Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-01-26

held invalid as deed Of conveyance upon proof
of such fraudulent entry or purchases and the pur-
chaser shall not only lose the benefit of his pur-
chase, but shall in no way recover back the mon
ey paid for said lands,
JAMES C. JOHNSON,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives..
WILLIAM MEDILL,
President of the Senate.
January l2, 1853.
| No. l3. AN ACT
To provide for the distribution and safe keeping
of the Laws and Journals.
SEC. /. Be 1t enacted By the General Assembly
of the State of Ohio, That the General Assembly,
at each session thereof shall by joint resolution,
direct the number of copies of the laws and jour
mails to which each county shall be entitled, to be
distributed and preserved, according to the pro-
visions of this act.
SEC. q. The Secretary of State shall, at the
close of each session of the General Assembly,
or as soon thereafter the laws and journals may
be printed and ready for distribution, box up the
number which each county may be entitled to, and
forward the same by public conveyance, directed
to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; and
in all cases where said laws and journals cannot
reach the county seat of any county, for want OF
some mode of public conveyance, the Secretary
of State shall cause the same to be deposited in
a secure place, as near to the county seat of any
county as may be practicable, and notify the said
Clerk of the delivery of the laws and journals at
such point; and in all such cases, the Secretary
of State shall contract with the said Clerk to con-
vey said laws and journals to his Office at the coun
ty seat of his county.
Sec 8. When the Secretary of State shall
forward the laws and journals to the several coun-
ties as provided for in the second section of this
act, he shall pay the freight on the same in ad-
vance, and take duplicate receipt for the amount
so paid one of which he shall file with the Audi
tor of State.
SEC. a. Each member of the General Assem-
bly,, each Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arins, each Judge
Of every Court of Record, each Justice of the
Peace, Constable, Sheriff, Coroner, Recorder
Commissioner of Insolvents, Prosecuting Attor-
ney, (for the use of the Grand Jury,) County Au-
ditor, Treasurer and Surveyor, County Commits
sioners, the Directors Of any County Infrmary,
any Township Trustees and Township Clerk shall
be entitled to receive one copy of the general
laws, and each Clerk of the Supreme Court, and
Court of Common Pleas, shall be entitled to re-
ceive two copies of the general laws for the use
of their offices, and each Township Clerk an ad-
ditonal copy for the use of the township officers
not herein provided for.
SEC. 5. The Secretary of State, at the same
time that he forwards to the Clerks OF the Courts
of Common Pleas of the several counties of this
State, the laws and journals, as herein provided,
shall forward such numbers of extra copies OF the
general laws as he may deem necessary, to be
disposed of, at price not exceeding the actual
cost, to those wishing the same, and the proceeds
of such sales shall be paid into the county treasu
ry of such county.
Sec. g. The Secretary of State shall furnish
the Governor for his own use, with one copy, and
with such number of copies of the general laws
as may berequired for exchange with other States;
he shall furnish the Auditor of State with four,
and the Treasurer Of State with two, the Attorney
General with one, for the use of their Offices and
the State Librarian with five copies of the Gene
raj laws for the use of the Library.
SEC. 7. When the laws of local nature, and
those Of general nature are stitched in separate
volumes, each member of the General Assembly
shall be entitled to one copy of the local laws,
and each Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court
of Common Pleas, each Judge of the Court of
Probate, and each County Audidor, shall receive
copy of the local laws for the use of their of
fees respectively, and each Township Clerk one
copy of the local laws for the use of his township
and each of the Trustees of the several wards,
and clerks of Cities shall be entitled to one copy,
and each presiding officer in any incorporated town
shall be entitled to one copy.
SEC. 8. Each member Of the General Assem-
bly,, for his own use, and each Clerk of the Su-
preme Court and Court of Common Pleas, and
County Auditor, for the use of their Offices re-
spectively, and each township Clerk, for the use
of the inhabitants of his township, she'll receive
one copy of the journals of the Senate and House
of Representatives; the Auditor, Secretary and
Treasurer of State shall each be entitled to one
copy, and the State Librarian, for the use of the
Library, five copies of said journals.
Sec. 9. Each University, College, Academy,
and Literary Institution of this State, that may
hereafter be established, shall be entitled to re-
ceive one copy of the general laws of this State,
one copy of the journals of the Senate and House
of Representatives and one copy of such each
session thereafter.
Sec. TO-. The Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in each county shall, on demand, deliver
to each of the persons and Literary Institutions
entitled to copies of the laws and journals prov-
ded for in this act, taking from the respective per-
their receipts for the laws and journals de-
livered, which shall be filed in the County Audi
tors Office, subject to inspection.
SEC. H.. Every person entitled (except mem
bers of the General Assembly, Clerks and Ser
geants-at-Arms, Judges of the Courts and Literary
Insttutions) to copy copies of the laws and
journals, and who have received the same, shall
deliver over the same to his their successors in
Office, and the same shall remain the property of
the State of Ohio; and if any person aforesaid,
who is required to deliver over to his successor
such laws and journals, shall refuse, on demand,
SO to do he shall forfeit and pay any sum not less
than five or more than fifteen dollars, to be re-
covered in an action of debt in the name of the
State of Ohio, before any Justice of the Peace,
for the use of the county.
Sec. IL. Whenever any greater number of cop
les of the laws and journals shall be forwarded to
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of any
county than is necessary to supply each person, Of
fcer, or institution, or to be otherwise disposed
of, according to the provisions of this act, and
which shall remain unsold, then the Clerk afore-
said shall carefully retain the surplus number of
the laws and Journals in his Office to be delivered