Year: 1860

icOWIHOu SFdue tHe cTOSSlHSS SHdll Ut
made, kept up, and watchmen maintained
lat the joint expense Of the companies
downing said tracks, and all trains or en-.
lgines passing over said tracks shall come
to full stop not nearer than two hun.
dred feet nor further than eight hundred
feet from said crossing, and shall not
cross until signalled so to do by the
watchman, nor until the way is clear
and when two passenger or freight trains
come up at the same time, the train on
the road first built shall have precedence;
provided, they are both main tracks over
which all passengers and freights on said
roads are transported; but if only one
is such main track and the other is side
or depot track, then the train On the
main track shall take precedence; but if
one of said trains is passenger and the
other. freight train, then the former
shall take the precedence. Regular
trains on time shall take precedence over
trains Of the same grade not on time,
and engines, with cars attached, not on
time shall take precedence of engines
without cars attached if not on time
The same rule as above provided shall
apply in all respects where the tracks of
two railroads in any way connect.


SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
managing agent or superintendent on
every railroad in the State of Ohio, i'm
mediately after the taking effect of this
act, to establish and publish to all the
employees on said railroad such rules
and regulations as shall, in all cases, Sc
cure strict compliance with the provis-
ions of the foregoing section, and to re-
publish such rules or regulations on ev-
cry time table or card issued to the en-
ployees on said road and in case such
managing agent or superintendent shall
fail or neglect to establish and publish
such rules and regulations, OF to re-pub-
lish the same on each time table or card
issued to the employees on said road, for
every such neglect or refusal said man
aging agent or superintendent shall be
personally liable to a penalty of one
hundred dollars, to be recovered, together
with costs, in an action against him in
favor of tho State of Ohio, to be brought
in the Court Of Common Pleas of any
county where any such crossing may ex-
list; any such agent or superintendent,
and the railroad company OF which he
IS agent or uperintendent, shall also be
liable in damages to any person or COM
pany who may be injured in person or
property by any accident arising from IL
neglect to establish. publish orre-publish
such rules and regulations as above pro-
vided, and said agent or superintendent
shall also be liable to Il criminal prosecu-
tion therefor


SEC. 3. That every engineer, or per-
son in charge of an engine who shall fail
to comply with the provisions Of the
first section Of this act, and shall fail to
bring heengine of which he is in charge,
with the train, if any, thereto attached,
to Il full stop at least two hundred feet
before arriving at any railroad crossing or
connection, or shall cross the same before
signalIed so to do by the watchman, Or
before the way is clear, shall be person
ally liable therefor to a penalty of one
hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil
action, at the suit of the State of Ohio,
in the Court of Common Pleas of any
county where any such crossing or con
nection exists, and the company in whose
employ such engineer or person in
charge of an engine may be, as well as
the person himself, shall be liable in
damages to any person or company who
may be Injured in person or property by
the neglect or act Of said engineer or
person in charge of an engine as aforesaid
and such engineer or person III charge
of an engine shall also, in case any per-
son be killed by reason Of his neglect or
failure to bring such engine and train of
cars, If any there be attached thereto, to
full stop at least two hundred feet be-
fore reaching a crossing or connection
with the track of another railroad, or by
reason of his crossing the same before
being signalled so to do by the waterman
there stationed, or before the way is
clear, be liable to indictment, conviction
>and punishment for manslaughter; or in
case any person sustain bodily injury,
not affecting lie, by reason thel eot, then
such engineer or person in charge of an
engine as aforesaid shall be considered
guilty Of a misdemeanor. and shall, on
conviction thereof in the proper court Of
the county where such bodily injury oc-
Cured. be imprisoned in the Jail of the
county not less than one nor more than
twenty months, or be fined in any sum
not more than five hundred dollars, or
both at the discretion Of the court.


SEC. f. That section six OF the act
entitled ian act to amend the act entitled
ah act to provide for the creation and
regulation of incorporated companies
in the State of Ohio,' passed April 5,
1857, be and the same is hereby re-
pea!ed.


SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.


RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.


: ROBERT &. KIRK,


President Of the Senate.
Passed March "a, 1860.


| mo. All AN ACT -
| TO amend section twenty-one of an Act


entitled Gan Act to further provide for


the better regulation Of the receipt,


disbursement, and safe-keeping Of the


public revenue passed April L, 1855.


SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
section twenty-one Of an act entitled
IAN act to further provide for the better
| ~ tho die hu ISpnant