Year: 1859

LNo. 1887 AN ACT


Supplementary to the act to provide for


the organization of cities and incor.


poruted villages, passed May 3, 1852.


Section 1. Be itenacted by the Cen
eral Assembly Of the State of Ohio,
That the municipal authorities of ali
incorporated villages and cities Of tbe
second class, shall have power to re-
quire each able-bodied male person be-
tween the ages of twenty one years and
fifty.fve years, resident within such viii
Iage or CITY, and within any contiguous
territory that shall be attached thereto
for the purposes Of this act as herenaf-
Ter provided, to perform, in each and
every year, two days labor upon the
streets aud alleys of such corporation,
and upon the public roads or highways
or parts thereof that lie within the con
tiguous territory so to be attached as
aforesaid, and which shall be in lieu of
the two days labor required under the
present laws regulating roads and high
ways; and upon refusal to perform such
work, under proper supervisor, the de-
iinquent shall be liable to the same pen
alties as are provided by law against
persons refusing to perform the two
days labor required in said law, aud
the same shall be recovered in the name
Of the proper supervisor, before the
mayor of such village or city The said
municipal authorities shall also have
the exclusive right to form road districts
within the corporate limits Of such cit
les and villages, and contiguous terri
tory so to be attached thereto as afore-
said, and to appoint suitable supervisors
for the term Of one year for such dis
tricts, who shall be governed In the per-
formauce Of their duties by the bylaws
and ordinances of said corporation, and
all road tax charged on the county du-
plicate on property within the limits of
such corporation or territory so to be
attached thereto as aforesaid, may be
worked out at such rate per day as shall
Sbe authorized by law for working other
road tax, under the direction of the
proper supervisor, within the district
where the same is assessed, or applied
20 such other district or public improve
ment as the municipal authorities may
direct: Provided, that no tax assessed
upon property within the territory to
DO attached to any such corporation as
aforesaid, shall be applied otherwise
than within the territory in which the
same is assessed; should any extra labor
be performed in any Que year, under
the direction of such supervisor, he
shall give his certificate Of the amount
to the person performing the sane
which certificate shall be transferable
and received in discharge Of road tax
in any succeeding year. to the extent
Of the amount Of such certifcate and
all taxes charged for road purposes, SO
aforesaid, on the property within the
limits of such corporation or the terri
tory SO to be attached thereto as afore-
said, and collected by the county treas
uror, shall be paid over to the corpora
tion treasurer, to be specially appro-
priated by the municipal authorities to
street and road purposes, or other pub
lie improvements, within the corporate
limits thereof


Section 2. 1t shall be tho duty Of
municipal authorities of said corpora
tions, and the trustees Of townships,
respectively, in which any such corpora
tion shall be situated, as soon after the
passage Of this act as practicable, and
when from the sparseness of population,
the public interest shall require it, to
attach any territory lying contiguous to
such corporations thereto, for the pur-
pose of this act.


Section 3. This act to be in force
and take effect from and after its pas
sage.


WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.


MARTIN WELKER,


President Of the Senate.


April 5, 1859.