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PUBLISHED BY JAMES HARPER.
Volume XI.X.
GALLIPOLIS, OHIO,
"Truth and Justice.'
MAY 25, 1854
AT ONE DOLLAR IX ADTAKC
Number 2C.
3T It is mournful to pause and pon
r th nntimelv fate of eenius.
Whatever may have been the errors of
his life, when "the grave covers mu
from our view, we would remember
only what was good, beautiful and god-like-that
which allies him with angels
and fixes him in the immortal memories
of men. Edgar A. Foe while living.
was a
t -:- anml: maa. scvmiui, uc-
L : annetiteS
annetlteS ana uic unrci vi
his kind;
a seraph, rne iouowmg
ouiem for that erratic man is from one
of his latest and best friends Jane Ermi
na Locke, of Boston. It U found in a
new volume of poems enUUed, "The
Recalled; in voices of the Past, and
Poems of the Ideal."
REQUIEM FOR EDGAR A POE.
Strike the anthem, bards and brothers,
Softly sweep your many lyres;
Let the low and solemn requiem,
. Linger on their silver wires!
One hath broken from your number
Think not of his errors here
And hath laid him to a slumber,
. Beyond earthly hopes and fear!
One hath broken from your number,
With a harp of mightiest, tone,
And has passed through death's
dead
slumber
Onward to the eternal throne!
Let the turf press lightly on him
Lay his lyre upon his breast,
And the laurels Fame had won him,
Hang them o'er his place of rest
Though they bear full many an earth
Death's dark stream should wash
away
All the mildew clinging to them,
All the soiling of the clay!
Earth stained laurels hanging heavy
- With the cold and midnight dew!
Weep, ye brothers, it is mournful
Thus to decorate the yew!
Had the prayers of those availed him,
O'er whose path bis shadow fell,
Darkening with its raven pinions
Life's dim way, it had been well.
But yet strike the anthem, brothers
Think not of his errors now
Mourn him mourn his harp-strings
broken,
And the crushed wreath on his brow!
Take ye take the scattered fragments,
Lay them kindly at his breast, ...
Of the lyre he swept so wildly
Let them mark his place of rest!
Strike the anthem low and solemn,
Let its mornful echo swell
Tftough the "haunted woodland" open
ing. Where the "Ghouls" of "Wier" do
dwell.
O'er the "dank tarn" of "Auber"
Let its mournful numbers swell,
And through "cypress vales Titanic"
Paths his spirit loved so well!
Nevermore shall strains so mighty
Wind along that lakelet "dim;"
Nevermore shall float such music.
None could sweep the lyre like him!
Strike the anthem, then, ye brothers-
Think not of his errors now
Mourn him monrn his
broken.
K.m-Htrinmi
And the crushed wreath on his brow!
Cuba. There can be no longer any
doubt that the administration is now
through its subsidized presses and its
d'mlomatists preparing the way for the
seizure of Cuba. The Washington
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"ST. 'r: "u. ZrZi
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quotes from Alison s history for a pre-
.1 n ' X!" 'ZjT alleged
r
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ttaSiir-vSwilb:
-out any hostile demonstration by any
of the reat powers of Europe. Its
..l,f l Slrantied bv the treaty
"of Vienna, yet its annihilation was
"connived at by most of the parties
"contractant and resisted by none, from
"'the circumstance of its being too free
fo Zll-Z..
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cor! Ureal Dniaiu aione, 11 w u,-
take not. protested against the deed,
"but in an informal and reluctant man--nef."
"From the circumstance of its being
TOO. FREE for its nearest neighbor."
We are come, then, to the time when
.1 , f ,1 pBoinvvp nf th
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American Republic of the North cities
as an authority for its proposed action.
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Che thrice infamous partition of Poland!
When
'Freedom shrieked and Eoscinsko fell!"
Ha's A Baicx. The origin of this
term is said to be as follows: One
Eastern prince went to visit another
who, having been shown aU the curiosities,
he expressed a wish to see the for
tification. Hereupon the entertainer
took him to a review of his troops, and
exclaimed, 'These are my fortifications
every man is A Beicx!'
tW The Liverpool Albion affirms
that, with the exception of the commander-in-chief,
there is hardly an officer
of distinction in Her Majesty's service
now fit for active duty who has not ei
ther gone or is on the point of going
ue x,an.
[From the New York Musical World.]
A LEAF FROM FANNY FERN.
