mencement; its school house located within the civil township of which the township district forms a part, shall be required to deliver an oration or declamation, or read an essay; thereupon said board of education shall issue a certificate to each successful applicant, stating that said applicant has taken part in said commencement. The board of county school exam- County cominers shall provide for the holding of a county commence- diploma. ment not later than August fifteenth, at such place as it may determine. At this commencement there shall be delivered an annual address, at the conclusion of which a diploma shall be presented to each successful applicant who has complied with the provisions of this act; said diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to enter any high school in the state. and contin gent expenses. Sec. 4209-2. The compensation of county examiners Compensation shall be the same as that fixed in section 4075 of the Re- of examiners vised Statutes of Ohio for the examination of teachers, and each member of the said board of examiners shall be allowed the minimum fee provided for holding examinations for teachers as remuneration for his services incident to the county Boxwell commencement, and such compensation and the necessary expenses incident to the examination and county commencement shall be paid out of the county treasury as provided in said section 4075; no extra compensation shall be allowed to county examiners for holding the county commencement. The expenses incident to the township commencement shall be paid by the township board of education from the contingent fund of the township district, and when the pupils of special districts take part in such commencements the boards of education of such districts shall pay, from their contingent funds, to the township board of education their share of such expenses, such share to be based on the proportion of pupils, from each district, taking part in such commencements; a proportional share for pupils from joint subdistricts, taking part in such commencements, shall be paid from the contingent fund of said joint subdistricts. Sec. 4029-3. The tuition of pupils holding diplomas Tuition. and residing in township, special, or joint subdistricts, in which no high school is maintained, shall be paid by the board of education of the district in which they have legal school residence, such tuition to be computed by the month and an attendance any part of the month shall create a liability for the entire month; but a board of education maintaining a high school shall charge no more tuition than it charges for other nonresident pupils, and no board of education shall be required to pay the tuition of any pupil for more than four school years; provided the board of education shall be required to pay the tuition of all successful applicants, who have complied with the provisions of this act, residing more than three miles from the high school provided by said board, when said applicants attend a nearer high school. What shall constitute a high school. Repeals, etc. The tuition of pupils residing in joint subdistricts shall be paid by the boards of education having control of such districts from the contingent funds of said districts. A board of education not maintaining a high school may enter into an agreement with one or more boards of education maintaining such school for the schooling of all its high school pupils, and when such agreement is entered into the board making the same shall be exempt from the payment of tuition at other high schools; provided the school or schools selected are located in the same civil township, or some adjoining township, as that of the board making the agreement. Where no such agreement is entered into, the school to be attended can be selected by the pupil holding a diploma; provided, due notice, in writing, is given to the clerk of the board of education of the name of the school to be attended and the date the attendance is to begin, said notice to be filed not less than five days previous to said beginning of attendance. Said tuition can be paid from either the tuition or contingent funds, and in case the board of education deems it necessary it may levy a tax of not to exceed two mills on each dollar of taxable property in the district or joint subdistrict in excess of that allowed by section 3959 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio; the proceeds of said levy shall be kept in a separate fund and applied only to the payment of such tuition. Sec. 4209-4. No board of education shall be entitled to collect tuition under this act unless said board shall be maintaining a regularly organized high school with a course of study extending over not less than two years and consisting mainly of branches higher than those in which the pupil is examined. Should the question arise as to the standing or grade of any particular high school, the state commissioner of common schools is hereby authorized to determine the grade of such school and his finding in the case shall be final. SECTION 2. That sections (4209-1), (4029-2), (4029-3), and (4029-4), of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. McKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 25, 1902. President of the Senate. 132G [House Bill No. 275.] AN ACT To amend section 3921 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Sec. 3921. A map of each township district, designating the number and boundaries of the subdistricts thereof, shall be prepared by the board of education and entered upon its records on or before August 31, 1902; the board may, by a majority vote of all the members composing the board at any regular session, increase or diminish the number, or change the boundaries of subdistricts, a map designating such changes to be entered upon its records. Township and special districts: Map of township districts. Suspension of district or joint sub school in sub district. Conveyance of pupils to other district; cost thereof. Any township board of education or the board of education of any special district may, when, in its opinion, it will be for the best interests of the pupils in any or all subdistricts, or joint subdistricts under its control, suspend the school or schools in such subdistricts, or joint subdistricts, and thereupon the board shall provide for the conveyance of said pupils to some other public school or schools in the same or an adjoining district, the cost of conveying pupils from a subdistrict to be paid out of either the tuition or contingent funds of said township district, the cos. of conveying pupils from a