Municipal officer or town terested in public work. Sec. 6976. An officer or member of the council of any ship trustee in municipal corporation or the trustee of any township who is interested directly or indirectly in the profits of any contract, job, work or services for the corporation or township, or acts as commissioner, architect, superintendent or engineer in any work undertaken or prosecuted by the corporation or township during the term for which he was elected or appointed, or for one year thereafter, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars nor less than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months nor less than thirty days, or both, and shall forfeit his office. Repeals. SECTION 2. Said original section 6976 of the Revised SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatives O. SHEPPARD, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 16, 1900. Sinking fund: Trustees of sink- [Senate Bill No. 347.] AN ACT To supplement section 2723 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Sec. 2723a. Loans, at a rate of interest not exceeding (6) six percent per annum, may be made by said trustees of the sinking fund, in any city of the second grade of the first class, for interest and sinking fund purposes in anticipation of taxes levied and in process of collection; but the aggregate amount of such loans shall not exceed the amount of taxes and revenue from the levy for interest and sinking fund purposes due and payable into these funds. from the next succeeding semi-annual collection of taxes, nor shall such loans extend more than three days beyond the settlement day for such semi-annual collection of taxes. Notes given for and in evidence of loans entered into under the provisions of this section shall be signed by the president of the board and attested by the secretary or clerk and at least two trustees of the board. 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 LOCAL LAWS. [House Bill No. 31.] AN ACT To authorize cities of the second class, third grade c, or cities which, on the first day of July, A. D. 1890, have more than twelve thousand three hundred and less than thirteen thousand three hundred inhabitants, and those which, on the first day of July, in any year, have, when ascertained in the same way, more than twelve thousand three hundred and less than thirteen thousand three hundred inhabitants, to issue and sell bonds for building, constructing and completing main trunk, sanitary and house drainage sewers, and surface or storm sewers. [PORTSMOUTH.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That cities of the second class, third grade c, or cities which, on the first day of July, A. D. 1890, have more than tweleve thousand three hundred and less than thirteen thousand three hundred inhabitants, and those which, on the first day of July, in any year, have, when ascertained in the same way, more than twelve thousand three hundred and less than thirteen thousand three hundred inhabitants, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell bonds in the sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), and to use the proceeds arising from the sale of such bonds in paying for the building, constructing and completing of main trunk, sanitary and house drainage. sewers, and surface or storm sewers. SECTION 2. That such bonds shall be issued by the city councils. of such cities, in such amounts and at such times as such councils may deem necessary, and shall bear interest at such rate per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, not to exceed 5 per cent. as such councils may determine. Such bonds shall be designated "sewer bonds" and shall be of the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, and shall be payable in twenty years from the date of issue. SECTION 3 That for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of such bonds, such councils are hereby authorized to and shall levy annually, upon all the taxable property in such cities, a tax sufficient in rate and amount to pay the interest on, and provide a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity; such tax, if such councils shall deem it necessary, may be additional in rate and amount to all other taxes authorized to be levied by such cities, for any and all other purposes. SECTION 4. 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 January 10, 1900. President pro tem. of the Senate. 1L [Senate Bill No. 11.] AN ACT To authorize the trustees of Falls township, Hocking county, to transfer funds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That the trustees of Falls township, Hocking county, are hereby authorized to transfer any fund not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) from the poor fund to the road fund of said township: SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS, Speaker of the House of Representatiz es. Passed January 31, 1900. President of the Senate. 2L [Senate Bill No. 26.] AN ACT Authorizing the trustees of Goshen township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, to transfer funds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That the board of trustees of Goshen township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to transfer fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars from the poor fund of said township to the road fund of said township. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. A. G. REYNOLDS. Passed January 31, 1900. Speaker of the House of Representatives. [Senate Bill No. 6.] AN ACT Relative to the duties and compensation of certain county officers of Clermont county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That in Clermont county the compensation of officers hereafter elected shall be by annual salary exclusively, except as otherwise provided by sections six and nine of this act as follows: The auditor $2,750; the treasurer $2,250; the probate judge $2,500; the clerk of the court of common pleas $2,000; the sheriff $2,250; the recorder $1,400; the prosecuting attorney $1,200; the surveyor $700; the coroner $150; each county commissioner $1,200; each infirmary director, $150; and neither of said officers shall receive, nor agree to receive, directly or indirectly, any additional compensation from any source whatever for the performance or omission of any official duty; provided, however, that the auditor, probate judge, treasurer, sheriff, prosecuting attorney, surveyor, and each county commissioner, when necessary to go out of the county on official business connected with their respective duties, may each, in addition to his salary, charge and receive his actual expenses of transportation to and from the county seat and