,
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Dear me, I must go shopping. Shop
ping is a nuisance; clerks are imperti
nent; feminity is victimized. Miserable
day, too; mud plastered an inch thick
on the side walk. Well, if we drop our
skirts, gentlemen cry "Ugh;" if we lift
them from the mud tbey level their eye
glass at our ancles. The true definition
of a gentleman (not round in complete
Webster) is a biped, who, of a muddy
day, is perfectly oblivious of any thing
but the shop signs.
Viva la France! Ingenious ransans,
6end us over your clever invention a
chain suspended from the girdle, at the
end of which is a gold hand to clasp up
the superfluous length' of our promena
ding robes, thus releasing our human
digits and leaving them at liberty to
wrestle with rude Boreas for the posses
sion of the detestable little sham bon
nets, which the" milliners persist in
hanging on the backs of our necks.
Well, here we are at Call k Ketch
urn's dry goods store. Now comes the
tug of war; let Job's mantle fall on my
feminine shoulders.
"Have you blue silk?"
Yardstick, entirely ignorant of colors,
after fifteen minutes snail-hke research,
( during which time I stand impatiently
on one 1 imb,) hands me down a silk
that is as green as hmiselt.
Oh' away with these stupid mascu
line clerks, and give us women, who
know by intuition what we want, to the
immense savin? of our lungs and leath
er, patience and prunella!
Here s Mr. limouiy lape s estab
lishment.
Have you lace collars (points) Mr.
Tape?"
Mr. Tape looks benificent, and shows
me some rounded collars, i repeat my
request in the most pointed manner for
pointed collars. Mr. Tape replies with
a patronizing gnn-,'
"f oints is going out, ma am.
"So ami."
Dear me, how tired my feet are!
Nevertheless, I must have some merino.
So I opened the door of Mr. Henry
Humbug's dry goods store, which is
about a half mile in length, and inquired
for the desired article. Young Yard
stick directs me to the counter at the
extreme end of the store. I commence
my travels thitherward through a file of
gaping clerks, and arrive there just ten
minues before two, by my repeater,
when I am told that they "are quite out
of merinoes but won't Lyonese cloth
do as well?" putting down a pile of the
same. 1 rush out m a high state ot
frenzy, and taking refuge in the next
door neighbor, inquire for some stock
ings. Whereupon the clerks inquire
(of the wrong customer) "what price I
wish to pay?" Of course I am so ver
dant as to be caught in that trap, and,
teetotallv disgusted with the intire in
stitution of shopping, I drag my weary
limbs into new saloon to rest.
Bless me, what a display of gilding
and girls, and gingerbread! what a heap
of mirrors! There's more than one
Fanny Fern in the world. , I found that
out since I came in.
"What will you be pleased to have?"
J-u-l-i-u-s C-ae s-a-r! look at that white
aproned waiter pulling out his snuff-box
and taking a pinch of snuff right over
that bowl of white sugar that will be
handed in five minutes to sweeten my
tea! And there s another combmir his
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oysters.
I "What
will I have!" Starve but
I'll have nothing till I can find a cleaner
dace than this to eat in.
Shade of old Paul Pry Boston! what
do I hearl Two, well, I declare I am
ndt sure whether they are ladies or wo-
,
men. 1
Idont understand tbese mew
Yo'te. . At any rate,they've
jrol on bonnets, and are telling the wait
j
schine de Zara, some sponge cake, and
-ebrandy." thshe cordial
in their elasses with the eusto of an old
top- their eyes sparkle and their
cheeks flush and just hear their eman-
eipalit&tongjiei eol wonder if their
husbands knew that they-but of course
they don't However, it is six of one
and half dozen of the other. They
are probably turning down sherry-
cobblers and eating oysters
at Flor
and their poor hungry children
while their narents are daintvizinsr
r ;
eat a fragment of dinner picked np at
home by a lazy set ol servants.
Heigho! ladies sipping wine in a pub
lie saloon! Pilgrim rock! hide your
self under irround! Well it is very
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BllWftiui; iUO QUIUUCt Ul 111 a 1 1 ICU wv-
, " who pas. their time ruining their
, ?lth saloons, devouring Par-
isian confectionary and tamtin? their
children's blood with and appetite for
strong drink. Oh, what a mockery of
a home must their s Del Heaven pity
the children reared there, left to the
chance training of vicious hirelings!
