Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-16
January 20, 1851.
To incorporate the town of Bellevue in the
counties of Huron and Sandusky. s

To incorporate the town of Bellevue in the
counties of Huron and Sandusky. s &.
Sec. l. Be 1t enacted by the General as
senaJly ofthe State of Ohio, That so much of
1.-The township of Lyme, in the county of Huron,
and of the township of York, in the county of
Sandusky, as is included within the following
boundaries namely: Beginning on the coun-
ty line between Huron and Sandusky counties,
at the southwest corner of Gurdon Williams
tract $50 called) in the third section of Lyme
township, and running east on the south side
of said tract eighty roads, thence north par
allel with the county line of the Monroeville
road; thence east at right angles to the coun-
ty line to the east line of said Williams tract;
thence north along said line to point forty
rods south Of the road to Cooks Corners /;
thence eastwardly parallel with said road to
the east side of Joseph B, Bucks land; thence
northward and westwardly along the lines be-
tween said Bucks and Lemuel Morse, and
jeremiah B. Sheffield, to the road to Cooks
Corners; and thence westwardly in a straight
line to point forty rods north of the Maumee
and Western Reserve road, on the east line of
the northwest quarter of section twenty-five,
in York township, thence south to point for
ty rods.south of the said Maumee and West
ern Reserve road; thence eastwardly parallel
with said road to the middle of the southest
quarter of said section twenty-five; thence
south to point due west from the place oi
beginning; thence tothe east place of begin
ning-is hereby declared a town corporate
by the name of the town of Bellevue, and by
that name shall be body corporate and poll
tic, with perpetual succession, to be Governed
| by the provisions of an act entitled "An act
for the regulation ofincorporated towns, pass
ed February l6, 1889. and the acts amenda-
tory thereto, in all cases not provided for in
this act.
Sec. 2. The said town of Bellevue be, and
the same is hereby created special road dis
trict; and town council shall have the exclus-
i've control of the working and improving the
streets, alleys, public highways and roads il
said town; and the labor on the public high.
ways shall be performed by the inhabitants O.
said town, under the direction and supervision
of the said town council, or an officer appoint
ed by them for that purpose, who shall be
governed in the same by the laws now il
force prescribing the duties of supervisors
and relating to roads and highways, except Sc
far as they may be modified or changed by
the ordinances of the said town, and all roac
moneys collected by a tax on the taxable
property in said town, shall be paid by tht
county treasurers to the treasurer of said town
under the direction of the said town council
Sec. 8. All appeals from the judgments o
Of the mayor of said town of Bellevue, shal
be taken to, and wIits of certiorari to the saiC
mayor, shall issue from the court of common
pleas of the county of Huron. in all civil cases
but in criminal cases, the jurisdiction of th
said mayor, shall be of the county in whicl
the offence was committed.
Sec. 4. That the town council of the SAT-
town be- and they are hereby authorized, wit
the consent of a majority of the qualified elec
tors of said town, to subscribe to the capita
stock of the Toledo, Norwalk and Clevean
Railroad company, or any oiher railroad com
pany constructing railroad to or throug
said town, any sum not exceeding twent
n thousand dollars, and in payment thereof t
S issue the bonds of said town, in sums of nc
o less than one hundred dollars each, payabl
at such time and place, and at such rate c
e interest, not exceeding seven per centum pc
j annum, as the town council shall see fit; Pro
vided, however, that this act shall not be s
$ construed as to authorize said town to sui
scribe in all, more than twenty thousand do
lars
IS Sec. 5. The faith of said town, and tile ne
S, profits or dividends upon the stock so sui
/" scribed. shall stand pledged for the paymer
e of the Indebtedness and interest, which ma
be created by said town under this act; an