Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
L A W S OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT


if any person or persons shall directly
or Indirectly promise, offer or give, or
cause or procure to be promised, offered
or given any money, goods, right in ac-
ton, present, reward, or any other val
liable, thing whatever, or any promise,
contract, undertaking, obligation, or Sc
curity, for the payment or delivery of
any money, goods, right in action, pres
ent, reward, or any other valuable thing
whatever, to any officer or public agent
after his election and appointment, and
either before or after he shall have quail
fled as such, with intent
First TO influence his vote or decis-
ion on any question, matter, cause or
proceeding which may then be pending,
or may by law be brought before him as
such officer or agent; or
Second-To induce him to neglect or
omit the performance of his duty as such
officer or agent, or to perform such duty
with partiality or favor, or in considera-
ton of his having neglected or omit
ted the performance of such duty, or of
his having performed it with partiality
or favor; or,
Third-To induce him to give, pro-
cure or to assist to procure, or in con-
sideration of his having given, procured
or assisted to procure, by his act, inter-
est, influence, or other means whatever,
any public appointment, office, place of
trust or profit, or any preferment or
emolument, or any public contract,
or any false specification, plan, draw
ing, certificate, or estimate under such
contract Every such person and
the officer or agent who shall in any
wise solicit, accept or receive any such
money, goods, right in action, present,
reward, or any other valuable thing
whatever, or any promise, contract, un-
dertaking, obligation or security for the
payment or delivery of any money,
goods, right in action, present, reward,
or any other valuable thing whatever, or
any part thereof, shall on conviction
thereof, be punished as provided in the
second section of this act.
Sec. 2. That the officer, public agent,
or other person so convicted, shall be
fined not less than the amount or value
of the thing so promised, offered, or
given, or so solicited, accepted or re-
ceived, nor more than three times such
value or amount, or be imprisoned in
the county Jail not more than thirty days
or both; and if a public agent or any Of
fcef other than State officer be so con-
victed, he shall be Immediately removed
from Office OF employment by order of
the court; provided, that the execution
Of such order, when the court has signed
. a bill of exceptions, shall, on motion of
the defendant, be suspended until the
determination of an application for a
writ of error, but not longer than thirty
days, unless such writ be allowed
SEC g. The word "officer" shall be
held to include all State officers, inclu-
ding the senators and representatives
in the General assembly, all county,
township, city, village, school and other
officers deriving their authority under
the Constitution or laws of this State,
and the deputies of all officers. The
words "public agent shall be held to
include trustees, commissioners, acrchi-
tects, superintendents, engineers, sur
veyors, and all other persons acting in a
subordinate capacity, excepting con-
tractors, mechanics and laborers, in the
purchase, laying out, construction, re-
pair or management of any public ground
work, building, Improvement or insti-
tuition.
SEC. f. All prosecutions under the
provisions of this act shall be by indict-
ment before the Court of Common Pleas
in the county where the offense shall
have been committed
Sec. 5. This act shall be given
especially in charge to the grand jury by
the judges of the courts of common
pleas, but no prosecution shall be insti
tuted under it unles it shall be COM
menced within one year from the COM
mission of the offense.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect on
its passage.
RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives,
ROBERT C. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March 10, 1860.
mo. GIL AN ACT
TO enable Townships and Incorporated
Villages to establish Cemeteries COM
mon TO both.
SECTION 1. Be II enacted by the Gen.
.eral assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
it shall be lawful for the trustees of any
township, and the council of any incor-
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