State binding. Salaries at pen- Transportation, For binding, three thousand dollars. For stationery, twenty-three thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and guards in the Ohio penitentiary, fifteen thousand dollars. For prosecution and transportation of convicts to the Ohio &c., of convicts. penitentiary, ten thousand dollars. For current expenses reform school for girls, two thousand dollars. For heating apparatus of state house, five hundred dollars. For repairs of state-house engine and boilers, one thousand dollars. For steam fixtures on state-house boilers, under inspection law, three hundred and thirty dollars. For military claims, allowed by the board of military claims, twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of clerks in the office of the secretary of state, twelve hundred dollars. For the payment of the balance of salary due the adjutant general, three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fortyseven cents, and back pay of clerk in said office, forty-five dollars. For payment of salary due clerk of military claims, two hundred dollars. For the care of state-house, nineteen hundred dollars. For payment of account of Osborn, Kershaw & Co., five hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents. For payment for hydrostatic pumps, bought under boiler inspection act, six thousand dollars. For salary of the inspector-in-chief, under an act "relating to steam boiler inspection." &c., passed May 7, 1869, up to the time of the repeal of said act, the sum of twelve hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-two cents. For expenses of addition to pumps, tools and connections, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty cents. For transportation of pumps from Newark, New Jersey, fifty-two dollars; for postage, telegrams, blanks, freight, &c., thirty-three dollars. The cost of boilers, salary, expenses, &c., under said law, as aforesaid, shall be carefully examined by the state auditor, and no allowance shall be made under this appropriation which has not been clearly created under said act. For the redemption of Seneca county bank notes and certificates, six hundred and sixty two dollars. For seals and presses that may be required by law, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-three cents. For tuition of soldiers in the state universities, three thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For transportation and care of public arms, seven hundred and eighty dollars and six cents. The four last items above being for balances of appropria tions made February and April, 1868, for the purposes named, and which, under the law, will lapse at the expiration of two years, if not reappropriated. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and To dispense with proof in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That whenever it shall be necessary, in any civil action or criminal proceeding, to prove the title of the state of Ohio to any lands granted by an act of congress entitled "an act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash River with those of Lake Erie," passed March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and which were, by the state of Indiana, transferred to the state of Ohio by a joint resolution of the general assembly of said state of Indiana, approved February first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, and such lands as have been or may hereafter be conveyed by the state of Ohio, to any person or persons, body politic or corporate, the deed of the state of Ohio, conveying the same, shall be prima facie evidence that the title to the laud conveyed was in the state of Ohio at the time of the execution of said conveyance. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the time of its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed January 31st, 1870. A. J. CUNNINGHAM, President of the Senate. When deed shall be prima facie evidence. AN ACT To amend the act entitled "an act to amend the act for the better regulation of the public schools in cities, towns" etc.. passed February 21, 1849, passed March 13, 1850. (0. L., vol. 48, p. 40. S. & C., pages 1376-7.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section three of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows: Title of real estate to be vested in ucation. Section 3. The title to all real estate and other property belonging for school purposes to any city, town, village, townboard of ed- ship or district, or to any part of the same, which is or may be organized into a single school district in accordance with this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall be regarded in law as vested in the board of education thereof, for the support and use of the public schools therein; and said board may dispose of, sell and convey said real estate or any part of the same, by deed to be executed by the president of said board, upon a majority vote for such sale, at any regular meeting of the electors of said district. Provided, that where the school house site is held under a lease, only the title to the estate created thereby shall be regarded as vested in the board of education; which estate may be sold and conveyed by the board of education, when authorized in the manner hereinbefore provided. SEC. 2. That section three of said amendatory act of March 13, 1850, is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from its passage. A. J. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 1st, 1870. President of the Senate. Who may contract matrimony. AN ACT To amend section one of an act passed May 5th, 1869, (Vol. 66, Ohio Laws, p. 99,) entitled "an act to amend section one of an act regulating marriages," passed January 6th, 1824. (S. & C., page 855.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one of the above named act, passed May 5th, 1869, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. That male persons of the age of eighteen years, and female persons of the age of sixteen years, not nearer of kin than second cousins, and not having a husband or wife living, may be joined in marriage; provided, always, that male persons under the age of twenty-one years, and female persons under the age of eighteen years, shall first obtain the consent of their fathers, respectively, or in case of the death or incapacity of their fathers, then of their mothers or guardians. SEC. 2. That section one of the above named act, passed May 5th, 1869, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. J. