Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-06-21

state may be interested, (0ther than pfOSecu-
zion by indictment,) in the courts of appropri-
ate jurisdiction in Franklin county, or in the
courts OF appropriate jurisdiction in any other
county 10 which the defendant, or any one or
more If the defendants may reside or be
found; Provided. however. that no merely
civil suit at law, or in equity, othar than is
authorised by the eighth sections shall be
commenced in Franklin county, unless the
defendant, OF one or more Of the defendants
shall therein reside or be found, except the
atturney general shall certify on the writ, that
he believes theamount in controversy, to ex-
coed five hundred dollars.
SEC. 20. That in all cases brought under
the provisions of this act, the writ or wrts
may be sent TO the sheriff of any county, by
mail, and returned by him In like manner, for
which the sheriff shall be allowed the same
mileage and fees, as If the writ OF writs had
issued out of the court of common pleas or
district court in his own county, and been re-
tnrnable thereto.
Sec 2I. That upon all Information or other
proceedings specified in the ninth, tenth and
eleventh sections, if the writ Of writs, mesne
process be returned, not found by the sheriff
of the county 10 which the company is au-
thorized by law to have its place of business,
the clerk OF the court in which such inforna-
tion or other proceedings may have been filed,
shall make out notice of The filing and sub
stance thereof, and cause the same to be pub
lished for six consecutive weeks, in some
newspaper printed in the county in which
such company is authorized as aforesaid, to
have its place IF business; or if no ne wspaper
be- therein printed, in some newspaper printed
in the city of Columbus; and an affidavit of
such publication, together with q copy of the
said notice, shall be filed in the office of the
clerk aforesaid; and if the company so made
defendant, shall fail to answer or plead to any
such information or other proceeding, within
thirty days from the filing of the affidavit and
copy aforesaid, judgment shall be given upon
the default, in like manner as if the writ or
WI its had been duly served and returned.
SIC. %. That upon all appeals, wrts Of
error, certiorari, supersedeas, procedendo, re-
pleyin, ne exeat, injunction, attachment, man
damus. or prohibition, taken or sued out by
the attorney general, upon behalf Of the state,
or upon behalf of any other officer thereof, no
security shall be required.
SEC. %. That nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent either party to any cause
brought under its provisions, from taking the
depnsitious of such witnesses as reside out of
the county in which the cause may be pend
ing, or intend to leave the county before the
time of trial, or are unable to attend the trial
in person.
SEC. "a. That the attorney general shall
keep an office in the city Of Columbus, to be
provided and furnished at the states expense,
and the account for postage upon his official
correspondence, shall be audited and allowed
by the auditor of state, and paid out of any
funds in the state treasury, not otherwise ap-
propriated.
SEC. 25. That he shall keep, in suitable
books, to be provided for that purpose, at the
state's expense, register Of all actions, de-
other suits prosecuted or defended by him Of
ficially, together with all the proceedings had
in respect thereof, and also a register Of all
written ofIcial opinions given by him, which
said books he shall deliver to his successor, at
the expiration of his term.
SEC. 26. That he shall, in the report re-
quired Of him, By article third. section twen-
tieth, of the constitution, submit an abstract
of the statistics Of crime returned to him by
the prosecuting attorneys Of the several coun-
ties, with general statement Of the business
under his immediate charge.
| SEc.S27 That the act to create the Office
of attorney general, and prescribe his duties,
passed the 10th day Of February, in the year
eighteen hundred aud forty-six, and the acts
amendatory thereof, passed the twenty fourth
day of February, in the year eighteen hun
dred and forty-eight, and the nineteenth day
of March, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty y-nine, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
~ JAMES c.. JOHNSON,
Speaker of the. House ef Reps.
WILLIAM MEDlI,L.