Morgan county agricultural board. Election and term of members. Conduct of tice to and qualification of members elect. [House Bill No. 552]. AN ACT To provide for the election of managers of county agricultural societies in certain counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in counties having at the last federal census a population of 20,074, and no more, the agricultural society shall be governed by a board of managers, consisting of one member from each township in the county, and shall be styled the "county agricultural board." SECTION 2. That at the annual election to be held on the first Monday in April, 1887, in each township of such county, there shall be elected, by the qualified electors thereof, one person, having the qualifications of an elector, a member of the agricultural board; the seven townships that polled the largest vote, at the previous election in April, shall elect a member of the board of agriculture for a period of two years; the seven townships that polled the smallest vote in the previous election in April shall elect a member of the board of agriculture for one year; that annually thereafter at the election in said counties, held on the first Monday in April, there shall be elected in each of the seven townships, in which the term of office shall expire, one member of the agricultural board, who shall hold his office for a period of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified. SECTION 3. The election of members of the agricultural election; no- board shall be governed in all respects by the laws governing the election of other township officers, and the township clerk shall issue notice to such members elect as is required by law for other township officers; each person receiving such notice of election, shall within ten days thereafter, appear before the township clerk of his township, and take an oath to faithfully perform the duties of the office, and the officer administering such oath shall issue a certificate of qualification to the officer so qualified. Annual meeting; election of officers. Eligibility; quorum. Powers of board. SECTION 4. That the members so elected and qualified shall meet annually, on the third Monday in April, at such time as the rules of the board may prescribe, at the secretary's office, on the agricultural grounds, or some other suitable place at the county seat, of which due notice shall be given by the secretary of the county agricultural society, and there proceed to elect one president, one vice-president, one secretary and one treasurer; such officers to serve for a period of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified; and no person shall be eligible to the office of president or vice-president who is not a member of the board; a quorum shall consist of seven members of the board. SECTION 5. The agricultural board when so organized shall supersede the incumbent county agricultural board, and shall have all the power and be governed by such laws and regulations as govern county agricultural societies. treasurer and secretary. SECTION 6. The treasurer shall annually, on or before the Reports of first Monday in March, furnish the county commissioners a detailed statement, showing the receipts, disbursements and general financial condition of the society. The secretary shall make an annual report to the state board of agriculture, on or before the annual meeting of said board, in conformity with the requirements of section 3692, Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 7. All vacancies occurring in the board shall be Vacancies. filled by appointment by said board until the next annual election, when the same shall be filled in the same manner as in the original election of members thereof. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after April first, 1887. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. A. CONRAD, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed January 21, 1887. [Senate Bill No. 15]. AN ACT To amend Section 3655 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 3655 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: Special report certain insurance compa required of nies. SEC. 3655. The statement of any such company, the capital of which is composed in whole or in part of notes, shall, in addition to the foregoing, exhibit the amount of notes which originally formed the capital, and also what proportion of such notes is still held by the company and considered capital; and every company organized under any law of this state which fails to make and deposit such statement, or to reply to any inquiry of the superintendent, with respect to such statement, shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred Penalty. dollars and an additional five hundred dollars for every month that it continues thereafter to transact any business of insurance, to be recovered by action in the name of the state, and, on collection, paid into the state treasury for the benefit of the state common school fund; and the attorney-general, on the request of the superintendent of insurance, shall institute such action against any company so delinquent, in the court of appropriate jurisdiction in Franklin county, or in the court of appropriate jurisdiction of the county in which said company is located or has its principal place of business, as he prefers. SECTION 2. Said original section 3655 is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed January 21, [1887]. Boundaries of wards. [House Bill No. 688]. AN ACT To amend section 1631 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the SEC. 1631. All wards hereafter established or changed shall be bounded, so far as practicable, by streets, alleys, avenues, public grounds, canals, water-courses, corporation lines or center lines of platted streets, and be composed of adjacent and compact territory; and the several wards at the time of redistricting shall contain as nearly an equal number of inhabitants as may be practicable. SECTION 2. That said section 1631, as amended February 26, 1880, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. A. CONRAD, President pro tem, of the Senate. Passed January 25, 1887. Lien upon boats, buildings, bridges, wells, etc. [Senate Bill No. 263]. AN ACT To amend section 3184 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section three thousand one hundred and eighty-four (3184) [of the Revised Statutes of Ohio] be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3184. A person who performs labor or furnishes machinery or material for constructing, altering or repairing a boat, vessel, or other water-craft, or for erecting, altering, repairing, or removing a house, mill, manufactory, or other building, appurtenance, fixture, bridge, or other structure, or for the digging, drilling or boring of any gas well, oil well, or any other well, by virtue of a contract with the owner or his authorized agent, shall have a lien, to secure the payment of the same upon such boat, vessel, or other water-craft, or upon such house, mill, manufactory, or other building, or appurtenance, fixture, bridge, or other structure, or upon such gas well, oil well or any other well, and the interest of the owner in the lot of land on which the same may stand, or be located, or to which it may be removed. SECTION 2. That said original section 3184 be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. A. CONRAD, Passed January 26, 1887. [Senate Bill No. 37]. AN ACT To supplement sections from 3454 to 3471, inclusive, of the Revised SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following section shall constitute a section supplementary to sections from 3454 to 3471, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, with sectional numbering as follows: laws made SEC. 3471a. The provisions of this chapter, so far as the Electric light same may be applicable, shall apply also to any company companies: organized for the purpose of supplying the public and private applicable to. buildings, manufacturing establishments, streets, alleys, lanes, lands, squares, and public places with electric light and power, and every such company shall have the same powers and be subject to the same restrictions as are herein prescribed for magnetic telegraph companies. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed January 26, 1887. Certain counties authorized to unite with soldiers' memorial associations in erection of armories and memorial buildings. [Senate Bill No. 284]. AN ACT To authorize county commissioners of any county, in which there is a city of the second class and third grade, to unite with soldiers' memorial associations in the erection of a monumental building and armory. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of county commissioners of any county, in which there is a city of the second class and third grade, be, and said board is hereby authorized and empowered to unite with any board of trustees of any soldiers' memorial association organized under the law, and whose principal office is in such city, in the erection of a building suitable for [a] monumental or memorial building, as well as for an armory. Such board of county commissioners are hereby further empowered to purchase or lease real estate in such city suitable for a site for such building as aforesaid, from the board of trustees aforesaid, and erect on the site so purchased or leased as aforesaid a building suitable for a soldiers' monumental building as well as an armory. The terms and conditions upon which Terms of joint said association shall hold and occupy the parts of any such occupancy. building so erected by said board of commissioners, as well as the terms and conditions upon which the said association on the one part, and said board of commissioners, for armory purposes only, of the other part, shall, respectively, hold and occupy the building erected by both boards jointly, shall be fixed by a written lease or other contract, between the said two boards. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JOHN C. ENTREKIN, President Passed January 26, 1887. Appropria mon schools. [House Bill No. 738]. AN ACT Making appropriations for the support of the common schools of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated, out tion for com- of any moneys raised or coming into the state treasury for the support of the common schools of this state, one million, seven hundred and seven thousand, one hundred and four dollars and ninety cents ($1,707,104.90), or so much thereof as may come into the said treasury for that purpose, to be |