appointing judges may renew the appointment as hereinbefore provided. SECTION 2. Said original section No. 1271 be and is Repeals. hereby repealed. for general as sembly. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated Appropriation from any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for salaries and mileage of members, per diem of clerks, sergeant-at-arms and other officers and employes of the general assembly; six thousand ($6,000.00) dollars for contingent expenses of the house; five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars for contingent expenses of the senate. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. O. SHEPPARD, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed February 28, 1900. [House Bill No. 334.] AN ACT To supplement section 2795 of the Revised Statutes of the state of Ohio, and authorizing additional compensation to real estate assessors in Franklin county, and such assessors and their assistants in cities of the third grade of the first class. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 2795 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be supplemented as follows: Section 2795-2. The county commissioners of Franklin county, state of Ohio, be and are hereby authorized and directed to pay said assessors of real estate, the sum of one dollar per day, for each day necessarily employed in the performance of their duties, in addition to the amount SECTION 2. That this act shall take effect and be in A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. O. SHEPPARD, President pro tem. of the Senate. 27G Passed February 28, 1900. Appropriations for Ohio univer sity, Miami university and Wil berforce university. [House Bill No. 200.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Ohio university, the Miami university, and for the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: For the Ohio university the sum of $33,000; For the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university the sum of $19,000. And for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15th, 1901, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending February 15th, 1902, the following sums, towit: For the Ohio university the sum of $33,000; For the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university the sum of $19,000 or so much of said several amounts as may come into the state treasury to the credit of said funds, to be applied to the uses and purposes of the said universities, in accordance with the provisions. of section 3951, Revised Statutes, as amended March 20, 1891 (O. L., vol. 88, p. 159), and as further amended February 26, 1896, and April 16, 1896. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force To amend section 5107 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended (51 O. L., page 57.) Affidavit to be signed and cer Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. [Sec. 5107.] The affidavit verifying a General rules: pleading may be made before any person authorized to administer oaths whether an attorney in the case or not, and must be signed by the party who makes it; the officer before whom the same was taken shall certify that it was sworn to before him and signed in his presence; and a certificate of the officer signed officially by him, shall be evidence that the affidavit was duly made, that the name of the officer was written by himself and that he was such officer. tified; before whom made. SECTION 2. That said section 5107 of the Revised Repeals Statutes of Ohio as heretofore amended, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect on its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Passed March 1, 1900. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 17.] AN ACT For the better protection of life and property against injury or damage, resulting from the operation of steam engines and boilers by incompetent engineers and others, and to repeal an act therein named. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a steam boiler or engine in the state of Ohio, of more than thirty-five horse power, except boilers and engines, under the jurisdiction of the United States, and locomotive boilers and engines, without having been duly licensed so to do as herein provided. And it shall be unlaw Examination; districts. Governor to appoint chief examiner. District exami ners. Term of office Qualifications. Duties, bond, salary, etc. ful for any owner or user of any steam boiler or engine, other than those excepted, to operate or cause to be operated such steam boiler or engine without a duly licensed engineer in charge. SECTION 2. For the purpose of facilitating an efficient and thorough examination of engineers throughout the state of Ohio, and to provide for a more adequate protection of life and property, the state is hereby divided into six (6) districts, to be designated by the chief examiner. SECTION 3. The governor of the state of Ohio, witn and by the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint one chief examiner of steam engineers, and said chief examiner of steam engineers, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint six (6) district examiners of steam engineers, provided, however, that not more than three of said examiners so appointed shall be members of any one of the political parties. The chief examiner and district examiners, shall be competent and practical steam engineers, and shall hold their offices for a term of three (3) years from the first day of May, 1900, after their respective appointments, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The first appointments hereunder shall be made within sixty days. from the passage of this act. In case of the resignation, removal or death of the chief examiner, or any district examiner, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner as provided for the original appointments, for the unexpired term only, of the position so made vacant. SECTION 4. All candidates for chief examiner shall have not less than ten (10) years' experience as a practical steam engineer, previous to his appointment, and all candidates for district examiners shall have had not less than seven (7) years' experience as a practical steam engineer, previous to their appointments. SECTION 5. The chief examiner and district examiners shall give their whole time and attention to the duties of their offices respectively. The chief examiner shall be located at Columbus, and shall have his office in the state house, where shall be kept the records of his office, and for the purpose of keeping such records shall be allowed one clerk at a salary not to exceed $720 per annum, said clerk to be appointed by the chief examiner, with the approval of the governor, and to give a bond in the sum of $1,500. The chief examiner shall issue such instructions, make such rules and regulations for the government of the district examiners, not inconsistent with the powers and duties vested in them by law, as shall secure uniformity of action and proceedings throughout the different districts. The chief examiner shall receive a salary of $1,800 per annum, and the district examiners shall each receive a salary of $1,200 per annum, which salary and all necessary traveling and office expenses incurred by said examiners in the discharge of their duties, shall be paid out of the treasury of the state, from any fund therein not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the auditor, on the presentation to him of the proper vouchers. The chief examiner shall give bond in the sum of $3,000, and said district examiners shall give bond in the sum of $2,000. All bonds required by this act to be given shall be approved by the governor. tained. SECTION 6. Any person who desires to act as a steam License, how obengineer, shall make application to any district examiner of steam engineers for a license so to act, upon a blank furnished by the engineer, and if, upon examination, the applicant is found trustworthy and competent, a license shall be granted him, to have charge of, or to operate any steam plant. Such license shall continue in force for one year, unless after proper hearing it is sooner revoked for intoxication or other sufficient cause, the said license to be renewed yearly. SECTION 7. Any engineer who has been employed continuously as a steam engineer in the state of Ohio for a period of three years next prior to the passage of this act, and who files with his application a certificate of such fact under oath, accompanied by a certificate from his employer or employers verifying the same, or who holds a license issued to him under any ordinance of a municipal corporation of this state, shall be entitled to a license without further examination. Any person to whom a license is issued under the provisions of this act shall at the expiration of one year from the date thereof be entitled to a renewal thereof for one year, unless, in the opinion of the district examiner of his district such renewal should be refused, in which event such person shall have the right to appeal to the chief examiner provided for in section 9. Who entitled to examination. license without SECTION 8. The fee for license and examination shall Fees, reports,etc be $2.00 and the fee for renewal of license shall be $1.00. All fees collected and received by the district examiners from the issue of licenses and the renewal of the same shall be, on or before the 5th day of each month, remitted to the chief examiner at Columbus, together with the monthly report of the business of their offices. Said chief examiner shall pay into the treasury, to the credit of the general revenue fund, all money and fee by him received from the district examiners, and on or before the 10th day of each month, said chief examiner shall file a monthly report with the governor, of the business of his office and the amount of money received by him and paid into the state treasury. examiner. SECTION 9. Any person dissatisfied with the action of Appeal from deany district examiner in refusing or revoking license, may cision of district appeal to the chief examiner, who shall investigate the action of said district examiner, if, upon such investigation, said chief examiner finds that the district examiner was justified in refusing or revoking such license, he shall sustain the district examiner in his action, but should said chief examiner find that the district examiner was not justified in refusing or revoking such license, he shall order said dis |