Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
L A w S OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED nY AUTHORITY.


no. so AN ACT
TO regulate the taxation and payment of
a Costs in certain cases.
SECTION. L Be II enacted by the Gene
rat assembly efthe State Of Ohio, That
the costs of prosecution, SO far as relates
to the fees of constables justices, sherifs,
witnesses and clerks, shall be made out
by the. different officers claiming the
same, specifying the different items COM
prising the same according to the acts
regulating the fees of civil officers in
civil and criminal cases, aud the acts di-
recting the mode of trial in criminal
cases, and shall be by such persons
lodged with the clerk of the court be-
fore which any criminal may be convic-
ted during the time in which such CON
vIetion may be had, and the clerk shall
make out under his hand and the seal of
said courta true copy of all such charges,
which shall be examined, and if correct,
the same shall be allowed by the Judge
of said court, and forwarded with such
convict and delivered by the sheriff to
the warden of the penitentiary, and the
sheriff shall receive eight cents per mile
going to and returning from said pen
itentiary, to be computed from the seat
ofjustice Of the county in which the con-
viction took place by the usual route Of
travel, and he shall also receive the sum
offire cents per mile for transporting
every such convict, and shall be allowed
one guard for every two convicts so
transported, and shall receive six cents
per mile for the services of each guard
so employed, to be computed for the
game distance as the sheriff; and if at
any term of the court there should be
be the duty of the clerk to make out an
order directing the number of guards
not exceeding one guard to every two
convicts, exclusive of the sheriff, unless
in an extraordinary case, when, in the
opinion of the court a. greater number
shall benecessary for the safe Transports
ton ofsuch convi6ts, certificate whereof
shall be made out by the clerk under
the seal of the court and delivered to
thesherif, and he shall deliver the GER
tifcate to thewarden of the penitentiary,
who shall be governed thereby in making
out is order for the payment of such
transportation, and all charges of prose
cution and transportation made out
agreeably to the provisions of this act
and of the several acts herein referred
to-. shall be ldeliveredto the said warden,
and if upon examination he shall find
them to be correct, he shall certify a
correct copy thereof. with his allowance
thereof, to the Auditor of State, and the
Auditor shall, upon presentation OF such
certified copy and allowance, issue his
warrant for the amount upon the Treas
urerof State, who shall pay the same;
provided, no allowance shall be made for
the payment of any guard who shall not
have actually assisted in the transporta-
tionsof such conviets; and also provided,
the Sheriff shall not be entitled to charge
mileage for himself for transporting any
conviets to the penitentiary oftener than
once every twenty days.
SEC. 2. That the act entitled "an act
to amend the act entitled an act making
provision for carrying into effect the
act for the punishment of crimes, passed
February 26, 1885, and an act entitled
san act regulating the fees of sheriffs
in civil and criminal cases, passed March
13, 1897 passed January 4, 1888, be
and the same is [are] hereby repealed.
Sec. B. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
80 RICHARD c.. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT C. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March %, 1860.