FANNY FERN.
to
Married At the residence of John
Walter, Esq., in the yfbinity of Woos-
ter, Ohio, on Thursday, April 27, at
o'clock P. M., by the Rev. J. 11. Jones
Hirr Drib8bach, the celebrated "Lion
King," to Miss Salux. A. Waltxr.
"And the Lion-temr and the lamb
shall lie down together." Wootter
Democrat.
Don't mutilate the Scriptures! You
left off "and a little child shall lead
them!" -
LAWS OF OHIO.
BY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT
Supplementary to as act defining the mode of
laying oat and establishing State Roads,
piased Maxell 11th, 1853.
Sac. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
whenever any part of a State Road, or
free turnpike road, within any county of
this State, shall become useless, or
where a State Road, or free turnpike
road may remain unopened for the term
of five years, after the same. has been
established, the commissioners of such
county may, on application of twelve
freeholders of the county, appoint three
disinterested freeholders to view the
same and report whether such State
Road or free turnpike road is useless,
or whether it would be of public advan
tage to vacate it; and if such freehold
ers shall report in favor of such vaca
tion, then the county commissioners
may order said State Road or free turn
pike road to be vacated, and the same
proceedings shall be had on such appli
cation as are directed by law to be had
on application to vacate County Roads.
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
President of the Senate, pro tem.
March 1st, 1854.
AN ACT
the circulation of Foreign Bank
To prohibit
Biils, of a lea denomination than ten dollars.
3
Sac. I. Beit enacted by the General
of the State of Ohio, That
from and after the first day of October,
in the vear of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons, firm,
or body corporate, to pass, transfer, or
circulate, either directly or indirectly, or
offer to pass, transfer or circulate, or
cause to be passed, transferred, or cir
culated, or to receive, or cause to oe re
ceived, any bank bill, or note of a less
denomination than ten dollars, unless
said bank bill or note shall have been
issued by and made payable at one of
the banks of this btate, in accordance
with the laws of this State; Provided,
however, that the mere transfer or re-
ceiving of such unlawful paper bona
fide, for the purpose of sending the same
directly out ot tbis atate, ior reuemp-
tion, shall not be deemed a violation oi
the provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. That all bank bills ot a less
denomination than ten dollars, unless
issued by and made payable at one of
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the banks ot this state, in accoruance
with the laws of this State, shall not di-
rectlv or indirectlv.be paid out or ro-
ceived in Davment of any tax, debt,
Hgment, decree, fine, or amercement,
or other demand wnaiever; ana an sucn
unlawful paper shall be held in this
State to be worthless, and all contracts
in relation thereto null and void; and
any disbursements or payments or ex-
chanrre for other property ot value,
made or attempted to oe maae mere-
with, of no effect whatever.
Sec. 3. Tliat any bank or bankers,
broker or brokers, or body corporate,
or public officer or officers, knowingly
violating any ot tne provisions oi hub
act, shall forfeit and pay for every such
violation, the sum of one hundred doi-
and any other person or person
the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered
in a civil action in the name of the State
of Ohio, upon complaint in writing, on
oath, in the same manner that debts of
like amount are by law recoverable,
ana unaer me ssmr umiwiuuus
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visions, one nail 01 wnicn uaii w
the person complaining, and the other
half to the Treasurer of the township in
wViii.li the. offence was
committed, and
fnr th 11 so of common schools in said
in- shall' not, after the filing of such1
u;nf K tr, fnrfwmrfi in the
moca oi rl. rli a nartv Lt flip R9TTIP
v., 6" - r-.v
Offence.
Sec. 4. The following shall be the'
form of the complaint in suiu for for-
icliures uuuer mc yi vvmivjua ui bins ttcb,
so far as the same may be applicable,
but may be varied to suit the nature of
fliA naFfiitnlQ, Aa nompir' Stat tlf
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1 'niinrw co rArry mo
A. B., one of the justices of the peace
forsadcounty,PeLnal.y cameifTD
WnO. DeiuET amy ewuru, ucuuactii auu
saith, that on or about the day of,
-, in the year
in the town-
ship of
at the county of
aforesaid, E.
F., (if a bank, body cor
porate, broker, or public officer, describe
them accordingly.) did knowingly pass,
(or transfer, or cause to be passed or
transferred, &c, as the ease may be,)
to one G. H., a certain bank bill, (or
note,) of the denomination of dol
lars, not issued by and made payable at
any of the banks of the btate of Uhio,
in accordance with the existing laws of
said State, and this deponent verily be
lieves the foregoing complaint to be
true, and further saith not, (Signed) C.
