The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-05-05
New Ohio State Laws
AS Enacted This Year


ties to be levied for the relief of the
needy blind three and one-half tenths
of one mill.
Requiring the payment of fees for IL
censes in the Lake Erie fishing district
for fishing with gill nets, and the issu-
ance of metal tags for boats engaged in
such business.
Relating to the amount lands may be
sold for upon appraisment by permitting
private sale under a 800 valuation after
no bids have been received.
Fixing the date when county auditors
shall advertise the sale of delinquent
lands to conform to the extension of the
time for paying taxes.
FlXing the date when county treaSurers
shall offer delinquent lands for sale to
conform to the extension of time for pay
ing taxes.
Allowing county commissioners 50 a
day in addition to their salaries for their
work as appraisers of land.
Authorizing county commissioners to
appoint delinquent tax collectors and fix
ing the compensation at IS per cent Of
the amount collected.
Laws Affecting Schools.
Providing that a state normal school
diploma granted ON two years aca-
demic and professional course, shall en-
title the holder to a provisional elemen-
tary school certificate valid for three
years. Further, that a diploma from a
similar school of education, granted on
graduation or four years course, shall
entitle the holder to provisional certifi-
cate, valid for four years in any high
school.
Making the maximum amount to be re-
ceived by member of the teachers PEN
sion fund $3.50 instead of $500, and provid-
ing that one-half of the time of such PEN
sioner must have been rendered in teach
ing in the district in which the pension
fund is located.
Providing that the clerk of the town
ship shall be made the clerk of the town.
ship board of education upon the organ
iZation of the board.
Prohibiting boards of education of spe-
clad school districts from discriminating
between different portions of a district in
the transportation of pupils.
Appropriations for the Miami univer-
sity, Ohio university and the several nor
NAL colleges.
Appropriating $247O,OCO for the support
of the common schools.
Providing for certificate from the
clerk or auditor Of the county commis-
sioners, township trustees or a board of
education, stating that sufficient money
is in the appropriate fund for the pur-
poses intended.
Adding special school districts to the
list of schools as provided for under Sec
ton 4029-1, relating to examinations to
enter high schools.
Giving the same privileges to pupils in
the public schools who live in the city
and remove to the rural sections, under
the Boxwell law, as those who reside in
the rural sections and remove to the city.
Authorizing township boards of educa-
ton to submit the question of central
izing the high schools to the voters of the
territory affected at a special as well as
a regular election.
AuthNrizipo hoordc of cd tn ac.
tablish library construction fund
Providing for extension work by
College of Agriculture and Domestic
Science of the Ohio State university and
authorizing railways to transport the
necessary paraphernalia for travelling
schools free of charge.
Providing for the establishment OF spe-
cial elementary schools by city school
boards for the education Of youth afflicted
with tuberculosis and excluding such
pupils from the regular schools.
Providing that amount of school treas
urer's bond is discretionary with the
board when funds are on deposit.
Laws Affecting Ohio Counties.
Authorizing the county commissioners
of any county to treat improved or ma
cadamized roads with oil or tar when Pc
titioned therefor by majority of the
foot frontage of the line of road, the
abutting land to pay Is per cent and the
county IS per cent of the cost of IT,
same.
County commissioners to furnish suit
able tablets to mark the graves of de-
ceased soldiers
Authorizing townshiO trustees to ex-
pend money levied and collected for road
purposes under an act declared by the
courts to be unconstitutional.
Distinctly defining control and super
vision of all county roads and turnpikes
as belonging to county commissioners
and all township roads as belonging to
the township trustees.
Authorizing the county commissioners
to issue bonds without a vote of the peo-
pie for the purpose of rebuilding an in
| firmary or courthouse destroyed by fire
or other casualty.
| Permitting appeal for damages when
county commissioners refuse to estab-
lish or construct a ditch, being an exten-
| sion of the law Of damages which now
relates only to such injury occurring
through the construction of a ditch.
| Empowering county commissioners tC
contract with a municipality owning a
workhouse for the care of prisoners SEN
fenced by peace officers within the coun,
| ty limits.
Authorizing county commissioners tt
make ,ten-year contracts for light, heal
and power for unfinished county build.
ings.
Requiring the condemnation and free
| lIlS Ol dIl GNlSIlI6 toll lOduS III Vim
within six months after the operation o.
| the act.
Laws Affecting the Judiciary.
Confirming the title of g. common pleas
| Judge in Lucas county elected under al
act passed in 1869, which was temporary
but which was believed to be permanent
Authorizing the first assistant attor
ney general to appear for his principa
on the part of the state in any mattel
pending before grand jury
Providing for the election of an addi
tional judge of the common pleas cour
in the Ninth judicial district.
Requiring either to a bribery transac
| ton to give testimony without regard t.
| his incrimination and granting immunit!
| from prosecution after testifying If tn
evidence is not perjured.
Restricting the Jurisdiction of a certain
| justice OF the peace in Franklin count!
to that part of the township for which hD
was elected which was not annexed t.
| the city of Columbus.
Providing for the permanency of a com
mon pleas iudgeship in Summit count!
created professionally in 1906.
Authorizing the payment out of count!
judiciary funds the salaries and othe
compensation of probate court con
stables.
Empowering courts to name either on
or two instead of five trustees for tn
control and management of entailed es
tates.
New Railroad Laws.
Authorizing the formation of union in
terurban terminal and depot companie
and comforting upon them the right o
eminent domain in order to appropriate
property for buildings, tracks an'
| switches.
Empowering the State Railway Com
mission to inquire into claim agains
railroads for damages to shippers whic
have not been settled within 80 days afte
presentation, and further empowerin;
the commission to certify the same t
common pleas courts as judgments in tn
event that no resistance is made by tn
i defendant
Authorizing railway companies to exer
else the right of eminent domain for tn
Ind, as the company is an Indiana cor
poration. Attorney Clem Huggins, II