"SEO. 8. And be it further enacted, That the governors of the several states to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required to report annually to congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds." Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Assent of the Ohio, That the assent of said state is hereby signified to the aforesaid State of Ohio. act of congress, and to all the conditions and provisions therein contained, and the faith of the state of Ohio is hereby pledged to the per formance of all such conditions and provisions. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 9, 1864. AN ACT President of the Senate. To provide for admission, without charge, into the state universities and common schools of persons, who, when minors, entered the military service of the United States. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the clerk in each sub-school district to take, or cause to be taken, annually, between the first and third Monday of September, an enumeration of all male minors who have enlisted or may yet enlist in the military service of the United States during the present war. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the trustees of Miami University, at Oxford, and of Ohio University, at Athens, and of the directors of the several sub-school districts of this State to admit into said universities, and into any of the public schools, without charge, all persons who, when minors, so enlisted in the military service of the United States, and have been honorably discharged therefrom, and to extend to them all the privileges of said institutions and schools for and during a po riod, equal to the time they have spent in the said service, prior to their arrival at the age of twenty-one years. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Clerks of subschool districts to take enumeration. Duties of trus tees of Miami University, Ohio University, and directors of subschool districts. February 10, 1864. President of the Senate. AN ACT Supplementary to the act to provide a code of civil procedure, and to prevent multiplicity of actions. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Proceedings Ohio, That in all actions for the foreclosure of mortgages given to se- in actions for eure the payment of money, or in which a specific lien for money claimed foreclosure. to be due, is sought to be inforced, the plaintiff may also ask in his petition a judgment for the money claimed to be due; and such proceedings shall be had, and judgment rendered thereon, as in other civil actions for the recovery of money only. SEO. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHARLES ANDERSON, President of the Senate. February 19, 1864. City council may establish prison and work-house. Chief of pokice. AN ACT To amend section six of an act passed March 14, 1859, entitled "an act to provide for the appointment of police commissioners in cities of the first class having a population exceeding eighty thousand inhabitants," and supplemen tary to an act entitled" an act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages," passed May 3, 1852, and the other acts supplementary and amendatory thereto. [Swan and Critchfield, 1556.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section six of the act passed March 14, 1859, entitled " an act to provide for the appointment of police commissioners in cities of the first class having a population exceeding eighty thousand inhabitants, and supplementary to an act entitled an act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages," passed May 3, 1852, and the other acts supplementary and amendatory thereto, be so amended as to read as follows: SEC. 6. The city council of such cities of the first class, with a population exceeding eighty thousand inhabitants, shall have power to erect, establish and maintain a city prison, and city work-house, which shall be in the keeping and under the control of the chief of police of such city, who shall be governed by such rules as the city council of such eity may prescribe; but he shall receive no compensation, fees, or perquisites, other than the amounts specified in section five of the act to which this is amendatory. It shall be the duty of the city counSustenance of cil to provide by ordinance for sustaining all persons sentenced to the prisoners, city prison, or city work-house, or confined therein, at the expense of the city; and the city auditor, on presentation of bills for food and sustenance, and necessary supplies, certified to by such person or persons, as council may designate, shall audit the same under such rules and regulations as council may prescribe. And the mayor of such city shall have power to appoint such persons, not to exceed cight in number, with the pay and have powers of watchmen in such city, as may be necessary to attend the sittings and execute the process of the police court, and to perform duty at the eity prison and city work-house." SEC. 2. This act to take effect on its passage; and the original seetion six of the act above recited is hereby repealed. JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 17, 1864. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend an act to provide for the execution and supervision of the state printing and binding, passed March 24th, 1860, and also the act supplementary to the act to provide for the execution and supervision of the state printing and binding, passed May 1, 1862. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section (17) seventeen of the act passed March 24th, 1860, and section (4) four of the supplementary act thereto, passed May 1st, 1862, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 17. The governor of the state, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint some competent and suitable per son as a supervisor of the public printing, who shall be a practical printer, and whose duty it shall be to examine the proof sheets of all work executed under the provisions of this act, and see that they are correctly printed, and that all such work is executed in a suitable manner, and in accordance with the requirements of this act. Said supervisor shall keep an accurate account of all papers delivered to the public printer or printers, and see that it is used properly and without unnecessary waste. All work to be executed for the executive departments shall be ordered through the supervisor of printing, and it shall be his duty to see that the full number of copies of each job ordered