D. Sworn to and subscribed before
me, at the township and county afore
said, this day of A. B:,- Jus
tice of the I'eace. Upon such com
plaint being filed, the Justice shall issue
a summons thereon, (or capias, or other
civil process, upon the proper affidavit
being made, as the case may be,) stating
briefly therein, the substance of such
complaint, and make such writ returna
ble, as in other cases.
Sec. 6. That the members of every
firm, and the stockholders of every in-
eorporated company, and every bank
banker, broker, public officer, or other
person, shall, in addition to me toneiture
specified in the third section of this act,
individually liable for the redemption
in gold or silver coin, of all such unlaw-
ful paper put in circulation, paid, out or
transferred by them or such firm, in cor-
porated company, or bank of which they
are members or stockholders; and every
bank or other incorporated company,
who shall knowingly violate any of the
of this act, shall thereby for-
its charter and corporate privileges;
and all notes, and other securities or od-
li. rations, discounted in whole or in part
by any bank, banker or bankers, broker
or brokers, with, or by paying out the
unlawful paper, the circulation of which
is by this act prohibited, shall be void,
and no action shall be maintained to en
force the collection thereof.
Sec. 6. That all laws and parts of
laws inconsistent with the provisions of
this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
ROBERT LEE, President of the Senate, pro tem.
March 1st, 1854.
AN ACT
Assembly of the State of Ohio, Tnt sec
Assembly tion four of the act entitled an "act for
the jurisdiction and procedure before
jetiWc nf the Peace, and of the duties
be lawful for such justice, on the ap
lars. plication of the creditor, to render ju lg-
To extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the
Peace in civil cases; and to amend sections
four, five, and seven, of the act entitled "an
act for the jurisdiction and procedure before
Justices of the Peace, and of the duties of
Constables in civil cases." passed March
fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three
I 1. R it enacted bu the General
of (jonstables, in civil cases," passed
jj arcn fourteenth, one thousand eight
hundred and fiftv-three, be so amended
as to read as follows: Section 4. Under
the restrictions and limitations herein
provided, Justices of the Peace shall
have exclusive original jurisdiction of
any sum not exce ling one hundred
dollars, and concurrent jurisdiction with
the Court of Common 1'leas, in any
sum over one hundred dollars and
not
exceeding three hundred dollars,
2 That section five of the above
mentioned act, be so amended as to read
, fiiow. Section 5. When the balance
ciaijed to be due on any open or un-
settled account, or on any bill, note, or
jnd, shall be less than three hundred
dollars, the party by whom such balance
shall be claimed, may commence nis ac-
count therefor berore a Justice oi tne
Peace, who shall have power, and he is
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nereoy aumonzea io near uu ucki-
mine the matters m controversy, without
reard to the original account or con
tract, and he may render judgment for
Bny balance found due not exceeding
three hundred dollars; ana n any piain-
tiff appeal from a judgment entered in
his favor for such balance, and shall
fecover judgment for a sum greater
tl.an three hundred dollars, besides in-
tctcst and costs, he shall not recover
costs, on such appeal.
Sec. 3. That section seven of the
above named act, be so amended as to
read as follows: Section 7. If any
debtor shall appear before a justice of
the peace, without process, ana coniess
that, he is indebted to another, it shall
mvni on such confession against the
debtor for any sum not exceeding three
hundred dollrrs.
s,.c. 4. That the original sections
fonr. five, and seven, of the act to which
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mis is amenaaiory, oe, aim tue same is
F. C. LEBLOND.
the House of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE.
President of the Senate, pro tem.
March 1st, 1854.
AN ACT
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or
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: 10 amend the act entitled an act prescribing
the duties of Supervisors, and relating to
R"?Js and Highways, passed February 13
ij.
