The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-07-02
Law S OF Ohio.
AN ACT
70 provide for The organization Of Cities
and incorporated Villages.

TO provide for The organization Of Cisies
and incorporated Villages.
Src. 1. Be ii enacted by the General
AssemBiy of tie State of Ohio, That oil
eorporations hich existed when the pre-
ssat 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,ies, towns, villages, or special road dis
tricts, shall be-, and they are hereby or
Ranizsd into cities, and Incorporated VIII
laqess with the territorial limits 10 them
respectively prescribed, or belonging, in
manner following: All such municipal
coipora,ions, as in any such law are de-
nominated cities, shall be deemed cities;
and ,lloee denominated towns, villages,
OF special road districts, shall be deemed
incorporated villages; 10 be respectively
governed as cities, or incorporated vii
lages, and in case Of the latter, for gen.
eral or specisl purposes, as provided in
this act; and all acts now in force, for
the organization or government Of any
such municipal corporations, shall be,
and they are hereby repealed; Provided,
that such repeal shall not destroy, or bar,
any right Of property, action, or prosecu :
iion, which may be vested, or exist, at
the time this act takes effect.
SIC. 2. When the inhabitants Of a
part Of any county, not embraced within
the limits Of any city or incorporated vii
lsge, shall desire to be organized into an
Incorporated village, they may apply by
petition, 10 writing, signed by the inhabi.
tants 30 applying, TO be in number not
less than thirty qualified voters, to the
county commissioners Of the proper coun-
"; which petition shall describe the ter
ritory proposed TO be embraced in such
incorporated village, and have annexed
thereto an accurate map or plat thereof; ;
shall state the name proposed for such
incorporated village, and in case The same
be for The purpose Of road distric, only,
shall so state, and shall also name the
person, or persons authorized TO act in
behalf pf the petitioners in prosecuting
said petition.
SEc. 3. When any such petition shall
be presented 10 the county commis.
sioners, they shall cause the same 10 be
fled in the Office Of the county auditor,
10 be there kept, subject TO the inspec.
iion Of any person or persons interested
until the time appointed for the hearing
thereof; the said commissioners, shall,
a OF before the time Of such filing, fix
and communicate 10 such petitioners, or
their agent, time and place for the hear
ing Of such petition, which time shall no,
be less than sixty days after the time Of
such fling; and ,hereupon the petition
srs, OF their agents, shall cause notice
10 be published in some newspaper Of
general circulation in the county, not less
than six consecutive weeks, and copy
Of such notice TO be posted q. some public
place, within the limits Of the said pro
posed incorporated village, moi less than
six consecutive weeks before the time OF
such hearing; which notice shall contain
the substance Of said petition, and state
the time and place appointed for the
hearing thereof.
SEC. 4. Every such hearing shall be \
public, and may be adjourned, from time
10 time, or from place 10 place, and sny
person interested, may appear and con-
test the granting Of said petition, and
sfidavits in support Of, or agains. said
petition, which may be prepared and sub
misted, shall be examined by said com.
missioners. and they may, in their discre-
ton, permit the agent, or agents, named
in the original petition, 10 amend or
change the same, excep, that no amend.
men, shalt be permitted whereby territory
not before embraced shall be added, or
the character ofthe proposed incorporated
village changed, from general purposes TO
special, or from special TO general, without
appointing another time for hearing, and
requiring new notice to be given as aboye
provided. ~
Sec. 5. If the county commissioners,
after hearing such petition, shall be salts
God that al leas, fifty qualified voters
sciusily reside within the limits described
in the petition, and ,ha, said petition has
been signed by a majority Of them; that
said limi,s have been accurately des-
cribed. and ar accurate man or plat
thereof made and filed; that the name
proposed for the said incorporated village,
10 proper and sufficient 10 distinguish Il
from others Of like kind in the State; and
Il shall moreover, be deemed right and
proper, 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, 10
the effect, that the incorporated village,
a. named and described in The petition,
may be organized; which order said com
missioners, or majority Of them, shall
sign and deliver. together with the petit
tlon and the map or plat, to the recorder
oftheir county, whose duty il shall be TO
record the same as soon as may be, in
the proper book Of records, and 10 file