Same. ་ SEC. 2. When any such petition shall be presented to the said Separation of ration. Annexation. SEO. 4. When the inhabitants of any part of an incorporated RICHARD C. PARSONS, Passed February 28, 1861. President of the Senate. Preamble. Extension of time to 10th of April. AN ACT Extending the time for making reports by school boards, in certain cases. WHEREAS, the boards of education of the towns and townships hereinafter named, to wit: Brecksville, Solon, Chagrin Falls, Bedford township and Bedford village, in the county of Cuyahoga ; Genoa, in the county of Delaware; Huron, in the county of Erie; Addison, Greenfield, Raccoon and Springfield, in the county of Gallia; Darby, in the county of Madison; Malta, in the county of Morgan; Jefferson, in the county of Noble; Congress, in the county of Wayne; and Liberty, in the county of Wood, have each failed to make report to their several county auditors, of enumeration, statistics, etc., in manner and form and within the time, as required of them by the 19th section of the "act to provide for the re-organization, supervision and maintenance of common schools," to entitle them to share in the distribution of public school funds; Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the time fixed by law for making reports by school boards, so far as relates to the several boards herein before named, be and the same is hereby extended to the tenth day of April next. SEO. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Passed March 1, 1861. President of the Senate. AN ACT Relating to cities of the first class having a population less than eighty thousand. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Board of city Ohio, That the board of city improvements shall be composed of improvements the mayor, the city civil engineer, the chairman of the committee on streets, of the city council, and one street commissioner, who shall be elected on the first Monday of April next, and biennially thereafter, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. The said board shall have the same power and perform the same duties as now devolve upon the Office of city city commissioners and the board of city improvements, and the com. abolishoffice of city commissioners to said cities is abolished: provided, that ed. the city commissioners now holding office, shall continue in office and discharge the duties thereof until the first Monday of April next, and until the board of city improvements, as herein constituted and provided, shall be appointed and qualified. SEC. 2. The directors of the infirmary shall consist of the chair- Directors of man of the committee on infirmary, of the city council, the superin. infirmary. tendent of infirmary, who shall be appointed as is now provided in such cities, and one infirmary director, who shall be elected on the first Monday of April next, and biennially thereafter, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified: Provided, that the directors of infirmary now in office, shall hold the same and discharge the duties thereof until the first Monday of April next, and until said board, as herein constituted and provided, shall be appointed and qualified, and not longer. SEC. 3. The city council, for the purpose of paying any floating Issue of bonds indebtedness of such city, heretofore incurred, shall have the power to pay floating to issue the bonds of such city, and borrow money thereon, which bonds may be in such amounts and for such length of time, not exceeding twelve years, and at such rate of interest, as such city council may deem proper, not to exceed seven per centum per annum; and when such bonds shall have been issued, a tax shall be assessed debt. Limitation. Sw. & Cr.1542 and collected, sufficient in amount to provide a sinking fund for their final redemption, as provided in section ninety-one of the act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, passed May 3, 1852: Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold at less than their par value, and that the whole amount of the bonds issued under this section, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. SEO. 4. This act shall only apply to such cities of the first class having a population less than eighty thousand inhabitants, as are of that class at the time it takes effect. SEO. 5. That sections five and six of an act passed April 5, 1856, to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, passed May 3, 1852, and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplementary to said acts, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEO. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Passed March 1, 1861. tive. AN ACT Supplementary to the "act regulating the mode of administering assignments in trust for the benefit of creditors," passed April 6, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of· Ohio, That every person who shall have performed any labor as an Priority of la- operative in the service of any person or corporation who shall hereborer or opera- after assign property in trust for the benefit of creditors, shall be entitled to receive out of the trust fund, where the same is insufficient to pay all debts of the assignor, the full amount of the wages due to such person for such labor, not exceeding one hundred dollars: Provided, that such labor shall have been performed within six months immediately preceding the assignment. SEO. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Sw. & Cr. 1375 Passed March 6, 1861. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend section twelve of an act entitled "an act for the better regulation of the public schools in cities, towns, etc.," passed February 21, 1849. