tachment shall be had to garnishee the salary or wages of the employé of a railroad company, by reason of his nonresidence, except before a justice in, and on account of his being a non-resident of, the county in which his liability was incurred; or, 2. Has absconded with intent to defraud his creditors; or, 3. Has left the county of his residence to avoid the service of a summons; or, 4. So concealed himself that a summons can not be served upon him; or, 5. Is about to remove his property, or a part thereof, out of the county, with intent to defraud his creditors; or, 6. Is about to convert his property, or part thereof, into money, for the purpose of placing it beyond the reach of his creditors; or, or, 7. Has property, or rights of action, which he conceals; 8. Has assigned, removed, or disposed of, or is about to assign, remove, or dispose of his property, or a part thereof, with intent to defraud his creditors; or, 9. Fraudulently or criminally contracted the debt, or incurred the obligation, for which suit is about to be, or has been brought. When the defendant is a corporation, having no officer in the county upon whom a summons can be served, or place of doing business in the county, or is a non-resident of the county, the attachment shall not be granted, unless the claim is for a debt or demand arising upon contract, judgment, or decree, and no attachment shall issue by virtue of this chapter against the personal earnings of any defendant for services rendered by such defendant within three months before the commencement of the action or the issuing of the attachment, unless the defendant is not the head or support of a family, or unless the amount of such earnings exceeds one hundred and fifty dollars, and then only as to the excess over that amount. [59 v. 17, § 28; S. & S. 420.] SEC. 2. Said original section seventeen is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on its passage. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed June 9, 1879. President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 363.] AN ACT To amend the act of May 14, 1878, entitled "an act to amend, revise, and consolidate the statutes relating to municipal corporations, to be known as title twelve, part one, of the act to revise and consolidate the general statutes of Ohio." [75 v. 161, 394.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one (1), chapter fifteen (15), of division eight (8), of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 1. The council of any city or village may license Issuing all exhibiters of shows, and performances of any kind not licenses. prohibited by law, hawkers, and peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals in the highways or public grounds of the corporation, venders of gunpowder and other explosives, taverns and houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets; and regulate the sale of produce and other merchandise from canal boats, vessels, railroad depots, and from cars on railroad tracks; and in granting such license, may exact and receive such sum of money as it may think expedient; but nothing in this section shall be construed so as to authorize any municipal corporation to require a license to vend or sell, by the manufacturer, any article or product manufactured within the state of Ohio. SEC. 2. That section one (1), chapter fifteen (15), division eight (8), of said act be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed June 9, 1879. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 990.] AN ACT To amend the act of May 5, 1877, entitled “an act to amend, revise, and consolidate the statutes relating to crimes and offenses, and to repeal certain acts therein named, to be known as title one, crimes and offense, part four, of the act to revise and consolidate the general statutes of Ohio." (Vol. 74 O. L., p. 246.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty-two, chapter three, of said act be amended so as to read as follows: Penalties for attempting blackmail. Section 22. Whoever shall, either verbally or by any letter or writing, or any written or printed communication, sent or delivered by him, demand of any person, with menaces, any chattel, money, or other valuable security; or if any person shall accuse, or shall knowingly send or deliver any letter or writing, or any written or printed communication, with or without a name, or with any letter, mark, or designation, accusing, or threatening to accuse any person of any crime punishable by law, or of any immoral conduct, which, if true, would tend to degrade and disgrace such person, or to expose or publish any of his infirmities or failings, or in any way to subject him to the ridicule or contempt of society, or to do any injury to the person or property of any one, with the intent to extort or gain from such person any chattel, money, or valuable security, or any pecuniary advantage whatsoever, or with intent to compel the person threatened to do any act against his will, with the intent aforesaid, every such offender shall be deemed guilty of an attempt to rob, and be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, and may be fined not more than one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Rear sentatives. President of the Senate. Passed June 17, 1879. [Senate Bill No. 368.] AN ACT Amendatory to an act passed March 3, A.D. 1879, to change the time of holding a district court in Logan county, in the first subdivision of the third district in Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the time fixed by the act passed March 3, 1879, of holding the district court in Logan county, in the first subdivision of the third district, be so amended that said court shall commence in said county of Logan, September 1, A.D. 1879, instead of the 15th of July, as by said act fixed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from Supplementary to sections one and two, of chapter four of an act passed May 11, 1878, entitled an act to amend and revise the statutes relating to taxation, to be known as title thirteen, part one, of the act to revise and consolidate the general statutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the annual county board for the equalization of real and personal property of any county having within its limits a city of the third grade of the first class, are hereby authorized to reduce the taxable valuation of the lots and lands in said county lying within the territory annexed to said city in 1873, as were advanced in taxable valuation upon the duplicate of said county, for the years 1874 and 1875, to the taxable valuation of such lots and lands as they stood upon such county duplicate prior to such advance by said boards of 1874 and 1875, or to such a taxable valuation as in their judgment shall equalize the valuation of said lots and lands with the valuation of other lots and lands in said county, but not below the taxable valuation of such lots and lands as they stood upon said county duplicate for the year 1873. And the annual board of equalization for any city of the third grade of the first class shall have like power to restore the taxable valuation of such lots and lands within the limits of said city as were advanced upon the county duplicate by the boards of equalization of such city for the years 1874 and 1875, to the taxable valuation of such lots and lands as they stood upon such county duplicate prior to such advance by the boards of equalization for the years 1874 and 1875, or to such a taxable valuation as in their judg. ment shall equalize the taxable valuation of said lots and lands with the taxable valuation of other lots and lands in said city, but not below the taxable valuation of such lots and lands as they stood upon said county duplicate for the year 1873. SEC. 2. In case said board or boards of equalization shall reduce the valuation of said lots and lands, as authorized in section one (1) of this act, it shall be the duty of the county auditor, upon application of the owner of any portion of said. lots or lands desiring to pay the taxes upon his said lots or lands upon the tax duplicate of 1878, to issue to such owner a refunding order for the difference between the taxes on his said property appearing on the said tax duplicate and the amount due and unpaid on said property when the taxes shall have been computed on such reduced valuation for the several years since, and including 1875, during which said property has remained delinquent; and it shall be the further duty of the county auditor to place upon the tax duplicate of 1879 such amount of taxes upon any of such lots or lands remaining delinquent for any or all of the years since, and including 1875, as will result from the rates levied for such years upon such reduced valuation. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed June 17, 1879. President of the Senate. Physicians and medi cines for the poor. Powers of trustees. Limit of compensation. [House Bill No. 1079.] AN ACT For the relief of the poor in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in all counties of the state having, according to the last federal census, a population of twenty one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine, the township trustees of said counties may contract with one or more competent physicians to furnish the needful relief, or the medical relief and medicines necessary for the paupers of their respecive townships, who come under their charge under the general laws of the state; but none of said contracts shall extend beyond the term of office for which said trustees were elected. SEC. 2. Said trustees shall have the power to discharge any of said physicians for proper cause. SEC. 3. In all townships in said counties where trustees do not avail themselves of the provisions of the first section of this act, the maximum limit of compensation for medical services rendered to paupers under the charge of said trustees, shall be seventy per cent. of the regular fees charged by physicians for similar services. SEC. 4. The existing laws with regard to notice and all pre-existing legislation not in direct conflict with the provisions of this act shall be and remain in full force. |