Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-03-18
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appropriaiedlsball be vested in the State
OF Ohio; but if, in the opinion of the said
board, the damages assessed on property
not previously appropriated, shall be too
high to justify IFS appropriation for the
benefit Of the State, they shall have the
right 10 pay the costs which have ac.
crued, and refuse 10 appropriate the
same; and the said board ofpublc works,
or the acting member thereof on whose
division such damages are awarded, is
hereby authorized TO make drafts on the
Treasurer of State, for all moneys nec-
essay to enable said board to make
such deposits, and pay such damages, as
are provided for by this act, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury aPpro-
priated for canal purposes. The said
draft or drafts shall be accompanied with
full statement OF the matter for which
said money is wanted, and copy of
such statement shall be kept by such
member of the board of public works, in
book to be by him kept for that Pur-
pose. .s-l- ge9
Sec. IA. The witnesses, clerk and
sheriff. for the services required Of them
by this act, shall receive such fees as
they are paid for like services in simi-
lar cases; and the jurors so selected as
aforesaid, shall receive for the services
required by this act, the sum of one dol
lar per day while engaged in such SER
vice; the attendance of witnesses before
any such Jury, shall be certified by them
10 the clerk who issued the venire in
such causes; and it shall be the duty of
the clerk to replace the names OF such
Jurors as have been selected under the
provisions of this act, SO that they may
stand in the same manner for service as
Jurors in the common pleas, as if they
had not been drawn for the special SER
vice required by this act.
Sec. ID. Either party shall have
right TO challenge jurors for cause, and
the panel shall be filled by the sheriff
with talesmen as in other cases. 81
Sec. l6. That in all cases in which
it may be necessary for the said Board
of Public Works, by themselves or lie.
gally authorized agents, TO let contracts
for the performance of labor or the fur
nishing of materials, and for the con-
struction of feeders, dykes, reservoirs.
locks, dams, and other works and devi-
ces for perfeciing and keeping in repair
the public works under their charge, it
shall be the duty of the acting member
of said Board. by the resident engineer
having charge ofthe division ofthe pub
lie works upon which said labor is to be
performed, or materials furnished, 10
cause such general notice of the letting
of said contracts, by publication in
and posting up advertise
ments, as will secure fair and general
competition; which said notice shall
contain n statement of the time, place I
and manner Of receiving proposals for
said contracts, and the character and
magnitude of the work TO be performed,
the materials to be furnished; or both,
if required, for the construction of the |
proposed work.
Sec II. That the said Board OF
Public Works is hereby authorized TO
lease water power on the several reser-
voirs of the public works, under such
rules and regulations as are or may be
prescribed by law for leasing water pow
sr on the pubic works of the Stale.
Sec. 18. That said board shall keep
IN Office at the city ofColumbus, under
he charge oflhe president of said board,
who shall take charge of the records,
books and papers connected with the
department. of the public works, take
charge OF all correspondence of the said
,oard, and do and perform such other
luties as may be prescribed by the said
BOARD, or BY law.
Sec. 10. The first, second, and third
sections Of the act TO amend an act en-
tiled an act to abolish the board of canal
and to revive the board
IF public works. passed March fifth. one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,
md the several acts supplemental and
thereto, and for the better
regulation of those having in charge the
public works ofthis State, passed March
;ixth, one thousand eight hundred and
orty, FIVE; the fifty-ninth and sixtieth
sections of the act entitled an act TO pro-
ride for the protection of the canals of
he State of Ohio, the regulation OF the
thereof, and for the collection
# tolls, passed and took effect March I
wenty third, one thousand eight hun
Ired and forty, be, and they are hereby
epealed. ,
JAMES C. JOHNSON,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
AARON PARDEE,
President Of the Senate. pro tempore. {
February %, 1852.
AN ACT