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twelve of said act be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of said board to keep said schools schools to be kept in each and collected. in operation not less than thirty nor more than forty-four weeks of How long each year, to determine the amount of the annual tax to be raised for the purpose aforesaid, including all the necessary expenses of year. said schools, except for the erection of school houses and the purchase of sites; and on or before the first day of July of each year, to make known the amount of such tax to the auditor of the county School taxin which said district is situate, and thereupon it shall be the duty how levied of said auditor to assess the same upon the taxable property of the said district as the same appears on the grand list in his office, and the said tax shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner and at the same time with the state and county taxes, and, when collected, shall be paid over to the treasurer of said board: Provided, however, that the tax to be assessed under this section shall not exceed four mills on the dollar upon the taxable property of said district, as the same appears upon the grand list; provided, further, that in case the amount so authorized to be raised, together with the other school moneys of said district, shall be insufficient to support said schools for the portion of the year mentioned in this section, that said board of education may require such sum as may be necessary to support the same for the residue of said time, to be charged at the discretion of said board upon the tuition of the pupils Additional attending such schools: Provided, however, that the children of charge. indigent parents, or orphans who are unable to pay such charges, shall not be excluded from said schools for the non-payment of the same; and it shall be the further duty of said board to keep an accurate account of their proceedings, and of their receipts and disbursements for school purposes, and at the annual meeting for the choice of directors in said district, to make report of such receipts, Annual report and the sources from which the same were derived, and of said disbursements and the objects to which the same were applied; and they shall also make report at the same time of such other matters relating to said schools as they may deem the interest of the same to require. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that said section twelve be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, of board. Passed March 6, 1861. President of the Senate. AN ACT Requiring justices of the peace to deliver to successors in office certain dockets, statutes and papers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That every justice of the peace, or other person who shall refuse to deliver up any docket, papers, files, laws or statutes, as provided in section 206 of the act entitled "an act of the jurisdiction and procedure before justices of the peace, and of the du ies of constables in civil courts," passed March 14, 1853, shall be deemed Penalty for guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined failure to de- in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the successor, etc. county jail not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of liver over to the court. Passed March 6, 1861. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. Sale of minis terial lands, or permanent leases thereto surrendered. Sale or surrender of perma. AN ACT To regulate the sale of ministerial and school lands, and the surrender of permanent leases thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That all those lands granted by the Congress of the United States for religious purposes, known as section twenty-nine, may be sold, or the permanent leases thereto surrendered; and that said sale or surrender shall be regulated by, and conducted according to, the provisions of an act to regulate the sale of school lands, and the surrender of permanent leases thereto, passed April 16, 1852. SEC. 2. That section sixteen, donated and set apart for the supnent lenses for port of schools, and section twenty-nine, for the purposes of religion, eertain lands. or lands granted in lieu of either, by the directors of the Ohio Company on the 7th day of January, A. D. 1796, in the following orig. inal surveyed townships within the Ohio Company's purchase, towit: township number eight, in range number twelve; township number seven, in range number thirteen; township number eleven, in range number fourteen; township number thirteen, in range number fifteen; and townships number eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, in range number sixteen; may be sold, or the leases thereto-whether permanent or otherwise-surrendered; and that said sale or surrender shall be regulated by, and conducted according to, the provisions of the act referred to in the first section of this act; and the lessees of any of said lands holding leases for any term less than ninety-nine years, shall be permitted to surrender their said leases in the same manner, and be entitled to all the benefits of the said act, as if their said leases were for ninety-nine years. SEO. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, Passed March 9, 1861. President of the Senate. AN ACT County offic'rs to return amount of fees to county auditor. Requiring county auditors to make returns to the auditor of state of the amount of fees received by county officers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That [it] is hereby made the duty of each county treasurer, recorder, sheriff, prosecuting attorney, and clerk of the court of |