Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-06

pose, and deliver certified copy of said
list to the treasurer and one to the pros
ecuting attorney of his county. And the
county auditor shall receive for his ser
vices, under this section, twenty-five
cents for each name contained in said
list. ~
SEC. 9. All prosecutions for offense
under this act, in all counties in this
State. wherein the probate court has, by
law, jurisdiction of misdemeanors con-
current with the court of common pleas,
shall be conducted in all respects in said
probate court, as provided in chapter
nine of title two of part three of the
Revised Statutes of Ohio. @
SEC. 10. In no prosecutions for crimes
and offenses under this act in the conrt
of common pleas in any county in this
State, shall an Indictment by the grand
jury be required but in all such cases
brought before said court the prosecu-
ting attorney shall Immediately file with
said court of common pleas an informa-
.tioa setzihg Forth briefly and distinctly,
In plain and ordinary language, the
charges against the accused person, and
on such charges such persons shall be
law for the trial of persons charged with
other crimes and otfenses on indictment
in said court of common pleas; but such
iRformations may be amended at any
time beforsoor during trial, on such
terms As TO continuance and otherwise,
as said eourt may direct. .--..
SEC. II. The prosecuting attorney of
any county Shall file his information
originallyin said court of common pleas,
with0at q preliminary hearing before an
examining court, upon the proper affida-
Wits being filed therein, and in like man
manner shall tile his information upon
the transcript of a criminal cause
brought for any offense under the pro-
visions of this act of any justice of the
peace, or mayor of any village or city,
which shall be filed in said court of COM
mon pleas. within ten days after the
cling thereof. by such justice or mayor.
SEQ. II. The prosecuting attorney shall
institute civil actions On all such bonds
given under this act, as shall have be-
come forfeited, for which, as well as for
all fines and COSTS he shall be entitled to
receive, as fees, ten per cent. of all sums
by him collected thereon. after process
com menoed. 7- e.f.-
SEo. Is. All funds paid into the eoun-
ty treasury under the provisions of this
act shall be credited two-thirds, to the
villages and cities from
which said funds were received, and
shall be paid to such townships, villages
and cities by said treasurer for general
expenses of such corporations and town
ships, and the remaining one-third to-
the general county fund.- except the as
placed upon the business of
persons who have no fixed place of bus
mess in the State. which sum shall be
paid into the, State Treasury upon the
certificate of the Auditor of State to the
areditOf The general revenue fund. 9ii
SEC. IA. For the purpose of paying the
fixed and giving the bond
required by this act, and for no other
purpose Hereunder, firm or corpora
lion may be treated and considered as
Dne person. and the use and sale eof in
tOxicatiHg liquors, in good faith, for
purely medicinal purposes. by lawfully
authorized physicians in their regular
practices, or of pure alcohol for mechan-
cal purposes, or of other intoxicating
liquors by druggists upon a written Or
Ter or prescription of such physician
for such purposes, shall not be deemed
traffic within the meaning of this act.
SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall op-
crate to repeal, supercede or impair any
existing statSte or any provision there
Of, nor shall anything in this act be con-
strued or held to authorize or license in
any way the sale Of Intoxicating Ii
IuOrs.
SEC. 16. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the first day
1f May, 1882.