Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-22
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AN ACT
70 provide for the organizat'on oil Ci'ies and
Incorporated Villages.
Concluded.
BY AUTHORITY.

See. %. That n shall be the duty oil
the treasurer of the county, TO pay over
fo the treasurer of any municipal corpo
ration. all moneys received by him, ari
sing from taxes levied. belonging to such
municipal corporation, on or before the
first day of January in each year; and
such moneys as said county treasurer
may receive after that time, for delin-
quent taxes, belonging 10 such corpora
ton, he shall pay over 70 the treasurer
thereof, as he receives them; and any
moneys heretofore collected, and now
held by the treasurer of any county, for
any special fund hereinbefore provided,
shall be paid into the treasury of the mu-
nicipaI corporation hereby authorized to
levy a tax for such special fund.
Sec. "a. In any municipal corpora
ffon, where the power exists to impose
taxes on lots when plated and recorded,
the corporation shall also have power to
impose taxes upon parcels of land laid
off into lots, and sold or leased by metes
and bounds or other description, though
the same shall not have been plated and
recorded.
Sec. 95. That the council of any mu-
niciPal corporation shall have power,
whenever in their opinion the interests
OF the corporation require it, to levy and
collect a tax on dogs, and other domes-
tic animals not included in the list Of
taxable property for state and county
purposes, which said tax shall be coTIec-
fed by the collector of such corporation,
and be paid into the treasury thereof.
Sec. 96. The council of any incorpo.
rated village or city may license all ex
hibitors of shows and performances of
every kind not otherwise prohibited by
law; all hawkers and peddlers; all auc-
tloneers OF horses or other animals, in
the highways or public grounds of the
corporation; all venders OF gunpowder;
all taverns and houses of public enter.
tainment; all hucksters in the public
streets or markets; and in granting such
license. may exact and receive such sum
or sums of money as tho council shall
think fit and expedient. ANY such
council may also require the owners of
all vehicles. of every description. used
for the carriage or transportation of per
sons or property, for hire in the corpo.
ration, all undertakers or owners of
hearses, TO take out n license; but the J
owner of fany such vehicle NAV be made
liable for the breach of any ordinance
regulating the conduct Of the drivers
thereof
Sec 81. Loans may be made by mu.
nicipal corporations, in anticipation of
the revenues Of the current fiscal wear,
and payable within such year; but the
aggregate amount of such loans, in any
one fiscal year, shall not exceed, in case
Of a special road district. one thousand
dollars, of an incorporated village. five
thousand dollars. Of city of the second
class, fifty thousand dollars. of city of
the first class, one hundred thousand
dollars.
Sec. SO That the council OF any mu
niciPal corporation, shall not authorize |
any loan, or appropriation not predica.
ted on the revenues of the corporation
for the current fiscal year, and shall not
authorize any order or appropriation of
money, when there is not in the city |
treasury money unappropriated, sufi-
cient to pay such appropriation; and any
appropriation otherwise made or author !
ized, shall be held and deemed void, and |
eff effect as against said corporation.
OF ELECTIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF
OFFICERS,
See. SO The first Monday in April
shall be the regular annual period for
the election of all municipal officers;
and all officers whose election is provi-
ded for in this act, or may be provided |
for by any bylaw or ordnance, shall
be elected on that day. Special e'ec
tons of members of the city council of
any city, shall be held at such time as
the mayor may direct, so that ten days
notice thereof be given. The trustees
or council of every municipal corpora
tion, shall direct the place or places for
holding elections for municipal officers.
In all cities there shall be place ap-
pointed in each ward for holding all
elections. Any person, who, at the time
of any election of municipal officers,
would be a qualified voter, under the
laws of the State. for county officers.
and shall actually reside in the corpora
ton or ward in which he offers TO vote,
shall be deemed qualified voter. And |
oil elections shall, in all respects. be ,
held and conducted in the manner pre-.
scrised by law, in case of township elec.
tions.
Sec. 100. The returns of all munici.
pal elections in cities and incorporated
villages, which are divided into election
districts and wards, shall be made 10 the
clerk or recorder of the corporation. and
shall be opened by him within the time ,
prescribed as TO the clerk of the court /
OF common pleas in county elections = /
He shall call to his assistance the NAV .
or OF the corporation, or if there be no ,
mayor, or the mayor shall have been a :
candidate al such election, then any Jus. {
tice Of the peace of the county, and shall.
in his presence, make out an abstract :
and ascertain the candidates elected, in
oil respects, as required by law of the :
clerks OF the court Of common pleas; and j
shall, in like manner, make out a cer-
tihcate as TO each candidate so elected I
and cause the same to be delivered TO I