Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-06-10
LawSOf OhiO--Published by Authority
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AN ACT to provide fol the organization OF Cities

SEC. i. DC u eHuCteU Oy He Oo"1' u,
Assembly of lie State Of Ohio, That all
corporations which existed when the present
constitution took effect. for The purposes ol
municipal government, either generl or spe,
cial and described or dcnomnated in any
law then in force, as cities. towns, villages,
or special road districts, shall be, and they
are hereby organized into cities, AMI Incor-
poraled villages, with the territorial limits to
them respectively prescribed, or belonging,
in manner following: All such municipal
corporations, as in any such law or denomi-
ha,cd cities. shall be deemed cities; and
those denominaled towns, villages, or special
road districts, shall be deemed Incorporated
villages; TO he respectively governed as cities
or incorporated villages, and in case oil the
latter, for general or special purposes, as
provided in this act; and oil acts now in force
for the organization or government OF any
such municipal corporations. shall be, and
they are hereby repealed; Provided, thai
such repeal shall, not destroy, or bar, any
right Of properly, action, or prosecution
which may be vested, or exist, al the time
this act lakes effect.
SEC. g. When the inhabitants of part OF
any county, no, embraced within the limits
Of any city or incorporated village, shall de-
sire 10 be organized into an Incorporated
village, they may apply by petition, in wrl'
ting, signed by the inhabitants so applying
10 be in number moi less than thirty qualified
volers, 10 The county commissioners OF the
proper county; which petition shall describe
The rfiory proposed TO be embraced in such
Incorporated village, and have annexed
lhyteio an accurate map or plat thereof; shall
slale the name proposed FOR such incorPora-
ted village. and in case The same be for the
purpose Of roud district only, shall so state
and shall also name the person or persons
authorized to acl in behalf of The petitioners
in prosecuting said petition.
SEC. 3 When any such petition shall b.
presented 10 the county commissioners, they
shall cause the same to be- tileG in the Office
Of the county auditor, to be there kept, SUBJ
joe, 10 the inspection Of any person or per-
sons Interested, until The time appointed for
the hearing thereof; The said commissioners
shall, al or before the lime Of such filing, fix
and communicate 10 such petitioners, or
ihei. agent, time aud place for the hearing
Of such petition, which time shall no, be
less than sixty days after the time Of such
fiil g; and thereupon the petitioners. or their
agents, Shull cause n0lice 10 be published
in some newspaper Of general circulation in
The county. not less than six consecutive
weeks, and q copy Of such notice 10 be post
cd al some public place. within the limits Of
the said proposed Incorporated village, no,
hess than six consecutive weeks before the
time Of such hearing; which notice shal
contain The substance Of said petition, anC
slate the tine and place appointed for Iht
hearing hereof.
SIC, 4. Every such hearing shall be pub
lie, and may be adjourned, from lime tC
time, or from place 10 place, and any person
interested, may appear and contest the
granting OF said petition, and afidayiIs il
support Of, or against said petition, which
may be prepared aud submitted, shall be ex
aminad by said commissioners. and they
may, in their discretion, permit the agent
or agents, named in The original petition, Il
amend OF change The same, except that NJ
amendment shall be permitted whereby ter
ri,ory net before embraced shall be added
or ihe character Of The proposed incorpora
,cd village changed, from general purpose
TO special, or from special TO general, with
our appointing another time for hearing
and requiring new notice to be given a
above provided.
SEC. 5. If the county commissioner
after hearing such petition, shall be salisfie
that al least fifty qualified voters acluall
reside within the limits described in The pt
,ilon, and thar said petition has been signe
by majority of them; thai said limits haV
been accurately described, and an accura
map or plat thereof made and filed; that ii
Y name proposed for the said incorporated vi
Iage, is proper and sufficient TO dstnguis
Ii from others Of like kind in the Stale; ar
It shall moreover, be deemed right and proI
er, in the judgment and discretion Of sa
commissioners, that said petition shall
granted; then, they shall make and endor
on the So i'd petition, and order, to the effeC
that the incorporated village, as named al
described in the petition, may be organize
which order said commissioners, or majo
ily OF Them, shall sign and deliver, togelh
with the petition and The map or plat, 10 Il
recorder Of their county, whose duty it sh0
be 10 record the same as soon as may be,
the proper book of records, and 10 file al
preserve in his office The original paper
having certified thereon, that The same ha
been properly recorded, and it shall also
The duty Of said recorder, to make out q
earthly, under his official seal, Two transcriI
Of said record, one Of which he snail lorwa
10 Ihe Secretary Of State, and The other
shall Gelivert 10 the agent, or agents, of So
petitioners, with certificate thereon, tha
similar transcript has been forwarded 10 ,
Secretary Of Safe, as above provided.
SEC. 6. So soon as said record shall
made, and said transcripts certified and {
warded, and delivered, The inhabitants wi
in the limits described in the petition, sh
be deemed an incorporated village, 10
organized and governed under the provisit
Of this act, in like manner as if speciu
named therein; and so soon as said incor
rated village shall be actually organized,
an election Of its officers, as hereinafter P
vded, notice Of its existence as such, ST
be taken in all judiciO! proceedings in
State.
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