Skc. 1. Beit enacted by the General
1 Assembly of the Slate of Ohio, That sec
tion thirty-three of said act, be so
amttnAoA as t rparl na fnllnwft" That
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orw rxio-kr r n avrmn wtrn o rAQii ray nn
the grand levy, as provided for in the
Itwensixth 7and fwentv-seventh sec
, uuu ui Dttiu war, uciMjuajij,
or by an agent, discharge the same by
labor, to be performed on the road,
within the proper district within that
township where such tax may be
charged, by an able-bodied man, at the
rate of one dollar per day, ior eacn day
work, and a ratable proportion per day
for any team, waeon, cart, plow, or
scraper, that the supervisor may deem
proper to employ; whicn labor snau oe
performed under the direction of the
supervisors, to give to any person for!
whose benent such labor was periormea,
a certificate of the amount of such labor;
which certificate shall specify the
amount of tax so paid in labor, and the
and township wherein such labor
was performed; also, that said work
done between the first day of April
and the first day of October; which cer-
tificate shall in no case be available for
any greater sum than shall be charged
against such person in the district where
labor was performed. . And the
County Treasurer shall receive all such
certificates as money, in the discharge
of such road tax.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty
County Treasurer, to collect
taxes for road purposes, the same
I
section one oi mis ac.; uu mc
collected, shall be paid over to the pro
be per township treasurer, which shall be
expended on the public roads within the
district from which the same has been
collected.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage,
: Sec. 4. That section thirty-three of
the act prescribing the duties of super
provisions visors, and relating to roads and high
feit ways passed February 13th, A.D. 1853,
other taxes, except as herein peovidea in
W. B. VAN HOOK,
Protem. the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 7, 1854.
AN ACT
Supplementary to an act to provide for the
creation ana regulation oi iBwiwini
Companies in the State of Ohio, passed May
1st, 1852.
Skc. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Atttmbly of the State of Ohio, That a
majority of the Directors of each and
every railroad company, organized under
the laws of this State, elected after the
passage of this act, shall be residents of
the State of Ohio.
Sec. t. That the offices of the presi
dent, secretary and treasurer, of every
such railroad company, shall be estab
lished and kept at some place on the line
of their respective road, within this
State; and a record of all the proceed
ings of any such railroad company, shall
be kept at such office or offices, and
open at reasonable hours for the inspec
tion of any Stockholder of such compa
ny. Sec. 3. That said Directors shall be
liable to the stockholders, in their indi
vidual capacity, for any damage they
may sustain, by reason of their negli
gence, mismanagement, or unfaithfulness
in the discharge of their duties as direc
tors; Provided, that any such director
may exonerate himself, by entering his
protest upon the record, against any act
from which injury is feared, and forth
with publishing the same in the news
paper in which are usually published the
notices of dividends, by said company.
F. C. LEBLOND.
F. C. LEBLOND. Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
ROBERT LEE, President of the Senate, pro tem.
March 1, 1854.
AN ACT
To provide lor the distribution of Swan's Re-
vised Diaiuica 01 umu.
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Ssc. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, 1 hat the
Secretary of State be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed to distribute in
the same manner as the general laws
are now distributed, Derby's New Re
vised Edition of Swan's Statutes of
Ohio, in the following manner:
To each Judge of every Court of Re
cord, and to each Clerk thereof, each
Justice of the Peace. Sheriff, Coroner,
County Treasurer, Connty Surveyor,
County Recorder, Prosecuting Attor-
ney, Auditor of the County, Board of
Directors of any County Infirmary, and
each Township Clerk, one copy; and
to State officers, as follows: To the Gov
ernor, for his own use, one copy, and
for exchange with States with. whom
this State is accustomed to exchange
copies of law, such number as may be
required for that purpose; to the Audi
tor of State four, to the Treasurer of
State two, to the Attorney General one
to the State Libraries nve
the use of the Libraiy and to eacn
member of the Board of Public orks,
t . l..at-ri
C(W
The
remaining eopies, if any, to be
preserved in the State Library, for pub-
fie use: and if the number now ordered
'be insufficient for the foregoim? distribu -
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"on, wie ..j -
order such additional copies as may De
necessary, uuuci mc Litfiiniuu.vt -
act entitled "An act to aumonze me
Secretary of State to contract for copies
OI a new revisea euinuu ui uwcu
Statutes of Ohio," passed April 13th,
1 RFi
, . . p k, .j,n h ,
1 J jSTSSttGr
successors in office.
and to each upennienaeni 01 me ue-
Institutions of the State, one
L-nerai one,
lor
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
President of the Senate, pro tem.
March 1st, 1854.
