AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Oxford township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, to sell railroad stock, and appropriate proceeds to the construction of a bridge. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Oxford township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to appropriate any funds in the treasury at this time, or that may hereafter be paid into the treasury of said township, arising from the sale of the capital stock of the Steubenville and Indiana railroad company, held by said township, to the construction of a bridge across the Tuscarawas river, at or near the village of New Comerstown, in said township. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 25, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the council of the incorporated village of Bellaire city to issue bonds to enable them to build Water Works. WHEREAS, The village council of Bellaire city, by resolution, directed an election to be held in said village, to take the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of the construction of water works for said village, at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, A very large majority of the qualified voters cast at said election were in favor of the erection of water works for said village; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the village council of the village of Bellaire city are hereby authorized and empowered to contract for and construct water works for said village, with the necessary water pipes, reservoirs, fire plugs and machinery, and to issue the bonds of the said village in such sums or denominations, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and in such amount in the aggregate as shall be found necessary to meet the expenses of said water works and no more: Provided, such aggregate amount of said bonds shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and that said bonds shall not be sold at less than their par value. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of paying said bonds and the interest thereon, as the same shall become due, the said council is hereby authorized and empowered to levy on the taxable property of the said village of Bellaire city such an amount, not exceeding one and a half of one per centum annually, as will be sufficient to pay the principal and interest of the debt as the same may fall due; and the money so raised shall not be used for any other purpose: Provided, that no bonds shall be issued or tax levied under this act until the question of the construction of such water works and levy of said tax shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of said village of Bellaire city, at a special election to be proclaimed by the mayor of said village, of which election not less than twenty days' notice shall previously be given in one or more newspapers printed and published in said village, and not until a majority of the electors voting at said election shall have voted in favor of the construction of such water works. SEC. 3. This act to take effect on and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed April 26, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the Presbyterian Church of Northfield, in the county of Summit, in the state of Ohio, to sell cemetery grounds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the Northfield Presbyterian Church, in the county of Summit, are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by deed, the parcel of ground situate in lot No. 65, in Northfield township, in the county of Summit, and heretofore used as a cemetery, and apply the proceeds of said sale to defray the expense of transferring the bodies therein interred to the township cemetery: Provided, that such sale shall not operate to give the purchaser thereof possession of the same until the bodies therein interred shall have been removed from such cemetery, and all monuments and tombstones be removed and re-erected at the place of re-interment of the remains of such persons respectively. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed April 26, 1872. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the council of the village of Aberdeen, Brown county, Ohio, to levy a tax to pay the debts of said village. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the town council of the village of Aberdeen, Brown county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax not to exceed five hundred dollars, on the real and personal property in the limits of said village to pay the debts of said village. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed April 26, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Independence township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, to levy a tax to contruct a vault or receptacle for the dead. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of Independence township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to levy and assess a tax, the amount of which to be by them determined, and submit the same to a vote as herein provided, for the purpose of constructing a vault or receptacle for the dead for the use of said township. The said vault or receptacle for the dead, to be under the control of said trustees, or some person appointed by them: Provided, that the trustees shall first submit the question of tax, or no tax, for the above named purpose, to the qualified electors of said township at a general election, having given at least ten days' (10) notice of the same in at least three public places in the aforesaid township, which notice shall state the amount to be raised and for what purpose. SEC. 2. The electors voting at said election shall have written or printed upon their ballots the words: Tax-Yes, or Tax-No; and if a majority of all the electors voting at said election upon the question submitted shall vote, "Tax-Yes," this act shall thereupon be considered and holden to be adopted by such majority. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed April 26, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the county commissioners of Stark county to borrow money for ditching purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of Stark county be and they are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said county to an amount not exceeding eight thousand dollars, to raise money for ditching purposes, and for no other purpose; said bonds to be signed by said county commissioners, and countersigned by the auditor of said county, whose duty it shall be to keep a record showing the number, amount, and date of each bond, the time when it will be payable, the person to whom sold, and the amount received therefor; said bonds shall be in sums of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars each, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed eight per centum per annum, payable annually, and the principal of said bonds may be made payable at any time not exceeding two years from the time of issuing the same, at the discretion of said commissioners: Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value. SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for said county commissioners to expend the money which by the preceding section of this act they are authorized to borrow, for ditching purposes, in anticipation of the amounts to be assessed, levied and collected as is provided by law, upon the owners of land adjacent to any ditches in said Stark county. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed April 26, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT For the relief of Daniel T. Enyart, treasurer of Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio. WHEREAS, The dwelling house of Daniel T. Enyart, treasurer of Hauover township, Licking county, Ohio, was burglariously entered on the 13th day of April, A. D. 1871, and the bureau containing the money be longing to said township was broken open and the sum of fifteen hundred and eighty dollars of said money was stolen therefrom, which sum so stolen has been paid by said treasurer to said township; and WHEREAS, One hundred and eighty-two tax-payers of said Hanover township, being a majority of the citizens of said township, by their petition to this general assembly, represent that said robbery was not due to any fault or negligence on the part of said Daniel T. Enyart, and ask that sum be refunded to him; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of said Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to cause to be levied upon the taxable property of said township, a tax sufficient in amount to refund to said Daniel T. Enyart the sum of fifteen hundred and eighty dollars, the sum so as aforesaid stolen from him: Provided, however, that said trustees shall not cause said levy to be made until a majority of the electors of said township, at some regular election, shall vote in favor of said levy. SEC. 2. This act to take effect upon its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed April 27, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize the holding of a special election in the incorporated village of Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the qualified electors of the incorporated village of Caldwell, in the county of Noble, be and they are hereby authorized to hold an election in said village, on Monday, the 20th day of May, 1872, for the purpose of electing for said incorporated village, one mayor, one clerk, one treasurer, one marshal, and six members of council. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the trustees of said village to give at least ten days notice of the time of holding said election, by written or printed notices, posted in at least three public places in said village; and said election shall be conducted in all respects in the manner provided by law, for conducting elections in cases where villages incorporated for special purposes, are advanced to the grade of incorporated villages. SEC. 3. The terms of office of the officers elected at said election, shall expire at the same time, respectively, that they would had said officers been elected on the first Monday of April, 1872. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. N. H. VAN VORHES, President of the Senate. Passed April 27, 1872. AN ACT To authorize the board of education of the township of Monroe, county of Guernsey, Ohio, to levy a special tax to pay an existing debt. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of education of the township of Monroe, county of Guernsey, Ohio, be and it is hereby authorized to levy a special tax, (in addition |