Notice. Penalties Exhibition of li cense. Repeals. trict examiner to issue a license to the person making such appeal. SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of each district examiner to notify every person operating a boiler or engine in his district mentioned in section 1, and not included in the exceptions therein specified, to apply for a license under this act, and to give such person a reasonable opportunity to take the examination therefor. SECTION 11. Any owner, user, or engineer, who, after being notified, as provided in section 10 of this act violates any of the provisions of this act, shall be fined not more than $100 nor less than $10. The examiners shall give authority, and are hereby empowered to visit any and all engine rooms or boiler rooms in the state, at all reasonable hours. SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of every engineer to exhibit his license under glass in a conspicuous place in his engine room, and violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5.00. SECTION 13. That an act passed January 30th, 1885, entitled, "An act authorizing the council of cities and villages to provide by ordinance for the examination, regulation and licensing of stationary engineers and others," be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 14. This act shall take effect an be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 1, 1900. President of the Senate. 30G Board of city affairs; Election of service in Cin cinnati. . [Senate Bill No. 67.] AN ACT To establish a board of public service in cities of the first grade of the first class, and to amend sections 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2231 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2231 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 2205. In cities of the first grade of the first board of public class there shall be a board of public service, composed of five members, electors of such cities, who shall, at the first municipal election following the passage of this act, be elected for a term of three years and who shall hold their offices until their successors have been respectively elected and qualified. At the expiration of the terms of said mem bers their successors shall be elected for like terms. Any person elected as a member of said board shall qualify within ten days after his election. Any vacancy in the Vacancies. term of any member shall be filled by appointment by the mayor of such cities for the unexpired term. Sec. 2206. Each member of such board shall give Bond. bond in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the approval of the corporation counsel, as to form and sufficiency, endorsed thereon, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, with at least three sureties, who, together, shall qualify in writing under oath to three timesthe amount of such bond, which oath shall be filed with such bond. Sec. 2207. The members of the board shall devote their entire time and attention to the duties of their office, and shall each receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars, payable [in] equal monthly installments. Each member shall, in person, supervise the cleaning, repairing and improvement of the streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, public wharves and landings, market houses and spaces, bridges, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts and sidewalks, in one of the districts into which the city shall be divided. Duties mem bers; alary. General powers board. and duties of Sec. 2231. The board of public service shall have all the powers and perform all the duties heretofore conferred upon, or required of the board of city affairs, created by and under section 2205 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended by an act entitled: "An act to establish a board of city affairs in cities of the first grade of the first class;" passed March 18th, 1898, and hereafter there shall be no election for members of the board of infirmary directors in such cities. Upon the election and qualification of the board of public service, which shall be considered the successor of the said board of city affairs, the said board of city affairs is hereby abolished. The concurrence of three members of such board shall be necessary for the letting of any contract, or other action of such board. The members Removals. of said board of public service, or any of them, may, at any time, be removed from office by the mayor for misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance in office and in no other manner. SECTION 2. That the title, chapter 2, of division 7 of Title of chapter. title XII of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, towit: "Board of public service.” SECTION 3. That sections 2205, 2206, 2207, 2231 of Repeals. the Revised Statutes of Ohio be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 6, 1900. President of the Senate. Animals: Licking county. Disposition of surplus of fund created by per capita tax of dogs. [House Bill No. 223.] AN ACT To supplement section 4215 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Sec. 4215a. In all counties which by the federal census of 1890 had, or which at any subsequent federal census may have, a population of not less than 43,275 nor more than 43,385, if in the fund created by the per capita tax of dogs, after all damages to sheep killed or injured by dogs shall have been paid, at the June session of the county commissioners of said county there remains more than $1,000 of such fund, the excess thereof shall be paid annually to the treasurer of the agricultural society of said county to be expended by said agricultural society in the payment of its present existing indebtedness, for the encouragement of agricultural fairs, the payment of premiums, erection of buildings, and for such other purposes as said agricultural society may direct. 