no such taxes shall be placed upon the duplicate, until said work be completed to the satisfaction and acceptance of said trustees, and that fact certified to the auditor by said trustees. As soon as such work shall be completed in conformity with such sale, and to the satisfaction of said trustees, said trustees shall certify the amount due to each person to the auditor of the county, and said auditor shall draw orders for the payment of such amount out of the county treasury: Provided, that any person interested may pay the amount of the purchase money and proportionate share of cost and expenses as aforesaid, to said trustees, at any time before the same are charged on the duplicate, to be paid by said trustees to the purchaser of such section or sections respectively. SEC. 2. Original sections twelve and thirteen are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, l'assed March 13th, 1872. President of the Senate. Notice of elections to be given by sheriff. Action of county commissioners not valid until approved by board of control. When act to take effect. AN ACT To amend sections 2, 12 and 13, of an act entitled "An act to establish boards of control, and to prescribe their duties," passed March 13, 1872. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 2, 12 and 13, of the above recited act be amended so as to [read] as follows: Section 2. That immediately on the passage of this act, the sheriff of said county shall give public notice by proclamation throughout his county, of the first election under this act, and at all susequent elections he shall give fifteen days notice, in the manner now required by law, of the time of holding said election, and the number of officers to be chosen; and said election shall be conducted and the returns thereof made in the manner provided by law for the election of county officers. Section 12. That no action of the board of county commissioners in matters or things upon which the board of control are herein authorized to act, shall be valid or binding until the same has been passed upon and approved by said board of control, any thing in any law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that nothing herein con. tained shall affect the term of office of any appointee of the present board of county commissioners. Section 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. SEC. 2. That sections 2, 12 and 13, of the said original act be and they are hereby repealed. 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 Representatives. Passed March 21, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend sections 428, 429, 432 and 433 of an act entitled an act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations, passed May 7, 1869. (O. L., vol. 66, p. 220, 221.) Rek 95-417 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 428, 429, 432 and 433 of an act entitled an act for the organization and government of municipal corporations, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 428. The council of any city or incorporated vil- Provision for lage may provide for lighting any bridge or railway, or any lighting portion of such bridge or railway located in whole or in part bridge or in such corporation, owned, possessed or operated by any in- railway. dividual company, association or corporation. pass ordi Section 429. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by Council shall the council of any city or incorporated village to have such bridge or railway lighted, the council shall pass an ordinance nance therefor that purpose, requiring the individual company, associa- for. tion or corporation owning, possessing or operating the same, to light such bridge or railway within a specified time. Section 432. Should such person or persons, company or corporation, owning, possessing or operating such railway or bridge, neglect, or fail to do such lighting in conformity with the provisions of such ordinance for twenty days after notice as aforesaid, the council may immediately proceed to cause such lighting to be done at the expense of such person or persons, company or corporation. Section 433. The council may direct the manner in which the expense of such lighting shall be assessed and collected, and when assessed, the amount shall be a debt due against and payable by such person, persons, company or corporation, and shall be a lien to be enforced as any other lien on such bridge and the land on which the same is built, or upon the real estate of the railway company or leasehold interest situate or being within the county wherein such city or incorporated village is located. Procedure on Assessment SEC. 2. That said original sections 428, 429, 432 and 433, be and are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 23, 1872. President of the Senate. Erection of rear central ized. AN ACT In addition to the acts authorizing the building of the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That for the purpose of completing the appointments and accommodations of the Central Ohio Lunatic wing author Asylum, now in process of construction at "Glenwood," made necessary by change of location to the present site, and that the work herein provided for may be carried forward in conjunction with the erection of the main building, the trus tees of said institution are hereby authorized to proceed in the erection of the rear central wing for steam power, heat ing and ventilating apparatus, and for machinery, chapel and domestic purposes for said institution, with all necessary drains, sewers, or other conveniences; and that, in the discharge of their duties herein, the said trustees shall be gov erned by the provisions of the act entitled "An act prescribing the duties of directors, trustees, commissioners, or other officer or officers, to whom is confided the duty of devising and superintending the erection, alteration, addition to, or improvement of, any state institution, asylum or other improvement," passed April 30, 1868: Provided, that said trustees shall have the power to let the contract for the building of the said rear central wing as a whole or in part, to the several trades, as shall be most conducive to the interests of the state; and it is further provided, that no money heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum shall be paid out for any other purpose than for the payment of supervision of instruction, and on contract upon estimates certified to by the proper officer. Proviso. SEC. 2. The entire cost of the said rear central wing shall Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed March 25, 1872. President of the Senate. AN ACT To prevent accidents by Railroads. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That any railroad in this state using steam locomotive engine for the transportation of passengers and freight, shall be required to have attached to each and every such engine passing upon the road, a bell of the ordinary size now in use on locomotive engines, and a steam whistle; and it is hereby made the duty of the engineer, or person in charge of any engine when in motion and approaching any turnpike, highway or town road crossing upon the same level therewith, and in like manner when the road crosses any other traveled place by bridge or otherwise, to sound such whistle at a distance of at least eighty and no farther than one hundred rods from the place of such crossing, and ring such bell continuously until the engine and cars attached thereto shall have passed such road crossing or crossings: Provided, however, that nothing herein shall interfere with the proper observance of any ordinance passed by any city in this state, regulating the management of railroad locomotives and steam whistles thereon, within the limits of such city. SEC. 2. That every engineer, or person in charge of any such engine, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of the first section of this act, shall be personally liable therefor to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action, at the suit of the state of Ohio, in the court of common pleas of any county where any such crossing exists; and the company in whose employ such engineer, or person in charge of an engine, may be, as well as the person himself, shall be liable in damages to any person or company who may be injured in person or property by the neglect or act of said engineer or person in charge of an engine as aforesaid; and such engineer or person in charge of an engine shall also, in case any person be killed by reason of his neglect or failure to comply with the provisions of the section aforesaid, or in case any person sustain bodily injury, not affecting life by reason thereof, then such engineer or person in charge of an engine, as aforesaid, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in the proper court of the county where such bodily injury occurred, be imprisoned in the jail of the county not less than one nor more than twenty months, or be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. Whistle must be sounded near each crossing of roads, etc. Penalty for failure to comply with said requirement. SEC. 3. All fines or penalties collected under the provis- Fines, how ions of this act shall be appropriated for the benefit of the appropricommon school fund of the state. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage: Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as re 4- LAWS. ated. pealing or in any wise modifying any law heretofore in force in this state, or as in any case changing the penalty for any viclation thereof. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed March 25, 1872. President of the Senate. Powers vested in directors of infirmary. Plans and bills of ex provements to be made. AN ACT To provide for the government of County Infirmaries, and for the addition to or alteration of infirmary buildings, in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That when any county infirmary building or buildings shall have been completed in any county of this state, having a population of two hundred thousand inhabitants, or more, the furnishing of such infirmary, and the improvements of the grounds therewith connected, the alteration of and addition to any such building or buildings, and the care and treatment of all who may become inmates thereof, shall be vested absolutely in the directors of the infirmary for such county, who may make all contracts and purchases as may be necessary for such infirmary, and may prescribe such rules and regulations as they may deem proper for the management and good government of the same. SEC. 2. That when, in the opinion of the directors of such county infirmary, it becomes necessary to make any addition pense for im to or alteration of any such infirmary building or buildings for the better accommodation of the inmates thereof, the said directors, in case the estimated cost of such improvement shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, shall first make, or cause to be made, a full, complete and accurate plan or plans of such proposed addition to or alteration of such building or buildings, showing all the necessary details of the work, together with working plans suitable for the use of the mechanics or other builders during the construction thereof; and also accurate bills, showing the exact amount of all the different kinds of materials to be used in such improvement, to accompany said plan or plans; and also full and complete specifications of the work to be done, and giving such directions for the same as will enable any competent builder to carry them out; and shall further make or cause to be made a full, accurate, and complete estimate of each item of expense, and the entire cost of such addition to or alteration of any such infirmary building or buildings when completed. SEC. 3. That before any contract is entered into by said directors of the county infirmary, such plans, drawings, representations, bills of materials, and specifications of work, and estimate of the cost thereof in detail and in the aggregate, as is required to be made in the second section of this |