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ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE,

PASSED BY THE

FORTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF OHIO,

BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF COLUMBUS,

COMMENCING

DECEMBER 6, 1841,

AND

IN THE FORTIET YEAR OF SAID STATE.

VOL. XL.

COLUMBUS:

SAMUEL MEDARY, STATE PRINTER.

1842.

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ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE.

AN ACT

To amend the act entitled "An act to create the office of Township Assessor," passed March 20, 1841.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That hereafter it shall be the duty of township assessors, in the counties named in the seventeenth section of the act to which this is an amendment, in taking the list of cattle and horses, to take the same in the name of such persons as shall own the same on the first day of January, in each year; any thing in the seventeenth section of the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding.

RUFUS P. SPALDING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES J. FARAN,

Speaker of the Senate.

January 5, 1842.

AN ACT

Making temporary appropriations for certain purposes.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following sums be and the same hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes hereinafter specified, viz:

For the payment of judges of the supreme court, president judges of courts of common pleas, and reporters of court in bank, a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars;

For the payment of members of the general assembly, their clerks, messengers, and door keepers, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars;

For brigade inspectors, adjutant and quarter master generals, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars;

For the distribution of laws and journals, including the distribution of collated laws, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars;

For the payment of treasurers' mileage, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars;

For balance of repairs of public offices, a sum of thirty six dollars;

For paper, and printing of collated statutes, a sum of two thousand fifty eight dollars, and twenty six cents.

SEC. 2. That the foregoing appropriations are in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, for the purposes aforesaid, remaining in the treasury on the fifteenth day of November, 1841.

RUFUS P. SPALDING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES J. FARAN.

January 11, 1842.

Speaker of the Senate.

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AN ACT

To amend the act to provide for the sale of lands forfeited to the State, for the nonpayment of taxes, passed March 14, 1831.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State County audit of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the county auditor of to make each county in this state, on or before the first Monday in June publication of forfeited lands. next, to make out and publish, for three successive weeks, in some newspaper printed or of general circulation in his county, an accurate list of all lands and town lots forfeited to the state of Ohio, for the nonpayment of taxes, with the amount due on each tract or lot, and which have not been sold or redeemed under the provisions of the acts in force for that purpose; to which list he shall append a notice, that if the owner or owners of said lands or lots, his, her, or their legal heirs, representatives, or assigns, shall not proceed to redeem said lands prior to the first day of January, 1843, by paying the taxes, interests, and penalties due at the time of such notice, together with taxes of the year 1842, all such lands and lots will be returned to the auditor of state as reforfeited to the state of Ohio, which notice, with a certificate of its legal publication, it shall be the duty of the auditor, within thirty days, to record in his office, and forthwith forward a copy of such record, with the addition of the taxes of the year 1842 to each tract or lot, by mail to the auditor of state; and the expense of publishing such notice, shall be paid by the county, and ap

portioned between the county and state in the annual settlement of the treasurer, in the same manner as the expense of publishing the list of delinquent lands.

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SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for any owner or owners of such Owners aulands or town lots, his, her, or their legal heirs, representatives, deem forfeited or assigns, on or before the first day of January, 1843, to pay lands, on or into the county treasury, upon the certificate of the county day of January, auditor, or into the state treasury upon the certificate of the 1843, and state auditor of state, the amount due upon any tract or tracts, or lot or lots so advertised as forfeited to the state, together with the taxes of the year 1842; and upon such payment into the county treasury, the treasurer shall give duplicate receipts, one of which shall be deposited with the auditor of the county, upon which he shall charge the treasurer with the amount, and upon presentation of the other to the auditor of state, or when such payment shall have been made into the state treasury, upon presentation of the receipt of the treasurer of state, it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to execute to such owner or owners, his, her, or their legal heirs, representatives, or assigns, under the seal of his office, a release of the forfeiture, with all the right, title, and interest which the state of Ohio, by means of such forfeiture, had acquired in the premises therein described.

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SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the county auditor, on County auditor before the 15th day of January, 1843, to forward to the au- to the auditor ditor of state a certified list of all lands or town lots redeemed in his county under the provisions of this act, with the amount paid for such redemption, and the amount accruing to the state fied list of of Ohio; which amount shall be paid into the state treasury by the county treasurer, at his annual settlement, in the same manner as moneys are now paid from the same source; and the auditor of state shall, in like manner, immediately after the first day of January, notify the auditor of each county of the lands or lots in such county redeemed at the state treasury, with the amount due the county; which amount shall be paid to the county treasurer on settlement, on the order of the county auditor, in the same manner as taxes collected through the state treasury. SEC. 4. That the county auditor shall, at the same time, County auditcertify to the auditor of state a list of lands and town lots in ors to certify his county, remaining unredeemed on the first of January, state, list of 1843, which list the auditor of state shall correct, by striking deemed, which therefrom such lands or lots as may have been redeemed at are to be held his office, and proceed to record the same; and all such lands as forfeited to or town lots so remaining unredeemed shall be declared and ject to redempheld as forfeited to the state of Ohio, for the non-payment of tion, &c. taxes, and thenceforth all the right, title, claim, and interest of the former owner or owners thereof shall be considered as transferred to, and vested in said state; provided, such lands or town lots shall be subject at any time before sale thereof,

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