and skall continue in office until their successors are duly appointed. And this corporation shall at all times be subject to be altered, new modelled or repealed, as the General Assembly may deem useful: Provided, that no alteration, modification or repeal, shall divert the use of said fund from its original destination, which is hereby declared to be, making provisions for the support of the bishops, of the protestant episcopal' church for the diocess of Ohio. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives ALLEN TRIMBLE January 24, 1821, Speaker of the senate. -::::000::::: CHAPTER XLII. An act, to amend the act, entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Marietta, passed 2d December, 1800. Sec. 1. Beit enac ed by he General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the inhabitants residing within the limits of the corporated bounds of the town of Marietta, in the county of Washington, who shall be qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, are hereby declared to be legally qualified to vote for town officers, agreeably to the third section of the sixth article of the constitution of this state; and as such shall be admitted to vote at all elections held for justice of the peace, and all other town officers, under authority of the above recited act, but shall not be legal voters to levy any town tax, who are not subject to pay a tax on property. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That no poll tax, except what now is, or hereafter may be, authori sed by law, for opening and repairing roads and highways, shall be levied and collected within the bounds of the above incorporated act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the above recited act, as is contrary to this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April next. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE, January 24, 1821. Speaker of the senate, CHAPTER XLIII. An act to provide for a revaluation of certain school lands. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That upon the lesee, of the north east, quarter of section sixteen, in township number six in range three in Preble connty, surrendering up his present lease to the trustees of said original surveyed township number six, it shall be lawful for said trustees to receive and cancel the same, and thereupon the said north east quarter of section sixteen, in township six, may be revalued and leased in the same manner as if no valuation or lease had ever been made: and upon such valuation the present lessee shall be entitled to a new lease therefor, if he elect to take it; and the trustees of said original surveyed township are hereby authorised to remit to the said lessee, such part of the rents, now due, as they may deem just and equitable. Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the section number sixteen, in township number three, in range five, in Montgomery county, may be revalued and releas ed in the same manner as is provided in the first section of this act, for the north east quarter of section sixteen in township six, range three, in Preble county. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representative. ALLEN TRIMBLE, January 24, 1821. Speaker of the senate. CHAPTER XLIV. An act establishing the boundaries of certain counties therein. named. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the line formerly run by Solomon M'Culloch, as the eastern boundary line of Champaign county, be, and the same is hereby declared the eastern boundary of said county. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That so much of said line as lies north of a point, six miles north of the south east corner of the county of Champaign, be, and the same is hereby declared the eastern boundary of the county of Clark. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the line between the counties of Madison and Union shall be run parallel with the line formerly run as the dividing line between the counties of Madison and Franklin, and the county of Delaware. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. Speaker of the senate January 29, 1821. K CHAPTER XLV. An act, to change the application of certain appropriations of the three per cent. fund, therein named. Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of the stare of Ohio, That the sum of thirty three dollars heretofore appropriated by an act of twenty eighth January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, for the purpose of building a bridge over the east fork of Mad' river, at Prickett's mill, in the tonwship of Springfield, in the county of Clark, be and the same is hereby placed at the disposal of the trustees of Springfield township, to be laid out and expended on such public roads as the said board of trustees shall direct, provided the same shall be laid out and expended within said township, to be paid by the treasurer on the certificate of the commissioners of Clark county, in the same manner as other monies of the three per cent. fund are paid. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That fifty dollars appropriated by the thirty ninth section of the act making further appropriation of the three per cent. fund granted by the United States for laying out, opening and improving roads in the state, passed February twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty upon the road from the county line of Morgan, running into the county of Monroe until the same intersects the road from Marietta, and which has not been expended, be, and the same is hereby appropropriated upon the road from the Washington county line, through the county of Monroe, to intersect the road from Woodsfield at Joseph Dodd's to be laid out under the direction of Joshua Craig. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That there shall be paid to the commissioners appointed to lay out a road from Greenvile in Dark county, to some point on the St. Mary's river, at or near Shane's crossing, the sum of seventy five dollars out of the sum of seven hundred dollars apppropriated for said road. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, January 29, 1821. Speaker of the Senate: CHAPTER XLVI. An act for the relief of certain lessees of section sixteen in the third township and first entire range, in the Miami purchase. Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly, that certain lessees of section sixteen, in the third township, and first entire range of townships in the Miami purchase, are laboring under great embarrassment in consequence of the present reduced price of agricultural produce, and the high rents they are compelled to pay. Therefore, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That William Snodgrass, Nathaniel Mayhugh, Caleb Crane, John Schooley and Abraham Lindley, or a majority of them shall have power and they are hereby authorised to examine into the complaint of certain lessees of section sixteen, in township three, and first entire range, in the Miami purchase; and they shall have power to cancel the former leases and grant such relief as they may think just and reasonable by reducing, the present rents or by granting a new lease to the present lessees; but no reduction or new lease shall have any force or effect, for a longer term of time than three years from the taking effect of this act. This act to |