#LORD TIBBYKA Fire marshal; Place of of- [House Bill No. 77.] AN ACT To amend section 820 of the General Code relative to the location of the office of the State Fire Marshal. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 820 of the General Code be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 820. The governor, with the advice and consen of the senate, shall appoint a fire marshal, who shall hold his office for a term of two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The state fire marshal shall have his principal office in the city of Columbus. SECTION 2. That said original section 820 be and the same is hereby repealed. Making sundry appropriations to pay the interest on the irreducible debt. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That there be, and is hereby appropriated from any moneys 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 hereinafter reducible debt. For interest on irreducible debt of the state, which Interest on irconstitutes the school, ministerial, indemnity fund, Ohio university and Ohio state university funds, falling due January 1, 1911-$325,000.00. S. J. VINING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ATLEE POMERENE, Passed Jan'y 31st, 1911. Approved Feb'y 3rd, 1911. JUDSON HARMON, Governor. [House Bill No. 105.] AN ACT To make sundry appropriations. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: S. J. VINING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ATLEE POMERENE, Salaries and bers and employes. Passed Jan'y 26th, 1911. Approved Feb'y 6th, 1911. JUDSON HARMON, Governor. Section 5054-1. [Senate Bill No. 2.] AN ACT To provide for the election of judicial officers by separate ballot. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. The election of judges of the supreme Election of court, judges of the circuit courts, judges of the courts of judges. common pleas, judges of the probate courts, justices of the peace, and judges of all other courts which are or may be · Section 5054-2. Judicial ticket. Section 5054-3. Form of official to deputy state ballot certified supervisors and inspectors. Section 5054-4. lots, how di vided. Arrangement of candidates. established by law, shall be governed and controlled by the general election laws of the state except as is otherwise provided by this act. SECTION 2. The names of all candidates for election to any of the judicial offices specified in Section 1 of this act, whose nominations have been duly made, and not withdrawn, shall be placed upon a separate and independent ballot, entitled, "Judicial Ticket," without any designation whatever, except the office or offices to which said candidates are to be elected, and the number of candidates required to be elected to each such office, and such directions as will aid the elector as "vote for one, 'vote for two," and the like and such certification of the election officers upon the back of the ballot as is prescribed by law. There shall be separate poll books and tally sheets used for the election of all such judicial officers, and the ballots of the electors shall be deposited in a separate ballot box. 99 66 SECTION 3. The secretary of the state, at the time he certifies to the boards of deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections a form of official ballots for the general election, shall also certify to the several deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections a form of official ballot for such judicial ticket, and it shall then be the duty of the several deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections to proceed with the printing of the poll books, tally sheets, and ballots for such judicial election, and to perform all and singular the duties prescribed by law for the conduct of the general elections, in so far as the same are applicable. SECTION 4. The ballots shall be printed and prepared Number of bal- as follows: the whole number of ballots to be printed for the election of persons to fill each of said offices respectively shall be divided by the number of candidates for each of said offices respectively, and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of ballots in each series of ballots to be printed as follows: the names of candidates shall be arranged in alphabetical order and the first series of ballots printed; then the first name shall be placed last and the next series printed, and so shall the process be repeated until each name shall have been first. These ballots shall then be combined in tablets with no two of the same order of names together, except when there is but one candidate for any of said offices. The names of candidates for the same office but for different terms of service therein, shall be arranged in groups according to the length of their respective terms. Blank spaces shall be left at the end of the list of candidates for each office equal to the number to be elected thereto, in which the voter may insert the name of any person not printed on the ballot for whom he desires to vote for such office. The ballots shall be so printed as to give each elector a clear opportunity to designate by a cross mark in a blank enclosed space on the left and before the name of each candidate his choice of particular candidate. Blank space. Section 5054-5. SECTION 5. A cross shall be placed at the left of the Marking. name of each candidate for whom the elector desires to vote. The person having the largest number of votes for each office voted upon shall be decided elected to such office, and numbers on the the next highest, and so on, until the number of candidates required to be elected shall have been selected from the number having the highest number of votes. The sectional margin hereof are designated as provided by HOGAN, SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts in so far as they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. To aid in defraying the expenses of maintaining permanent head- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: headquarters. SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated Appropriation from the general revenue fund of the state, not otherwise for G. A. R. appropriated, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, for the fiscal year ending February 15th, 1912, to assist in defraying the expenses of maintaining permanent headquarters of the department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, at the city of Columbus. SECTION 2. The expenditures of this money shall be on How expended. vouchers drawn on the auditor of state and signed by the department commander, attested by the assistant adjutant general, department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic. Appropriation for common schools. [House Bill No. 101.1 AN ACT To make appropriations for the support of the common schools of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: S. J. VINING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ATLEE POMERENE, Passed Feb'y 14th, 1911. JUDSON HARMON, Governor Miami University. [House Bill No. 198.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Miami university, the Ohio univer- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 2. That there be and is hereby appropriated |