Third-For the formation and encouragement of camp meeting, Sunday-school, temperance, religious and reformatory associations; and for the advancement of legal, medical, theological, and religious knowledge, and knowledge in all the sciences, arts, trades, business, and professions in life, and the better and more convenient discharge of duties connected therewith. Fourth-For the formation and encouragement of floral, horticultural, nursery, and fruit companies, and for planting and growing trees for timber and for shade, and for planting and growing hedges. Fifth-For cutting, quarrying, buying, and selling marble iron, slate, ice, or other material or artificial products. Sixth-For the promotion of agriculture, and the mutual benefit and gain of those engaged therein, in the purchase and sale of stock, commodities, and articles pertaining thereto, including household necessaries and luxuries. Seventh-For the engaging in and carrying on the business of making and furnishing abstracts of title to real estate. Eighth For the purpose of transporting freight and passengers in cities. SEC. 2. That the act to amend section nine, amended as aforesaid, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. C. H. GROSVENOR, H. W. CURTISS, President of the Senate. Passed March 12, 1877. AN ACT To amend section fifty-three of the act defining the civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace. [S. & C., 780.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section fifty-three of the act defining the civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace be amended so as to read as follows, to wit: Section 53. If in any case where an order of attachment has been issued by a justice of the peace, it shall appear from the return of the officer, and if there is a garnishee in the case, then also from the examination of the garnishee, that no property, moneys, rights, credits, or effects of the defendant have been taken under the attachment, but that the defendant is the owner of an interest in real estate in the county, the justice before whom said action is pending shall, at the request of the plaintiff, forthwith certify his proceedings to the court of common pleas of the proper county, and thereupon the clerk of the court of common please shall Where order of attachment has been issued, Justice shall certify action to court of common pleas. Non-resi dence. docket said cause, and the action shall be proceeded with in all respects as if the same had originated therein, except that the non-residence of the county by the defendant shall, in all actions under this section, for any sum of which justices of the peace have exclusive original jurisdiction, be a ground of attachment in the court of common pleas. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. SEC. 3. Said original section fifty-three be and the same is hereby repealed. O. J. HODGE, Passed March 17, 1877. H. W. CURTISS, Township trustees pow er to construct lateral ditches. AN ACT To amend section twenty-eight of "An act to more effectually provide for locating, establishing, and constructing ditches, drains, and water courses in townships, and to repeal certain acts therein named," passed April 8, 1874 (O. L., vol. 71, p. 124). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twenty-eight of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 28 That the township trustees shall have the same power to cause any ditch, drain, or water course located and constructed by county commissioners, to be cleaned out, widened, deepened, and repaired, and to locate lateral ditches which may intersect ditches located by county commissioners, as they have to order the location and construction of a ditch, drain, or water course under this act, and the proceedings of such cases shall be in substantial conformity with the provisions of this act. 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. H. W. CURTISS, Passed March 17, 1877. AN ACT To amend the act entitled "An act to authorize county commissioners to purchase portions of turnpikes," passed April 11, 1876 (O. L., vol. 73, p. 220). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the act entitled "An act authorizing county commissioners to purchase portions of turnpikes," passed April 11, 1876, be so amended as to read as follows: Purchase of portion of turnpikes. Section 1. That the county commissioners of the several Petitions. counties of the state be and they are hereby authorized, on the petition for that purpose by any turnpike road company, to purchase so much of any turnpike road as may be and lie between any incorporated town or city, and any cemetery or public burying ground, and make the same a free road to such cemetery or burying ground, the same to be paid out of the county bridge fund; and that so much of such road so purchased by the county commissioners shall be kept in repair by such county commissioners, and such repairs shall be paid for out of the county general funds. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Passed March 17, 1877. President of the Senate. How paid for. AN ACT To amend section twelve of an act entitled "An act for the punishment of certain offenses therein named," passed March 8, 1831, and took effect June 1, 1831 (S. & C., 429), and as amended February 21, 1873 (O. L., vol. 70, p. 39). