Partial appropriations for 1898 and 1899. SECTION 2. The moneys appropriated in the preceding section shall not be.in any way expended to pay liabilities or deficiencies existing prior to February 15, 1898, nor shall they be used or paid out for purposes other than those for which said sums are specifically appropriated as aforesaid. SECTION 3. No bills for clerk hire, for furniture or carpets, or for newspapers, shall be paid out of appropriations made for contingent expenses; no bills for horses or cows, carriages or wagons, carpets or furniture, or any expenses for officers attending state, inter-state or national associations of benevolent institutions, shall be paid out of the appropriations made for current expenses of said institutions; and no money herein appropriated shall be drawn except on a requisition on the auditor of state, approved by the head of each department or the trustees of the institution, which shall set forth the service rendered or material furnished, and the date of purchase and the time of service, and it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to see that these provisions are complied with. No bills for extra clerk hire in favor of any clerk or clerks, while drawing salaries from the state, shall be allowed from any amount hereby appropriated, and this act shall take effect on its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed February 25, 1898. President of the Senate. 19G Railroad companies: Bicycle as baggage. [Senate Bill No. 49.] AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the transportation of bicycles," passed April 27, 1896 (O. L. vol. 92, p. 372). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That an act entitled "An act to regulate the transportation of bicycles," as passed April 27, 1896 (O. L. vol. 92, p. 372), be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 1. That hereafter for the purposes herein specified, bicycles, with or without lanterns or tool-boxes attached, are declared to be baggage, and shall be transported as baggage for passengers, by all railroad companies operating in this state, and be subject to the same charges and liabilities as other baggage, and no passenger shall be required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect any such bicycle; provided, however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport, under the provisions of this act, more than one bicycle for a single person. SECTION 2. Said original act is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. To redistrict the state of Ohio for state hospital purposes and to provide for opening the Massillon state hospital, and to amend section 699, R. S. of Ohio, as amended 84 O. L. 203, and to amend section 700, R. S. of Ohio, as amended 81 O. L. 14, and to supplement said sections with 699a, 6996, 699c, as R. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 699 and 700 (as amended State hospitals. for insane: Sec. 699. The districts of the state hospitals, name! Districts. in the last preceding section, shall be respectively as fol- The district of the Cleveland state hospital shall be composed of the counties Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga The district of the Massillon state hospital shall be composed of the counties Ashland, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, Lorain, Medina, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas and The district of the Athens state hospital shall be com- posed of the counties of Adams, Athens, Clinton, Gallia, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and The district of the Dayton state hospital shall be com- posed of the counties Brown, Butler, Clermont, Darke, The district of the Columbus state hospital shall be The district of the Toledo state hospital shall be com- posed of the counties of Allen, Auglaize, Crawford, Defi- ance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Logan, Lucas, Mercer, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Rich- Opening of Massillon hospital. Superintendent; powers and duties. Admission of patients. Transfer of patients from other hospitals. Expense of transfer. How counties' proportion ascertained. Sec. 699a. The board of trustees of the Massillon state hospital, appointed in conformity with the act establishing the hospital, and for the purpose of its construction, shall be empowered to furnish and occupy such buildings as are ready for occupancy or that may be made ready hereafter, during the progress of the work of construction, and until such time as the governor may deem it to the interests of the hospital to appoint a board of trustees under the general law governing the state benevolent institutions, at which time the terms of office of the present board shall terminate. Sec. 6996. The said board of trustees shall have authority to appoint a superintendent during the completion of the work of construction, who shall have had experience in the care and treatment of the insane and who shall be authorized to superintend the work of construction and to furnish and open such buildings as are now or may be hereafter made ready for occupancy during the progress of the work. Said superintendent shall also have charge of said buildings when occupied, and of the patients kept therein, employing the necessary officers and employes under the direction of the board and as required for the purposes mentioned. Sec. 699c. Patients may be admitted to the Massillon state hospital while the work of construction is in progress from such counties of the district set apart for said hospital in section 699 of this act, as can be provided for therein and the board of trustees of said hospital are authorized to designate said counties from time to time as accommodations may become available. Sec. 699d. As soon as practicable, after the accommodations at the