Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-10
LAWS OF OHIO
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from such levy should be set apart exclusively
for the purposes of said purchase; provided. the
aggregate amount levied for said purpose shall
not exceed Eve thousand dollars
Sec. 2. Whenever the council of any mu'
nicipal corporation, as aforesaid, shall have
passed an ordinance for the levy of the taxei
authorized by the foregoing section, it shall be
lawful for such council to proceed to purchase
land for Q cemetery, and may pledge 70 the
vendor thereof the money arising from said levy
IN payment therefor, 90 Ear as the same shall De
necessary, together with seyenty-f per cen
tum of the money ACQUIRING from the sale by
such corporation, of lots in such cemetery, as
hereinafter provided, upon full pay yment 70 me
vendor, of the purchase money for sald iaad
said municipal corporation may receive irom the
vendor an absolute conveyance tnereoi:
Sec 3. The council Of any municipal cor
poration which has purchased or may hereafter
purchase land for cemetery, may cause the
same to be laid out into lots, avenues alleys, or
other subdivisions, as shall be deemed eIpedi-
ent, which lots shall be numbered and the ave-
nuess named, and a plat thereof made and
kept in the Office Of the clerk or recorder, for
the use of the public.
Sec. 4. For the purpose Of defraying the ex-
pense of purchasing, improving and embellish-
ing such cemetery, the council of such munich
pal corporation may sell at private sale, or pub
lie vendue, from time to time. such number
of said lots, and upon such terms and condi-
tions as may be deemed advisable, and may
cause to be executed to the purchasers OF said
lots such conveyance as may be necessary to
carry into effect said contracts of sale, and said
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ceiFiag them, be recorded in a book to be kept
for that purpose, by the clerk or recorder OF
such municipal corporation.
Sec. S. Seventy five per eentum of the pur-
chase money arising from the sale of said lots
shall be set apart, and applied to the payment
of the purchase money due to the vendor OF
said cemetery grounds, and to the repayment
of.such sums as may have been paid by such
municipal corporation under the provisions Of
this act, until the same shall be fully discharged,
and the residue Of the money arising from said
sales shall be applied to defray the expenses Of
improving and embellishing said cemetery
grounds. sas 90.
Sec. g. The council of any municipal cor
poration owning "a cemetery, shall have full
power to pass all ordinances necessary TO carry
into effect the provisions of this act, to regu
late said cemetery, the improvement of the
same and the burial Of the dead therein, to define
the tenure and conditions on which lots therein
shall be held, to protect said cemetery and all
fixtures thereon, and to punish all violations of
such ordinances whether said cemetery be sit
uated within or without the limits of such cor
poration.
Sec, 7. This act to take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March II, 1860.
(No. 56.) AN ACT
To provide for the more efectual punish
ment of certain ofenses.
SEcrIoN L. Be 1t enacted by tile Gen.
eral assembly of the State of Ohio, That
whenever hereafter any person shall be convic-
ted of any criminal offense, committed after the
passage Of this act, all or any part of the pun
ishment of which by laws is an imprisonment in
the county jail, the court, in lieu Of such impris-
onment may, on the recommendation Of the pros
ecuting attorney, sentence such person to hard
labor in the Jail of the proper county, any
length of time not exceeding six months, and
by law fixed as the penalty for said offenses re-
spectively ,at the discretion of the court.
Sec 2. That labor thus TO be performed
shall be under the direction of the commits
sioners of the county who may adopt such orders,
rules and regulations in relation thereto as they
may deem best, and the sheriff or other officer
having the custody of such convicts shall be
governed thereby; and it shall be the duty of
the sheriff of the county to collect and pay into
the treasury of the county the amount Of the
ayails of the labor of such convicts, aud take
the treesurer's receip. therefor, which receipt
he shall forthwith deposit with the auditor of
the county.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of enabling
the county commissioners of any county in this
State to employ, in profitable manner, all per-
sons who may be convicted under the proris-
ions Of this act, the county jail, in such eases.
is hereby declared to extend to any stone quarry
or quarries. road or roads, or other place or
places within the limits of the proper county.
at which the convicts may be adgantageously
employed, without the walls of the prison, by
the county commissioners aforesaid.
Sec, 4. That all other acts heretofore passed
inconsistent with ihe provisions of this act, be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after its passage.
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
March Is, 1860.