Said commissioners are empowered to attend on behalf of the state of Ohio, the annual and other conferences of state commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States; Foard. Sec. (409-61) (Report of board.) The said board of Report of commissioners shall keep a record of its proceedings and the data by it collected and digested and shall, not later than thirty (30) days before each regular session of the general assembly of Ohio and at such other times as they may think fit, or the governor may require, make a report of its proceedings and transactions and of its recommendations, to the governor, to be by him transmitted to the general assembly; Sec. (409-62) and expenses. (Expenses of board; and of members.) Compensation No member of said board shall receive any compensation for his services. Each member shall be reimbursed out of the funds hereinafter provided, upon the certificate of the president of the board, the amount of his actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties; but such expenses shall not exceed, for each member, in any one year, the sum of seventy-five ($75.00) dollars. The said board is hereby authorized, as a board, to expend not to exceed, in any one year, the sum of two hundred and seventy-five ($275.00) dollars, for an assistant secretary, clerical assistance, postage, stationery, printing and incidentals, the accounts for which shall have been audited by the said board. Said board shall keep full and accurate accounts of its expenditures. Sec. (409-63.) (Appropriations.) To carry out the Appropriations. provisions of this act, a sum not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars per year may be expended, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys to the credit of the general revenue fund, and the money herein appropriated shall be drawn by requisition upon the auditor of state approved by the president of the board, SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, To amend section 2100a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as passed April 3, 1889 (86 O. L., 201), relating to the parole of prisoners in workhouses. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 21000 of the Revised Stat- Workhouses: utes of Ohio, as passed April 3, 1889, be amended so as to read as follows: Parole of prisoners in workhouse. Repeals, etc. Sec 2100α. The board of directors of any workhouse in this state, or other board or official vested by statute with like authority, shall have power to establish rules and regulations under which and specify the conditions on which any prisoner may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the buildings and enclosures, but to remain, while on parole, in the legal custody and under control of such board or official, and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said institution; and full power to enforce such rules and regulations, and condition, and to retake and reimprison any convict so upon parole, is hereby conferred upon said board or official, whose written order, certified by its or his secretary, shall be a sufficient warrant for all officers named therein to authorize such officer to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner; and it is hereby made the duty of all officers to execute said order the same as ordinary criminal process; and said board or official may employ or authorize any person or persons to see that the conditions of said paroles are not violated, and in case of such violation to return any such prisoner so violating said parole to said workhouse, and the time between the violation of the conditions of such parole or constitutional release (by whatever name), as entered by order of such board or official on the records of the workhouse, and the reimprisonment or return of such prisoner, shall not be counted as any part or portion of time served under any sentence; and any prisoner at large upon such parole who fails to return to the actual custody of said workhouse as may be specified as one of the conditions of his parole, or commits a fresh crime and is convicted thereof, shall be, on the order of said board or official, treated as an escaped prisoner and subject to the penalties named in section two thousand one hundred and three (2103) of the Revised Statutes. SECTION 2. That said original section 21000, as passed April 3, 1889, be and the same is hereby repealed. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. F. B. ARCHER, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed April 4, 1902. 91G Levying taxes: [Senate Bill No. 78.] AN ACT To amend section 2837 of the Revised Statutes, relative to authorizing bond issues by voters of township or municipal corporations. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 2837 of the Revised Statutes be so amended as to read as follows: of issue of to Sec. 2837. Before any bonds are issued or tax levied, Township and as provided in the next two preceding sections, the ques- bonds;, submismunicipal tion of issuing the bonds shall be submitted to the voters of sion of question the township or municipal corporation at a general or special voters. election. And whenever the trustees of any township or hamlet or the council of any municipal corporation shall by resolution declare it necessary to issue and sell the bonds of such township, hamlet or municipal corporation, as the case may be, for any or either of the purposes mentioned in section 2835 of the Revised Statutes in any amount specified in such resolution and shall by such resolution fix a date upon which the question of issuing and selling such bonds shall be submitted to the electors of such township, hamlet or municipality, and shall cause a copy of such resolution to be certified to the deputy state supervisors of the county in which such township, hamlet or municipal corporation is situated, or board of election in such cities as have such boards, (and) such deputy state supervisors, or such boards of election, shall within ten days thereafter proceed to prepare the ballots and make all other necessary arrangements for the submission of such