The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-08-24
WHOLE NUMBER 594.

PUBIC works, as provided for in this act
the security required by the board of pub.
lie works Of the said lessees for the perform.
ance Of their several undertakings, other
than that directed and required to be depOs-
tied at the time of said bidding, shall consist
Of the state stocks of Ohio or U. 8. stocks,
deposited with the auditor of state, upon
which the sold lessee or lessees may receive
the interest so long as the covenants of said
lessees are fulfilled and kept, and to be re-
turned to them by order of said board on the
termination of their respective leases, provi-
ded no forfeiture of the same shall have nap.
pened during the continuance of said lease;
or good and sufficient personal or real estate
security to the satisfaction of the board of
public works; and the said board of public
works are hereby authorized, whenever they
may deem it proper, to require Of any person
or party offered for security, a statement,
under oath, OF the cash value of his or their
real and personal estate above all his or their
debt sand liabilities. Every collector or other
person appointed by said lessees, or any of
them or their assigns,to receive tolls on said
public works, shall make monthly returns,
verified bv his oath to the auditor of state Of
the amountreceived by him during the month
preceding, and it shall be the duty Of said
collector or other such appointee, to pay into
the state treasury ten per centum of all such
collections, which shall be retained in the
treasury as indemnity against the failure Of
such lessee or lessees to perform the stipu.
lation oil his or their lense. But said money
shall be paid to such lessee or leesees at the
end of each year by the state treasurer upon
the warrant of the state auditor; provided
A. ,LoI -
rant until the board of public works, or a
majority of them, shall have first certified in
writing that the covenants and stiphlations
of such lease have in allrespects been fully
and faithfully performed up to the end Of the
year aforesaid. e"
Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out
Of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, for the first three. .fourths of
the fiscal year ending Nov. 18th, 1859, the
several sums of money hereinafter named,'
or so much thereof as may be necessary for
the several purposes indicated. On division
number one, to be paid out on the check of
Abner L. Backus, acting commissioner for
construction, superintendence and repairs,
sixty.six thousand dollars; for building and
repairing wooden locks. ten thousand col.
lars; for payment for work on Independence
Dam, five thousand dollars, On division
number two, to be paid out on the check of
John Waddle, acting commissioner; For
building guard bank above Paint creek
uqueduct, six hundred and fifty dollars; for
building guard band at Athens, according TO
instruction of joint resolution of general as.
sembly, seven hundred dollars; for payment
of damages to Dennis McCarty & Co., under
Joint resolution of general assembly, three
thousand dollars, to be paid out of appropri.
alton to complete the Lancaster side cut,
made April 8, 1857, which appropriation is
hereby renewed, and continued for this pur-
pose; for the payment Of the states proper.
ton toward building bridge over Walnut
creek, at Lockburn, fifteen hundred dollars,
and when said bridge is built, the same shall
be used by the state for towing path purpos.
es free of toll; for construction, superintend-
ence, and repairs, ffty.four thousand one
hundred and seventy five dollars. On di.
vision number three, to be paid out on the
check of John l.. Martin, acting commits.
sioner: For the payment of repairs under
contract, eleven thousand one hundred and
ten dollars; for payment of balance due on
boats, tools and materials taken from con.
+ tractors, one thousand nine hundred and fifty
J dollars; for superintendence, construction
and repairs, six:y-one thousand dollars; for
payment of outstanding checks for superin.
tendenee and repairs drawn beyond former
appropriations, one thousand nine hundred
} and ninety.fve dollars and twenty one cents;
for general expenses, not included in super
intendence and repairs, the following sums
| are hereby ordered to be paid in addition to
{ the amount before stated; for payment of
| claims found due and settled by the board of
public works, one thousand dollars; for pay.
} ment Of attorneys fees and incidental ex.
] penses, eighteen hundred dollars; for pay.
ment of salaries of resident engineers, seven
thousand FIVE hundred dollars; for payment
5 of salaries of members of the board of public
works, four thousand five hundred dollars
, for payment of outstanding checks on claims
r for labor done previous to November 10Th.
= 1858, on division number one, seven thou
sand dollars; for payment of outstanding
, checks for labor on division No. two, five
e thousand FIVE hundred and seventy. three dol
lars; for improvement Of mouth of Musking-
un river, six thousand dollars; for repairing
d or rcconstructing the crib at the Malta mills
e in Morgan county, agreeubly to the joint
d resolution OF the general assembly, twenty
J, FIVE hundred dollars; for protecting the bank 3
:. of the Muskingum river at West Zinesville
n eight hundred and twenty five dollars; for
r completion of basin on old Penitentiary-lot
d in Columbus, seven hundred and fifty dollars
!. Sec. 7. If any member of the board OF
+. public works shall directly or indirectly hold
g or purchase any interest in the lease Of any
!. section made aud executed under the provis-
j ions of this act, or shall combine or collude
with any lessee or lessees of the same to
:. prevent the faithful execution of ths provis.
/. ions herein contained, he shall be deemed
n and held guilty of q misdemeanor, and shall
e upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum
}, not less than one thousand dollars nor moro
;, than three thousand dollsrs, and said lease
n shall thereby be forfeited to the state. =,
n Sec. g.. That said lessee or lessees shall
\ not assign their said leases without the as
v sent of the board of public works thereto.
!. entered in writing on said leases, and upon
!. the journal of said board, and in every such
J, case of assignment the said assignees shall
d be held to have assumed all liabilities to the
=. state of the original lessee or lessees under
d this act, and to be governed in every partic.
e ular as by this act the original lessees are
now bound, so far as the same may be apple
8 cable thereto. as
/. Sec. 8. Whenever said lessee or lessees
d shall refuse or neglect to supply the lessee
q or lessees of water retns on said improve
4 ment and canals, whereby injury may as-
crue 10 said lessee or lessees OF water rents.
. tha ..id Inasaa or leasees of water rents