joint subdistrict to be paid out of either the tuition or contingent funds of such joint subdistrict. The cost of conveying pupils to and from schools in special districts shall be paid out of the contingent fund of such special district. When the pupils of a joint subdistrict are Tuition. conveyed to other schools the tuition of such pupils shall be paid from either the tuition or contingent funds of such joint subdistrict to the board of education having control of the schools attended, such tuition to be computed as a pro rata share of the per capita current expense of running the school attended, on the basis of the total enrollment of such school, the computation to be made by the month, and an attendance by a pupil, so conveyed, any part of a month shall create a liability for the entire month; provided, that when such attendance is at a subdistrict school the expense and enrollment of such subdistrict school shall be the basis of such computation. When the pupils of a subdistrict are conveyed to a joint subdistrict school the tuition shall be paid from either the tuition or contingent funds of the township district, in which such subdistrict is situated, to said joint subdistrict and shall be computed as provided above. Provided the conveyance for the transportation of such pupils be required to pass within a distance of three-fourths of a mile from their respective residences, except where such residence is situated more than three-fourths of a mile from the public road. The suspension of a subdistrict or joint subdistrict school, as provided by this section, does not affect the rights of the director of such subdistrict or joint subdistrict as a member of the township board of education. 1 Repeals, etc. SECTION 2. That said section 3921, as it now exists, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed April 22, 1902. President of the Senate. 133G Savings and loan associations: Title guarantee and trust com panies; powers of. Amount of capital stock required. Deposit with treasurer of state. Transfer of [House Bill No. 732.] AN ACT To supplement section 3821, and repeal section 3641d, of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 3821 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be further supplemented by an additional section as follows: Sec. 3821ggg. A title guarantee and trust company shall have power to prepare and furnish abstracts and certificates of title to real estate, bonds, mortgages and other securities, and to guarantee such titles and the validity and due execution of such securities, and the performance of contracts incident to such powers; to make loans for itself or as agent or trustee for others, and to guarantee the collection of interest and principal of such loans; to take charge of and sell, mortgage, rent or otherwise dispose of real estate for others, and to perform all the duties of an agent relative to property deeded or otherwise entrusted to it. Provided, however, that no such company shall do business until the capital stock of said company shall amount to five hundred thousand dollars fully paid up, and until such company shall have deposited with the treasurer of state two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the securities permitted by sections 3637 and 3638 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, and with the exception of the deposit aforesaid said capital shall be invested as the board of directors of said company may prescribe. The treasurer of state shall hold such fund or securities deposited with him as security for the faithful performance of all guarantees entered into by said company, but so long as said company shall continue solvent said treasurer shall permit it to collect the interest o., or dividends on, its securities so deposited, and from time to time withdraw such securities, or any part thereof, on depositing with him cash or other securities of the kind heretofore named so as to maintain the value of said deposit at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. may Any company heretofore organized for the purposes of guaranteeing the titles to real property, which have made deposits with the superintendent of insurance, as required in section 3641d of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, may request said superintendent to transfer said deposit to the treasurer of state, whereupon he shall transfer all securities of such company so held by him to the treasurer of state, taking his receipt therefor. Title guarantee and trust companies shall make such reports to the state auditor as are required of safe deposit and trust companies and shall be subject to the same examinations and penalties as such companies; and it is hereby expressly provided that all companies doing the business of guaranteeing titles to real property shall comply with and be governed by the provisions of this act, and section 3641 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio shall not apply to such companies. SECTION 2. utes of Ohio be Reports to state. auditor of That section 3641d of the Revised Stat- Repeals. and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. W. S. MCKINNON, Authorizing the levy of taxes in municipalities to provide for 'firemen's, police and sanitary police pension or relief funds, and, to create and perpetuate boards of trustees for the administration of such funds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. (a) In any municipal corporation in this state having, or which may hereafter have, a fire department supported in whole or in part at the public expense, the council, board of legislation or other legislative body may, by ordinance, declare the necessity for the establishment and maintenance of a firemen's pension fund for the purposes hereinafter enumerated; and thereupon there shall be created a board of trustees in the manner herein provided, who shall be known as the "Trustees of the firemen's pension fund," and who shall administer and distribute the fund authorized to be raised by this section. Trustees of pension fund:: the firemen's chosen. (b) The board of trustees of the firemen's pension How board fund shall consist of the board or officer having charge or control of the fire department in any municipal corporation availing itself of the provisions of this section, and five other persons, members of the fire department of such municipal corporation, to be chosen as follows: The board or officer having charge or control of the fire department shall give notice of an election to be held on the second Monday of the month following the determination of said board or offi |