State offi cers; salaries and contin gencies. Clerk of the house. Asylums. Athens hospital for in sane. Columbus hospital for insane. Drains, etc. Salaries. Cleveland hospital for insane. Water rent, deficiency, twenty-seven dollars. Water rent, ninety dollars. Carpets for senate and house, deficiency, three hundred and ten dollars and sixty-nine cents. Sky-light improvement, deficiency, two thousand two hundred and eight dollars." Covering diagonal walks with asphalt, deficiency, one thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents. Drapery and ornamentation of the presiding chairs of the two houses, four hundred and six dollars and sixty-nine cents. For electrical apparatus for lighting the hall of the house, two hundred and fifty dollars. For State Officers: Salaries, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For Treasurer of State: Salaries of clerks, one thousand and three hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, deficiency, one hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses, two hundred dollars. Night watch, four hundred dollars. For Clerk of the House: Expenses of taking care of office room, incidental expenses and postage, during late adjournment, seventy-one dollars and fifty cents. ASYLUM FUND. SEC. 2. That there be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the asylum fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to wit: For the Athens Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses, deficiency, nineteen thousand dollars. For furniture, kitchen utensils, laundry, and other necessary furniture for the entire building, eighty thousand dollars. For payment of existing contracts to be finished by March. 1st, 1877, and other necessary work not contracted for, which should be done by March 1st, 1877, fifty thousand dollars; and the word "drains" contained in section two of the general appropriation act of April 11, 1876, under the head of "For Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane," shall be construed to include any machinery and apparatus, including water supply, deemed necessary for the efficient use and operation of the drains contemplated. For salaries of officers, deficiency, five hundred dollars. For Cleveland Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses, twenty-nine thousand dollars. For salaries of officers, eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Ordinary repairs, deficiency, one thousand dollars. For Dayton Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses, deficiency, fifteen thousand dollars. For officers' salaries, eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Ordinary repairs, deficiency, one thousand dollars. Constructing sewer, deficiency, two thousand one hundred and twelve dollars. For Longview Lunatic Asylum: For the support of colored insane, in accordance with the terms of agreement with the state, twelve hundred dollars. For Lucas County Insane Asylum: To support patients under the contract made in pursuance of a joint resolution passed April 27, 1872, six thousand three hundred and eight dollars. For same purpose, for deficiency, one hundred and thirtyseven dollars and nineteen cents. For the Asylum for the Blind: For current expenses, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Salaries of officers and teachers, deficiency, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Salaries of officers and teachers, thirty-five hundred dollars. For the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb: Current expenses, sixteen thousand dollars. Salaries of officers and teachers, deficiency, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. Salaries of officers and teachers, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Printing department. Imbecile asy For salaries, deficiency, sixty-five dollars and forty-four lum For repairs, one thousand dollars. For printing department, six hundred dollars. For Asylum for Imbecile Youth: cents. For salaries, three thousand dollars. For general expenses, eighteen thousand dollars. For iron smoke stack in ventilating shaft, eighteen hun dred and sixty dollars. For removing boilers and machinery to new boiler-house, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-seven cents. Salaries, repairs, etc. Soldiers' and For Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home: For salaries, four thousand dollars." For ordinary repairs, deficiency, fifteen hundred dollars. phans' home. Repairs, de For establishing and maintaining industrial pursuits, one ficiency, etc. thousand dollars. For live stock, two hundred dollars. For trees and grading, five hundred dollars. For pipe, hose, and fire-plug, deficiency, five hundred dollars. For support of soldiers' and sailors' orphans outside of home at Xenia, as provided by section ten of the act to establish the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home, passed April 14, 1870, deficiency, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the support of the same orphans, eighteen hundred dollars. For Ohio Penitentiary: Provisions and current expenses, deficiency, nine thousand dollars. Provisions and current expenses, thirty-five thousand dol lars. Salaries of warden and other officers and guards, deficiency, ten thousand dollars. Salaries of warden and other officers and guards, thirty thousand dollars. For manufacture of gas, deficiency, two thousand dollars. For rewards to convicts, twenty-five hundred dollars. Prosecution and transportation of convicts, deficiency, forty thousand dollars. Prosecution and transportation of convicts, thirty thousand dollars. For State Reform School for Boys: Current expenses, deficiency, five thousand dollars. Current expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Salaries, deficiency, two thousand dollars. Salaries, four thousand dollars. Ordinary repairs, deficiency, one thousand dollars. For Industrial School for Girls: For current expenses, six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents. For salaries, eighteen hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety cents. For expenses of the Trustees of Benevolent Institutions, six hundred dollars. For expenses of Secretary and Board of State Charities, seven hundred and fifty dollars. 