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. JNO. A. CALDWELL, Passed March 16, 1900. President of the Senate. 32G School houses and libraries: When and how question of taxlevy submitted to voters. [House Bill No. 229.] AN ACT To amend section 3991 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio so as to allow certain school districts to issue bonds by submitting the question to a vote of the people. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 3991 of the Revised Statutes of the state of Ohio be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3991. When the board of education of any district determines that it is necessary for the proper accommodation of the schools of such district to purchase a site or sites and erect a school house or school houses thereon, or to do either, or when it shall become known to a board of education that the money provided for the purchase of a site or sites and the erection of a school house or school houses is not sufficient therefor, and such board ascertains that the purchase of such site or sites and the erection and furnish ing of such school house or school houses, or either, or the completion of a partially built or unfurnished school house or school houses for which a sufficient sum of money has not been provided, will require a greater tax upon the property of such district than the board is authorized by this title to levy, and that to provide means therefor it will be necessary to issue bonds, it shall make an estimate of the probable amount of money required for such purposes, or either of them, and at a general election, or a special election called for that purpose, shall submit to the electors of the district the question of levying taxes for such purposes or either of them, and the further questions whether the levy shall be made from year to year thereafter, and what amount shall be levied each year until the actual cost of such site or sites, the erection of such school house or school houses, or completion or furnishing or refurnishing of same or either of them, is raised; and ten days' notice of such submission shall be given by the board by posters put up in five of the most public places in the district, which shall state the time, place and object of the election. SECTION 2. That original section 3991 is hereby Repeals, etc repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. A. CALDWELL, Passed March 16, 1900. President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 201.] AN ACT To amend section 620 of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 620 of the Revised Statutes Justices of the 'be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 620. When the office of coroner becomes vacant, in any county, by death, resignation, expiration of the term of office, or otherwise, or when the coroner is absent from the county, or unable from sickness or other cause to discharge the duties of his office, any justice of the peace of the county is vested with all the powers, and shall perform all the duties appertaining to the office of coroner, so far as it respects the power and duty of a coroner to hold inquisitions over the dead body of any person found, supposed to have come to his or her death by violence, or casualty; and when acting in the capacity of a coroner, every such justice is entitled to the same fees as are allowed by law to coroners in such cases, peace: when justice shall act as coro ner. Repeals, etc. SECTION 2. Said original section 620 be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO. A. CALDWELL, Passed March 16, 1900. President of the Senate. 34G Commission on fees of county officials. Secretary. Duties. Biennial report to general assembly. Penalty for re mission or ille fees. [House Bill No. 110.] AN ACT To provide for a commission for the purpose of systematizing and regulating the collection of the fees of county officials. The Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That the auditor of state, secretary of state and attorney general shall constitute a commission to be known as the "commission on fees of county officials." auditor of state shall be the chairman of said commission. The commission is hereby empowered to employ a secretary or stenographer, to be paid not to exceed the sum of five dollars ($5.00) per day for the time it is necessary to employ him as such, and within thirty days after the sine die adjournment of the session of the legislature passing this act said commission shall proceed to the performance of its duties herein imposed. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the commission cn fees of county officials, immediately after its organization, to prepare a schedule of fees which the various county officials in the state are legally entitled to charge under the provisions of the statute of the state of Ohio; and the commission shall.construe each provision of the statute relative to the fees of county officials, and a separate schedule, together with such construction relative to the fees of each county office, shall be placed in the hands of every county official in the state and said official shall conform thereto. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the commission. on fees of county officials to prepare a report of its proceedings every two years, which it shall submit to the general assembly of the state of Ohio, together with its recommendations as to legislation in reference to fees and salaries forcounty officials. SECTION 4. Any salaried county official who shall gal collection of remit any fee or part thereof, and any county official who shall collect fees in any manner or in any amounts other than prescribed by the commission on fees of county officials,. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the person |