Organization of board. Treasurers' bond. Reform and Industrial School for Girls to be appropriated, &c. from the date of confirmation, the length of the term of service of each to be designated in his appointment. Whenever a vacancy shall shall occur in said board by death, resignation or removal, the same shall be filled by appointment by the governor, and the person so appointed shall serve to the end of the unexpired term, subject to the approval of the senate. SEC. 2. The first meeting of the board shall be ordered by the governor, and thereafter shall be fixed by the members thereof. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the members of said board shall take and subscribe an oath of office, which shall be entered upon their journal proceedings. In all meetings of the board a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. The board shall organize by electing one of their members president, and a secretary, and also a treasurer, for each of said homes, who may or may not be members thereof; and said officers shall serve for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. SEC. 3. The treasurers, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their office, shall give bond to the state of Ohio in the sum of fifty thousand dollars each, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, and deposited with the treasurer of state, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as treasurers of said board, and that they will properly account for and pay over all moneys that may come into their hands by virtue of said office. SEC. 4. That the Reform and Industrial School for Girls, now located and established at White Sulphur Springs, in Delaware county, in this state, together with all the real and personal estate and property thereon belonging to the state, except such as belongs to or is necessary for said school, shall, on the passage of this act, be transferred to this board of managers, whenever they shall be appointed and qualified as herein before provided; that said premises, after such transfer, be known, used and occupied as an Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home; provided, that so much of said farm at White Sulphur Springs, not exceeding five acres, adjoining and on which the building known as the Burnet House is situated, shall be retained by the trustees of the said Industrial and Reform School for Girls, for the use of said school, until other provisions can be made for them by the state. The managers herein provided for shall have authority to make such necessary and needful repairs and alterations in the buildings on said farm as shall be required for the purpose of such home, and to procure such furniture and equipments as shall be necessary for the proper establishing and opening of said home thereon; but in no case shall the costs and expenses of such changes, repairs, alterations, furniture and equipments exceed, during the first year of said home, at said Springs, the sum of thirteen thousand dollars. Whenever the said managers shall ascertain that the capacity of the home, as herein located, shall be insufficient to accommodate, comfortably and well, all of the chil dren as contemplated by this act, in said institution, they shall be authorized and empowered to accept and receive, by donation or bequest, a suitable tract of land, not less in any case than one hundred acres, at a convenient and accessible point, with the necessary buildings and equipments thereon for the accommodation of not less than 250 orphans, and with power and authority to open and establish upon said premises a home or homes for Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphans intended to be provided for by this act, as soon as said tract of land, with its appurtenances and the property thereon, shall by good and sufficient deed in fee simple, without any incumbrance or condition other than that the same shall be used by the state for that or some other eleemosynary purpose, be conveyed to the state of Ohio, and the title to which shall have been examined and approved by the attorney general. SEC. 5. The board shall have power to make all contracts, in its own name, for all purposes incident to such homes; and shall, in its own name, have authority to bring actions for the recovery of all liabilities that may accrue to it; and sball receive and hold in trust for the use of said homes any and all contributions, gifts and bequests made therefor, and the title to all property so received shall vest in the state. Powers of board of managers. SEC. 6. There shall be received into said homes the chil- Who entitled dren residing in Ohio, of deceased, indigent and permanently to benefits of disabled soldiers and sailors, who served in the land and naval homes. service of the United States, during the late rebellion, that are by said board ascertained to be destitute of the means of support and education; and they shall be furnished a support and education at said homes, for such length of time as said board may determine, not beyond the age of sixteen years; provided, that other indigent orphan children, resident of this state, and under the age of fifteen years, may, at the discretion of the board of managers, be received into said homes, and there supported and educated as the other children hereinbefore mentioned, if there be room in said home or homes more than sufficient for such children first above mentioned as may be received therein. SEC. 7. The board of managers shall make such rules and regulations for receiving into and discharging from said homes the inmates thereof as shall not conflict with the provisions of this or any other law of this state. They shall also make all the needful rules and regulations for the government of the homes, and shall have authority to employ a superintendent and matron for each of said homes, and such teachers and other assistants as they may deem necessary for the edu cation of the inmates and the proper management of such homes, and fix the salaries and compensation of the same; and they may at any time dismiss any officer or employe thereof; provided, however, the salary of the superintendent shall in no case exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, and that of the matron four hundred dollars, each, per annum. Nor shall any officer or employe of said board receive a greater compensation for services than one thousand dollars per annum. Rules and regulations. Accounts and annual re SEC. 8. The board shall cause to be kept a full and accuport of board. rate account of all receipts and disbursements appertaining to said homes, specifying from what sources the receipts may have come, and for what purposes disbursements have been made. They shall also make to the governor, on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year, a detailed statement of all their transactions, including the sums paid as salaries and as compensation to officers and employes, with the names of said officers and employes, and the amount paid to each; which report shall by the governor be transmitted to the legislature at the next session thereof. No compensation, but expenses. Funds, how drawn and appropriated. Limitation of appropriations to be regarded. SEC. 9. Said board of managers shall not receive any compensation for their services, but shall be paid their necessary expenses incurred in attending the meetings thereof, which said