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. H. W. CURTISS, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed January 11, 1877. AN ACT Empowering the council of any city of the first-class, with a population of less than one hundred and fifty thousand, and greater than ninety thousand inhabitants, at the last federal census, to lease lauds for park purposes, and for the improvement of the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the council of any city of the first-class, with a population of less than one hundred and fifty thousand, and greater than ninety thousand inhabitants, at the last federal census, shall have power to lease, rent, or otherwise hold any lots or lands abutting upon, contiguous, or adjacent to, any park or public grounds, for the purpose of extending and enlarging such park or public grounds; and that the commissioners of such park or public grounds are hereby authorized and empowered to take charge of, improve, embellish, and protect the lots or lands so leased, rented, or held, in the same manner, and subject to the same authority, as they do the park or public grounds of which they are the commissioners. 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. President Passed January 26, 1877. Authorizing certain cities. to lease, rent, or hoid land for park purposes. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to amend section three of an act prescribing the rate of taxation for county, bridge, road, and township purposes,” passed May 1, 1871 (O. L., vol. 63, p. 117), and to amend an act entitled "An act prescribing the rate of taxation for county, bridge, road, and township purposes," passed April 26, 1872, (O. L., vol. 69, p. 113), passed April 3, 1876 (O. L., vol. 73, p. 149). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section three of the above recited act be amended to read as follows: Limitation of Section 3. The county commissioners of any county in this state shall not levy any tax, or appropriate any money, for taxation. the purpose of building public county buildings, purchasing sites therefor, or for lands for infirmary purposes, or for building any bridge, except in case of casuality, or such bridge or bridges as shall be deemed unsafe for public travel by the county commissioners, as provided for in section two of said act, the expenses of which shall exceed ten thousand dollars, without first submitting to the qualified voters of said Submission county the question as to the policy of building any pub- to vote of lic county building or buildings, or for purchasing sites therefor, or for the purchase of lands for infirmary purposes,. by general tax, which said submission shall be made at the Notice of election, and how given. On petition of tax-payers vote may be taken again. Proviso. annual fall election in October, A.D. 1877, or any annual fall election thereafter; each proposition shall be separately submitted, and printed tickets shall be provided by the said county commissioners, on which shall be printed, for tax, Yes; which blank shall be filled with a proper designation of the proposed improvement, as the notice may require; and said commissioners shall cause the same notice for such vote to be given as is required in the election of state and county officers. It shall be the duty of the judges of election in the several townships and wards in any county in which such question may be submitted as aforesaid, on the day of the annual fall election, A.D. 1877, or at any fall election. thereafter, to open a poll for taking such votes, and to receive and count the ballots cast, and, within three days thereafter, to return to the auditor of the county a full and correct abstract of said votes; and the said judges of election shall, in all respects, be governed by the laws regulating general elections, and shall be entitled to the same compensation for returning said poll-books, which shall be paid out of the county treasury, on the order of the auditor, and the poll-books so returned shall, within five days from the holding such election, be opened, and the votes counted by the commissioners and auditor of the county, a correct statement of the result of which votes shall be kept by said auditor on file in his office for public inspection. If the majority of the votes so cast shall be against the policy of such improvements, the commissioners shall not assess any tax for that purpose, but the commissioners may, on the petition of not less than one hundred tay-payers of said county, again submit the same question, at any regular annual fall election, under the same rules and regulations as before provided; if, at any such election, a majority shall be in favor of the improvements as aforesaid, then the commissioners shall be authorized to proceed to levy the tax as provided for in this section, and for the purpose of said improvement: provided, that nothing in this act shall apply to the construction of any public building or bridge commenced or contracted for prior to the passage of this act, or for which the commissioners of any county have in fact purchased the ground or acquired the material for the same, or have been and are now proceeding, with all convenient dispatch, to construct; and in every such case the acts of the commissioners of any county, in levying taxes and issuing the bonds of the county, and in appropriating money for the constructing and completion of such building or buildings, shall be as lawful and binding as if neither this act nor any of the acts to which this is amendatory had been passed: and, provided further, that the provisions herein contained shall not be construed to authorize the commissioners of any county in this state to construct any new bridge on any new site, costing more than ten thousand dollars, without first submitting to the qualified voters of the said county the question as to the policy of build |