The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-05-26
LA VS. OF OHIO.
published BY AUTHORITY
mo. 75.l.
AN ACT TO provide for the organization

Assembly OF the State OF ONO, That all
corporations which existed when the pre-
sent constitution took effect, for the pur-
poses of municipal government, either
general or special, and described or de-
nominated in any law then in force, as ci-
ties, towns, villages, or special road dis
tricts, shall be, and they are hereby or
ganized into cities, and incorporated vii
lagos, with the territorial limits to them
respectively prescribed, or belonging, in
manner following: All such municipal clr-
porations, as in any such law are denomi-
ted cities, shall be deemed cities; and
those denominated towns, villages, or spe-
cial road districts, shall be deemed incor-
porated villages; to be respectively gov
erned as cities, or Incorporated villages,
and in case of the latter, for general or
special purposes, as provided in this act;
and all acts now in force, for the organl-
cation or government of any such NUM-
cipal corporations, shall be, and they are
hereby repealed; Provided, that such re-
peal shall not destroy, or bar, any right
ofproperty, action, or prosecution, which
may be vested, or exist at the time this act
takes effect
Sec. 2. When the inhabitants of
part of any county, not embraced within
the limits of any city or Incorporated vii
age, shall desire to be organized into an in
corporated village, they may apply by petit
ton, in writing, signed by the inhabitants
so applying, to be in number not less than
thirty qualified voters, to the county COM
missioners of the proper county; which
petition shall describe the territory pro-
posed to be embraced in such incorporated
village, and have annexed thereto an ac-
curate map or plate thereof; shall state the
name proposed for such Incorporated vii
lage, and in case the same be for the pur-
pose of road district only, shall SO state,
and shall also name the person OF persons
authorized to act in behalf of the petition
ers in prosecuting said petition.
SEC. 3. When any such petition shall
be presented to the county commissioners,
they shsll cause the same TO be filed in
the office of the county auditor, to be there
kept, subject to the. inspection of any per
son or persons Interested, until the time
appointed for the hearing thereof; the
said commissioners shall, at or before the
time of such filing, fix and communicate
ITO such petitioners or their agent, time
and place for the hearing OF such petition,
which time shall not be less than sixty
DAYS after the time of such fling, and
thereupon the petitioners, or their agents,
shall cause notice to be published in
some newspaper of general circulation in
the county, not less than six consecutive
weeks, and a copy of such notice to be
posted at some public place, within the
limits of the said proposed Incorporated
village, not less than sixconsecutiye weeks
before the time of such hearing; which
notice shall contain the substance of said
petition, and state the time and place ap-
pointed for the hearing thereof.
SEC. 4. Every such hearing shall be
public, and may be adjourned, from time
TO time, or from place to place, and any
person interested may appear and contest
the granting of said petition, and atida-
Wits in support Of, or against said petition,
which may be prepared and submitted,
shall be examined by said commissioners,
and they may, in their discretion, permit
the agent, or agents, named in the orig-
nal petition, to amend or change the same,
except that no amendment shall be per-
mtted whereby territory not before en-
braced shall be added, or the character Of
the proposed Incorporated village chang
ed, from general purposes to special, or
from special to general, without appolnt-
ing another time for hearing, and requlr-
ing new notice to be given as above pro-
yided.
SEC. 5. If the county commissioners,
after hearing such petition, shall be salts
fed that at least fifty qualified voters ac-
tually 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 describ-
ed, and an accurate map or plat thereof
made and filed; that the name proposed
for the said incorporated village, is pro-
per and sufficient to distinguished it from
others of like kind in the State; and it
shall moreover, be deemed right and pro-
per, in the Judgment and discretion Of
said commissioners, that said petition shall
be granted; then, they shall make and
endorse on the said petition, an order, to
the effect that the Incorporated village, as
named and described in the petition, may
be organized; which order said commits
sioners, or majority of them, shall sigr
and deliver, together with the petition
and the map or plat, to the recorder o
their county, whose duty it shall be to re-
cord the same as soon as may be, in tht
proper book Of records, and to file ant
preserve in his Office the original papers
having certified thereon, that the sans
have been properly recorded and it shall
also be the duty Of said recorder, to max
~ out apd certify, under his official seal
two transcripts of said record, 'one 9
.'e which he shall forward to the Secreter.
Of State, and the other he shall deliver +
AZ the agent. or agents, of said petitioners
with q certificate thereon, that smila
' transcript has been forwarded to the u
+ creiary Of State, as above provided.
Sec 6. So soon as said record sha
M be made, and said transcripts certltie
and forwarded and delivered, the inhs
bitants within The limits described in u
petition, shall be deemed an Incorporate
village, TO be organized and governed VI
der the provisions Of this act, in like mai
N.1t ner as il specially named therein; and !
soon as said incorporated village shall
N asi4sactually organized, by an election Of
~ officers. as hereinafter provided. notice