Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-05-24
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(No. 4s) AN ACT
To amend section one OF an act entitled ian
act to provide for the collection Of claims
against Steamboats, and other Water
crafts and authorizing proceedings against
the same by name passed April ~, 1858.
Section I. Be it enacted by the Genera
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That section
one Of the above recited act be amended 50
as TO read as follows: Section /. That all
steamboats, and other water crafts of twenty
tons burthen and upwards, navigating the
waters within or bordering upon this State,
shall be liable, and such liability shall be a
lien thereon, for all debts contracted on &C.
count thereof by the mister, owner, steward,
consignee or other agent, for materials,
supplies, or labor in the building, repairing,
furnishing or equipping the same, or for in
surance, or due for wharfage. and also for
damages arising out Of any contract for the
transportation of goods or persons, or for
injuries done to persons or property by such
craft, or for any damages or injury done by
the captain, mate or other officers thereof,
or by any person under the order or sanction
Of either Of them, to any person who may
be passenger or hand on such steamboat
or other water craft, at the time Of the in
Fiction of such Gamsgs or injury.
Sec. 2. That section one of the act to
which this is amendatory. be and the same
is hereby repealed. This act to take effect
from and after its passage.
RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President Of the Senate.
Passed March 10, 1860.
(No. 54) AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled "an Act regula-
ting the mode of administering A Assign
ments in trust for the benefit Of Creditors, -
passed April 6, 1859.
Section l. Be il enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That section
one of at act entitled ian act regulating the
mode of administering assignments in trust
| for the benefit Of creditors" be SO amended
as to read as follows: Section |. That when
any person shall make an assignment to a
trustee of sny property, money, rights or
credits 10 trust for the benefit Of creditors it
shall be the duty of said trustee, within ten
days after the delivery Of the assignment to
him, and be fore dsposing of any property
SO assigned, to appear before the probate
Judge o. the county in which the assignor
resided a, the time Of executing the said as
signment, produce The original assignment
or copy thereof, cause the same to be filed
in the probate court, and enter into an under.
taking, payable to the State of Ohio, in
such sum and with such sureties as shall be
approved by the judge, conditioned for the
faithful performance by said trustee, of his
duties according TO law; on which underta.
king any person injured by the misconduc,
or neglect of duty of the assignee in regard
to said trust may bring an action thereon, in
a his own name, against the assignee ard his
+ suretics. to recover the amount to which he
may be entitled BY reason of the delinquen
cy. A judgment in favor Of party for one
delinquency shall not preclude the SAINT
I, party from an action in the same under
taking for another delinquency, nor shel
such judgments preclude any other party
from bringing actions on such undertaking
The probate judge shall have the power II
i require the assignee to execute an a1ditiona
undertaking whenever the interests of tn
creditors OF the assignor demand the same
and action may be brough. thereon as upo
an original undertaking.
r Sec. g. That section one of the act {,
q which this is an amendment be and the sam
is hereby repealed; provided, however, tina
! such repeal shall not effect any undertaking
heretofore executed in pursuance of SAT-
o section one, nor any action founded thereon
which is now pending!
Sec. 8. That in all cases Of assignment
of personal property made after the tak;n!
y effect of this act, which shall come within
the provisions Of the act TO which this Is al
i amendment all taxes of every description
A assessed against the assignor, upon any per
sonal property held by him before his as
+ signment, shall be paid by the assignee ou
of the proceeds of the sale Of the persona
4 property assigned in preference to any othe
q claims against the sssigncr.
a Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and b,
a in force from and after it's passage.
RICHARD PARSONS,
Sneaker of the House of Representatives.
:, ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March Is. 1850.
h TNo. Ill AN ACT
+ supplementary to'sn act entitled "an &C
g for the support and better regulation o
; Common Schools in the town of Akron,
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