Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-05-29
Laws of Ohio.
BY Authority.
AN ACT

mo ISL AN ACT
To provide for the organization of Cit
les and Incorporated Villages.
Sec, /. Be Il enacted By The Gener-
,ol Assembly of The State of Ohio,
That all corporations which existed
when the present constitution took eff
feet, for the purposes of municipal gov
,ernment. either general or special, and
described or denominated in any law
shen in force, as cities. towns, villages,
Or special road districts, shall be, and
4hey are hereby organized into cities,
and Incorporated villages, with the ter
ritorial limits TO them respectively pre-
ssEcribed, Of belonging, in manner fel-
lowing: All such municipal corpora
lions. Is in any such law are denomi-
mated cities, shall be deemed cities; and
those denominated towns, villages, or
snecial road districts, shall be deemed
Spcorporated villages to be respective.
" governed as cities, or incorporated
s,;llsUes. and in case of the latter, for
isyenePal or special purposes, as RFpvi-
Sed in this act; and all acts now in
force. for the organization or govern
ment of any such municipal corpora
lions. shall be, and they are hereby
~eneaIed: Provided, that such repeal
shall not destroy, or bar, any right OF
property, action, or prosecution winch
NAV be vested, or exist at the time
fhis act takes effect
Sec. 2. When the Inhabitants. OF a
mar. of anv county, not embraced with
IN the limits of any city or Incorporated
vjllape, shall desire to be organized IN
10 an. Incorporated village they may,
anply by petition, in writing, signed by
the inhabitants SO applying, TO be IN
number not less than thirty qualitled
voters, TO the county commissioners Of
5be proper county; which petition shall
describe the territory proposed TO be
embraced in such incorporated village,
and have annexed thereto an accurate
map of pla. thereof; shall state the
name proposed for such incorporated
VILLAGE. and in case the same be for the
purpose ofa road district only, shall SO
state. and shall also name the person
or persons authorized to actin behalfof
she petitioners in prosecuting said Pc
aition.
Sec. 8. When any such petition
shall be presented to the county com
missioners, they shall cause the same
10 be filed in the Office of the county
auditor, to be there kept, subject TO the
inspection of any person or persons in
terested. until the time appointed for
the hearing thereof; the said commits
sioners. shall, at or before the time Of
such fling, fix and communicate to
such petitioners, or their agent, time
and place for the hearing Of such peti-
1iop. which time shall not be less than
.sixty DAYS after the time Of such filing;
and thereupon the petitioners, or their
accents. shall cause Eotice to be pub
7ished in some newspaper of general
circulation IN the county, not less than
six consecutive weeks, and copy OF
sueh notice to be posted at some pub
lie place, within the limits OF the SAID
proposed incorporated village, not less
than six consecutive weeks before the
time of such hearing; which notice
shall contain the substance of said petit
tion, 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
lime to time, or from place to place,
and any person interested, may aP-
pear and contest the granting OF said
petition, and afidayits in support of, or
against said petition. which may be
prepared and submitted, shall be ex
amined by said commissioners, and
they may, in their discretion, permit the
agent, or agents, named in the origi-
nal petition, to amend or change the
same, except that no amendment shall
be permitted whereby territory not be-
fore embraced shall be added, or the
character of the proposed incorporated
village changed, from general purposes
to special, or from special to general
without appointing another time Eor
hearing. and requiring new notice to be
given as above provided.
Sec. s. If the county commissioners,
after hearing such petition, shall be
satisfied that al least fftv qualified vo-
tiers actually reside within the limits
described 10 the petition, and that said
petition has been signed by majority
Of them; that said limits have been ac-
eurately described, and an accurate
map or plat thereof made and filed;
lhat the name PROPOSED for the said in
corporated village, is proper and suf-
ficient to distinguish it from others of
like kind in the State; and it shall more
over, be deemed right and proper, in
the judgement and discretion of said
commissioners, that said petition shall
be granted; then, they shall make and
indorse on the said petition, and order,
to the effect, that the incorporated vii
lage, as named and described in the Pc
IiLion may be organized; which order
said commissioners, or a majority of
them, shall sign and deliver, together
with the petition and the map or plat,
to the recorder of their county, whose
duty it shall be to record the same as
soon as may be, in the proper book of
records, and to file and preserve in his
office the original papers, having cer,i-
fed thereon that the same have been
properly recorded; and it shall also be
the duty of said recorder, to make ou;
and certify, under his official seal, two
transcripts of said record, one of which
he shall forward TO the Secretary of
State, and the other he shall deliver to
the agent, or agents, Of said petitioners,