Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-07

SUCH company SNa!l receive the sum al
/ lowed to the minimum number of men
necessary for an infantry company, and
in proportion if their numbers are less
than twenty men, to meet the increased
expense incidental to the care of cannon,
rent of ar1uory and gun room, and the
care of small arms to them issue :
SEC. TO- This act shall take effect on
and from its passage.
ED. A. PARROTT,,
Speaker pro tenn. Of the House of Rep
fesentatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed April II, 1861.
| TNo. 81. AN ACT
Elementary to the act passed May 3.
1852, to provide for the organization
of cities and incorporated villages.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Cen
eraz assembly of tie State of Ohio, That
the council of any incorporated village
which at the last federal census had a
population of not less than two thou
sand inhabitants, shall have power to
purchase a site and to erect and main
tain village prison, and for the pur-
chase of the site and the erection Of the
prison they may, for not more than
three years, levy a tax not exceeding
one mill on the dollar valuation of the
taxable property Of said village. The
prison to be in keeping and control of
the village marshal, under such rules
and regulations as the council shall pre-
scribe j shall be his duty to provide
all persons confined therein with neccs-
sary food during their confinement, and
the cost thereof, not exceeding twenty
| five cents per day to each person, to be
paid out Of the treasury and taxed in
the bill of costs. The council may, by
ordinance, provide for the keeping of
persons, convicted and sentenced to
hard labor, during the term Of their
| imprisonment, at such place or places
within the corporation as the said coun-
Gil may determine.
SEC. 2. The council Of such incorpo-
rated village shall have power to pro-
vide by ordinance for the summoning
and impanneling of juries by the mayor
of the village; such juries shall have the
qualifications Of juries in the court Of
common pleas. Jurors and witnesses
in all prosecutions before the mayor,
for violations of the village ordinances.
shall receive the same fees that are al
lowed by law in civil actions before
justices Of the peace; the fees of the
mayor and marshal in such cases shall
be provided for by ordinance, all of
which fees, in case of conviction, shall
be taxed against the parties convic-
ted and in case of acquittal shall be
taxed against the village, and except
the fees of the mayor and marshaD
shall be paid out Of the village treasury
upon the certificate of the mayor. The
mayor shall have exclusive jurisdiction
in all prosecutions for violations of the
village ordinance, with full power to
hear and determine the same, where a
jury is not demanded, in cases where it
may be properly claimed; he may award
and issue any process that may be ne
cessary to enforce the administration of
right and justice throughout the village,
and for the lawful exercise Of his juris-
diction, according to the usages Of law.
SEC. 3. That the council Of any in
eorporated village having the population
named in the first section of this act, shall
have power to provide by ordinance for
the punishment of persons disturbing the
good order aud quiet of the village,
by clamor and noise in the mig ght season,
by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting,
using obscene and profane language in
the streets or other public places, to the
annoyance of it's citizens. or otherwise
violating the public peace by indecent
and discrderly conduct or by lewd and
lascivious behavior; and they shall have
power, in like manner, to provide for
the punishment Of disturbers Of the
peace, common prostitutes, pickpockets,
burglars and thieves, watch suffers, and
persons practicing any trick or game,
with intent to swindle, and persons who
abuse their families; and such punish
lnent may be either by imposing and
collecting fines, or by Imprisonment at
hard labor, or both, at the discretion
of the court. Proridcd, that no such
person SHALL be fined for single offeuse
to exceed fifty dollars, and that such
Imprisonment at hard labor for the first
offense shall not exceed thirty days; and
for the SECOND or any further repetition
of the same ofense, not exceeding sixty
days. They shall have power to pro-
vide that all persons WHO shall refuse or
neglect to pay the fine imposed on con-
viction of any offense, together with the
costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned
and kept at hard labor, until at the
rate of one dollar for each day S labor ex-
elusive of Sunday they shall have earned
an amount equal to such fines and costs
but not exceed the time above named
They shall also have power to make suit
able regulations to conduct such labor tc
the best advantage and In manner con-
sistent with the proprieties due to age and
sex, and just regard to the health o.
the prisoners.
SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be
ia force from and after its passage.
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate
Passed April 10, 1861.
I ITNo. 581 AN ACT
To provide for uniform standard O.
weights and measures.
/ SECTION !. Be 1t enacted BY the Gen
eraS assembly Of the State Of Ohio, Tha
there shall be but one standard of meas
ure, Of length and Of surface, one o
weight and one of measure OF capacity
throughout this state.
Sec. 2. That the standard Of weight: