SEC. 3. That said section three be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CH. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 21st, 1877. AN ACT Appropriating money to increase the capacity for gas manufacturing at the Ohio penitentiary, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the asylum fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, for the construction of additional machinery for the manufacture of gas at the Ohio penitentiary, and for the purpose of purchasing and laying a pipe from said gas works to the state house. SEC. 2. There is hereby further appropriated from said fund the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing material and paying for labor in the construction of new cells in the penitentiary: Provided no money herein appropriated ahall be applied to the construction of cells not already authorized by law. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Passed February 1st, 1877. President of the Senate. Appropria tion for addi tional machinery for ture of gas tentiary. manufac at Ohio Pem Twenty-five dollars for new cells, etc. Proviso. thousand AN ACT To amend section forty-eight of the act entitled "An act to establish a code of civil procedure," passed March 11, 1853. (S. & C., Swan's R. S., 632.) Passed and took effect April 16, 1867, 64 vol. stat., 230. (Swan and Sayler, page 541). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section forty-eight of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 48. An action other than one of those mentioned in the first three sections of this chapter, against a corporation created by the laws of this state, may be brought in the Action may be brought in county in certain cases. Section repealed. county in which it is situated, or had its principal office or place of business, but if the corporation be an insurance company, the action may be brought in the county where the cause of action, or some part thereof arose. SEC. 2. That said amended section forty-eight of the above recited act be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOS. L. YOUNG, Passed February 15th, 1877. President of the Senate. AN ACT To amend an act passed May 1, 1861, entitled "An act to provide for the creation and regulation of township agricultural societies." Township SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State agricultural of Ohio, That section 1 of the above recited act be so amended associations deemed corporations in certain cases. as to read as follows: Section 1. That when any number of natural persons of any township in the State of Ohio shall form an association for the promotion of agriculture in such township, and shall, under their hands and seals, make a certificate and acknowledge the same before a justice of the peace, in which shall be specified the name of the society, the objects of its formation, and the township in which it shall be located, and shall record the same in the recorder's office of the proper county, such society shall be deemed a body corporate, with succession, and with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, contract and be contracted with; to make and use a common seal and the same to alter at pleasure; and shall have power to purchase and hold in fee simple, or to rent or lease such estate as may be required as a site for holding fairs, not exceeding forty acres, and to establish all necessary rules and regulations for the management of such fairs and the legitimate business of the society. SEC. 2. That section one of the above recited act be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That this act take effect from and after its passage. President of the Senate. Passed February 11, 1877. AN ACT To repeal section twenty of an act entitled "An act to regulate incorporated companies," passed February 11, 1848 (S. & C., page 271), and section nineteen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the State of Ohio," passed May 1, 1852. (S. & C., page 271). Section re SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty of an act entitled "an act to regu- pealed. late incorporated companies," passed February 11, 1848 (S. & C., page 271), and section nineteen of an act entitled "an act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the state of Ohio," passed May 1, 1852 (S. & C., page 271), be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Passed February 15th, 1877. President of the Senate. AN ACT To regulate the traffic in the sale or exchange of scrap iron, old metals, old rope, and junk. Trafficers in old iron, etc., to put up sign of busi ness. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That any keeper of a store, shop, wagon, boat, or other place of business, who shall purchase, sell, exchange, or receive any scrap-iron or old metals, canvass, rope, junk or lead pipe except plow-irons and old stoves, shall put up, in some conspicuous place, in or upon said shop, store, boat, or other place of business, a sign having his name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon, and shall keep a book open to inspection, in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase or exchange of any of the articles above mentioned, iron, etc., a description of the article or articles so purchased or exchanged, the name and residence of the person from whom purchased or received, and the day and hour when such purchase or exchange was made. To keep register of such purchased. Not to pur known per SEC. 2. That no keeper of any such store, shop, wagon, boat, or any other place of business, shall directly or indi- chase of unrectly purchase or receive, by way of barter or exchange, or otherwise, any of the aforementioned articles of any minor or unknown person. SEC. 3. That no keeper of any store, shop, wagon, boat or other place of business, shall purchase or receive any of the articles aforesaid not exempted in section one of this act from any person whatever, after the hour of nine o'clock at night and before seven o'clock in the morning. son. Not to purchase after 9 o'clock at night. SEC. 4. That any person violating any or either of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- Penalties. meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall be impris oned in the jail of the county not exceeding thirty days, or either, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOS. L. YOUNG, Passed February 22, 1877. President of the Senate. Duties of township trustees in certain cases. AN ACT To amend section twenty-four of an act entitled "An act for the relief of the poor, and to repeal certain acts therein named," passed April 12, 1876. (Ο. L., vol. 73, page 233). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty-four of the above entitled act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 24. Whenever, in any county having an infirmary, the trustees of any township shall, after making the inquiry provided in the fifteenth section of this act, be of the opinion that the person complained of is in a condition requiring public relief, they shall forthwith transmit a statement of said facts, together with the amount of relicf furnished, if any, so far as they shall have been able to ascertain the same, to the directors of the infirmary; and if it shall appear that such alleged pauper is legally settled in said township, or has no legal settlement in this state, or that such settlement is unknown, and the said directors are satisfied that said alleged pauper requires public relief, they shall forthwith direct the superintendent of the infirmary to receive said pauper, and provide for him or her in said institution, and they shall furnish transportation for said pauper to the infirmary; and thereupon said directors shall certify to the correctness of the items contained in the bill of said trustees for costs and expenses incurred by them in affording temporary relief to said pauper; and if such statement of facts so ascertained by said trustees shall be transmitted to the directors of the infirmary within five days after the same came to their knowledge, then said bill of said trustees shall be paid out of the poor fund of the county, upon the order of the county auditor thereof. SEC. 2. That said original section twenty-four be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 23, 1877. THOS. L. YOUNG, President pro tem. of the Senate. AN ACT To amend section two of "An act to amend and supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of railroads and telegraphs, and to prescribe his duties," passed April 5, 1867 (64 O. L., 111), passed May 13, 1868. [65 O. L., 183.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Stute of Ohio, That section two of the above recited act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 2. Section twelve of said act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Section 12. It shall be the duty of the commissioner aforesaid to make to the governor, on or before the first day of January of each year, a full and accurate report of the condition and affairs of all the railroad and telegraph companies having lines in this state, also of all accidents resulting in injuries to persons and [the] roads upon which they occurred, with the circumstances and causes thereof, and such other information, suggestions, and recommendations as he may deem of advantage to the state. The governor shall cause two thousand copies of said report to be printed under the direction of the said commissioner, by the printer having the contract for this branch of public printing, and lay the same before the general assembly in printed form; said reports to be bound in muslin and suitably lettered on the back, three copies for the use of each member and officer of the general assembly, and one thousand copies for the commissioner, the remainder to be deposited in the state library for use and distribution by the librarian, according to law or the resolution of the general assembly. SEC. 2. Said original section two, amended by this act, is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Commissioner to make accurate report to gov ernor. Report to be printed and bound. Passed February 27, 1877. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform standard of weights and measures," passed March 21, 1863 (S. & S., p. 926); passed February 21, 1873 (O. L., vol. 70, p. 39), and as amended March 10, 1876 (O. L., 73, p. 22). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section one of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 1. Whenever the following articles are hereafter sold ard no special agreement as to the measure is made by |