Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-05-27

TIN ACT Of the Legislature for turning oyer
10 the Trustees Of the township The fair
groundh and substituting public for pri.
vate institution, has been submitted for pub
lication, and VIC would CaIl The attention Of
our citizens TO II as copied below. Our Con.
neaul friends, recognizing 'he deslrableness Of
keeping up annual fairs, and securing 10 the
people security Of this popular entertain.
mcnt, and realizing the difficulty Of 80 doing
when the contingencies Of weather are con,
sldercd, lead off In this course, with the OBJ.
ject Of giving the thing the character Of a
permanent and reliable establishment. Their
course commended itself to the good sense of
our citizens, and they at once procured,
through Representative FITcH, the passage of
a similar act It's publication herewith will
afford the people an opportunity to weigh It's
provisions and thus prepare themselves TO pass
upon il If submitted to an expression at the
ballot box. The proposition of the Driving
Park Association. we understand to be, is to
turn the properly over TO the Trustees at the
purchase price, with six per cent interest
from the time Of purchase, and the buildings
and work upon the track, as they were the re-
suit of private contributions, to pass with the
soil If such an arrangement should fail, nc
private enterprise is likely to keep up the in
stitution, aud the land and all that has been
expended upon 1t, will revert TO the origina
owners of the soil.
AN ACT, to authorize the trustees of Ashta
bula township, Ashtobula county, Ohio, &c
purchase Fair Ground, and to levy tax fol
the payment thereof:
SEC. l.-Be It enacted by the General As
sembly Of the State of Ohio, that the trustees
of the township of AshtaDula, Ashtabula Co.
Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized tC
purchase for township fair ground and othe
township purposes, the tract of land now uset
by the Union Driving Park Association. ant
comprising about seventeen acres of land, anC
to pay therefor sum not exceeding finy.fivt
| hundred dollars, and the same to be conveyed
to the said township of Asbtabula in fep sim
pie.
SEC. 2-That for the purpose of paying 70
said land and for that purpose only, the trus
tees of the said township ofAehta6ula, Ashta
bula county, Ohio, are hereby authorized an,
empowered to levy n tax upon all the taxable
property of said township, both real and per
sonal, in the years 1871 1872, 1873 and 1874
or either, or both, as they may determine
and the same to be certified by said trustees I,
the County Auditor, by whom the same shal
be entered upon the duplicate of said county
and collected as other taxes. And the none
so raised shall be paid over to the Treasure
of said township of Ashtabula. to be paid on
by him on the order of the township trustees
certified by the township Clerk provided
that before said trustees shall make said levy
they shall submit TO the electors of said town
ship, at some regular or special election til
question ms to the expediency Of making sal
purchase and levies; and of which said cleo
ton, notice shall be given as required by Law
for the election of township officers.
SEC. Sat said election, the electors sha
have written or printed. or partly written G
: printed, the words, For Fair Grounds, Yes
OF For Fair Grounds, No" and if q majorit
of all the electors of said township of Asht'
bula, voting at said election upon this que;
tion. shall vote "For Fair Ground, Yes" til
act shall thereupon be considered and holde
to have been adopted by such majority.
SEC. 4-The township trustees of said towi
ship of Ashtabula, shall have full power an
authority to lease said grounds for, and to pc
nit the same to be used fair ground.
Sec. 5-This act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage,