AN ACT To repeal section twenty of an act entitled "An act to regulate incorporated companies," passed February 11, 1848 (S. & C., page 271), and section nineteen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the State of Ohio," passed May 1, 1852. (S. & C., page 271). Section re SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 15th, 1877. President of the Senate. AN ACT To regulate the traffic in the sale or exchange of scrap iron, old metals, old rope, and junk. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That any keeper of a store, shop, wagon, boat, or other place of business, who shall purchase, sell, exchange, or receive any scrap-iron or old metals, canvass, rope, junk or lead pipe except plow-irons and old stoves, shall put up, in some conspicuous place, in or upon said shop, store, boat, or other place of business, a sign having his name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon, and shall keep a book open to inspection, in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase or exchange of any of the articles above mentioned, a description of the article or articles so purchased or exchanged, the name and residence of the person from whom purchased or received, and the day and hour when such purchase or exchange was made. SEC. 2. That no keeper of any such store, shop, wagon, boat, or any other place of business, shall directly or indirectly purchase or receive, by way of barter or exchange, or otherwise, any of the aforementioned articles of any minor or unknown person. SEC. 3. That no keeper of any store, shop, wagon, boat or other place of business, shall purchase or receive any of the articles aforesaid not exempted in section one of this act from any person whatever, after the hour of nine o'clock at night and before seven o'clock in the morning. Trafficers in old iron, etc., to put up sign of busi ness. ister of such iron, etc., purchased. To keep reg Not to parchase of un known per son. Not to pur chase after 9 o'clock at night. SEC. 4. That any person violating any or either of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- Penalties. meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall be impris oned in the jail of the county not exceeding thirty days, or either, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 22, 1877. President of the Senate. Duties of township trustees in certain cases. AN ACT To amend section twenty-four of an act entitled "An act for the relief of the poor, and to repeal certain acts therein named," passed April 12, 1875. (O. L., vol. 73, page 233). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty-four of the above entitled act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 24. Whenever, in any county having an infirmary, the trustees of any township shall, after making the inquiry provided in the fifteenth section of this act, be of the opinion that the person complained of is in a condition requiring public relief, they shall forthwith transmit a statement of said facts, together with the amount of relief furnished, if any, so far as they shall have been able to ascertain the same, to the directors of the infirmary; and if it shall appear that such alleged pauper is legally settled in said township, or has no legal settlement in this state, or that such settlement is unknown, and the said directors are satisfied that said alleged pauper requires public relief, they shall forth with direct the superintendent of the infirmary to receive said pauper, and provide for him or her in said institution, and they shall furnish transportation for said pauper to the infirmary; and thereupon said directors shall certify to the correctness of the items contained in the bill of said trustees for costs and expenses incurred by them in affording temporary relief to said pauper; and if such statement of facts so ascertained by said trustees shall be transmitted to the directors of the infirmary within five days after the same came to their knowledge, then said bill of said trustees shall be paid out of the poor fund of the county, upon the order of the county auditor thereof. SEC. 2. That said original section twenty-four be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. sage. This act shall be in force from and after its C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. pas Passed February 23, 1877. AN ACT To amend section two of "An act to amend and supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of railroads and telegraphs, and to prescribe his duties," passed April 5, 1867 (64 O. L., 111), passed May 13, 1868. [65 O. L., 183.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Slute of Ohio, That section two of the above recited act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 2. Section twelve of said act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Section 12. It shall be the duty of the commissioner aforesaid to make to the governor, on or before the first day of January of each year, a full and accurate report of the condition and affairs of all the railroad and telegraph companies having lines in this state, also of all accidents resulting in injuries to persons and [the] roads upon which they occurred, with the circumstances and causes thereof, and such other information, suggestions, and recommendations as he may deem of advantage to the state. The governor shall cause two thousand copies of said report to be printed under the direction of the said commissioner, by the printer having the contract for this branch of public printing, and lay the same before the general assembly in printed form; said reports to be bound in muslin and suitably lettered on the back, three copies for the use of each member and officer of the general assembly, and one thousand copies for the commissioner, the remainder to be deposited in the state library for use and distribution by the librarian, according to law or the resolution of the general assembly. SEC. 2. Said original section two, amended by this act, is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Commissioner to make accurate re port to gov ernor. Report to be printed and bound. Passed February 27, 1877. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform standard of weights and measures," passed March 21, 1863 (S. & S., p. 926); passed February 21, 1873 (O. L., vol. 70, p. 39), and as amended March 10, 1876 (O. L., 73, p. 22). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 1. Whenever the following articles are hereafter sold and no special agreement as to the measure is made by Log. 1 weight, corn, wheat, grassseed, fruit, etc. the contracting parties, the bushel shall consist of the following weights: Wheat, sixty pounds; rye, fifty-six pounds; corn, shelled, fifty-six pounds; corn, in the ear, seventy pounds, until the first of January of each year next after it is raised, and from and after that date, sixty-eight pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds; clover-seed, sixty pounds; timothy-seed, forty-five pounds; hemp-seed, forty-four pounds; millet-seed, fifty pounds; buckwheat, fifty pounds; beans, sixty pounds; peas, sixty pounds; hominy, sixty pounds; Irish potatoes, sixty pounds; sweet potatoes, fifty pounds; onions, fifty pounds; dried peaches, thirty-three pounds; dried apples, twenty-two pounds; flax-seed, fifty-six pounds; barley, forty-eight pounds; malt, thirty four pounds; Hungarian Penalties for grass-seed, fifty pounds. Each and every person violating the provisions of this act shall, before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding twentyfive, nor less than five dollars, and pay the costs of prosecution. violation of this act. All fines imposed by the provisions of this act shall be collected and paid over to the treasurer of the proper county within twenty days after the collection thereof, for the use and benefit of the common school fund of the township wherein the prosecution was had. SEC. 2. That the above recited act is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 27, 1877. President of the Senate. Toll-houses AN ACT To amend the second section of an act entitled "An act to authorize two commissioners of the several counties in this state, through which the national road passes, to take under their care and control so much of said road as lies within the limits of such counties respectively, passed April 6, 1876. [Pages 105 and 106 of Ohio Laws, volume 73.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section two of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. That said county commissioners shall have to be erected. power to cause gates and toll-houses to be erected on said road within their respective counties, for the purpose of collecting tolls, and appoint the necessary collectors of tolls, and remove them at pleasure, and pay them reasonable compensation for such services; said collectors of tolls shall pay into the county treasuries of their respective counties, at the treasuries. end of each month, all the moneys that they shall have col- Tolls paid inlected that remain in their hands, after deducting the compensation allowed for their services; said commissioners shall apply said money to the keeping in repair of said road within their respective counties. In the collection of said tolls, said collectors shall be governed in all respects by the laws now in force relating to the collection of tolls: provided, that the number of gates shall not exceed one on any span or distance of ten miles, and no toll shall be charged or collected for travel on that part of said road that lies between Columbus and the Ohio central lunatic asylum, and all persons shall be permitted to travel free of toll on this part of said road. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. O. J. HODGE, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed February 28, 1877. AN ACT. Supplementary to an act passed April 11, 1876 (O. L., vol. 73, p. 169), to amend section seven of an act to authorize the county commissioners to construct roads on petition of a majority of resident land owners along and adjacent to the line of said road, and to repeal an act named therein, as passed March 29, 1867. County com missioners may issue bonds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in counties having at the last federal census twenty-three thousand and twenty-eight inhabitants, and no more, whenever it is necessary for the want of bridge funds in the treasury of the county, the county commissioners may issue the bonds of the county, payable in installments, or at intervals, not exceeding in all the period of five years, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, to enable the commissioners to build bridges and culverts as provided for in section one of the act to which this act is supplementary, and in such amounts only as will be necessary for that purpose, said bonds to be paid out of the bridge funds of such county, only: provided, that no bonds shall be delivered or money paid to any contractor, except upon estimate of work done, bridge fund. as the same progresses or is completed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. O. J. HODGE, THOS. L. YOUNG, President of the Senate. Bonds to be paid out of Passed February 28, 1877. |