Inspector of shops and factories: For the inspector, three thousand copies; for each member of the general assembly, five copies. Forestry bureau: For the bureau of directors, one thousand copies. State board of agriculture: For the board, twenty-five , hundred copies; for each member of the general assembly, ten copies. The several reports furnished to members of the general assembly shall be boxed and directed to the members, in care of the county auditor of the county where they respectively reside, unless the members shall otherwise direct; and the charge for transportation of such reports shall be paid in the same manner as provided by law for the distribution of laws and journals. Sec. 65. All regular messages of the governor, and all inaugural addresses of the governor-elect, shall be printed in pamphlet form; for the governor delivering such messages or addresses, two hundred and fifty copies; for each member of the general assembly, five copies, without order by either or both houses for the printing thereof. Sec. 66. At the same time that the documents mentioned in sections sixty-three and sixty-five are printed in pamphlet form, there shall be printed on the same type, six hundred copies of each document named, in a volume or volumes, paged consecutively, with running heads designating each report, to be styled "Executive documents," to be bound in half law binding, and the supervisor of public printing shall make out an index to be printed at the commencement or closing of each volume. There shall be no charge for composition for printing the six hundred copies of said executive documents, except for the index and title page; but the commissioners of public printing may allow a fair compensation for the time consumed in changing the forms. One copy of this "Executive document" when so bound shall be sent to each member of the general assembly, and two copies of these executive documents when so bound shall be sent to each county auditor, one to be placed on file in his office and the other in the office of the county clerk; the report of the secretary of state, auditor of state, commissioner of railroads and state school commissioner, shall not be put in the executive documents. Printing of sages and inaugural ad executive mes dresses. Executive number to be printed. documents; SECTION 2. That original sections 63, 65 and 66 are Repeals, etc. hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.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 29, 1902. CARL L. NIPPERT, President of the Senate. Excise tax upon insur ance com panies: Annual state companies. [House Bill No. 329.] AN ACT To amend section 2745 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 2745 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 2745. Every insurance company, incorporated by ments of such the authority of any other state or government shall, in its annual statement to the superintendent of insurance, set for the gross amount of premiums received by it in the state during the preceding calendar year, without deductions for commissions, return premiums or considerations paid for reinsurance, or any deductions whatever; and shall, also, therein set forth, in separate items, return premiums paid for cancellations and, also, considerations received from other companies for reinsurance in this state, during such year. Every such company shall, annually, in the month of November, pay to the superintendent of insurance an amount equal to two and one-half per cent of the balance of such gross amount, after deducting such return premiums and considerations received for reinsurances, as shown by its next preceding annual statement. Payment of tax to superintendent of insurance. Foreign in surance companies. Penalty for failure to pay tax or make true statement. Examination of books of company. If the laws of any other state, territory or nation authorize charges for the privilege of doing business therein, or taxes against any insurance companies, which are, or may be organized in this state, exceeding the charges herein provided, the same shall be charged against all insurance companies of such state, territory or nation, doing business in this state, in place of the charges herein provided. If any such company refuse to pay said tax, after demand therefor has been made; or, if the statement made by it, under this section is false, the superintendent of insurance shall revoke the license of such company to do business in this state. If, at any time, said superintendent has reason to suspect the correctness of any such statement he may, at the expense of the state, make an examination of the books of such company, or of its agents, for the purpose of verifying the same. All taxes collected under the provisions of this section by the superintendent of 'nsurance shall be paid by him, upon the warrant of the auditor, into the general revenue fund of the state. Insurance companies and associations, incorporated by the authority of another state or government or the superintendent of insurance, shall not be required to make returns of deposits of such companies or associations, made as required by law with such superintendent of insurance for the benefit and security of policy holders, and shall not be governed, in respect to such deposits, by the provisions of section 2744, or of section 2734 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 2. That said section 2745 of the Revised Repeals. Statutes of the state of Ohio, be and the same is hereby Relating to certain proposed amendments to the constitution of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: Return of vote cast for or against constitutional amendment. Return by deputy state election to visor of elec supervisors of state super tions. SECTION 2. A return, additional to the return now required by law to be made of the votes cast at such election for state officers and senators and representatives, and also for and against said proposed amendment or amendments to the