is received from the printer and delivered to the proper department. He shall audit all accounts for printing and binding, under the provisions of this act, and he shall keep a record of the cost of printing and binding, the amount of paper used, and the entire expense of each document or item; and a copy of each document shall be duly filed and preserved by him, with the cost endorsed upon it. Said supervisor of public printing shall not in any manner or form take o robtain any interest in the contracts provided for in this act, under the penalty of immediate dismissal from his office. Sec. 4. The supervisor of public printing shall hold his office for the term of two years, unless removed by the governor for misfeasance or malfeasance in office. He shall make an annual report to the gov- Report annuernor of the expenses of the department over which he has the super- ally. vision, and of any other matters connected therewith; and he shall receive annually a salary of eight hundred dollars as a compensation Salary. SEC. 2. That section (17) seventeen of the act passed March Repeal. SEC. 3. its passage. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHARLES ANDERSON, February 19, 1864. President of the Senate. Duties of township as sessors. Items of sta tistics to be ⚫ollected. Returns made to county auditors. Duties of county audit AN ACT In relation to statistics of agricultural and mineral products. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the several township assessors in all the counties in the state, at the time of making the annual assessment of personal property for taxation, to collect the following items of statistics in addition to those already authorized by law, viz. : First-The number of acres grown in clover, the number of tons of hay made from it, the number of bushels of seed obtained, and the number of acres of clover plowed under for manure. Second-The number of acres planted in tobacco, and the number of pounds obtained. Third-The number of (old and young) dogs, both male and fe male. Fourth-The number of tons of pig-iron manufactured, and the bushels of stone coal dug. Fifth-The number of acres sown in flax, number of pounds of fibre gathered, and the number of bushels of seed obtained. Sixth-The number of acres planted in sorgo, the number of gallons of syrup manufactured, and the number of pounds of sugar obtained. Seventh-The number of pounds of maple sugar made, and the number of gallons of syrup manufactured. Eighth-The number of pounds each of butter and cheese manufactured. Ninth-The number of acres planted in potatoes, and the number of bushels obtained; and make a correct return thereof to the county auditors of their respective counties at the same time that a return of the enlisted property is made. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the county auditors to forward annually on or before the first day of June, to the office of the Ohio state board of agriculture, the aggregate of each of the items of statistics enumerated in the first section of this act, together with the aggregate of each and every item of statistics of acreage and product, where acreage is enumerated, and the aggregate of product where no acreage is enumerated, of all the agricultural statistics by law authorized to be returned to the auditor of state; together with the aggregate number and value of the horses, cattle, sheep and swine in the county, as sent to the office of state auditor. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 20, 1864. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "an act to amend section 374 of an act entitled 'an act to establish a code of civil procedure,'" passed March 11th, 1853, passed March 29, 1859. [O. L. vol. 56, p. 84.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 374 of the act to establish a code of civil procedure, passed March 11, 1853, as amended by an act entitled "an act to amend section 374 of an act entitled an act to establish a code of civil procedure,'" passed March 29, 1859, be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 374. In the foreclosure of a mortgage, a sale of the mortgage Foreclosure property shall in all cases be ordered; and when the same mortgage of mortgages. embraces an entire tract of land, or separate tracts of land, situated in two or more counties, the sheriff of each county in which such separ ate tract or tracts are situated, shall be ordered to make sale of the How property land situated in the county of which he is sheriff, unless, in the opinion to be sold. of the court ordering the sale, the circumstances of the case or the interests of the parties require the sale to be made by a single officer; in which case, the court may order the sale to be made by the sheriff of either county in which any part of the mortgaged premises may be, or by a general or special master commissioner of the court, and may order the premises to be sold entire, or in parcels, as the interest of the parties may demand; and in such cases the mortgaged premises shall be appraised by three disinterested freeholders of either or any of the counties in which said premises are, and notice of the sale shall be given by advertisement in each of said counties, as required in the case of the sale of real estate on execution, and the court may make such order touching the distribution of the proceeds of sale as may be necessary to protect and preserve the relative rights and privileges of all lien holders on such premises, or on the several parcels thereof. SEC. 2. That the act entitled "an act to amend section 374 of an Repeal. act entitled 'an act to establish a code of civil procedure," " passed March 11th, 1853, passed March 29, 1859, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. JAMES R. HUBBELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. February 20, 1864. President of the Senate. AN ACT To authorize cities of the first class, exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, to purchase fuel, and levy a tax therefor. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the city council of cities of the first class, exceeding one City councils hundred thousand inhabitants, are authorized to levy a tax in each of may levy tax the years A. D. 1864, 1865, 1866, not to exceed one mill on the dol- for fuel fund. lar valuation, for the purpose of constituting a fund to be called the fuel fund. Said tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner that other municipal taxes are assessed and collected. |