Penalty for register or judge of election to neglect duty,

etc.

Making or permitting false registration.

Compensation.

"Ward."

Means what.

Wards of certain cities to be subdivided, and how.

Subdivisions

how.

When mayor to subdivide,

fore any court of competent jurisdiction; and if any register or judge of election shall willfully neglect or disregard any duty herein required, or make or permit to be made, any registration, statement, or list, except at the time and place and in the manner prescribed in this act, or shall knowingly make or permit any person to make any false statement, as aforesaid, every such register or judge of election shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, as provided in section

six.

SEC. 9. Registers shall be allowed, by their respective townships, cities, and villages, for their services under this act, such compensation as is allowed by law to judges of election.

SEC. 10. The word "ward," as used in the preceding sections for the purposes of this act, means, and shall be held to mean, any municipal ward not subdivided as hereinafter provided, and any subdivision of a municipal ward so subdivided.

SEC. 11. In every city of fifteen thousand or more inhabitants at the preceding census, having any ward in which more than six hundred ballots are cast at any election, the council thereof shall, immediately after the taking effect of this act, and whenever thereafter occasion may arise, divide by ordinance every such ward into subdivisions of compact territory, for election purposes only, bounded by streets or alleys, or both, so that each subdivision shall contain, as nearly as practicable, three hundred electors resident therein, and shall designate in such ordinance, as wards, such sub

designated divisions by letters of the alphabet, in their order, with the number of such municipal ward added, as, for illustration: ward A, 1; ward B, 1; ward C, 1; ward A, 2; ward B, 2, and so on. If the council of any such city shall fail, for sixty days, to divide any such ward so divisible for election purposes under this act, the mayor of such city shall thereupon divide the same in accordance herewith, and give notice thereof by proclamation, containing the boundaries and designation of every subdivision, and the places of holding elecNotice by tions therein, which proclamation shall be published forthpublication. with in some newspaper published and of general circulation in such city, and shall be recorded in the ordinance record thereof.

and how.

All elections to be held in

subdivisions.

Judges to meet at mayor's office.

Who to be

SEC. 12. In every municipal ward so subdivided all elections shall be held by and in the subdivisions thereof; and the judges of election for such municipal ward, as now provided by law, shall be judges of election for ward A thereof; and such judges shall meet at the mayor's office on the first Monday of September of each year, at ten o'clock A.M., and shall there select and appoint two judges of election of opposite politics for each of the other subdivisions or wards of such municipal ward. The persons so appointed shall be

judges of sub. freehold electors and residents for at least three hundred and sixty days in the ward for which appointed. The mayor

shall forthwith cause notice to be given to each person so appointed, and shall cause a record to be made and kept in his office of such appointments. The persons so appointed shall act as judges of election in their proper subdivisions or wards during the period of one year. They shall take the same oath of office, be subject to the same requirements, penalties, liabilities, and disqualifications, and entitled to the same compensation as other judges of election. They shall designate and appoint two clerks of election of opposite politics, who shall take an oath of office, and shall perform all the duties and be subject to all the liabilities as other clerks of elections. If any of such judges or clerks shall fail to attend at the proper time and place, such judges and clerks, and all additional judges and clerks, shall be chosen and qualified as now provided by law.

SEC. 13. The place of holding elections in every such subdivision or ward of any such municipal ward so subdivided shall be designated and published by the city council, as provided by law in other cases.

SEC. 14. That during the receiving of the ballots at any voting precinct, it shall be unlawful for persons to congregate together in or about such place, so as to hinder or delay any elector in casting his ballot, and it is the duty of the judges of elections, upon complaint being made of such hindrance or delay, and being satisfied that substantial ground of complaint does exist, to order all such persons to disperse, and upon refusal so to disperse, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in section six of this act.

SEC. 15. That the judges of election shall, if requested by any elector, permit the respective candidates, or one or more, not exceeding three of their friends, to be present in the room or place where the judges are during the time of receiving and counting out the ballots.

SEC. 16. Section one of the act entitled "An act to preserve the purity of elections," as amended April 17, 1868, and April 3, 1876, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 17. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Passed May 7, 1877.

C. H. GROSVENOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

H. W. CURTISS,

President of the Senate.

Mayor to notify. Duties, requirements, etc., of judg

es of election.

Clerks of electionhow appointed.

Electors present to

choosewhen.

Places of

holding to be designated by council. Unlawful to

congregate

about polls.

Judges to or

der persons to disperse.

Misdemean

or to refuse.

Friends of

candidates may be present, etc.

Repeals.

Course of

study.

AN ACT

To establish a school of mines and mine engineering in the Ohio agricultural and mechanical college.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the Ohio agricultural and mechanical college be and they are required to establish in said college a school of mines and mine engineering, in which shall be provided the means for studying scientifically and experimentally the survey, opening, ventilation, care and working of mines, and said school shall be provided with complete mining laboratories for the analysis of ores, coals and other minerals, with all the necessary apparatus for of machinery testing the various ores and coals, and also with the models

Labratory and models

to be pro

vided.

Professor

ed may teach.

