Repeals. of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, be and the same is hereby repealed. Appropriation for general assembly. [House Bill No. 37.] AN ACT To make sundry appropriations. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be and is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for salaries and mileage of members, per diem of clerks, sergeant-at-arms and other officers and employes of the general assembly; one thousand ($1,000) dollars for contingent expenses of the house; five hundred ($500) dollars for contingent expenses of the senate, and one thousand ($1,000) dollars for expenses of legislative committees. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, Passed January 19, 1898. President of the Senate. 3G [Senate Bill No. 44.] AN ACT To amend section 6961 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Offenses against the State of Ohio, That section 6961 of the Revised Statutes public policy: of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: Penalty for unlawful catching, or pursuing of game, destroying eggs or nests, hunting, Sec. 6961. No person shall, on any place, catch, kill, killing, injuring or injure, or pursue with such intent any quail except between the 10th day of November and the 15th day of December, inclusive; or any prairie chicken, or squirrel, except between the 1st day of September and the 15th day of December, inclusive; or any woodcock, except between the 4th day of July and the 15th day of November, inclusive; shooting, trapping, etc. or any rail, snipe, killdeer, plover, coot or mud-hen, or any wild duck except between the first day of September and the 10th day of April, inclusive. No person shall, at any time, catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any wild duck or wild goose by the aid or use of any swivel or punt-gun, or any other gun than a common shoulder-gun; or with the aid of, or from any sink-boat or battery, or by the use or aid of any steamboat, naptha-launch, electric launch, sail-boat, steam-launch, or any kind of boat whatsoever, except a common rowboat, propelled by oars. No person shall, at any time, catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any of the birds, game or animals mentioned in this act, with or by the use of any trap, net or snare, or destroy any of the eggs, or nests of any of the birds named in this section. No person shall kill any wild duck on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of any week, on any of the reservoirs belonging to the state of Ohio, or in or upon the waters of Lake Erie, and the estuaries and bays thereof; but nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the killing, catching or pursuing with such intent, any wild duck on Sunday. No person shall hunt or shoot or trap, or have in possession in the open air for such purpose, the implements for the hunting, shooting or trapping of the same, on the first day of the week, called Sunday. No person shall shoot at or kill any wild duck before six o'clock in the forenoon, or after five o'clock in the afternoon, of any day. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined as provided in section 6968. Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed so as to Injurious squirprohibit the killing of squirrel by the owner or tenant of any premises where such animals are found injuring grain, fruit trees, shrubbery or vegetables. rel. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force Repeals, etc. from and after its passage, and original section 6961, as amended April 1, 1896, be and the same is hereby repealed. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed January 27, 1898. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. [House Bill No. 198.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the governor's inauguration. 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 in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum for governor's inauguration. of ten hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-two cents for the expenses incurred in the inauguration of the governor-elect on the tenth day of January, 1898, to be paid out upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the joint committee having in charge the inauguration ceremonies. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 3, 1898. President of the Senate. 5G Additional judge in first subdivision of tenth district. First election and term of office. Sheriff's proclamation of election; returns. Compensation, jurisdiction, powers, duties and penalties. [Senate Bill No. 6.] AN ACT To provide for the election of an additional judge of the court of common pleas in the tenth judicial district of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That for the tenth judicial district of the state of Ohio, there shall be an additional judge of the court of common pleas, who shall be a resident of the first subdivision thereof, composed of the counties of Hancock, Hardin, Seneca and Wood, to be elected by the qualified voters of said counties as herein provided. SECTION 2. That the first election for said additional judge shall be held on the first Monday in April, A. D. 1898, at the time of the annual election for municipal and township officers, under and in pursuance of the general election laws of the state of Ohio governing the election of judges of the courts of common pleas; he shall be elected for the term of five years, beginning on the 18th day of April, A. D. 1898; and his successor shall be elected at the regular annual election, which shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November next preceding the expiration of his term of office, and every five years thereafter. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of each county of said first subdivision, at least fifteen days prior to the first Monday in April, A. D. 1898, and at least fifteen days prior to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year immediately prior to the expiration of each successive term of office of such additional judge, to give notice by proclamation according to law of the time and place for holding the election for such additional judge, which election shall be conducted and the returns thereof made in the same manner required by law in case of election of other judges of the court of common pleas. SECTION 4. Said additional judge shall receive the same salary as other judges of the court of common pleas, and when so elected and qualified shall have in all respects the same powers and jurisdiction, be subject to all the SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force To amend section 7264 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 7264 be amended so as to Change of read as follows: venue: change of venue. Court may ap point assistants compensation. Sec. 7264. When the venue is changed, the clerk of Proceedings on the county in which the indictment was found shall make a certified transcript of all the proceedings in the case, which, together with the original indictment, he shall transmit to the clerk of the court of the county to which the case is sent, and the trial shall be conducted in all respects as if the indictment had been found in that county; the prose- Who to try case. cuting attorney of the county in which the indictment was found shall take charge of and try the case; and the court, on application, may appoint one or more attorneys to assist him in the trial, and allow such compensation as it deems reasonable; and the cost accruing from a change of venue, Cost: how deincluding the compensation of the attorneys appointed to assist the prosecuting attorney, and the reasonable expense of the prosecuting attorney incurred in consequence of such change of venue, and also, including the fees of the clerk of the court and the sheriff, and the jury fees of the jury sitting in the trial of the case in the court of the county to which the venue is changed, shall be allowed and paid by the commissioners of the county in which such indictment was found. SECTION 2. Said original section 7264 be and the Repeals. same is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed February 7, 1898. Registration of land titles; act repealed. [House Bill No 71.] AN ACT To repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the registration of land titles in the state of Ohio, and to simplify and facilitate the transfers of real estate," passed April 27, 1896. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That an act entitled "An act to provide for the registration of land titles in the state of Ohio, and to simplify and facilitate the transfer of real estate," passed April 27, 1896, be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THADDEUS E. CROMLEY, President pro tem. of the Senate. 8G Passed February 7, 1898. Library associ- Disposition of tax. [Senate Bill No. 15.] AN ACT To authorize cities of the fourth grade of the second class to levy a tax for maintenance of a free public and school library. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in any city of the fourth grade of the second class, and in which city there is established and maintained by a public library association duly incorporated, but not organized for profit, a public library, free to all the inhabitants of such city, the board of education shall levy or cause to be levied an annual tax, in addition if need be to the annual amount of taxes limited by law for school purposes, of not less than three-tenths and not to exceed five-tenths of a mill on all the taxable property within such city and school district, to be called "a public library fund," which shall be certified to the county auditor of the county and placed on the tax duplicate of the county, and collected as other taxes. SECTION 2. Said tax when so levied and collected shall be paid over by the treasurer of the board of educa |