Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-04-12

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ture just before the spring election this year
passed an act regulating the terms of town.
ship officers, and that under the new law
township treasurers were elected for two
years. By examining the law, it will be seen
that treasurers elected at the annual election,
''next after the passage of this act," shall be
for one year:
AN ACT,
To amend sections 144S, as amended March
8, 1886, and 1881, as amended April 10, 1881
of the Revised Statutes.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That sections
144S as amended March 8, 1886, and 1881
as amended April 15, 1881, of the Revised
Statutes, be so amended as to read as fol-
lows:
Sec. 1448. After the judges and clerks
have been qualified as aforesaid, the electors
shall proceed to the election of one town.
ship clerk, one trustee, one township treas
urer, and such number of constables as may
be directed by the trustees, and one super
visor of roads by the electors of each road
district, and one assessor for the township,
or if the township is divided into two or more
election precincts, then for each precinct in
which such election is held, and the judges
and clerks in discharging their duties in said
election, shall be governed in all respects by
the law regulating elections, but it shall not
be necessary to send poll book to the clerk
of the court of common pleas of the proper
county; and in case any two or more persons
have the highest and an equal number of
votes for any one of the township offices di-
rected to be filled, the clerks and judges of
the election shall determine by lot which of
the persons is duly elected, and the officers
so elected shall hold their respective offices
for the following terms, and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified: Super
vlsors of roads and assessors, one year; town
ship clerk and treasurer, two years; and con-
stables, three years; and trustees, three
years; provided, that at the first annual cleo
tion of any new township, there shall be
elected three trustees, the one receiving the
highest number of votes, to serve three years;
the one receiving the next highest number of
votes to serve two years; and the one receiv-
ing the next highest number of votes to serve
one year; should any two or more of those
elected receive the same number of votes,
they at the first meeting of the board after
their election shall determine py lot the term
for which each of them receiving an equal
number of votes shall respectively hold the
office; and provided that at the next annual
election after the passage of this act, and at
the t1rst election of any new township, a
treasurer shall be elected for one year, and
clerk for two years, and thereafter town.
ship treasurer and clerk shall not be elected
at the same annual election.
SEC. 1881. The clerk shall be entitled to
the following fees, to be paid by the parties
requiring the services: Twenty-Five cents for
recording each mark or brand: ten cents for
every hundred words of record required in
the establishment of township roads, to be
opened and repaired by the parties; and ten
cents for each hundred words of records or
copies in matters relating to partition fences,
but not less than twenty-five cents for any
one copy, to be paid out of township treas
ury; ten cents for every hundred words of
record required in the establishment of town
ship roads, to be opened and kept in repair
by the supervisors; and for keeping the
record of the proceedings of the trustees,
stating and making copies of accounts and
settlements, attending suits for and against
the township, and for any other township
business the trustees require him to perform
such reasonable compensation as they may
allow; bnt in no one year shall he be entitled
to more than one hundred and fifty dollars;
provided, that in any county of the State
containing city of the first grade of the first
class, the township trustees of any township
in such county may allow the township clerk
a compensation not exceeding six hundred
dollars.
SEo.2. That sections 144s, as amended
March 8, 1886, and 1881, as amended April 15,
1881, of the Revised Statutes are repealed.
passage.
ELBERT L. LAMPSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
VIM. G. LYON,
President of the Senate.
Passed March 30 1883.