Current expenses and clothing. Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Officers' salaries and trustees' expenses... Ordinary repairs, improvements of grounds, and furniture, carpet and bedding.... Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Current expenses $20,000 00 2,000 00 $25,000 00 Salary of officers and expenses of trustees. 6,000 00 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 (Ō. 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. for insane: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That sections 699 and 700 (as amended State hospitals. Sec. 699. The districts of the state hospitals, named Districts. 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- |