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for the erection and government of an asylum therein," passed March 10, 1857, and the act amendatory thereto, passed April 5, 1859, are hereby repealed. SEC. 37. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK,

President of the Senate.

Passed February 27, 1861.

AN ACT

To authorize the commissioners of Monroe county to borrow money to supply the deficiency occasioned by the defalcation of the county treasurer.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county commissioners of the county of Monroe, for the purpose of raising money to supply the deficiency in the treasury of said county, are authorized to issue the bonds of the county, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars each, bearing any rate of interest not exceeding eight per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, the said bonds to be redeemable within ten years from the date thereof. The bonds shall be signed by the commissioners, and attested by the county auditor, and shall be negotiable, but shall not be disposed of at less than their par value: Provided, that the aggregate amount of said bonds shall not exceed ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The county commissioners of said county are authorized to levy such taxes on all the taxable property of said county as will be required to pay the interest and principal of the bonds as the same shall become due. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

ED. A. PARROTT,

Speaker pro tem of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE, President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 8, 1861.

AN ACT

For the relief of Jonathan West.

WHEREAS, Jonathan West, of Darke county, Ohio, about the month of Febru ary, A. D. 1851, purchased the west half of the south west quarter of section six (6), township thirteen (13), range two (2) east, lying in said county of Darke, canal land then belonging to the state of Ohio; and paid the receiver of the state canal land office, at Defiance, Ohio, in which district said land was situated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, in full of the purchase money thereof, and received from said receiver a certificate of said purchase and payment, which was accidentally destroyed by fire, and for which said land no deed has ever been issued to said Jonathan West, or to any one as his assignee, the legal title thereof still remaining in the state of Ohio: therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor of the state of Ohio be, and is, hereby authorized to make, execute

and deliver to said Jonathan West, his heirs and assigns forever, on his making an oath or affirmation that he has approved the same according to the provisions of law, a good and sufficient deed in fee simple for said west half of the southwest quarter of section No. six (6), township No. thirteen (13), of range two east, Darke county, Ohio, containing eighty acres more or less, being part and parcel of the lands granted to the state of Ohio by the congress of the United States of America, to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law.

ED. A. PARROTT,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE, President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 21, 1861.

AN ACT

To protect the rights of the state in the medical college of Ohio.

WHEREAS, by an act of the general assembly, passed March 21, 1851, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the medical college of Ohio, and for other purposes, passed December 31, 1825," the board of trustees of said college were authorized to mortgage the lands owned by the state, and held for the use of said college, and to apply the proceeds of such mortgage to the erection of a building on said land, in which should be taught regular scientific medicine, as contemplated by the various acts creating and endowing said medical college; and whereas the trustees, acting in obedience to said acts, did mortgage said lands and apply the proceeds to the erection and furnishing of the required building, which ever since has been, and is now used for the purposes aforesaid; and whereas the said mortgage debt will all become due and payable in the year 1861, and no provision has as yet been made for the payment thereof; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the medical college of Ohio be, and they are hereby authorized to fund the mortgage debt of said college, and the interest due and unpaid thereon, by the issue of new bonds, payable at such a period as may be fixed upon by the trustees, bearing an interest not greater than six per centum per year, payable half yearly, to be secured by a mortgage on the lands and buildings of said college: Provided, that all the net rents and revenues derived from said buildings, and all graduation fees shall be held and appropriated by said trustees from time to time as the same shall accrue, exclusively to the payment of said interest and to the extinguishment of the principal of said bonds.

SEC. 2. The state of Ohio shall in no event be held liable for, or required to pay any money in consequence of this act.

SEC. 3.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ED. A. PARROTT,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE, President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 22, 1861.

AN ACT

To authorize the trustees of Wesley Chapel, the trustees of Morris Chapel, and the trustees of Trinity M. E. Church, in the city of Cincinnati, to dispose of certain property belonging to them.

WHEREAS, the trustees of Wesley Chapel, the trustees of Morris Chapel, and the trustees of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, all of the city of Cincinnati, and possessed of a certain lot of land and burying ground in said city of Cincinnati, known as the Catharine Street Burying Ground, of which the fee is in said trustees of Wesley Chapel for the use and benefit of the several boards of trustees above named, which lot is bounded south by Catharine (now Court) street, west by an alley, north by Clark street, and east by the Baptist burying ground, so called; and whereas, by the ordinances of said city, said lot can no longer be used for interments, and a large proportion of the bodies of persons formerly interred there have been removed by their friends; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That said trustees of Wesley Chapel, of Morris Chapel, and of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, all of the city of Cincinnati, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to subdivide into building lots, and to sell, lease, or exchange for other real estate, the lot of land and burying ground in the preamble to this act described, and, in their discretion, to apply the proceeds of the lots sold, the rents of the lots leased, and the real estate received by exchange, to the use and benefit of the Wesleyan Female College of Cincinnati, and upon such condition that should said college ever cease to exist as an institution of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the whole of said invested property shall revert to said trustees, to be by them held according to the terms of the original trust.