AN ACT
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Section five, of an act, entitled 'an act
to amend an act relating to the organ
district ization of Courts of Justice, and their
powers and duties,' passed March four
was teenth one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three, be so amended as to read:
(Section 6.) The court of common
pleas shall have original jurisdiction in
all civil cases, where the sum, or mat
such ter in dispute, exceeds the jurisdiction
of justices of the peace; and appellate
jurisdiction from the decision of county
commissioners, justices of the peace, and
of other inferior courts in the proper coun
the all tr in n civil ejuo. subject to the regula-
as
To amend section five, of an act, entitled "an
act to amend an act, relating to the organis
ation of Court of justice and I heir powers
and duties," passed March fourteenth, one
thousand eight nonorea sna unj-uira:.
Sxc. 1 Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
tion provided by law. It snail nave ongi-
nal jurisdiction of all crimes and offen
ces, except in ease 01 minor oDences,
the exclusive jurisdiction of which is
invested injustices of the peace, or that
may be vested in courts inferior to the
common pleas; Provided, however, that
in all criminal easea where a person
shall be indicted and tried in the court
of common pleas, for an offence proper
ly cognizable therein, and he shall be
found guilty of any such minor offence
embraced within the terms of the indict
ment, the jury shall so return in their
verdict, and the court shall thereupon
proceed to pass the sentence prescribed
by law, in such case.
Sec. 2. Section fifth of an act enti
tled "an act to amend an act relating to
the organization of courts of justice, and
their powers and duties,' passed aiarcn
fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty -three, be, and the same is
hereby repealed.
AN ACT F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 29, 1854.
AN ACT
To authorize County Surveyors to acknowledge
deeds and other instruments, and to ad
minister oaths.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Attembly of the Stale of Ohio, That
the several County surveyors, now and
hereafter in office in the several coun
ties of the State of Ohio, shall each, in
their respective counties, have the same
power to take and certify the acknow
ledgment of deeds, mortgages, powers
of attorney, and other instruments af
fecting real estate, that justices of the
peace now or at any time hereafter may
have in their proper counties
Sec. 2. That the several County
Surveyors, now and hereafter in office
in the State of Ohio, shall each, within
their respective counties, have the same
power to administer oaths and affirma
tions, and to take amaavits, anu cermy
all of the same, that justices of the
peace, now or hereafter, at any time,
may have in their proper counties ex
cept in trial of causes before such jus
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 29, 1854.
AN ACT
j Qn or on8 8hai become a town
nevolent ; Bu' h(,rnTt. ., ncrson or ner-
Amendatory of an act entitled, an act for the
relief of the poor, passed Much 14, lts3.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
any person or persons," other than those
hereinafter provided for, who shall re
side one year in any township in this
State, shall be considered as having
gained a legal settlement in such town
ship. Every indented servant or ap
prentice, legally brought into tbis State,
shall obtain a legal settlement in the
township where such servant or appren
tice shall serve his or her master or
mistress one ear: and every married
woman, during coverture, or after her
husband's death, shall be considered
jj , settied jn' the place where he
was
last legally seuieu; oni 11 ne snau
have had no legal settlement, then she
shall be" considered as settled in the
place where she was last legally settled
before marriage; Provided, that nothing
in this section shall be so construed as
to release any township from its obliga
tions to support any person or persons
removing from such township, until
, (jUC perSon or persons shall have, gain
copies, . . .
Batf li.mnt in tVn invnctKin tfl
which on ghali have
. reni0ved; ilrot,iJedt further, that if anj
sons shall have gained a legal settlement
in any township to which any sucn per-
Lj or persons shall have removed, they
, shall not be considered as having gam-
1 ed a leiral settlement in such township,
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persons shall remain a townsnip cnarge.
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township shall afford relief or support
to any person or persons within their
township, not having a legal settlement
in the same, when 6uch relief or sup
port is needed; Provided, that whereas
the trustees ot any townsnip snau oe
called upon to afford relief from the
township treasury, in any county hav
ing a county inhrmary, u any person
or nersons. who have no leiral settle
ment in this State, or whose place of
residence is unknown, it shall be the du
ty of the trustees to make out an order
to the directors of such county innrma
ry, to receive and provide for such per
son or persons so lonar as the said trus
tees may direct; Provided, further, that
whenever the trustees of any township
shall be called upon to afford relief from
the township treasury, in any county
having no county infirmary, to any per-
Ietral settle-,
ment in this Btate, or "hose place ot
residence is unknown, it shall be the
duty of such trustees to keep an ac
curate aceount of all moneys so expend-
ed, and certny ""r
and certify ucb account, togemer
with
,1, vnnrners iur fclic eoujc, mi,
u . --- m .
county commissioner, o. UD
oi me. county,
ho shall cause mo biuuuu- bv
be naid to me townsmp, wm
county treasury; Provided, further,
that in case any person or persons, be-
coming .u..k j V li-j.,ir
aforesaid, snail nave no rcgM
ment within this State, the trustees msy
remove such person or penwns to the
State where ne, sne or me .n
ral settlement; unless such person
or
persons shall gtre sufficient security to
indemnify the said township.
