Legal weight, corn, wheat, grassseed, fruit,

etc.

the contracting parties, the bushel shall consist of the following weights:

Wheat, sixty pounds; rye, fifty-six pounds; corn, shelled, fifty-six pounds; corn, in the ear, seventy pounds, until the first of January of each year next after it is raised, and from and after that date, sixty-eight pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds; clover-seed, sixty pounds; timothy-seed, forty-five pounds; hemp-seed, forty-four pounds; millet-seed, fifty pounds; buckwheat, fifty pounds; beans, sixty pounds; peas, sixty pounds; hominy, sixty pounds; Irish potatoes, sixty pounds; sweet potatoes, fifty pounds; onions, fifty pounds; dried peaches, thirty-three pounds; dried apples, twenty-two pounds; flax-seed, fifty-six pounds; barley, forty-eight pounds; malt, thirty four pounds; Hungarian

Penalties for grass-seed, fifty pounds. Each and every person violating

violation of this act.

the provisions of this act shall, before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding twentyfive, nor less than five dollars, and pay the costs of prosecution.

All fines imposed by the provisions of this act shall be collected and paid over to the treasurer of the proper county within twenty days after the collection thereof, for the use and benefit of the common school fund of the township wherein the prosecution was had.

SEC. 2. That the above recited act is hereby repealed.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, President of the Senate.

Passed February 27, 1877.

Toll-houses

AN ACT

To amend the second section of an act entitled "An act to authorize two commissioners of the several counties in this state, through which the national road passes, to take under their care and control so much of said road as lies within the limits of such counties respectively, passed April 6, 1876. [Pages 105 and 106 of Ohio Laws, volume 73.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section two of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. That said county commissioners shall have to be erected. power to cause gates and toll-houses to be erected on said road within their respective counties, for the purpose of collecting tolls, and appoint the necessary collectors of tolls, and remove them at pleasure, and pay them reasonable compensation for such services; said collectors of tolls shall pay into the county treasuries of their respective counties, at the

to county treasuries.

end of each month, all the moneys that they shall have col- Tolls paid inlected that remain in their hands, after deducting the compensation allowed for their services; said commissioners shall apply said money to the keeping in repair of said road within their respective counties. In the collection of said tolls, said collectors shall be governed in all respects by the laws now in force relating to the collection of tolls: provided, that the number of gates shall not exceed one on any span or distance of ten miles, and no toll shall be charged or collected for travel on that part of said road that lies between Columbus and the Ohio central lunatic asylum, and all persons shall be permitted to travel free of toll on this part of said road.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

O. J. HODGE,
Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
THOS. L. YOUNG,
President of the Senate.

Passed February 28, 1877.

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act passed April 11, 1876 (O. L., vol. 73, p. 169), to amend section seven of an act to authorize the county commissioners to construct roads on petition of a majority of resident land owners along and adjacent to the line of said road, and to repeal an act named therein, as passed March 29, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in counties having at the last federal census twenty-three thousand and twenty-eight inhabitants, and no more, whenever it is necessary for the want of bridge funds in the treasury of the county, the county commissioners may issue the bonds of the county, payable in installments, or at intervals, not exceeding in all the period of five years, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, to enable the commissioners to build bridges and culverts as provided for in section one of the act to which this act is supplementary, and in such amounts only as will be necessary for that purpose, said bonds to be paid out of the bridge funds of such county, only: provided, that no bonds shall be delivered or money paid to any contractor, except upon estimate of work done, as the same progresses or is completed.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

O. J. HODGE,
Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
THOS. L. YOUNG,
President of the Senate.

Passed February 28, 1877.

How contignous territory may beannexed.

Application.

AN ACT

To amend sections six hundred and ninety, six hundred and ninety-one, and six hundred and ninety-two of "An act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations," passed May 7, 1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections six hundred and ninety, six hundred and ninety-one, and six hundred and ninety-two of an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations," passed May 7, 1869, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 690. When any municipal corporation shall desire to enlarge its corporate limits by the annexation of contiguous territory, it shall be done in the following manner.

Section 691. The council or board of trustees of the corporation, by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected, shall pass an ordinance authorizing such annexation to be made, and directing the solicitor of the corporation, or some one else to be named in the ordinance, to prosecute the proceedings necessary to effect such annexation.

Section 692. Application for such purpose shall be by petition, in writing, of the corporation to the commissioners of the proper county, which petition shall set forth, that under an ordinance of the council or board of trustees duly and legally passed, the territory therein described was authorized to be annexed to the corporation, and shall accurately describe such territory, and be accompanied by an accurate map or plat thereof.

