The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-04-22

%sicians, surgeons or midwlves, may lave
attended professionally at any birth or
death, that physician, surgeon or mid
wife who is oldest in attendance, shall
make the registry.
SEC. s. It shall be the duty of the
physicians, clergymen, surgeons and
midwives above named, to deposit in the
county clerks Office, of the various
counties in which such births, marriages
and deaths occur, on or before the fif-
teenth day of March, in every year, q
copy of said registry, embracing the pc
riod of one year, ending on the first day
of March, last preceding the time of de-
post; and the clerk shall deliver the
same to the assessor of the several town.
ships in each county, at the same time
that the auditor of the county delivers
instructions and blanks to such assess
or.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the as
SCISSORS, while making their lists of taxa
BILE property, to ascertain and record in
q list separate from the list of taxable
property, all the births, marriages and
deaths, which shall have occurred with
in their respective townships, in the
twelve months, ending on the first day
of March, last preceding the time of as
sessment, with all the items Of time,
place, &c., hereinbefore directed, to be
inserted in the registries, as provided in
sections one and two of this act. They
shall make strict inquiry of all heads of
families, and shall use the registries of
clergymen, physicians, surgeons and
midwives, hereinbefore named, in order
to obtain correctly the information here
in required. They shall return said
lists of births, marriages and deaths,
with the registries aforesaid, to the
clerks of the courts of common pleas, at
the, same time that they return their
lists of taxable property.
Sec. 6. To enable the assessors to OBJ
tain full and correct information touch
ing the facts herein required to be as
certained, they shall have full power to
swear and interrogate any person, il
their respective townships, for this pur-
pose; and it shall be the duty of all
su h persons, when thereto required by
the assessor, with or without oath, to
give him truly and fully, all the infor-
nation which he or she may possess,
touching any of said facts.
Sec. 9. Any person failing, or refus-
ing to discharge and perform any of the
acts or duties herein imposed and re-
quired to be done, shall, for every such
failure, be fined in a sum not less than
five nor more than twenty dollars, to be
recovered by action before any tribunal
having jurisdiction thereof, or by indict-
ment in the court of common pleas, for
the use of schools, in the township in
which the offence is committed.
mo. 5s.] AN ACT
To organize and dicipline the Militia and
Volunteer Militia.
SECTION /. Be 1T enacted by the
General Assembly Of the Stateof Ohio,
That all able bodied, white male citi-
zens, resident of this State, being eight
cen years of age, and under the age of
forty-fve years, excepting persons ex-
empt by law, shall be enrolled in the
and perform military duty in
such manner, not Incompatible with the
Constitution and Laws of the United
as herein after prescribed.
MILITIA DIVISION.
SEC. 2. That the militia of this State
shall be organized into divisions as fol-
The county of Hamilton shall form
the first division.
The counties of Butler, Warren, Mont
gomery and Preble, shall form the Sec
ond division.
The counties of Darke. Miami and
Shelby, shall form the third division.
The counties of Mercer, Auglaize, Al
len, Van Vert aud Putnam, shall form
the fourth division.
The counties of P~aulding, Defiance,
Williams, Fulton, Henry and Lucas
shall form the fifth division.
The counties of Wood, Ottowa, San
duskv and Seneca, shall form the sixth
division.
The counties of Hancock, Wyandott,
Marion and Hardin, shall form
the seventh division.
The counties of Logan, Union. Cham
Clark and Madison, shall form the
division.
The counties of Green, Fayette, Gin
on and Highland, shall form the ninth
The counties of Clermont, Brown and
shall form the tenth division.
Tho counties of Ross, Pike Scioto,
Lawrence and Jackson, shall form the
division.
The counties of Gallia, Meigs, Athens,
and Hooking, shall form the
division.
The counties of Franklin, Pickaway
md Fairfield, shall form the thirteenth
division.
The counties of Licking, Muskingum
md Perry, shall form the fourteenth di-
The counties of Delaware, Kuox and
Morrow, shall form the fifteenth divis-
ion.
The counties of Richland, Ashland
and Wayne. shall form the sixteenth d.
The counties of Huron, Erie, L%orain
md Medina, shall form the seventeenth
division.
The counties of C~uyahoga, Summit
and Portage, shall form the eighteenth
The counties of Lake, Geauga, Ash
and Trumbull, shall form the
division.
The counties of Mahoning, Columbi-
ina, Stark and Carroll, shall form the
wentieth division.
The counties of Holmes, Coshocton
md Tuscarawas, shall form the twenty
irst division.
The counties of Jefferson, Harrifon and
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