sum shall be paid by the state treasurer on the order of the auditor of state; the bills for the same having been properly audited and certified to by the president and secretary of the board. SEC. 10. The auditor of state is hereby required to draw his warrant in favor of the treasurer of said board upon the treasurer of state, for any money appropriated for the changes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and other purposes, in the establishment and maintenance of said homes, the same to be done upon the estimate of said board attested by the president and secretary; provided, the aggregate amount to be drawn for establishing and equipping such homes shall not exceed, during the ensuing year, thirteen thousand dollars; and provided also, that the sum to be drawn for the carrying on of such homes shall not exceed the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum for each inmate to the number of one hundred, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annun for each inmate in excess of one hundred; the number of inmates therein to be certified to the auditor of state by the president, secretary and superintendent; provided further, that the directors or managers of such childrens' homes, or other associations, as may now exist, or hereafter be organized and conducted pursuant to law, not including any county infirmary in any county or city, for the care and maintenance of indigent orphans, shall be paid annually by the treasurer of state, on the warrant of the auditor of state, for the support of the said orphans of soldiers and sailors who served in the Union army, in their charge, the same amount per capita that it may cost the state per capita to maintain the orphans kept at the said Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, including all expenses except the original cost of lands and buildings, and the repairs thereof; provided, the amount so drawn shall in no case exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum per capita. SEC. 11. The board, in devising plans for erecting buildings, fitting grounds, and otherwise preparing and equipping said homes, shall have careful reference to the limitations of appropriations hereinbefore made. SEC. 12. This act to be in force from the date of its pas sage. A. J. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 14, 1870. AN ACT Amendatory to an act to amend the act entitled "an act supplementary to the act entitled an act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the state of Ohio,' passed May 1, 1852," passed April 8, 1856. (S. & S., 169.) tions for certain purposes authorized. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the IncorporaState of Ohio, That the first section of the above recited act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Section 1. That any number of persons, not less than three, may associate themselves together, as provided in the sixty third, sixtyfourth and sixty-fifth sections of the act entitled an act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the state of Ohio, passed May 1, 1852, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a canal or canals for hydraulic purposes, with the necessary culverts, water ways and fixtures; building and repairing steamboats, and other water craft; erecting and maintaing tanks for the storage of oil; building and operating dry docks and marine railways; printing and publishing a newspaper or newspapers, or books, or other publications; quarrying stone, marble or slate; boring or digging for oil, salt, or for other vegetable, medici nal or mineral fluid in the earth, and for refining or purifying the same; mining coal, ores and other minerals, or manufac turing the same, in whole or in part, or both; and carrying on business usually connected with the main objects of the corporations aforesaid; and when organized, shall be a body corporate, having all the privileges, immunities and powers conferred upon manufacturing companies by said act, and shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of said act, and the acts supplementary and amendatory thereto. SEC. 2. That the first section of the act hereby amended, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage. A. J. CUNNINGHAM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAM'L F. HUNT, Repeal. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 14, 1870. Schools authorized in county infirmaries, Duties of di lation thereto. AN ACT Supplementary to "an act for the reorganization, supervision and maintenance of common schools," passed March 14th, 1853. (S. & C. 1346.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the directors of each county infirmary in this state, are hereby authorized and empowered, if they shall deem the same advisable, to organize therein a school for the benefit of the children of school age, inmates of such infirmary, and said directors may employ a teacher for said children, having a certificate of qualification as provided by law; and after such directors may have organized such school and during the continuance thereof, they shall annually, between the first and third Mondays of September, make and return to the auditor of the proper county, an enumeration of said children, who, when so enumerated and returned, shall not be included in the enumeration of the youth of the district in which said infirmary may be situate. SEC. 2. The said directors shall have power, and it shall rectors in re be their duty, to purchase and provide all books, stationery, and other appliances, necessary to the conduct of such school, and shall give certificates for the amount due therefor, and for the amounts which may be due to any teacher employed by them, and for any other necessary expenditures about such school; and on presentation of any such certificate to the auditor of the proper county, he shall give an order to the proper party for the amount thereof, on the county treasurer, payable out of the poor fund of the county, which shall be paid by the treasurer out of said fund; provided, that before the said auditor shall deliver to any such teacher an order on account of services as such, such teacher shall file with said auditor the report required by section eighteen of the act to which this is supplementary, and shall exhibit to said auditor his or her certificate aforesaid from the board of school examiners, and shall file with said auditor a copy thereof; and all such certificates of said directors and copies of teachers' certificates shall be filed by said auditor as other vouchers relating to the accounts of the infirmary directors. Provision for funds there for. SEC. 3. The auditors of the several counties in the infirmaries of which schools shall have been established pursuant to this act, shall transfer the common school funds from all sources due to the children of said infirmary, as their proportion of the school fund, to the poor fund of the county; provided, that nothing herein shall deprive youth who are inmates of an infirmary, in which a school shall not have been established pursuant to this act, of the right to attend the common school of the district or sub-district in which such infirmary may be situate, nor deprive any district or subdistrict of the common school funds apportionable to the youth who may be inmates of an infirmary situate therein in which such school shall not have been established pursuant to this act. |