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N.H.YAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the house Of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Columbus April II, 1857.

NO. IoS. AN ACT.
10 regulate the compensation of Sheriffs for keep
ing and providing for prisoners in jail.
SECTION 1. Be IL eaacted By tie General As
sensJiy efhs State of Ohio. That the Sheriff. of
the several counties in the State shall hereafter
be allowed such compensation as the county CON-
missioners shall from time to time order and al
low, not exceeding forty cents per day,
for keeping and providing for prisoners
in jail, as required by the eleventh section Of
the act for the regulation Of county jails, passed
March l3 ls4s, and such allowances shall be
made to the sheriff as part of the reasonable and
necessary expenses Of bis Office, for which be shall
not be required to account as fees, costs or perqu
sites, under the provisions Of the act to regulate
and limit the compensation of certain county Off
GERS, passed April 8, 1856.
SEC. 2. That the act to provide for the reduc.
ton of the fees now allowed to sherifs for keep
ing and providing for prisoners in jas, passed
March IS, 1914, and all acts and parts of acts in
consistent herewith, be and the same are hereby
repealed
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect on its pas
sage.
Nh. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD.
proei,la of tba Canata
April l6, 1857.
mo. 16l, AN ACT.
To provide for the more speedy collection of
Claims Of Creditors, Legatees, and Distributes
ofExecutors; Administrators and Guardians, and
to define the jurisdiction fthe Court of Com
mon Pleas, and Probate Court in certain cases.
Section |. Be IL enacted BY the General As.
sembly ofhe State Of Chic, That after thirty
days from the time Of the settlement of the &C.
counts CT executors administrators, or guardians,
shall have been made, or shall hereafter be made,
by the Probate Court, aud an order of distribution
made thereon, il such executor, administrator, or
guardian shall neglect or refuse to pay to any per.
son, interested in said order of distribution, as
creditor, legates, widow heir OF other dstributee
or otherwise, when demanded, his or her share of
the estate orproperty ordered to be distributed
by such Probate Court it shall be lawful for any
peson interested, as aforesaid, to file a petition
in the Probate Court of tie county in which
the settlement and order of distribution is made
against the executor. administrator or guardian
making such settlement of bis or her account, as
aforesaid, briefly setting forth in the petition the
amount and nature Of the claim Of the party fling
such petition; whereupon the Probate Judge shall
forthwith issue citation against such executor,
administrator, or guardian, setting forth the fling
Of che petition. the amount claimed by the petition
er, aud commanding such executor, administrator,
or guardian, to appear before said Probate Court
on the return day thereof to ausweE said petition
and show cause, if any, why judgment should not
be rendered and execution awarded against him
or her for the amount claimed BY such petitioner,
and found to be due upon such settlement and or.
der of distribution, which citation shall be made
not less than twenty nor more than
forty days from the date there II, the return day
to be named in the citation, which shall be served
and returned by the Sheriff or other proper off,
Ger, as in case Of a summons, aud may issue 10
any county 10 the State.
Sec. 3. But il such executor, administrator,
or guardian, shall reside out of this State, the
court being satisfied Of that fact either before or
afterthe return Of the citation, may order such
tobs LrOugbtin court, BY publica-
ton ia some newspaper Of the county in which
the petition is filed, for SIX consecutive weeks be.
fore the time fixed for the hearing Of said
cause; or in case no newspaper be published 10
the county, then to be published in soms news
paper having general circulation in said county.
Sec. 8. On the return Of the citation served.
or the service Of notice BY publication. ss sfore.
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