police relief fund to the members as they may deem proper, such rules and regulations to be approved by the board of police commissioners. The members of such police force, each having one vote, shall elect annually, on the first Wednesday after the first day of January in each year, a board of seven members from their own number, to be known as the board of directors of the police relief fund, to whom shall be entrusted the entire management of said fund as to its disbursement, subject to the approval of the police commissioners, as hereinbefore provided. Said board shall organize by electing a president and secretary, and no payment of any money shall be made from said relief fund, save for investment by the trustees, as hereinbefore provided. except upon the order of said board of directors, upon the order of its president, countersigned by the secretary, and then approved by the board of police commissioners. Such board of directors may make rules and regulations as to the disbursement of said police relief fund, subject to the approval by the board of police commissioners. Members who have resigned, or been dismissed from the foree, shall have no interest in or claim on such fund; and members who may be honorably retired from the force, shall only have such interest in said fund as may be fixed in the rules and regulations in relation to said fund by the board of directors. SEC. 10. All rewards, fees, proceeds of gifts, and emoluments that may be allowed by the board of police commissioners to be paid and given for, or on account of any extraordinary service of any member of the police force, and all money arising from the sale of unclaimed property or money, shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of the "police relief fund." SEC. 11. The said board of police commissioners are hereby authorized to appoint persons of suitable character, who may be in the employment of the city in other branches or departments, special patrolmen or policemen: provided, such special policemen shall not be paid for their services as policemen, either from the police fund or the city or county treasury. Such policemen shall possess the same power as the regular police patrolmen, and shall obey the rules and regulations of the board, and conform to its general discipline. SEC. 12. It shall be a mi-demeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail or work-house not less than one month nor more than three months, or both fine and imprisonment, for any person, without justifiable or excusable cause, to use personal violence upon any member of the police force, when in the discharge of his duty, or for any person not a member of the police force, to falsely represent himself as being such member. SEC. 13. Any person found in any such city, or within Burglar's four miles of the corporate limits thereof, having in his pos- tools. session any burgiar's tools or implements of any kind commonly used by burglars in the breaking in or entering of houses, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any police court or other court of such city having competent jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the city workhouse of any such city for a period not less than ninety days nor more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Fire commis SEC. 14. The said board of police commissioners shall have all the power now vested by law in the board of fire sioners. commissioners of any such city, and shall be governed by the rules now prescribed by law for the government of such board, when not inconsistent with the "act to establish a board of police commissioners in cities of the first class," passed March 24, 1876, and the officers of the board of fire commissioners of such city shall, upon the passage of this act. [shall] cease and determine. SEC. 15. No person holding office under this act shall be liable to military or jury duty, or to arrest on civil process, nor to service of subpœnas from civil courts whilst actually on duty. SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the board of police commissioners to provide, when it shall be required, at the expense of the city, all necessary accommodations within such precincts as shall be contained within the boundaries of such city, for the station-houses required by the board for the accommodation of the police force of such precinct, for the lodging of vagrant or disorderly persons, and for the temporary detention of persons arrested for offenses or held as witnesses. The power of purchasing lands for police purposes, and the supervision and control of the erection, building, altering, or repairing any of said station-houses or buildings, shall be solely vested in the board of police commissioners, and all expenses incurred for the above purposes shall be paid out of the police funds of said city, upon the order of the board of police commissioners: provided, that no expenditure exceeding one thousand dollars for the purchase of land or the erection of new buildings, or alteration or repair to old buildings, shall be made by said board, without the same shall have been first approved by the common council of such city. No commissioner or other officer of the board, or employé of the department, shall be interested in any contract connected with the police department. At least ten days' notice shall be given in some newspaper of general circulation in such cities of the first class, of the reception of the proposals for the performance of any contract exceeding five hundred dollars in amount, and said contract shall be Stationhouses. Expenditures exceeding five hunawarded to the best and lowest bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security for the performance of the same. dred dollars. SEC. 17. That section one of the act passed April 29, 1873, (O. L.. p. 188) is hereby declared not to effect cities of the first class having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or upwards, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. W. CURTISS, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 17, 1877. Record of titles. AN ACT Providing for the safe keeping of the evidences of titles to lands acquired by the state, and prescribing the duties of the auditor of state in relation thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the evidence of title of all lands belonging to, or that may hereafter be acquired by the state, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of the respective counties in which such lands may be situate; and when so recorded, the same shall be forthwith deposited with the auditor of state, to be by him safely kept in his office; said auditor of state is also authorized and required to make and keep in his office a brief abstract of the title of all lands acquired by the state, to be kept by him in a suitable book prepared for that purpose, which book shall be open for inspection to all persons interested, at all reasonable business hours. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. W. CURTISS, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 19, 1877. Road improvements. AN ACT Supplementary to the act entitled "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," passed March 29, 1867 (S. & S., 671), and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in all cases where any proposed road improvement contemplated by the act to which this is supplementary shall be in more than one county, application shall be made by petition to the commissioners of each of the said counties, and the commissioners of the said counties, upon said petition and bond being filed in their respective counties, shall meet in joint session, at such time and place as the auditor of the county in which the principal petitioners reside, shall give notice to the auditor of each of the counties in which petition has been filed, and the auditor of the county in which the joint board shall meet, shall be the clerk of Clerk. said board, and shall furnish a certified copy of all proceedings to each of the said counties interested, and in all subsequent sessions said joint board shall proceed in all respects according to the provisions of the act in force and the amendments thereto, to which this is supplementary. SEC. 2. That any person or persons feeling aggrieved by any decision of the county commissioners, made under section six of the act to which this is supplementary, may appeal from said decision to the probate court of said county. and such proceedings shall then be had as are provided for appeals in section three of said act, and such orders and judgments be rendered as are there provided for and the necessities of the case may require, upon the question of the public necessity of the contemplated construction or improvement, if that question has not already been tried before said court, and, also, upon the question of the amount of any assessment made against the appellant or appellants. SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. C. H. GROSVENOR, President of the Senate. Appeals to probate court. Passed March 19, 1877. AN ACT To secure to children the benefits of an elementary education. must attend school. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That every parent, guardian, or other person in the Children state of Ohio, having charge or control of any child or children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be required to send such child or children to a common school for at least twelve weeks in each school year, commencing on the first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, at least six weeks of which shall be consecutive, unless the board of local directors, or the board of education, as the case may be, having control of the school district or sub-district in which such parent or guardian shall reside, shall excuse such child from attendance on its being shown to their satisfaction that the Penalties attached to em child's bodily or mental condition is such as to prevent its attendance at school or application to study for the time required, or that its time and labor are essentially necessary for the support of an indigent parent, brother, or sister, or that such child is being otherwise furnished with the means of education for a like period of time, or has already acquired branches of learning ordinarily taught in common schools: provided, in case the common school of the district in which such parent or guardian resides shall be distant two miles from his residence by the nearest traveled road, he shall not be liable to the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. No manufacturer, owner of mills or mines, agent, overseer, contractor, landlord, or other person in this state ploying chil- shall, at any time after the first day of September, 1877, dren who have not at tended school. Ascertaining of children, and prosecution. employ any child under fourteen years of age during the established school hours of the locality, unless such child shall have attended some common or private school for the term of at least twelve weeks during the school year next preceding the commencement of such employment, and such child shall deliver to its employer a certificate as evidence of attendance in compliance with the provisions of this act, from the teacher, or from the clerk of the board of local directors, or from the president of the board of education, as the case may be, having control of the school district in which the parent or guardian of such child shall reside: provided such child shall have resided in this state during the school year next preceding the commencement of such employment: and, provided further, that such child is under the control of a parent or guardian, and is not dependent upon its own re. sources for support, nor shall such employment continue for a longer period (than] forty weeks during any school year from the time this act shall take effect, unless such child shall deliver to such employer a certificate of excuse from the proper authority, for any of the reasons mentioned in section one of this act. SEC. 3. The school boards having control, shall, in their the condition respective districts, on the second Monday of February and September, or within fifteen days thereafter, of each year, in such manner as they shall deem most expedient, ascertain the condition of all children under fourteen years of age, employed at any daily labor, or who shall not be in attendance on any common or private school; and such board shall report all violations of tuis act to the proper persons, as provided in section seven of this act, who shall at once proceed to prosecute each and every such offense, in like manner as set forth in the fifth section of this act. SEC. 4. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the board of education having control, that the parent or guardian has not the means wherewith to purchase for his child or children the necessary school-books to enable him to comply with the requirements of this act, such board is hereby authorized to furnish such books, free of charge, the same to |