SEC. 2. That before the said lot or any subdivision thereof shall be sold, leased or exchanged, the said trustees shall obtain from all persons who hold rights to burying lots therein, releases thereof, and shall give to all persons interested at least one month's notice of the intention to remove the dead from said lot, which notice shall be published during said period of one month in at least two daily papers published in said city, and at the expiration of said time the said trustees shall cause the bodies of all persons buried in said grounds and not removed by their friends, to be carefully and separately disinterred, and separately re-interred in a decent and proper manner in some cemetery in the neighborhood of said city, and all monuments or tomb-stones erected to their memory shall be removed and again set up over the remains in the new place of interment.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
ED. A. PARROTT,
of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,
President pro tem. of the Senate.

Speaker pro tem.

Passed March 27, 1861.

AN ACT

Providing for the settlement of the claim of John W. Allen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That for the payment of the claim of John W. Allen, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury belonging to the general revenue fund, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid to said Allen by the treasurer, on the war

rants of the auditor, which shall be drawn on the demand of said Allen, in sums of not less than five thousand dollars each, and shall be payable to his order on the first day of December of the present year: Provided, that before receiving said warrants, said Allen shall deliver an instrument of writing executed by him under seal, and duly attested and acknowledged, releasing and acquitting the state of Ohio from all claim and demand by him, of every nature whatsoever, by virtue of a certain writing executed by said Allen and Seabury Ford, governor of Ohio, bearing date February 25, 1850, and from all claim and demand by reason of any services performed or moneys expended by him under ['said writing or under] the resolution of the general assembly therein recited, passed February 15, 1850, and conveying to the state of Ohio all right, title, and interest, of him, the said Allen, to any lands, or the proceeds of any lands, obtained, or alleged to have been obtained, by said Allen for the state of Ohio, under any grants made by congress to the state, for canal or other purposes.

SEO. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.
ED. A. PARROTT,
Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed March 28, 1861.

AN ACT

To amend the charter of the Covington and Cincinnati bridge company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the capital stock of the Covington and Cincinnati bridge company be and the same is hereby increased to one million of dollars, divided into ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each.

SEO 2. That said company is authorized to receive subscriptions for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, one-half its capital stock, in preferred stock, and to pledge the revenues of the company, for the payment of the dividends thereon as hereinafter provided: Provided, that it shall be lawful to prefer such stock to the extent of fifteen per cent. per annum, and not more.

SEO 3. That when said company shall deem it expedient to issue preferred stock, they shall give notice thereof by advertisement in at least one newspaper of general circulation in each of the cities of Covington and Cincinnati: Provided, that for sixty days after the books for such preferred stock shall be opened, the preference in such subscription shall be given to those who may before that time have subscribed and paid for the non-preferred stock in said company: and, provided further, that if the full amount of said sum of five hundred thousand dollars shall not be subscribed for within said sixty days, as above provided for, then said subscription shall be open as to the remainder of said sum, to all who may desire to subscribe for such preferred stock.

SEC. 4. That the preferred stock so subscribed for shall receive out of the net earnings of the company a dividend, payable semi-annually, of fifteen per cent. per annum: Provided, that the net earnings of the company shall amount to a sum equal to fifteen per cent. per annum, on the amount of such preferred stock: and, provided further, that no dividend shall be declared on the non-preferred stock until the net earnings of the company shall pay said dividend on the preferred stock.

SEC. 5. That the preferred stock so subscribed for shall be payable at such

time and in such installments, not exceeding ten per cent., each thirty days, as shall be ordered by the directors of said company, and shall be subject to the provisions of the sixth section of the act to which this is an amendment, passed February 17, 1846,

SEC. 6. That when the amount of any subscription to such preferred stock shall be paid, such subscribers shall be entitled to receive a certificate for the number of shares they subscribed and paid for, setting forth that the holder is preferred, as provided in this act; and such stock shall be transferrable as other stock of the company.

SEO. 7. That the company shall not be allowed to receive subscriptions for, nor to issue preferred stock, as herein provided, until the stockholders of the company, who may before that time have subscribed and paid for non-preferred stock in said company, at a regular meeting, or a meeting called by order of the directors, shall authorize the same to be done; a majority of the stock so subscribed shall be necessary to give the authority to receive and issue such preferred stock. SEO. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage.

ED. A. PARROTT,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT C. KIRK,
President of the Senate.

Passed April 3, 1861.

AN ACT

To extend the time of payment of section 16, in the townships of Erie and Clay, being school lands in Ottawa county, Ohio.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a further period of six years from and after the day the respective installments have become or may fall due, be and the same is hereby given to Philip Newdecker, and James Smith, and others, purchasers of section sixteen, townships of Erie and Clay, school lands, in Ottawa' county, for the payment of the principal of the purchase money thereof: Provided, that the interest and taxes thereon be punctually paid according to law: and, provided further, that the auditor of said county of Ottawa may require additional security for the payment of the principal and interest, if in his opinion the public interest demand it. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

ED. A. PARROTT,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT C. KIRK,

Passed April 4, 1861.

President of the Senate.

AN ACT

To extend the time for allowing the lessees of section 29, in Springfield township, Hamilton county, to surrender their leases and receive deeds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a further time of two years be allowed the less es of section 29, in Springfield

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