Register of

experiments to be kept and published.

of the most improved machinery for ventilating and operating all the various kinds of mines with safety to the lives and health of those engaged.

SEC. 2. Said trustees may require one of the professors now employ- now authorized to be employed in said institution, to give instruction in the most improved and successful methods of opening, and operating, and surveying, and inspecting mines, and in the methods of testing and analyzing coals and other minerals, especially those found in the state of Ohio. It shall also be the duty of such professor to register all experiments made in testing the properties of the coals and other minerais, and such results shall be published in the annual reports of said trustees. It shall also be the duty of said professor to preserve in a cabinet, suitably arranged for ready reference and examination, suitably connected with this school of mines, samples of the specimens from the various mines in the state, which may be sent for analysis, with the names of the mines and their localities in the counties from which they were sent, and the analysis and a Duty to fur- statement of the properties attached. It shall also be his duty to furnish analysis of all minerals found in the state and sent to him for that purpose by residents of this state.

analysis

of minerals found.

Appropriation.

SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended in providing apparatus, equipments, cabinets, etc., as mentioned in the first and second sections of this act.

SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Passed May 7, 1877.

C. H. GROSVENOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

H. W. CURTISS,
President of the Senate.

AN ACT

To further consolidate land titles in Ohio.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to transfer and deliver to the auditor of state, who shall take charge of the same, all the field notes, maps, records, documents, papers and implements of every description relating to, or used in the surveys of the public lands within the said state of Ohio, which were delivered to the executive of said state, by the surveyors of the United States at Detroit, by order of the general government of the United States, and taken in charge by the secretary of state, under the act passed February 26, 1846 (O. L., vol. 44 p. 65); also, all records of field notes, and other records or papers which may have been added to said collection of records since the passage of said act; also, all records of deeds, and other records or papers of whatever kind relating to lands, which may have been made or deposited in the office of said secretary

SEC. 2. That whatever maps, plats, or papers relating to lands within the state, may be found in the office of the governor, shall also be transferred to the office of the auditor of state.

SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to draft all deeds to be executed by the governor, and when so executed and countersigned by the secretary of state, he shall record the same in a book, or books, prepared for that purpose.

Auditor of deeds, eto.

state to draft

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the auditor, upon application, to furnish copies of deeds, field notes, records, and other documents placed under his charge by this act, and which said copies, when authenticated by the certificate and signature of said auditor of state, under his official seal, shall be received as legal evidence in all courts within this state; provided, that nothing in this act shall effect the right of Proviso. any person now in possession of any of the said lands to occupy the same on their title thereto.

SEC. 5. That the county surveyors within this state, in the discharge of their duties, shall be governed by the code of general rules and instructions prepared and printed under the provisions of the act passed February 24, 1846, so far as said rules and instructions may be applicable.

SEC. 6. That the auditor shall be entitled to receive the following fees for copies furnished from his office, to be paid by the counties or individuals applying therefor, which said fees shall be applied to the payment of clerk hire in said office, viz.: Foralegally authenticated map of a township, two dollars and fifty cents; for a copy of the field notes of all the corners within a township, one dollar and fifty cents; for a copy of township map and field notes of all the corners therein in any county, with maps, and bound and lettered, four dollars

Government of county surveyors.

Fees, eto., for copies fur

per township; for a copy of the complete field notes of all the surveys of a part of a township, not less than one-fourth thereof, or of one or more entire townships, at the rate of ten cents per one hundred words; for a copy of the plat of a section or part thereof, with field notes of corners, twenty five cents; for like copy of each additional section or part of section, fifteen cents; for affixing seal of office to copy, fifty cents.

SEC. 7 That the records, maps, plats, papers, documents and implement of every description relating to the public lands within the state of Ohio, in the Virginia military and United States land office at Chillicothe, abolished by the act of congress, approved July 24, 1876, shall be placed in charge of the auditor of state.

SEC. 8. That the act entitled "an act to provide for the safe keeping and preservation of the records, maps and other papers relating to the public surveys of land within the state of Ohio," passed February 26, 1846, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 9. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Passed May 7, 1877.

C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. W. CURTISS, President of the Senate.

A wheel to be p

AN ACT

Supplementary to the act entitled "An act relating to juries," passed April 26, 1873: also, an act entitled "An act to amend section two of the act entitled 'An act relating to juries," passed April 26, 1873; passed March 9, 1876; also, the act entitled "An act to regulate the fees of probate judges, clerks of the courts, sheriffs, witnesses, jurors' fees in partitions, and to repeal certain acts therein named," passed April 8, 1876.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State vided. of Ohio, That the county commissioners of each county having, at the last federal census, a population of more than one hundred thousand and less than two hundred thousand inhabitants, shall provide and place in the office of the clerk of such county a wheel, so constructed and arranged that by turning the same the pieces of paper hereinafter mentioned may be thoroughly mixed, and that the names upon such pieces of paper can not be read or seen until withdrawn from such wheel.

SEC. 2. That, on the second Monday in May in each year, the persons then respectively holding the offices of clerk of the court of common pleas, cunty treasurer, and county auditor, in each county, shall meet in the office of the auditor of such county, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and shall there select