and to perform such other and further duties for the pro- Appointment; SECTION 4. That the appointments of persons to fill Non-partisan. SECTION 5. That each and every one of said district annum. SECTION 6. That any district supervisor of educational agriculture provided for in this act may be dismissed from Dismissal. said office by the state commissioner of common schools for incompetency, immorality or neglect of duty, but no such district supervisor shall be dismissed without just cause, when he is known to be making a success of his work. office. SECTION 7. That whenever any of the district supervisors of agriculture provided for in this act removes from Removal vacates the district from which he was appointed, his office shall be declared vacant by the state commissioner of common schools and whenever vacancies occur in the office of district supervisor of agriculture in any district provided for in this act, caused by death, resignation, removal from office, removal from the district for which he was appointed, or from any other cause, said vacancies shall be filled by the Vacancies. said state commissioner of common schools. SECTION 8. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 9. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the last Monday in July of the year 1911. General powers of municipalities. Parks, public grounds; purchase, lease, etc. [House Bill No. 16.] AN ACT To amend sections 3615 and 3631 of the General Code, relating to leasing of lands by municipalities. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 3615 of the General Code be amended to read as follows: Sec. 3615. Each municipal corporation shall be a body politic and corporate, which shall have perpetual succession, may use a common seal, sue and be sued, and acquire property by purchase, gift, devise, appropriation, lease, or lease with the privilege of purchase, for any municipal purpose authorized by law, and hold, manage and control it and make any and all rules and regulations, by ordinance or resolution, that may be required to carry out fully all the provisions of any conveyance, deed or will, in relation to any gift or bequest, or the provisions of any lease by which it may acquire property. Sec. 3631. To hold and improve public grounds, parks, park entrances and boulevards, and to protect and preserve them. To acquire by purchase, lease, or lease with privilege of purchase, gift, devise, condemnation or otherwise and to hold real estate or any interest therein and other property for the use of the corporation and to sell or lease it. SECTION 2. That said original sections 3615 and 3631 are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. PRICE RUSSELL, HUGH L. NICHOLS, President of the Senate. Passed March 7th, 1911. This bill was presented to the Governor March 7th, 1911, and was not signed or returned to the house wherein it originated within ten days after being so presented, exclusive of Sundays and the day said bill was presented, and was filed in the office of the Secretary of State March 24th, 1911. JOHN W. DEVANNEY, Veto Clerk. 21 [Senate Bill No. 5.] AN ACT To amend section 11418-1, of the general code, as passed April 12, 1910, relating to the drawing of juries in certain cases. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 11418-1, of the general code, as passed April 12, 1910 (O. L. Vol. 101, pages 107 and 108), be amended so as to read as follows: Jury drawn Sec. 11418-1. In any civil case pending in the court of common pleas of any county, wherein the parties thereto may be entitled to a trial by jury, if it shall appear that the board of county commissioners or the board of infirmary directors of such county, in which such action is pending, is a party thereto, the court, or a judge thereof, upon the application of either party, shall certify such fact to the clerk of such court of common pleas in any adjoining county, together with the time fixed for the trial of said case, and the number of jurors to be drawn; and shall order such clerk to draw from the jury wheel the number of names of persons so certified to serve as jurors in the trial of such cases in such other county. The venire shall be issued to the sheriff of the county from which such jury is drawn, and shall be served, and the same shall be done in like manner, and subject to the same proceedings, as are provided by law for the summoning of other petit jurors. And such persons so drawn and summoned shall, in obedi- Jurors, fees, ence to such summons, appear in the court of the county ices, etc. in which such action may be pending to serve as jurors therein, being empaneled and subject to challenge the same as in other civil cases. * * * For their services as * * * such jurors there shall be allowed three dollars to each * ** * as in other cases, and all costs, including the costs incident to the drawing, issuing and service of the venire shall be paid from the county treasury in which such action is pending upon certificate by the clerk of the court of such county as to the service and mileage of said jurors, and to the officers performing such services, upon the certificate of such officers. This section shall apply to pending actions. SECTION 2. Said original section 11418-1 of the general code is hereby repealed. S. J. VINING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 7th, 1911. HUGH L. NICHOLS, This bill was presented to the Governor March 7th, 1911, and was not signed or returned to the house wherein it originated within ten days after being so presented, ex from adjoining county; when. mileage, serv clusive of Sundays and the day said bill was presented, and was filed in the office of the Secretary of State March 24th, 1911. JOHN W. DEVANNEY, Veto Clerk. 22 [House Bill No. 278.] Ohio national guard; what AN ACT To amend section 5189 of the General Code, relative to units of the national guard. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 5189 of the General Code, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 5189. The Ohio national guard shall consist of shall constitute. not more than one hundred companies of infantry, four batteries of artillery, four troops of cavalry, one band for each organized regiment and separate battalion, a medical department, a signal corps, a corps of engineers, the governor's staff, and the staff officers and non-commissioned staff officers provided in section fifty-one hundred and ninetyone. All of such troops shall be allotted and apportioned to such localities as the necessities of the service, in the opinion of the governor, may require. Apportionment. SECTION 2. That said original section 5189 of the General Code be and the same is hereby repealed. Maximum expenditure for armories. [Senate Bill No. 90.] AN ACT To amend section 5261 of the general code, relative to the cost of armories. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 5261 of the general code be amended to read as follows: Sec. 5261. The maximum amount to be expended by the state for the building or purchase of an armory for a company or single organization, shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars additional thereto for each organization or headquarters provided for. In no city or village shall more than one building be erected or purchased until provisions have been made for all organizations therein, nor shall a building be leased or rented for the use of a company or single organization in excess of six Maximum rent. hundred dollars per year for each organization provided for. SECTION 2. That said original section 5261 of the general code be and the same is hereby repealed. S. J. VINING Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Passed March 22nd, 1911. JUDSON HARMON, Governor. [House Bill No. 62.] AN ACT To amend section 2968, of the General Code, relative to providing for the relief of the needy blind, and to supplement section 2967, by the enactment of an additional section known as section 2967-1, relative to providing for the relief of the needy blind. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 2968, of the General Code, be amended so as to read as follows, and that there be enacted a supplementary section to be designated as section 2967-1: Increase or decrease allowance. Sec. 2968. At its annual meeting the commission shall make examination as to the qualifications of any one on the blind list and increase or decrease the allowance within the limits herein prescribed. If not satisfied that the person on the list is qualified to draw any money it shall entirely remove him from the list and shall forthwith notify the auditor of such action. And the commission may at any meeting during the year inquire into the qualifications, and examine as to the disability and needs of any person theretofore placed on such blind list, and in case it find that any person is not qualified to draw further relief, or that such disability has been removed, in whole or in part, then such commission may at any time thereafter during such year, modify or change the amount theretofore found necessary for such relief, or remove such person from the list qualified Removal from to draw any money for relief, and it shall forthwith notify the county auditor of their action so taken. SECTION 2967-1. If the commission in the examination list. |