Massillon state hospital become available, the patients in each of the state hospitals who have been sent thereto from a county which does not belong to the district of any such hospital as fixed by section 699a shall be transferred to the hospital of the proper district; any such transfer to be made at such time and in such manner as may be agreed upon by the superintendents of the hospitals to be thereby affected, and thereafter, new patients from any such county shall be sent to the institution to which it is assigned therein. The expense of the transfer of patients as provided for in this act shall be paid out of the current expense fund of the institution from which the patients are removed. Sec. 700. Each county is entitled to send patients to the hospital of the district in which such county is situated in proportion to the number of insane residents in such county requiring state care, said number of insane in each county being ascertained annually by the board of state charities and reported to the superintendent of each of the state hospitals and to the probate judge of each of such counties on the fifteenth day of November of each year. dent admitted. inmates. No person shall be admitted into either of the hospitals How non-resibelonging to the state, except an inhabitant of the state, unless by joint resolution of the general assembly, which joint resolution shall specifically name the person to be admitted, and no person shall be considered an inhabitant within the meaning of this chapter, who has not resided within the state one year next preceding the date of his or her application, and no person is entitled to the benefits. of the provisions except those whose insanity has occurred during the time such persons have resided in the state. All persons who have been or may hereafter be admitted Maintenance of into either of the state hospitals, shall be maintained therein at the expense of the state, except as is provided in section six hundred and thirty-one of this title of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. The trustees may direct the discharge Discharge. of a person when they deem it expedient. The medical Monthly report superintendents of each of the state hospitals shall inform the probate judge of the different counties comprising the district, monthly, of the quota of patients to which the said county is entitled and the number in the hospital from said county, and the probate judge may at any time forward an acute case if the quota is not full and the papers and clothing are in compliance with law. to probate court; acute case. SECTION 2. Said original sections 699 (84 O. L. 203) Repeals. and 700 (81 O. L. 14), shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force and take effect on and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THADDEUS E. CROMLEY, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 3, 1898. 21G [House Bill No. 207.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Ohio university, and for the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university. for Ohio, Miami SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated Appropriations from any money raised or coming into the state treasury and wilberforce to the credit of the Ohio university, Miami university and universities. the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university funds, not otherwise appropriated, for the last three-quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1898, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending February 15, 1899, the following sums, to wit: For the Ohio university the sum of $33,000. For the Miami university the sum of $24,000. For the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university the sum of $19,000. And for the last three-quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1899, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending February 15, 1900, the following sums, to wit: For the Ohio university the sum of $33,000. For the Miami university the sum of $24,000. For the normal and industrial department of the Wilberforce university the sum of $19,000 or so much of said several amounts as may come into the state treasury to the credit of said funds, to be applied to the uses and purposes of the said universities, in accordance with the provisions of section 3951, Revised Statutes, as amended March 20, 1891 (O. L. vol. 88, p. 159), and as further amended February 26, 1896, and April 16, 1896. SECTION 2. on its passage. This act shall take effect and be in force HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THADDEUS E. CROMLEY, President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed March 3, 1898. 22G for Ohio state university. [House Bill No. 208.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Ohio state university. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Appropriations the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated from any moneys raised or coming into the state treasury to the credit of the "Ohio state university fund," not otherwise appropriated, for the last three-quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1898, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1899, the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars ($180,000), or so much as may come into the treasury to the credit of said fund; and for the last three-quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1899, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1900, the sum of one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars ($185,000), or so much as may come into the treasury to the credit of said fund, to be applied to the uses and purposes of the Ohio state university, in accordance with the provisions of section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended March 9, 1896. |