Taxes for township purposes. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the rate of taxation for county, bridge, road and township purposes," passed April 26th, 1872. (O. L. vol. 69, page 114.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section five of the above entitled act be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. There shall be levied annually for township purposes, including the relief of the poor, but not including the support of common schools, or the payment of the in terest and principal of the debts of the township, such rates of taxation as the trustees of the respective townships may certify to the county auditors to be necessary, not exceeding one mill and one half on each dollar of the taxable valuation of the property of the township which does not exceed two hundred thousand dollars, and eight-tenths of one mill on each dollar of such taxable valuation exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars; and one-half of one mill on each dollar of taxable valuation exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, and not exceeding five hundred thousand; and one-fourth of one mill on each dollar of taxable valuation exceeding five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, that in counties where there are no county infirmaries, a further township tax not exceed ing (three mills) on each dollar of the taxable property of the township may be levied for the relief of the poor, to be applied solely to that purpose. SEC. 2. That section five of the act to which this is amendatory be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Passed February 4, 1873. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend sections sixty-six, sixty-seven and seventy of the act entitled an act to provide for the creation and regulation of Incorporated Companies in the State of Ohio, passed May 1, 1852 (S. & C. page 305), and to repeal a certain act amendatory thereto, passed January 26, 1865 (S. & S. p. 239), and to repeal a certain section therein named. H nies for the detection of horse thieves may become SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be lawful for any company for the detection of horse thieves and other criminals, and the mutual protection of its members from crime, to become a body corporate, in the manner prescribed in and according bodies corto the provisions of section one of the act of the general porate. assembly, passed and took effect January 26th, 1865, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend sections sixty-six, sixty-seven and seventy of the act entitled an act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the State of Ohio, passed May 1st, 1852 (S. & C., 305), passed January 26th, 1865 (S. & S., p. 239), and to repeal a certain act amendatory thereto (56 v. Stat., 45), with all the powers and privileges granted to the other corporations organized under the provisions of said section: Provided, that any company, for the purposes aforesaid, on complying with the provisions and the act to which this is supplementary, shall have power to establish one or more branches for the purpose aforesaid; and said company, or any of its branches, shall have power to levy and collect assessments from its members, in any sum not exceeding three dollars, from each member annually. SEC. 2. That the act supplementary to an act entitled Repeal. "An act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the state of Ohio," passed April 26th, 1872, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect on its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed February 4, 1873. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend section one of an act to regulate the sale of mineral oils and other substances for illuminating purposes, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the inspection of mineral oils for illuminating purposes, passed April 16, 1867 (S. & S., 402), passed April 27, 1872 (page 161, Ohio Laws, 1872). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one of the above entitled act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, as agent or otherwise, to offer for sale for illuminating purposes, any mineral or petroleum oil, fluid or sub. stance, which is a product of petroleum, or into which petroleum enters or is found as a constituent element, until after he or they have tested the same in the manner following, to Manner of testing. Repeal. wit: By taking not less [than] a half pint of the oil, fluid or substance to be tested, and placing the same in a small vessel in which there is no other substance, of such dimensions that the surface of the oil, fluid or substance shall not exceed six nor be less than four square inches in area, and placing a Fahrenheit thermometer in said oil, fluid or substance in said vessel, in such a manner that the thermometer will indicate the temperature of the oil or substance being tested, which shall then be gradually heated, at a rate of not less than two nor more than six degrees per minute Fahrenheit, to a temperature as which said oil, fluid or substance will emit a gas or vapor, that will ignite by bringing the flame of a lighted match or other burning taber [taper] in contact with the surface of the articles being tested, with such frequency and in such manner as to ascertain the exact temperature by said thermometer, at which said fluid, oil or substance will emit a gas or vapor that will ignite; and if it emit a gas or vapor that will ignite at any temperature below a 110 degree Fahrenheit, then it is hereby declared to be dangerous, and it shall be unlawful to sell or offer the same for sale. SEC. 2. Section one of said act is hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 7, 1873. President of the Senate. Purposes for which private property may be appropriated. For streets. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations," passed May 7, 1869; passed April 18, 1870. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 507 of the act entitled an act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations, passed May 7, 1869, as amended April 18, 1870, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 507. Each city and incorporated village shall have power to appropriate, enter upon and hold real estate within its corporate limits for the following purposes, but no more shall be taken or appropriated than is reasonably necessary for the purpose to which it is to be applied: 1. For opening, widening, straightening and extendin streets, alleys, and avenues; also for obtaining gravel o other proper material for the improvement of the same, and for this purpose the right to appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the limits of the corporation. 2. For market space. Markets. 3. For buildings and structures required for the use of the Engine 9. For public hospitals. 10. For public parks; and for this purpose the right to Parks. appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the limits of the corporation. 11. For gas works. 12. For water works; and for this purpose the right to appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the limits of the corporation. 13. For school house sites and grounds, the same having been recommended and the site selected by the board of education; or for university site and grounds, the same having been recommended and the site selected by the board of directors of any university whose property is exclusively owned, and whose directors are appointed by said municipal corporations. Gas and water works. Schoolhouses and universities. 14. For public cemeteries; and for this purpose the right Cemeteries. to appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the corporation. But no land shall be appropriated under this provision until the court shall be satisfied that suitable premises cannot be obtained by contract upon reasonable terms; and no lands shall be appropriated upon which there may be any dwelling house, barn, stable, or other farm building, or upon which there shall be any orchard or nursery, or any valuable mineral or other medical spring, or any well actually yielding oil or salt water; nor shall any land be appropriated within two hundred yards of any dwelling house. 15. For public wharves and landings on navigable waters. 16. For levees to protect against floods; and for this purpose the corporation shall have power to appropriate, enter upon and take private property lying outside of the corporate limits, and may extend and strengthen its levees and embankments along any river or stream adjacent to the limits of the corporation, and may widen the channel of such river or stream. 17. For necessary bridges. 18. For constructing, opening, excavating, improving, deep ening, enlarging, straightening, and extending any canal, ship canal or water-course, located in whole or in part within the limits of the corporation, which is not owned in whole or in part by the state, or by any company or individual authorized by law to make such improvement. 19. For sewers, drains and ditches. 20. For public water-closets and privies. Wharves, le vees, &c. Bridges, canals, &c. Sewers, &c. 21. For lighting any public use. SEC. 2. That said original section 507, as amended April 18, 1870, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 14, 1873. admitted to the benefits of the institution. AN ACT To amend section eight of an act entitled "An act to reorganize the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and to repeal certain laws heretofore passed,' passed April 5, 1866. (S. & S., 41.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section eight of the above recited act, be so amended as to read as follows: Section S. The institution shall be open to receive deaf Who shall be mutes, residents of the state, as the trustees and superintendent shall judge, from reliable information and examination, to be suitable persons to receive instruction, according to the method therein employed: Provided, that no person shall be received under six or over twenty-one years of age; and, provided further, that no person shall be received who is addicted to immoral habits, or who has any contagious or offensive disease. SEC. 2. That said original section eight be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed February 14, 1873. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act limiting the compensation of certain officers therein named," passed April 6, 1870, (O. L., Vol. 67, page 36,) and repealing certain sections of said act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections five, six and seven of the act entitled "An act limiting the compensation of certain officers therein named," passed April 6, 1870, be so amended as to read as follows: |