Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-05

tors OF tolls, appointed under the pro-
visions of this act, shall receive respec-
lively the following annual salaries, viz:
AT Cleveland, one thousand dollars; at
Akron, eight hundred dollars; at Mas
sillon, six hundred dollars; at Dover, six
hundred dollars; at Roscoe, six hundred
dollars; at Dresden, five hundred dollars;
at GAINESVILLE, seven hundred dollars; at
Newark, six hundred dollars; at Carroll,
six hundred dollars; at Columbus, six
hundred dollars; at Circleville, six hun
dred dollars; at Chillicothe, seven hun
dred dollars; at Portsmouth, seven hun
dred dollars; at Cincinnati, one thousand
dollars; at Waverly, FIVE hundred dollars;
at Middletown, six hundred dollars; at
Dayton, eight hundred dollars; at Ham
ilton, six hundred dollars; at Piqua, eight
hundred dollars; at ST. Mary's, six hun
ared dollars; at Junction, one thousand
dollars; at Maumee City, five hundred
dollars; at Toledo, one thousand dollars;
at McConnelsville, five hundred dollars;
at Harmar, six hundred dollars; and at
Logan, six hundred dollars.
The collectors Office at Delphos is
hereby abolished, and the Office at De-
| flame is removed to junction.
Weighmasters at Tole 10 and Cleveland
shall each receive five hundred and fifty
dollars per annum; no deputy weigh
master shall be hereafter appointed.
Inspectors at Toledo and Cleveland
shall each receive four hundred and
fifty dollars per annum; at Cincinnati,
seven hundred dollars; the inspector S
Office at junction is hereby discontinued.
! No lock tender shall hereafter be ap-
pointed except at bulkhead or feeder
| locks.
The board of public works shall have
power to abolish any collectors Office,
or to change the location thereof to such
place as to them shall be deemed expe-
dient for the service and interest of the
State, but no increase of salary to the
collectors shall be allowed in consequence
of such removal, nor shall any new
Office be established in any case what
ever. The salaries of the several officers
above enumerated shall be paid in
quarterly installments, at the close of
each fiscal quarter, as now established,
out Of the State treasury, upon the war
rant Of the Auditor of State; but the said
Auditor shall not draw his warrant with
cut the check of the acting Commissioner
of the, proper division, for the amount
due such officer, for such quarter, or any
part thereof, according to the facts of
the case; and it is hereby made the duty
of such acting Commissioner to ascertain
the amount due for services of each Of
said officers, quarterly, and to issue his
check accordingly, in the same manner
as for any other claim against the State.
Sec. 13 There shall be appointed by
the board of public works, as soon after
the passage Of this act as they may deem
expedient, a secretary to said board,
whose term of Office shall commence on
the first Monday of April next, and be
for one year; and such appointment shall
thereafter be made annually by said
board, to be for the same term, com
mencing at the expiration of the term of
the incumbent; and said secretary shall
receive an annual salary of one thousand
dollars, payable quarterly in the same
manner that the other appointees are
paid; and said board shall also have
power to appointsuch clerks, temporarily
or as the public service in their opin-
ion may require, and may pay them such
reasonable compensation as they may
deem just, not exceeding two dollars per
day for the time actually employed, by
check as in other similar cases; the sec
retary shall be subject to removal at any
time by majority Of said board for neg
lect of duty or malfeasance in office. 1t
shall be the duty of the board, when as
sembled togetheri in their official capacity,
to keep correct and complete journal
Of their proceedings, which shall at all
times be subject to the inspection Of
committee Of either branch Of the gene
raj assembly, or of any person author
lied by law to examine the same, or any
T srson who may be interested in the pro-
ceedings Of said board.
Sec. IA. 1t shall be the duty of the
board of public works to report annually
to the governor, at least ten days before
the assembling Of the general assembly,
and said report to be by him transmitted
along with his message to the general
assembly. Said report shall contain
full and accurate account of all moneys
expended on each of the public works
during the year ending oa the fifteenth
day Of November next preceding said
report, the aggregate amount OF work
contracted for during the year, the
amount of money expended or allowed
p.f nTH
the total value of all the work under
contractremaining to be executed ,estlma-
ted in each case at contract prices, to-
gether with the estimated cost of all the
work in progress of execution, and such
other information in relation to the
public Improvements as they may deem
needful to the General Assembly. They
shall also report the revenue derived
from each of the Public Works by tolls
and other sources, how the same are
levied, the manner of their collection,
together with an estimate, if necessary
of such appropriations as may be re-
quired to reconstruct and keep in repair
the Public Works of the State. The
said Board of Public Works shall also
in their Annual Report, give list of
all Resident Engineers, Assistant En-
gineers, Collectors of Tolls, superinten-
dents of Repairs, Weighmasters, Deputy
Weighmasters, Inspectors, Lock Tenders,
Gate Keepers and clerks, who may
have been employed by said Board du-
ring the year preceding said Report
together with the amount of salary, al
lowance or perquisites paid to each,
whether such salary, allowance and per-
quisites are fixed by law or allowed by
the Board or an Acting Commissioner
thereof; and also the amount paid and
allowed for their own salaries and the
contingent expenses Of their office.
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