no more; which expenses shall be paid by the county on the warrant of the auditor, on first producing to the auditor an itemized account therefor, approved, in writing, by the prosecuting attorney. All such salaries shall be paid by the county in equal monthly installments out of the county treasury, on warrant of the auditor; but if any such officer shall die, resign, or be removed from office, his compensation shall cease at the time of his death, resignation or removal; and no compensation shall be paid by the county. to any deputy, clerk, or other employe of such officers. the SECTION 2. All fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites which are now or may hereafter be allowed by law for the performance of official duty by the auditor, probate judge, clerk of the court of common pleas, treasurer, sheriff, recorder, or prosecuting attorney, or by the sheriff, as a special master commissioner, or as receiver in any case, shall, when collected, be for the sole use of the county, except as otherwise provided in sections six and nine, and the total receipts thereof each calendar month by each of said officers, shall, except as otherwise provided in section five, be paid by him to the county treasurer at the close of business on the last business day of each month, and be duly receipted and accounted for by the treasurer; and said officers shall keep full and accurate accounts in books to be provided for that purpose, showing all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites that accrue to his office, and by whom paid to him each day and the amounts paid to the treasurer each month and the amount due and unpaid, and also the name of each person or party liable for any part of such as are due and unpaid, and the amount due from each; provided, that such fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites in cases pending in court, shall not be deemed to be earned or to have accrued within the meaning of this act, until final judgment, except in habeas corpus and divorce cases. SECTION 3. Each officer mentioned in section two shall, on the first business day of each month, file with the county commissioners a statement verified by his affidavit, showing the full receipts daily by him for the preceding month (and the total for the month) from each of the sources specified in the preceding section, and also a statement verified as aforesaid, showing the full amount of all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites accrued to his office and not paid. to him, and the name of each person or party liable for any part thereof, and the amount due from each; and each statement after the first, of the amounts due and unpaid, shall begin with the showing of the amount theretofore reported due and unpaid, and what portion thereof has been paid during the month covered by the report. And on the day his term of office expires, he shall file with the commissioners like statements, showing such receipts daily since his last statement, and such amounts due and unpaid up to that time. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to see that the provisions of this act are faithfully complied with and observed; and all statements required by the preceding sections to be filed with them shall be carefully preserved, and shall be subject to public inspection during all official business hours; and the account books provided by section two shall be subject to like inspection, and shall remain in the respective offices where kept, and at the expiration of the term of any officer named in section two shall be turned over to his successor in office. SECTION 5. Each officer mentioned in section two shall exercise due vigilance in the collection of fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites accruing to his office, and shall, where authorized by law, collect the same before or at the time they are earned; but the county commissioners may, by order entered on their journal and certified to the treasurer, authorize the treasurer to omit for forty days to enforce payment of penalties for the nonpayment of taxes within the time limited by law; and the treasurer shall not be required to report to the commissioners in his statements required by section three the percentages allowed him by law on taxes collected, except in such statements next following his semi-annual settlements with the auditor. SECTION 6. The sheriff shall be allowed to retain for his own use whatever money he may receive under any contract with the county com missioners for keeping and providing for prisoners in the county jail; but in making such contract the commissioners shall specify in general terms the manner in which such prisoners shall be kept and provided for, and shall see that the terms are fully complied with. SECTION 7. Nothing in this act shall be construed to vest in any officer mentioned in section one such fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites as are unpaid at the end of their respective terms, but the same shall be the property of the county, to be collected by their successors in office, and applied, as provided in this act; but fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances and other perquisites that accrue to said officers prior to the taking effect of this act shall not be affected thereby. SECTION 8. All money paid to the county treasurer in pursuance of this act shall be by him credited to the general fund of the county, and all warrants issued by the county auditor by [in] pursuance thereof shall be drawn upon said fund. SECTION 9. All accounts of costs and fees due to any of the officers named in section one of this act, which remain unpaid for one year, shall, by such officer, be transferred to the prosecuting attorney for collection, who shall, on the first Monday in each month, pay over to the officer for whom the collection is made all moneys which may have come into his hands; such officer shall give the prosecuting attorney a receipt for the amount paid over and enter a statement of such payment on the books of his office; and execution shall be issued on the precipe of such prosecuting attorney to enforce the payment of all such accounts to him transferred for collection. The prosecuting attorney shall report to the officer from whom he may have received any such accounts on the first Monday of each month, a full statement of all accounts still in his hands uncollected. For such services the prosecuting attorney shall, in addition to the salary provided in section one, receive five percentum on all accounts so collected by him; and where the same is collected by the sheriff on execution issued on the precipe of the prosecuting attorney, the sheriff. |