The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-08-03


this act.
SEc. 4. That the iaith Of the county and the
nett profits or dividends upon the stock so sub
scrbed by the county, shall stand pledged for the
payment Of the Indebtedness and interest winch
may become due from said county under this act;
and 1t IS, moreover, hereby made the duty OF the
commissioners and the auditor Of said county, from
aud alter the contracting Of any Indebtedness a.
gains said county under this act, to add such per
centum upon the tax duplicate OF said county. an.
nually, over and above the ordinary State and
county taxes as shall be sufficient. when added
To the dividends or net profits aforesaid, TO nav
the accruing interests arising under this act and
also to provide sinking fund of such amount Ma
they may deem expedient and the money so lev.
led, when collected, shall be applied to the pur-
pose aforesaid. and TO none other.
| SEC 5. That said commissioners shall, by
themselves orsuch agent or agents as they may
lappoint, have full power to vote at all meetings
ofthe stockholders Of such railroad company. in
proportion to stock owned by the county, aud in
all other respects 10 act in the business of such
company as individual stockholders in the same
are authorized by law to do; and the said commits
sioners are hereby authorized, whenever they NAV
deem the same expedient, to sell and transfer any
or all stock owned by the county. in such compa-
ny, in order to pay off the Indebtedness which
no sale or transfer OF any stock shall be valid un.
less tproduce its full par value; and the proceeds
OF such sale shall be applied to the ex'ingushment
Ofan equivalent amount of the Indebtedness of the
county, created under this act
SEC. g. That before any stock shall be sub-
scribed to sach railroad company under this act
the question shnll be submitted To the quilted
electors OF said county, whether the county shall
become subscriber or not; and TO this end il ia
further provided, that, upon the written appIica-
ton oil thirty or cti zens of said county In
the sheriff of the same, thirty days prior 10 auv
annual spring or fall election it shall be the duty
OF said sherifto give notice, at least twenty days
prior TO said election, by advertisement in all the
newspapers published in said county, and contin
ne the same in said papers until the time of said
election, that vote will be taken for and uaainst
such subscription; and the said sheriff shall also
publish in each Of the said papers, for the same
length of time copy of this act and the qualified
electors Of the different townships of said county
shall at the election so given notice OF by the she
III, as aforesaid vote for or against such subscrip
ton. by using one or the other of the following
phrases, to be printed written on their ballots.
"ior subscription" against subscription"
SIC. z. That the judges ofsad elections, in the
several townships Of said county, shall respective.
ly keep statement of all the votes given for and
against said subscription at said elections; and
within three days after said elections, the Judges
of elections shall certify to the clerk OF the court
Of common pleas OF said county the number of
Votes given for and against the proposition; and it
is hereby made the duty Of said clerk in the pres
ence oftwo Justices of the peace Of said county, to
examine and make an abstract of all the votes
given in the county against, nnd all the votes CIV
en- in favor of subscription, which abstruct shall
be signed by said clerk and Justices and filed in
the office of said cork and ii it shall be found that
more thun hulf the votes given at said election on
the question shall be in favor OF subscription the
clerk shall certify the same to the county com
missioners, whose duty it shall be thereupon To
subscribe for the stock in such railroad company,
and in all other respects to conform themselves TO
the provisions of this act: Provided that il ma
jorty oil the votes so given be against subscription
the question may, on like application, be in like
manner submitted to the qualified voters of SAID
county, at the next or any subsequent annual
spring or fall election; aud If, at such second or
any subsequent elections, said question be deci-
ded by majority OF the votes given thereon in
favor of subscription, such decision shall have the
same effect and force il made al the first cleo
ton.
SIC 8. That said commissioners shall allow
said sheriff, auditor and the publishers of said pa
pers, reasonable fees for their services under this
act; and the said commissioners shall be entitled
10 the same per diem allowance for the time &C.
cupied in the discharge oi any Of the duties impos-
ed on them by this uct as they now, or may here
after be, by law allowed for other services
SEC. o. That any two o fsaid commissioners ulay
: do and perform any act or thing which the sai,.
commissioners are, by this act authorized or re.
quired to do or perform.
} SIC 10. That this act shall take effect aud be
, in force from and after lis passage
JOSEPH S. HAWKINS,
; Speaker Of the House Of Representatives..
CHARLES b. GODDARD,
) Feb "a, l848. Speaker Of the Senate.
AN ACT TO amend the act authorizing tho
Commissioners OF Fairfield county 10 SUBJ
scribe stock In Railroad Company, pass-
ed February "a, 1913,
!, SEC. |. Be IL enacted blythe General Assetnbkv
, Of he Slate Of Ohio, That the provisions of the
act eutitled "an act TO authorize the commissioners
of Fairfield county 10 subscribe stock in Railroad
= Company passed February 2dth, one thousand
4 eight hundred and fortyeight, be so extended as
to authorize and require the commissioners of said
county to subscribe in the name and for the bene-
tit OF said county, any sum not exceeding one hun
dred thousand dollars to the capital stock of ony
company which is now or may hereafter be in
corporated, 10 construct railroad into or through
said county, in any direction. as we'll as on the
routes specified in said act Provided, that in ma
king such subscription, and in all things relating
e thereto, the said commissioners shall be govern
ed by the provisions of snd net, except us to the
y route of the railroad to the stock of which they
subscribe. and except to the time of giving no.
tico uking the vote in the sixth section Of said
net to which this is amendalory and in lieu of the
time of giving said notice as therein provided, it
is herein provided that upon the written applica-
tiOn of thirty or more citizens Of the said county
to the sheriff of the snme il shall be the duty Of
said sheriff to give notice at least sixty days prior
to said election, by advertisement in all the news
papers of said county; Provided, that nothing con
tanned in this net nor in the 10 which this is an
amendment shall be 81 construed as to authorize
said commissioners To subscribe stock in any rail
road company, unless majority fall the quail
fled voters in said county sh vote in favor Of the
same at any election held for that purpose; the
fact whether majority OF the qualified voters
have so voted, shall be asceriained by reference
to the number ofvotos polled at the last Guberna.
toral election.
SEC. Q. So much of the act 10 which this is ar
amendment as conflicts with this act is hereby re-
pealed. JOHN g BRESLIN,
Speaker House Reps.
. BREWSTER RANDALL,
! March a. l849. Speaker Of The Senate.
(. ACM MAKING.