constitution, shall be certified and made by the deputy supervisors of elections of each county to the state supervisor of elections, within ten days after said election; and within twenty days after said election the governor, secre- Canvass of tary of state and attorney general shall open said returns, and count the votes, and ascertain whether or not a majority of the votes cast at said election have been cast for said proposed amendment or amendments, or either of them; and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at said election have been cast for said proposed amendment or amendments, or either of them, the governor shall make proclamation thereof without delay. votes. proposed amendments tion. SECTION 3. The state supervisor of public printing Publication of shall cause the amendments to the constitution proposed at the present session of the general assembly to be published to constituonce each week in not less than one newspaper of general circulation in each county of the state wherein a newspaper is published, once each week for six months, and until the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1903, and in counties where newspapers of general circulation represent each of the two leading political parties, then such amendments shall be published in one newspaper of each German newspaper. Charges for publication. political party once each week for six months, and until said first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. 1903; and in counties having a German newspaper of general circulation, once a week in a German newspaper for said time; and in counties having two German newspapers of opposite politics, of general circulation in the county, it shall be published in each of such German newspapers. SECTION 4. The charges for publication shall not exceed sixty per cent. of the rates established in section four thousand three hundred and sixty-six (4366) of the Revised Statutes for legal advertising. The cost of publication shall be paid out of the state treasury from any money not otherwise appropriated, upon the warrant of the auditor of state, upon vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing, who shall make legal measurement of the matter published. SECTION 5. 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 29, 1902. President of the Senate. 185G Prepayment or security for costs in actions for divorce or alimony in Montgomery and Clark counties. Proviso. [House Bill No. 92.] AN ACT To require prepayment or security for costs in actions for divorce or alimony, or both; proviso. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That no clerk of any court of common pleas in any county containing a city of the second grade or third grade a, of the second class shall receive or file a petition for divorce or alimony or for divorce and alimony, until the party named as plaintiff in such petition, or some other party on his or her behalf, shall make prepayment or deposit with the clerk of such an amount as will cover the costs which may likely accrue in such action, exclusive of attorney fee. or shall give such security for said costs as may in the judgment of the clerk be satisfactory; provided, that where any party plaintiff is without sufficient financial means, the clerk shall, upon such party making affidavit of inability either to prepay or give security for costs, receive and file the petition of such party, said affidavit to be approved by a judge of said court of common pleas, and to be filed with the petition and treated as are other similar papers in such cases. SECTION 2. 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 29, 1902. CARL L. NIPPERT, President of the Senate. 186G [House Bill No. 597.] AN ACT To amend section 1802 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 1802 of the Revised Statutes Police court: of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: judge. Sec. 1802. During the absence, inability or disability "Acting police of the judge, the mayor may hold the court, or may select for the purpose a reputable member of the bar, or a justice of the peace, residing within the city, who shall have the jurisdiction and powers conferred upon judges of police courts, be styled "acting police judge" and, as such, sign all process and records during the time he shall serve, and perform all other acts pertaining to the office; and in case the mayor hold the court, he shall have all the powers, and perform all the duties of the judge; except, that in cities of Toledo. the third grade of the first class, during the absence, inability or disability of the judge, the clerk of police court shall select for the purpose of holding court a reputable member of the bar, or a justice of the peace, residing within the city, who shall have the jurisdiction and powers conferred upon judges of police courts, be styled "acting police judge," and, as such, sign all process and records during the time he shall serve, and perform all other acts pertaining to the office. SECTION 2. That said original section 1802 of the Re- Repeals. vised Statutes of Ohio be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. That 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 29, 1902. CARL L. NIPPERT, President of the Senate. [Senate Bill No. 107.] AN ACT To further promote the efficiency of the Ohio national guard, and to amend section 98, Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 6, 1900; section 3033; section 3036 as amended April 16, 1900; sections 3037, 3038, 3044, 3049, 3063 and 3064; section 3082, as amended April 16, 1900; section 3084, and to repeal an act entitled "An act for the establishment of a battalion of engineers in the Ohio national guard," passed April 21, 1898. guard: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 98, Revised Statutes of the Ohio national state of Ohio, as amended April 6, 1900; section 3033; section 3036, as amended April 16, 1900; sections 3037, 3038, 3044. 3049, 3063 and 3064; section 3082, as amended April |