Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-05-03
NEW SERIES-vOt. 22-NO. II.

same grade not on time, and engines, wit,
cars attached, not on timc shall take prece
dence of engines without cars attached il mo-
on time. The sanle rule as above provided
shall apply in all respects where the track!
OF two railroads in any way connect.
SEC. 2. 1t shall b, tho duty of the mana
ging agent or superintendent on every rail
road In the State of Ohio, Immediately aitcl
the taking effect OF this act, to establish and
publish to ell tbs employees on said railroad
such rules and regulations as shall, in all
cases, secure strict compliance with the pro-
visions of the foregoing section, and to re-
puOlish such rules or regulations on every
time table or card issued to the employee:
on said road anu in case such managing
agent Or superintendent shall fail or neglect
to establish and publish such rules and regu.
lntions, or to re.publish the same on each
time table or card issued to the Employed
on said road for every such neglect or refu
sal said managing agent or superintendent
shall be personally liable 10 penalty Of ope
hundred dollars, to be recovered, together
with costs, in an action against him In favor
of the State oi Ohio TO be brought In the
Court Of Common Pleas Of any county where
any such crossing may exist; any such agent
or superintendent, and the railroad company
of which he is agent or superintendent, shall
company who may be injured IN person OF
property by any accident arising from ne
glecs to establish, publish or re-publish such
rules and regulations as above provided, and
said agent or superintendent shall also be
liable to a criminal prosecution therefor.
SEC. Q. That every engineer, or person in
charge of an engine who shall fail to comply
with the provisions of tho first section of this
act. and shall fail to b ing the engine of
which he is in charge, with the train, if any
thereto attached, to a full stop al least two
hundred feet before arriving at any railroad
crossing or connection, or shall cross the
same before signalled so to do by the watch
man, or before the way is clear, shall be per
sonally liable therefor to a penalty of one
hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil ac-
tlon, at the suit of the State of Ohio in the
Court ofCommon Pleas of any county where
any such crossing or connection exists, and
the company in whose employ such engineer
or person in charge Of an engine may be, es
well as the person himself, shall be liable in
damages to any person or company who
may be injured in person or property by the
ne glect or act of said engineer or person in
charge of an engine as aforesaid; and such
engineer or person in charge of an engine
shall also, in case any person be killed by
reason of his neglect or failure to bring such
engine anu ttdlB vi IL any IneTe U0 Az
tathed thereto, to a full stop at least two
hundred feet before reaching a crossing OF
connection with the track Of another railroad
or by reason of his crossing the same before
being signalled so to do by the watchmau
there stationed, or before the way is clear
be liable to indictment, conviction and pun
ishment for manslaughter; or in case any
person sustain bodily injury, not affecting
life, by reason thereof, then such engineer OF
person in charge of an engine as aforesaid
shall be considered guilty of misdcmeanor,
and shall on conviction thereof in the proper
court of the county where such bodily inju-
ry occurred, be imprisoned in the Jail of the
county not less than one nor more than
twenty months, or be fined in any sum not
more than five hundred dollars, or both at
the discretion of tho court.
SEC. 4. That section six of the act entitled
can net 10 amend the act entitled an act to
provide for the creation and regulation OF
incorporated companies in the State of Ohio,''
passed April 6, 1857, bo and the sameis here
by repealed.
SEC. s. This act shall take effect, from and
after its passage. -
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March "a, 1890,