The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-07-12
SINUS Of 0biu,
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT

villages aud the act amendatory thereto. ass
SECTION /. Be IL enacted 6y the Gen
eraL ASsensblyofth State Of Ohio, That
section fourteenth, of said amendatory
act, be so amended as to read as follows:
Section IA. Any incorporated city,
whether of the first or second class, shall
have power for commercial purposes
when in the judgement of the city coun-
ell, the interest of such city requires the
same to be done, to construct, open, ex
~cavate, improve, enlarge, or extend any
canal, ship channel, or water course, To-
Gated within the limits of such city, and
which is rot owned in whole or in part,
by the State, or by any company, or in
dividual, authorized by law to construct
the same, and shall have power likewise
to light the same, and to keep the same
in proper repair; and for the purpose of
defraying the expense thereof, such city
council may assess a charge upon the
lots or parcels of land, through or along
which such canal, ship channel, or water
course may pass, or which may be I'M
proved thereby, or upon the owner of
the same; such charges to be in proper
ton to the foot front of such lots, or par
cells of land, or to the value of the same,
as entered upon the duplicate of the
proper county for taxation, and such
charge shall be collected in the manner
provided for the collection of other taxes,
imposed by such city council, either all
in one year, or by instalments each year,
for any number of years not exceeding
four years, as shall be directed by said
city council, and to enable the city coun-
ell to enter at once upon such improve
ments, such city council are hereby au-
thorized to borrow any sum not exceed
ing ten thousand dollars, at a rate of in
tcrest not exceeding seven per cent. per
annum, and to issue its bonds or other
evidence of Indebtedness thereof, payable
at such time or times not exceeding five
wears from the date of such assessment,
with annual interest, at a rate not great
er than aforesaid, as such city council
may deem advisable; and the amount so
assessed and collected, as aforesaid shall
be appropriated exclusively to the pay
ment of the sum or sums so borrowed
and that said original section fourteen be,
and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. That whenever 1t shall, IN
the estimation of such city council, be
deemed expedient to purchase or appro-
pirate lands for the purpose of construc-
ting, opening, extending, enlarging, or
otherwise improving such canal, ship
channel, or water-course, they are hereby
authorized to make such purchase, or to
cause such appropriation to be made in
the manner provided by law, and to assess
a general AK upon all the taxable prop
erty of such city, for the purpose of de-
fraying the expense of such purchase, or
such appropriation, the same to be levied
all in one year, or by successive install
ments, for a series of years not exceeding
ten years, at the option of such city coun-
Gil {; and in order to meet such expense at
once, they are hereby authorized to Dor
row the necessary amount, at u rate Of
interest not exceeding eight per cent per
annum, and to issue their bonds of in
d~ebtedness therefor, payable at such
time or times, not exceeding ten years
from the date of such purchase or appro-
priation, as such city council shall deem
proper; and the proceeds of such tax
shall be appropriated exclusively to the
payment TO the sum or sums so borrow
ed as last aforesaid.
Sec. 8. No order of such city coun, il
as aforesaid for constructing, e~xcavating,
opening, charging, extending, or i'm
proving such canal, ship channel, or wa
t~er-course shall be made, except OF the
petition of two-thirds of the resident own
ers of the lots of land through or by which
said canal, ship channel, or water-course
pass.
F. G. LEBLOND,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April %, 1854.
ACT To provide for the distribution ..of
documents 10 the publishers OF ne wsPaPers
and,periodicals in this State
Sec 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of tie State Of Ohio, Tibet it
shall be the duty of the Secretary of
State, biennially, each year when the
is not in session, to forward
by mail or express, at the expense of the
State, to the publisher of every ews
paper and periodical in Ohio, so soon as
published one copy of the message and
of the officers ofthe executive de-
partment, the reports of the public State
institutions, and of all general and special
required by law to be made to the
General Assembly, and the postage and
express charges shall be be paid out of
the contingent fund of the Secretary
Of State. Said messages and reports
shall be supplied put of any that may be
in pursuance of any law now or
hereafter in force.
W. B. VAN HOOK,
Speaker of the House of Reps. pro tenn.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 7, g 54.
SECRETARY OF STATES OFFIcE,}
Columbus, March l, 1854.