said reservoir, including damages for the condemnation of the lands necessary for the purpose, and all other charges, expenses, costs and damages which shall be incurred on account of said enlargement. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, April 7, 1856. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the commissioners of Van Wert county to borrow money. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of Van Wert county are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow for a term of years not exceeding fifteen, upon the faith and credit of said county, any sum of money not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, which money, when so borrowed, shall be expended in the erection and completion of public buildings, for the use of said county, and to issue bonds or certificates of the county therefor; the same to be signed by the said commissioners, and attested by the county auditor. SEC. 2. That when the commissioners aforesaid shall deem it necessary to borrow all or any part of said twelve thousand dollars, for the purpose mentioned in the foregoing section of this act, the question as to the propriety of making such loan and expending the money realized therefrom in the erection and completion of public buildings for the use of the county, shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the county either at the annual spring election or fall election or any special election appointed by said commissioners by giving public notice by advertisement in one or more newspapers of general circulation in said county, at least thirty days previous to said election, and by handbills to be posted up in at least five public places in each township in said county, one of which handbills shall be posted upon the day of such election, at each of the places of holding said election; for or against borrowing money by the commissioners as aforesaid and for its appropriation to the purpose of erecting and completing public buildings as aforesaid; and the opinion of said electors shall be expressed on their ballots "borrow" or "not borrow," and all elections held by authority of this act shall be conducted in all respects in the same manner, and by the same officers that the annual fall elections are, and no other election for the purpose of determining the propriety of entering into any contract or engagement for the erection of any public building or buildings in said county, with the money aforesaid shall be necessary: Provided, That the poll books shall be returned to the county auditor and filed by him in his office and carefully preserved. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOS. H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 7, 1856. |