SEC. 2. That sections six hundred and ninety, six hundred and ninety-one, and six hundred and ninety-two, of said act of May 7, 1869, entitled "An act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations," be and the same are 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 Representaiives. THOS. L. YOUNG, President of the Senate.

Passed March 1, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend section two of an act to authorize and require the board of public works to ascertain and locate all lands, belonging to the state, which lie at or near the public works of the state, with a proper description of the same; and also providing for the appraisement and sale of the same; passed April 29, 1872.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That 'section two of said act be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. That as soon as the location and appraisement

of said land shall be reported to the auditor of state, he shall
enter the same of record in a suitable book prepared for the
purpose, and may then sell the same at a sum not less than
the appraised value thereof, one-fourth the purchase to be
paid on the day of sale, the balance in equal annual install-
ments, with interest at six per centum, payable annually;
and the said auditor of state shall give to purchasers certifi-
cates of purchase, and of payments of principal and interest,
as the same shall be made. and upon full payment of pur-
chase money and interest, the governor of the state shall
execute deeds to said purchasers, or their assignees, in fee
simple for the lands sold; and all sums arising from the sale
of said lands shall be paid into the treasury of the state to
the credit of the sinking fund: provided, that the lot of land
described as the stone quarry, in the survey number 2668,
and such lands along the canals as were obtained for gravel
banks for the purpose of repairing the canals, or for sites for
water power at locks where such power has not yet been
brought into use, shall not be sold until directed by the gen-
eral assembly: and provided further, that the auditor of
state cause said lands to be offered at public sale at the door
of the court house in each of the counties wherein the lands
lie, and shall cause public notice of such sale or sales to be
published in a newspaper printed in each of said counties,
or of general circulation therein, for five consecutive weeks
immediately preceding such sale, and if said land shall not
sell at public sale, then the auditor of state may sell at pri-
vate sale, but in no case shall the lands be sold for less than
the appraised value thereof; provided, that nothing herein
shall apply to any lands within the limits of the city of
Cleveland, now used for the bed of the Ohio canal, its tow-
path or basin, or needed to connect said canal with the Cuy-
ahoga river at or near a point sixteen hundred feet north of
the south line of said city, where it crosses said Ohio canal.
SEC. 2. Said section two is hereby repealed, and this act
shall be in force from and after its passage.

C. H. GROSVENOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOS. L. YOUNG,
President of the Senate.

Passed March 1, 1877.

AN ACT

To amend section twenty (20) of an act entitled "An act for the relief of the poor, and to repeal certain acts therein named," passed April 12, 1876. [O. L., vol. 73, p. 233.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty (20) of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows:

Bequests to the poor shall be valid.

Devises previous to March 30, 1874.

Section 20. That all gifts, grants, devises, and bequests that heretofore have been or hereafter shall be made, of any houses, lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, sum or sums of money, to the poor of any township, or any definite part or fraction of such township, or of any town or city in such township, by deed, gift, or by the last will and testament of any person or persons, or otherwise, shall be good and valid in law, and shall pass such houses, lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, and sum or sums of money, to the trustees of such township and their successors in office, for the use of the poor of said township, or part or fraction of such township, city or town in said township respectively, for whose benefit such gifts, grants, devises, and bequests have heretofore been or hereafter shall be made, under such regulations as shall from time to time be made by law: provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to gifts, devises. or bequests made by last will or testament subsequent to the thirtieth day of March, 1874, when said gifts, devises, or bequests are contrary to the provisions of the act of March 30, 1874, entitled "An act to amend the first section of an act entitled 'An act relating to wills and the repeal of former acts relating thereto," passed May 3, 1852, took effect June 1, 1852 (S. & C. 1615; O. L., vol. 72, p. 1,) and the provisions of said act relating to any bequest or devise by last will or testament, for benevolent or charitable purposes, shall be and are hereby revived.

SEC. 2. That section twenty (20) of the above recited act 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. THOS. L. YOUNG, President of the Senate.

Passed March 1, 1877.

Corporations may be Sormed.

AN ACT

To amend section nine of an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the creation and regulation of incorporated companies in the state of Ohio," passed May 1, 1852; passed April 15, 1867, (S. & S, 186); as amended February 25, 1869 (O. L., vol. 66, p. 11); as amended April 20, 1874 (O. L., vol. 71, p. 161); as amended April 11, 1876 (O. L., vol. 73, p. 188).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That said section nine be so amended as to read as follows:

Section 9. Corporations may also be formed under this act for the following purposes:

First-For the preservation and exhibition of works of art.
Second-For encouraging and cultivating a taste for music.