the taxable property of the county, as are necessary to create and provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds at maturity and the interest accruing thereon. Such levy shall be collected and accounted for to the county treasurer in the manner provided for the collection of other taxes.

SEC. 9904. [Submission of question of issuing bonds.] Before issuing such bonds, the commissioners by resolution shall submit to the qualified electors of the county at the next general election for county officers held not less than thirty days after receiving from such agricultural society the notice provided for in section ninety-nine hundred, the question of issuing and selling such bonds, in amount and denomination as necessary for the purpose in view, and shall certify a copy of such resolution to the deputy state supervisors of elections of the county.

SEC. 9905. [The election.] Such deputy state supervisors shall place the question of issuing and selling such bonds upon the ballot and make all other necessary arrangements for the submission of such question to the qualified electors of such county, at the time fixed by such resolution. The votes cast upon the question must be counted, canvassed and certified in the same manner, except as otherwise provided by law, as votes cast for county officers. Fifteen days' notice of such submission shall be given by the deputy state supervisors, by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in two or more newspapers published in the county, stating the amount of bonds to be issued, the purpose for which they are issued, and the time and places of holding the election. Such question must be stated on the ballot as follows: "For the issue of county fair bonds, YES;" "For the issue of county fair bonds, NO." If the majority of the voters voting upon the question of issuing the bonds are in favor thereof, then, but not otherwise, they shall be issued, and the tax herein before mentioned be levied.

SEC. 9906.

[Control of lands when title vested in commissioners.] When the title to grounds and improvements occupied by agricultural societies is in the county commissioners, the control and management of such lands and improvements shall be vested in the board of directors of such society so long as they are occupied and used by it for holding agricultural fairs. Moneys realized by the society in holding county fairs and derived from renting or leasing the grounds and buildings, or portions thereof, in the conduct of fairs or otherwise, over and above the necessary expenses thereof, shall be paid into the county treasury of the society, to be used as a fund for keeping such grounds and buildings in good order and repair, and in making other improvements from time to time deemed necessary by its directors.

SEC. 9907. [How conveyances executed.] Conveyances of grounds sold under section ninety-nine hundred, which are owned exclusively by any society, may be executed by the president as such. Grounds owned partly by the society and partly by the county may be conveyed by deed executed by the president of the society, as such, and by the county commissioners.

SEC. 9908. [When society may encumber grounds.] When the commissioners of a county have paid, or pay, money out of the county treasury for the purchase of real estate as a site for an agricultural society whereon to hold its fairs, the society shall not encumber such real estate with any debt, by mortgage or otherwise, without the consent of the commissioners duly entered upon their journal.

When such consent is obtained the society may encumber such real estate in order to pay the cost of necessary repairs and improvements to an amount not exceeding fifty per cent of its value. In order to ascertain the value of such real estate the commissioners shall appoint three disinterested free-holder residents of the county to

appraise such real estates. The appraisers so appointed shall, within ten days after their appointment, upon actual view of such premises, appraise such real estate and return such appraisement under oath to the board of county commissioners. And the appraisement so made shall be considered the value of such real estate for the purpose of mortgage or other encumbrance. (103 v. 560.)

SEC. 9909. [Appropriation of land for fair purposes.] When deemed necessary by the board of directors of a county agricultural society to enlarge the fair grounds under its control, and the owner or owners of the proposed addition to the grounds and the board are unable to agree upon the sale and purchase thereof, the board shall make an accurate plat and description of the land which it desires for such purpose and file them with the probate judge of the proper county. Thereupon the same proceedings of appropriation shall be had which are provided for the appropriation of private property by municipal corporations, such board to act for the society therein as the council would for the municipality.

SEC. 9910. [Directors to prosecute proceedings.] If the law makes it the duty of the county commissioners to purchase such additional grounds for the use of such society, its board of directors shall prosecute the proceedings for appropriation to their final conclusion, except as to payment of purchase money, before the commissioners can be called upon to act in the matter. Such commissioners shall make such payment or deposit, not above fifteen thousand dollars in amount, when required so to do by such board of directors or by the court, and delay on their part shall not prevent such purchase or appropriation.

SEC. 9911.

TOWNSHIP SOCIETIES.

[Incorporation of township societies.] When any number of persons of a township form a society for the promotion of agriculture in such township, and

under their hands and seals make a certificate, and acknowledge it before a justice of the peace, in which shall be specified the name of the society, the objects of its formation, and the township in which it shall be located, and file it in the office of the secretary of state, such society shall be deemed a body corporate, with succession, and with power to sue and be sued, defend and be defended, and contract and be contracted with, may make and use a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure, and may purchase, and hold in fee simple, or rent or lease, such real estate as may be required as a site for holding fairs, not exceeding forty acres, and establish all necessary rules and regulations for the management of such fairs and the legitimate business of the society.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES

SEC. 4082-1. [Joint use of fair grounds.] Any real estate controlled and managed by any agricultural society organized under the laws of Ohio, pertaining to agricultural societies, whether owned by it or by any county, or jointly by it and any county and which is situated within, adjacent to or near any municipal corporation and used as a site for fairs, may be jointly used as such site for fairs and also as a public park of such municipal corporation, although the title thereto shall remain in such agricultural society or county * * * as the case may be.

SEC. 4082-2. [Agreement.] The duration of such joint use and all the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as may be agreed upon between such municipal corporation and such agricultural society or if such county has any interest in such real estate, then such agreement shall be made between such municipal corporation on the one

hand and such agricultural society and such county acting through its board of county commissioners.

SEC. 4082-3. [Powers of municipality.] Such municipal corporation shall have the same authority and power to improve, equip and maintain such real estate as a public park and to do all things necesary for its use and enjoyment as such public park which it has under the laws of Ohio as to parks owned by it in fee.

SEC. 9912. [Justice of the peace may appoint special constables.] On the application of a state, county, township or independent agricultural society, or industrial association, or other association or meeting of citizens for the purpose of promoting social or literary intercourse, a justice of the peace may appoint a suitable number of special constables to assist in keeping the peace during the time when such society or assembly is holding its annual fair or meeting. He shall make an entry in his docket of the number and names of all such persons so appointed.

SEC. 9913. [Powers of such constables.] Constables so appointed shall have all the power of constables to suppress riots, disturbances, and breaches of the peace. Upon view they may arrest any person guilty of a violation of any law of the state, and pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the state. They also may apprehend any person in the act of committing an offense, and, on reasonable information, supported by affidavit, procure process for the arrest of any person charged with a breach of the peace, forthwith bring him before a competent authority, and enforce all the laws for the preservation of good order.

SEC. 9914. [Suppression of the sale of liquor at fairs.] A judge of any court, sheriff, coroner, justice of the peace of the proper county, a constable of the proper township, or constables specially appointed, upon view or information, without warrant, shall apprehend any person selling intoxicating liquors in violation of law at or within two