Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-12

of each and every month, by the asses
sor of the township, aud the auditor and
treasurer Of each and every county into
which such transient person shall re-
move, and shall offer to sell or other
wise dispose of any books, goods, wares
or merchandise, as above described.
SEC t. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
p. HITCHCOCK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
JAMES MONROE,
President pro tenn. Of the Senate.
Passed May l3, 1861.
No. 81. AN ACT
Making appropriations for the main
tenance and repair of the Public
Works from February Is, to June l,
1861, and for the payment of outstand-
ing Indebtedness.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted Iy tie Gen
eral assembly Of tie State Of OHIO, That
there is hereby appropriated in addition
to the unexpended balance of former ap-
preparations, (and that the same may be
paid, the restrictive proviso attached to
the canal appropriation act, passed
March 26, 1860, is hereby repealed to
be paid out Of any money in the treas
ury from general revenue, not other
wise appropriated, for the maintcnanc e
of the public works for the above named
period, subject to the check of the COM
missioner in charge Of the respective di-
visions for which the appropriations are
made, the sums following:
For general superintendent, con-
struction and repairs of the northern
division of the Ohio and the Walhond-
ing canal, and the Western Reserve and
Maumee Road, the sum Of four thou
sand dollars.
For general superintendent, con-
struction and repairs of the southern di-
vision of the Ohio and the Hooking ca
nails and the Muskingum Improvement,
the sum Of eighteen thousand dollars
For general superintendence, con-
struction and repairs of the Miami and
Erie canal, the sum of eighteen thou
sand five hundred dollars
For the purchase Of lands and pay
ment Of damages to lands on the bor-
dcrs of the Mercer County Reservoir,
the sum of six thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
For the payment Of salaries of collee-
Fors, veg masters and inspectors, the
sum Of FIVE thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars.
For the payment Of salaries Of resi-
dent engineers for the fiscal year 1861,
the sum of six thousand dollars.
For attorneys fees and incidentals,
the sum of one thousand dollars. For
the payment of damages to land, the
sum of one thousand dollars For the
purchase Of land, five hundred dollars.
For Incidental expenses of the office of
the board of public works, the sum of
one thousand five hundred dollars; and
for the payment of salary of secretary
of said board, the sum Of one thousand
dollars-subiect to the check of the
president Of said board.
For the payment of the salaries Of
the members of the board, the sum of
four thousand five hundred dollars, to
be drawn on the warrant of the auditor
of state
For the purchase or condemnation
Of lands in the Lewistown reservoir,
subject to the check of the commits
sioner in charge of the same, the sum Of
thirty thousand dollars: Provided, that
upon the affidavit of any member of the
board of public works that justice can
not be done to the state in the trial of
cases for the appropriation of said lands
in the county in which said lands are
situated, it shall .e the duty of the
court to change the venue and transfer
said cases for trial to the probate court
of some adjoining county.
SEC. 2. There is also hereby appro-
priated for the payment of outstanding
Indebtedness on divisions number one
and two, contracted previous to Novem-
ber Is, 1860, the following sums:
For the payment of checks issued by
4. l.. Backus to contractors and super
intendents prior to February Is, 1861,
the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars.
For the payment of engineers GER
tifcates to contractors for work done
on the Muskingum Improvement, the
sum Of eleven thousand five hundred
and seventy -four dollars and twenty
seven cents.
For the payment of checks issued to
contractors by John B. Gregory, for de-
ferred payments under their contracts,
the sum of seven thousand nine hundred
and thirty eight dollars: Provided, that
said checks and certificates be paid only
according to priority of date Of said
checks and certificates.
Sec. 3. The board of public works
are hereby authorized, if practicable, to
cause to be made by some competent
engineer, not now in the service OF the
state, measurement and estimate OF
the work done by contract on the Ohio
canal and the Muskingum improvement
under the order of the board OF public
works, providing for the repairs OF the
canals and improvement, after the food
of April, 1860, and said contractors shall
be paid according to said revised estl-
mates and measurements, deducting from
the amount of the checks or certificates
held by them or adding to, as the case
may require, according to the revised
estimates and e-measurement: Provl-
ded, that such re-measurement shall be
made in thirty days from the passage OF
this act.
Sec. 1. The board of public works,