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section twelve of the above recited act be so amended as to read as follows: Section 12. That if any person, by any false pretense or pretenses, shall obtain from any other person any money, goods, chattels, merchandise, or effects whatsoever, or shall, by any false pretense or pretenses, procure the signature of any person or persons to any bill, bond, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness, as maker, indorser, guarantor, or acceptor thereof, with intent to cheat and defraud the owner of said money or property, or the maker of said bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness, or shall sell or offer for sale, or shall aid or abet the sale of any bill, bond, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or other evidence of indebtedness, a signature to which shall have been procured as maker, indorser, guarantor, or acceptor, by any false pretense or pretenses, knowing the same to have been so procured to be made, he shall, on conviction thereof, if the value of said money or property so obtained, or the amount of said bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness so procured to be made, shall be equal to or exceed thirty-five dollars, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than Money or other property feloniously ob tained. Fine and imprisonment. three years nor less than one year, and pay the costs of prosecution; but if the value of the money or other property obtained, or the amount for which the bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness was given, be less than thirty-five dollars, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of the county not more than sixty nor less than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court, and shall pay the costs of prosecution. SEC. 2. That said section twelve 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. Passed March 17, 1877. H. W. CURTISS, Cities of the first class. AN ACT To amend sections one, two, four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, and seventeen of an act entitled "An act to regulate the police force in cities of the first class, and to repeal an act passed December 18, 1874, entitled 'an act for the better regulation of the police force in cities of the first class having a population of two hundred thousand and over,' and to repeal an act entitled 'an act to establish a board of police commissioners in certain cities of the first class," passed March 29, 1873 (O. L., vol. 72, p. 51), passed March 24, 1876 (O. L., vol. 76, p. 70), and supplementary thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State. of Ohio, That sections one, two, four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, and seventeen of the above-entitled act, be so amended as to read as follows: Section 1. That in all cities of the first class having at the last federal census a population of two hundred thousand and over, the police powers and duties shall be vested in and exercised by a board of five members, to be appointed by the Appoinment governor for the term of five years; except that at the first appointment one shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years. The vacancies in said board shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner in which the original appointment was made. Said board, within ten days from and after notice of their appointment, shall organize as a board of police commissioners by taking and subscribing an oath for the faithful performance of their duties, to be administered by the mayor of said city, or some officer legally authorized to administer oaths, a record of which shall be filed in the city clerk's office of such city. Said of police board, number, term, etc. Oath. board shall thereupon organize by electing one of their number president, and appoint a clerk. Each of said commissioners shall be an elector and freeholder in the city wherein he may be appointed to serve under this act. Said board shall meet for the transaction of business upon Meetings. some particular day of each week, to be designated by the board, and at such other times as they may think necessary. shall be declared. Any one of said commissioners who during the term of Vacancies his office, shall accept any other place of public trust or emolument, or who, during the same period, shall knowingly receive any nomination for an office elective by the people, without publicly declining the same within twenty days succeeding said nomination, shall be deemed to have thereby vacated his office. For official misconduct any of said commissioners may be removed by the governor of the state of Ohio. In the absence of the president of said board, or his inability to act, the board may designate some other member to act as president during said absence or inability, and such acting president, during said time, shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the president of said board. Governor may remove. President of board. board. Section 2. Immediately upon the organization of the Powers of board, it shall possess full power and authority over the police organization, government and discipline within such city, and shall have the same powers, rights, and duties in reference to the appointment, election, confirmation, or removal, and possession and control of all property, books, records, and equipments belonging to or under the control of the police authorities, and the general government of the police department in all particulars in such city, as are now by law vested in the mayor, or which was vested in him or the board of health of any such city at the time of the passage of the act to which this is amendatory. The said board of police commissioners is hereby invested with, and shall hereafter exercise, all the powers now conferred by law upon mayors of cities and sheriffs of counties, in respect to requiring the services of the military in aid of the civil authorities to quell riots, suppress insurrection, protect property, and preserve public tranquillity; and such investiture of power shall exclude within such city the exercise of similar powers by the mayor of such city, or sheriff of the county in which such city is situated, and in addition thereto shall have all the powers now vested, or which was vested, in the board of health at the time of the passage of the act to which this is amendatory. It shall be the duty of the board of police commissioners, Duties. and of the force hereby constituted, at all times of the day and night, within the boundaries of said city, to preserve the public peace, to prevent crime and arrest offenders, to protect the rights of persons and property, to guard the public health, to preserve order, to remove nuisances exist |