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LAWS OF OHIO.
Published by Authority,
AN ACT
No. IS. AN ACT
To provide for the organization Of Cities and
IncOrporaled Nillages

incorporated villages.
Sec. /. Be il enacted by the General As.
semby orIhe State Of Ohio. That all corpora
lions which existed when the present eOnsli.u.
zion took effect, for The purposes Of municipal
government. either general or special, and des-
"cribed or deuomnaIed in any Law then in force
as cities, towns villages, or special road dis
Iricts, shall be, and they are hereby organized
into cities, and incorporated villages, with The
territorial limits to them respectively prescribed,
or belonging 10 manner following All such
Municipal corporations, as 10 any such law are
denominated cities, shall be deemed cities; and
those denominaIed towns, villages, OF special
md distfiols ,shnli'6e deemed incorporate vii
Isees; 10 be respectively governed as cisies, or
iScovporuted villages, aud in case Of he latter,
gfoS general or special purposes, as provided ia
this act, and all acts now in force for the organ
izalon or government Of any such municipal
..corporalons, shall be, and they are hereby re.
pealed; Provided, that such repeal shall not
destroy, or bar any righ, Of properly, action, OF
prosecution, which may be vesled, or exist, at
aIhelime this act takes effect,
81 Sec. 2. When the inhabitants Of part of
any county, not embraced within the limits Of
any city or incorporated village, shall desire 10
De organized into an incorporated village, they
may apply by petition, 10 wiring, signed by the
inhabitants so applying, TO be in number not
less ihan thiry qualified voters, TO the county
commissioners Of The proper county; which Pc
Iilion shall describe the territory proposed TO be
embraced in such Incorporated village. and
have annexed thereto an accurate map or plat
thereof; shall state the name proposed for such
incorporated village. and in case the same be
FOR the purpose Of a road district only, shall so
state, and shall also name the person or persons
authorized to act in behalf of The petitioners in
prosecuting said petition.
Sec. 3. When any such petition shall be
presented to the county commissioners, they
shall cause the same 10 be filed in the Office Of
ihe county auditor, TO be there kept, subject t"
the Inspection Of any person or persons interest,
ed, until the time appointed los The hearing
,hercof The said commissioners, shall, at or be.
fore the time OF such filing, fix and communi.
cafe IN such petitioners or their agent, time
and place for the hearing of such petition, which
Iime shall not be less than sixty days after the
time of such filing; and Ihcreupon the petition.
ers, or their agents, shall cause notice 10 Je
publishsdi in some newspaper of general crcula.
tion in the county, not less ,nan six consecu.
tive weeks, and oePy efsuch notice to be post.
cd al some some public place, within The limits
of the said proposed Incorporated village, not
less than six consecutive weeks before tho lime
Of such hearing; which notice shall contain the
substance Of said peulion; and state the time
and place appointed for the hearing thereof.
Sec. 4. Every such hearing shall be public,
and may be adjourned, from lime TO lime, or
from place TO place. and any person Interested,
may appear and contest The granting of said Pc
lition, and afiilavi's in support of, or against
said petition, which may BIZ prepared and sub.
mi,led, shall be examined by said commission.
crs, and they may, in their discretion, permit
the agent, or agents, named n the original pel.
zion, 10 amend or change the same, except that
no amendment shall be- permiued whereby ter.
rilory not before embraced shall be added, or
the character Of the proposed Incorporated viii
lage changed. from general purposes to special;
or from special to general, without appointing
another lime for hearing, and requiring new no
lice 10 be given as above provided.
Sec. 5. II The county commissioners, after
hearing such petition, shall be- satisfied that al
leas, fifty qualified voters actually reside within
the limits described in the petition, and that said
petition has been signed by majority Of them;
that said limits have been accurately described,
und an accurate map or plat thereof made and
filed that the name proposed for the said incor-
poraIed village, is proper and sufficient TO dis.
Iingush il from others Of like kind ia the State;
and il shall moreover, be deemed right ard
proper, in The judgement and discretion OF said
commissioners, that said petition shall be grant.
ed; then, they shall make and endorse on the
said peIiliOn order, 10 the effect, that The in.
corporaled village, as named and described in
the petition, may be organized; which order
said commissioners, or q majority of them, shall
sign and deliver, together with the petition and
the map or plat, TO The recorder of their county.
whose duty il shall be 10 record the same as
soon as may be, in the proper book of records,
and 10 f!e and preserve in his Office the origi-
nal papers, having certified thereon, that the
same have been properly recorded; and it shall
also be the duty Of said recorder, to make out
and certify, under his official seal, Two trans
Grips Of said record, one Of which he shall for.
ward 10 the Secretary Of State, and the other
he shall deliver 10 The agent or agents, of said
petitioners, with certificate thereon, that sim.
liar transcript has been forwarded TO the Secre.
lary OF STATE, as above provided.
Sec. 6. So soon as said record shall be
made, and said transcripts certified and forward
ed, and delivered, the inhabitants within the
limits described in the petition, shall be deemed
an Incorporated village, TO be organized and
governed under the provisions of this act, in
like manner as il specially named therein; and
SO soon as said incorporated village shall be ac-
tually organized, by an election offs officers,
as hereinafter provided, notice Of its existence
as such, shall be taken in all judicial proceed
ings in the State. ..-.
Sec. Z. Two months shall elapse from the
time such transcripts are forwarded and deliv.
cred. before notice shall be given of an election
Of oficels, in any such Incorporated villsge;
and any person interested, or the prosecuting
attorney Of any county, may, at any time with.