The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-06-23
LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
1851 AN ACT
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1851 AN ACT
TO authorize the Adoption OF Children.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted bv the General
Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That any
lnhabitant Of this state, not married, or any
husband and wife jointly, may petition the
probate court of their proper county for
leave to adopt minor child not theirs by
birth, and for change of the name of such
| child: but written consent must be given
to such adoption by the child, if Of the age
OF fourteen years, and by each of his or her
living parents who is not hopelessly insane
or Incorporate; if there be no such parents,
or if the parents shall be unknown, or have
abandoned such child, or il such parents or
either of them are hopeessly insane or in
temperate, then by the legal guardian; il
there be no such guardian, then by discreet
and suitable person, appointed by said court
to act in the proceedings as the next friend
of such child.
Sec. 2. That if the petition shall be Fl led
by husband and wife, the court shall exam
inc the wife separate and apart from her hus-
band, and shall refuse leave for such adop.
! tioD, unless the court shall be satisfied,
| from such examination, that the wife, of her
! own free will and accord, desires such adop.
ton.
Sec. 8. That upon the compliance with
the foregoing provisions, if the court shall
be satisfied of the ability Of the petitioner
or petitioners to bring up and educate the
child properly, having reference to the de.
gree and condition Of the child's parents
and shall be satisfied Of the fitness and pro.
! lot, Of oAO fha LII l.
an order setting forth the facts, and declar.
ing that, from that date, such child, to all
legal intents and purposes, is the child o
the petitioner, and that the name of such
child is thereby changed.
Sec. A. That by such order the natura
parents shall be divested of all legal rights
and obligations in respect to such child, anc
the child shall be free from all legal obliga
tions of obedience and maintenance in re-
spect to them, and shall be to all intent
and purposes, the child and legal heir of hi
or her adopter or adopters, entitled to all tht
rights and privileges and subject to all tht
obligations of q child of the adopter O
adopters begotten in lawful wedock Pro
vided, that on the decease of parents wit
have adopted child or children under thi
act and the subsequent decease of such chill,
or children without issue, the property o
such adopting parents shall descend to tn,
next of kin, and not to the next of kin o.
such adopted child or children.
Sec. 5. This act shall be in force from
and after its passage.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate.
March 90, 1859.
mo. 1901 AN ACT
TO amend section 374 of an Act entitled "a
Act to establish Code of Civil Proce
dure," passed March IL, 1853.
Section l. Be 1t enacted By the Genera
Assembly Of The Stale Of Ohio, That sectio
three hundred and seventy. four of an uc
entitled can act to establish a code of civ
procedure" passed March IL, 1853, be 8
amended as to read as follows: Sec. 374
In the foreclosing of a mortgage, a sale o
the mortgaged property shall in all cases bt
ordered; and when the same mortgage EN-
braces separate tracts of land, situated ir
two or more counties, the sheriff of each
county in which such separate tract or tract,
are situated, shall be ordered to make salt
of the lands situated in the county in which
he is sheriff.
Sec. 2. That section three hundred an,
seventy-tour of the act entitled "an act Il
establish code Of civil procedure" passe,
March IL, 1853, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect on it
passage.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate
March 80, 1859.