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LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTU 



form, the number and condition of such associations, as derived from the 

 annual reports of the trustees. 



SEC. 3848, [May maintain libraries, etc.] All such incorpor- 

 ated associations may keep and maintain libraries, and a museum of art 

 consisting of models of such improved instruments and machinery as are 

 best calculated to promote the interests of agriculture, for the benefit 

 of such associations, under such rules and regulations as its members 

 from time to time adopt, and may make all needful by-laws for the good 

 overnment and regulation of the same. 



SEC. 3858. [Market-house companies.] A company incorpor- 

 ted for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a market-house 

 may construct, erect, establish, and maintain, at. the place named in its- 

 articles of incorporation, a suitable building or buildings to be appropri- 

 ated and used exclusively as a public market-house, for the sale and vend- 

 ing of meats, vegetables, and all other kinds of provisions, and of fruits,, 

 plants, and flowers, and all other articles commonly sold and vended in. 

 public market-houses or spaces, on market days, in mar 1 :el hours. 



SEC. 3859. [Powers of such companies.] Such companies may 

 rent, lease, sell, or dispose of stalls, cellar vaults, or other divisions or 

 spaces -.1 their buildings, in such manner, and upon such terms and con- 

 ditions, as the directors shall determine ; but a uniform rule in renting 

 or leasing such stalls, cellar vaults, or other divisions or spaces, shall be 

 established, printed and hung in conspicuous places in the buildings, and. 

 the same may be changed, from time to time, by the directors thereof; 

 and no preference shall be made, by any variation or difference in rates or 

 prices, in favor of citizens of the city or village wherein the buildings 

 are erected, and against farmers, butchers, or producers not residing in 

 such city or village, and no rule, regulation, order, or condition shall be 

 made or exacted by any company to prevent farmers, butchers, or other 

 persons from disposing of their produce, meats, vegetables, or other 

 articles, in such quantities and upon such terms as they may deem proper ;: 

 but such companies shall prohibit and prevent in their buildings the use 

 of false weights or measures, the exposure or ale of any diseased or 

 decaying meats or vegetables, and any offensive or injurious articles. 



SEC. 4183. [County auditor to take possession of and sell es- 

 cheated lands.] Any real property escheated to the state, except in 

 a city of the first grade of the first class, shall be taken possession of, in 

 the name of the state, by the auditor of the county in which it is found, 

 and by him sold at public auction, at the county seat of the county, to the 

 highest bidder, after having given thirty days' notice of such intended 

 sale, 4n some newspaper printed within the county. 



SEC. 4184. [Appraisal, terms of sale, and deed.] The court of 

 common pleas shall, on the application of the county auditor, appoint 

 three disinterested freeholders of the county, to appraise such real pro- 

 perty, who shall be governed by the same rule as appraisers in sheriffs' 

 or administrators' sales ; and the auditor shall sell such property at not 

 less than two-thirds its appraised value, and may, in his discretion, sell 

 the same for cash, or for one-third cash, and the balance in equal annual 

 payments, the deferred payments to be amply secured ; upon the payment 

 of the whole amount of consideration money, he shall execute a deed to- 

 the purchaser, in the name and on behalf of the state of Ohio ; and the 

 proceeds of such sales shall be paid by the auditor to the county treasurer.. 