question to the electors of any such township, hamlet or municipal corporation at the time fixed in said resolution. Such election shall be held at the regular places of voting in such township, hamlet or municipality and shall be conducted, canvassed and certified in the same manner except as otherwise provided by law as April elections in such township, hamlet or municipal corporation for the election of officers thereof; provided, however, that when a special election for such purposes is held in a municipal corporation divided into wards there shall be but one voting place in each ward which shall be designated by the deputy state supervisors of election or in cities having a board of elections by such board, and the notice hereafter provided for shall designate the voting place in each ward. In all cities in which registration is required certificates of removal shall not be necessary except when transfers are required from one ward to another, and the board of elections of all such cities shall issue all such removal certificates. Fifteen days' notice of the submission shall be given in one or more newspapers printed therein once a week for two consecutive weeks, stating the amount of bonds to be issued, the purpose for which they are to be issued, and the time of holding the election; and if no newspaper is printed therein the notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place and published once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the township or municipal corporation; and if two-thirds of the voters voting at such election upon the question of issuing bonds, vote in favor thereof, then and not otherwise the bonds shall be issued and the tax levied. Those who vote in favor of the proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots "For the issue of bonds;" and those who vote against the same shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, "Against the issue Two-thirds majority necissue. essary for bond Sewer bonds; majority of votes only, nec essary for issue. Repeals, etc. of bonds;" provided, however, that when in any municipality, the question of issuing the bonds for the purpose of constructing sewers or a system of sewerage, shall be submitted to the voters of such municipal corporation at any such election, if a majority of the voters voting at such election upon the question of issuing the bonds for said purpose vote in favor thereof, then and not otherwise, the bonds shall be issued and the tax levied therefor by the council. SECTION 2. Said original section 2837 of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 4, 1902. F. B. ARCHER, President pro tem. of the Senate. 92G Appropriation and interest on public debt. [House Bill No. 370.] AN ACT To make an appropriation to pay the principal and interest of the public funded debt and interest on the irreducible debt and expenses of the sinking fund commission. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated to pay principal from any money that may be in the state treasury or that may come into the state treasury, belonging to the sinking fund, the following sums for the purposes herein named: For the payment of the principal of the funded debt due July 1, 1902, and July 1, 1903, four hundred and fifty thousand ($450,000) dollars; for payment of interest on funded debt, twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty ($12,750) dollars; or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the interest falling due July 1, 1902, and January 1, 1903, and July 1, 1903; for interest on irreducible debt of the state, which constitutes the school, ministerial, indemnity fund, Ohio university and Ohio state university, five hundred and seventy-five thousand ($575,000) dollars; for the expense of commissioners in paying loan and interest due July 1, 1902, and January 1, 1903, and July 1, 1903, one thousand ($1,000) dollars; for payment of the office expenses of the commissioners of the sinking fund, including salary of clerk, fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 4, 1902. F. B. ARCHER, President pro tem. of the Senate. 93G [House Bill No. 306.] AN ACT To amend section 1407-1 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 1407-1 of the Revised Stat- Gallia county: utes of Ohio, be so amended as to read as follows: leases for parts Purchase of Sec. 1407-1. The present lessees, sublessees, or own- Surrender of ers by purchase, descent or otherwise, of interests in or rights, under the permanent leases of section (29) in townships, one and five, in range (14) and township three, in range (15), of the Ohio company's purchase in Gallia county, may surrender the same for the part of said section, so owned by them respectively, to the auditor of Gallia county, and purchase in fee simple, such part of said section at its present appraised value; that upon the payment to said auditor of the present appraised value of the part of said section so purchased, he shall certify such payment with a description of said land and name of purchaser, to the auditor of state, whereupon, the governor of state shall make a deed to such purchaser for the part of said section (29), so purchased by him, which deed shall vest a fee simple title to said land in the grantee, therein named. SECTION 2. The proceeds of the sales of said part of section (29), under this act shall belong to the permanent ministerial fund, of the said townships, where said land is so situated, as now provided by law as to the proceeds of sales of parts of said section previously sold. deeds for same. such parts and Disposition of proceeds of such sale. SECTION 3. That section 1407-1 of the Revised Stat- Repeals, etc. utes of Ohio be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its To amend section 1599 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 1599 of the Revised Statutes Annexation: of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: teruitory. Sec. 1599. When the inhabitants generally of any mu- Annexation of nicipal corporation desire to enlarge its corporate limits by the annexation of contiguous territory, it shall be done in |