Sec. 3. That sections one. three, and
seven of the act to which this is amen
datory, be, and the same are hereby re
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of
ROBERT LEE,
President of the Senate, pro tem.
May 1, 1854.
AN ACT
To enable any person to designate an heir al
law.
Sxc. I. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of tte State of Ohio, That
any person Of sound mind and memory,
may appear before the Probate Judge
of his proper county, and in the presence
of such Probate Judge, and two disin-
terested persons of his acquaintance,
file his written declaration, which shall
be attested by such persons, declairing
that, as his, or her free and voluntary
act, he, or she, did designate and ap
point any other, naming such person
specially, and stating me piace oi resi
dence, to stand toward him, (or her,) in
the relation of an heir at law, in the
event of his death; and thereupon the
Judge of Probate, if satisfied that such
declarant is of sound mind and memory,
and free from any restraint, shall enter
that fact upon his journal, and make a
complete record thereof; and thencefor
ward, such person thus designated, shall
be taken and held, in all places, to stand
in the same relation, for all purposes, to
said declarant, as he, (or she,) could,
if a child born in lawful wedlock; and
the rules of inheritance shall be the
same, between him or her, and the rela
tions by blood, of the declarant, as if so
born; and a certified copy of such re
cord, shall be prima facie evidence of the
fact stated therein, and conclusive evi
dence, unless impeached, by reason ot
actual fraud, or under influence.
F. C. LEBLOND.
Speaker the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 29, 1854.
I hereby certify that the above laws
are correctly copied from a certified copy
furnished this office by the Secretary of
State.
D. B. HEBARD, Auditor.
Sbssiblk Law. The following has
been passed by the Massachusetts Leg
islature, with a view to the preservation
of public health: "If any person shall
kill, for the purpose of sale, any calf
less than four weeks old, or shall know
ingly sell the meat of any calf killed
when less than four weeks old", such per
son shall be punished-by a fine not ex
ceeding 8200. Exchange.
We call the attention of the Town
Council of Gallipolis to the importance
of a similar Lw here, having in view
the health of our cilisens. While male
laws it would be well for them to
have an eye to the protection of the
aged cause frequently slain in this vicini
7-
Zios's Herald vs. Phrekoloot. A
recent number of Zion's Herald con
tained a long article against Phrenology
the substance of which may be thus
summed up:
"Phrcnolocrr. s tati'Mit by its lead
ing advocates, is antiscriptural, unphi
losophical and impracticable, false in its
theory, unsouna in its pnnosonny, Blas
phemous in its assumptions, infidel id
its tendency, corrupt in its morals, er
roneous Jn its practice, ana eternaiiy
ruinous in its consequences.
XThe decision of Messrs. Halde
man and Guthrie, steamboat ipspectors,
in the case of the recent collision be
tween the steamboats Pittsburgh ana
Virginia, has been appealed irom oy
the Pilot and Engineer of the Pitts
burgh, whose licenses were suspended.
Benj. Crawford, Supervising Inspector,
was yesterday engaged in investigating
the matter. There is much feeling eX
hibited in this affair, by those nearly
concerned. Cin. Com.
t3T A man named Henry Felltmanj
yesterday recovered a judgment in the
court of Esquire Hanselman, for $200
against the steamer Audubon, for abuse
received from the mate of that boai
while she was aground, recently, ontb
falls of the Ohio. Felltman was rupi
tured by a brutal kick. Cin. Com,
t-TT Late accounts
from Cuba
say
that the Spanish Government
.r .i. .nA,-t of the Cantain
approve
Ueneral
in relation to the Ciaca w arnor anair
and deny that there is a contract be
tween Englsnd and Spain by which the
latter is bound to emancipate the slaves
of Cuba. .
OI Uvuu , I . .
t3T In anticipation of the proseeii
tions for violation of the liquor law,
combination is being entered into by the
Various tavern and bat-keepers, with a
!w tn tst it constitutionality and to
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