Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-06-10

SEC. II. That he shall advise the Prosecuting
Attorneys Of the several counties, when requested
by them, in all matters appertaning to the duties
of their Offices,
SEC. lS. That he shall prepare suitable forms
of contracts, obligations, and other like instTu-
menls of writing, for the use of the state officers
when requested by the Governor, Secretary, Audi
tor or Treasurer of State
Sec. 10. That he may prosecute any suit, in
formation, Or other suit either at law or in equity
in behalf of the state, or in which the state may
be Interested, (other than prosecution by indict-
ment) in the courts of appropriate jurisdiction in
Franklin county. or in the courts of appropriate
jurisdiction in any other county in which the de-
fendant, or any one or more of the defendants,
may reside or be found; Provided, however, that
merely civil suits at law, OF in equity, other than
is authorized by the eighth section, shall be COM
menced in franklin county unleas the defendant,
or one or more of the defendants shall therein re-
side or be found, except the Attorney General
shall certify on the writ that he believes the a.
mount in controversy to exceed five hundred dol
lars.
Sec. 20. That in all cases brought under the
provisions of thSs act the writ OF wrtS may be sent
70 the sheriff of any county, by mall and return
ed by him in tike manner, for which the sheriff
shall be allowed the same mileage and fees as if
the writ or wrts had issued out of the court of
common pleas OF district court in his own county,
and been rsturnable thereto.
SEC. 81. That upon all information or other
proceedings specified in the ninth, tenth, aad ele
venth sections, if the writ or writs, nesne process
be returned, not found by the sheriff of the coun-
ty in which the company is authorized by law to
have its place of business, the clerk of the court
in which such proceedings or other information
may have been filed, shall make out a notice of
the filing and substance thereof and cause the
same to be published for six consecutive weeks
in some newspaper printed in the county in
which such compony is authorized as aforesaid,
to have its place Of business; or if no news
paper be therein printed, i'll some newspaper
printed in the city of Columbus; and an affidavit
of such publication, together with copy of the
said notice, shall be filed in The office of the clerk
aforesaid; and if the company SO made defendant,
should fail to answer or plead to any such infOr-
nation or other proceeding, within thirty days
from The filing of the affidavit aud copy aforesaid,
Judgment shall be given upon the defau' !, in like
manner as if the writ or writS had been duly served
and re- urned.
Sec. %. That upon all appeals, writs of er-
ror, certiorar supersedeas, procedendo, reDlevin,
ne exeat, injunction, attachment, mandamus, OF
prohibition, taken Orsued out by the Attorney Ge-
neral upon behalf of the state, or upon behalf Of
OF any other officer thereof, no security shall be
required.
SPc. %. That nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to prevent Ell her party to any cause brought
under its provisions, from taking the dispositions
of such witnesses as reside out of the county in
which the cause may be peneing, or intend to
leave the county before the time of trial, or una
BILE to attend the trial in person.
SEC. "a. That the Attorney General shall keep
an Office in the city of Columbus, to be provided
and furnished al the states expense, and tae ac-
count for postage upon his official correspondence
shall be audited and allowed by the auditor Of
state, and paid out of any funds in the state trea
sury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec %. That he shall keep p, in suitable books,
to be provided for that purpose, al the states ex
pensc, register of all actions, demands, COM
plants, writs informatons, and other suits pros
ecuted or defended by him officially, together
with all the proceedings had in respect thereof,
and also register of all written official opinions
given by him, which said books he shall deliver
TO his successor at the expiration Of his tenn.
Sec. 2e. That he shall, in The report required
of in, by article third, section eDieth, Of the
consi ton, snhm an abstract of the sta ,iS,ics
of crime returned to him by ihe prosecuting attof-
neys of the several counties, with general stale
ment of the busi ness under his immedal cha ge.
SEC. u. That the act to create the Office OF
attorney general and to prescribe his duties passed
the 10th day of February, in the year 1916, and
the acts amendatory thereof, passed the twenty
fourth day of February, in the year eighteen hun
dred and fOrty-eght, and nineteenth day of March
IN the year eiShteen hund red and forty nine, be,
and the same are repealed.
JAMES G. JOHNSON,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
WILLIAM MEDILL,
President of the Senate
NAV 1, 1852.