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. C. LEE, Passed February 10, 1870. President of the Senate. AN ACT Supplementary to an act " to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations," passed May 7th, 1869. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in the cities of the first class, of a popu- Constitution lation exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants at the of common last federal census, the legislative power of the said corpora council. tion shall be vested in a board of aldermen and board of councilmen, which, together, shall form the common council of the said city. SEC. 2. The board of aldermen shall consist of one alderman to be elected from each ward in the city, at the first annual election of municipal officers to be held after the passage hereof. The members of the board of aldermen first elected under this act shall be classified as follows: The aldermen from wards having an even numerical designation, shall hold such office for the term of one year; and those from wards having an odd numerical designation, shall hold office for the term of two years; and at all subsequent elections for aldermen they shall be elected for the full term of two years; and said board of aldermen, and the council now provided by and existing under the act to which this is supplementary, shall, together, form the common council of such cities. Board of al dermen. of boards. SEC. 3. Aldermen and councilmen elected for such city, within ten days after their election, upon separate days, shall Organization assemble and organize their respective boards, as now provided for councils of cities of the first class by the act to which this is supplementary; and a majority of either shall be a quorum to do business. Each board shall elect, by bal. lot, a president and vice-president from its own body, who shall preside at its meetings; in the absence of the president of either board the vice-president shall preside; and in the absence of the president and vice president, a president pro tempore shall be elected viva voce. Each board shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members; and shall keep a journal of its own proceedings. SEC. 4. Both boards shall meet in the same chamber at Meetings of least twice each month, on such days as they may severally boards. determine: Provided, that both boards shall not meet on the same day, nor on the day after a meeting of either branch, except when it shall be necessary for them to meet in joint session; and then, only for the transaction of such business as requires a joint session; provided, that if said boards at any time appoint for meeting, or be called to meet on the same day, the meeting of said board of aldermen shall have precedence on any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday, and the meeting of said board of councilmen shall have precedence on any other day SEC. 5. Every legislative act of the common council shall be Acts to be by by ordinance, resolution or order, which shall have passed the concurrent two boards of the common council; and any ordinance, reso- ordinance. Joint sessions of the boards. City clerk, Laws applicable to each board Powers and duties. laws. lution, or order of the common council, may originate in either board, and when it shall have passed one board, may be rejected or amended by the other. The like majority shall be required for the passage of different kinds of orders, resolutions and ordinances in each board, that are now required by law in city councils of one board; and at least one week shall intervene between the passage by one board, of any ordinance, resolution or order, involving the expenditure of money, or any contract for the payment of money, or for granting any franchise or creating any right, and the passage of the same by the other board. SEC. 6. In cities where a common council is organized under this act, all officers or agents of said city, now elected or confirmed by the city council, as provided for by city councils of cities of the first class of a population of eighty thonsand inhabitants and over, under existing laws, shall be elected and confirmed by the cominon council from the qualified voters of the city; and for that purpose the two boards shall meet in joint session; and the term of office of the person so elected or appointed shall be one year; and the election or appointment of all such officers or agents of said city, or of any board created by or working under the same, shall be held immediately after the organization of the common council; and any of said officers elected or appointed prior to the time herein provided for, shall hold their offices only until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified under this act. The city clerk elected by city councils of cities of the first class, under the provisions of the act to which this is supplementary, shall be elected by both boards of the common council, and be the clerk of each board. SEC. 7. The provision of law now existing in reference to the calling of special meetings of the city council, shall apply to each of said boards; and three members of the board of aldermen uniting with five of the board of councilmen, may, in like manner, call a joint session of the two boards. SEC. 8. The common council provided for in this act shall be invested with the same powers and duties, except as herein otherwise provided, as are possessed by city councils of cities of the first class having over one hundred thousand inhabitants at the last federal census, under existing laws; and all laws and ordinances regulating the duties of city councils and councilmen, or trustees, in any city organized under the provisions of the act to which this is supplementary, shall be construed as applying to a common council constituted of two boards, and the individual members of the two boards respectively. SEC. 9. The operation of all laws authorizing cities of Temporary the first class having a population exceeding one hundred suspension of thousand inhabitants at the last federal census, to issue bonds, lease property of any description for any purpose whatever, or to make contracts of any kind whatever, contemplating the expenditure of money not absolutely in the city treasury, to the credit of the fund proposed to be used, at the date of the passage of this act, are hereby suspended |