Ohio Supreme Court December 15, 1841 (Wightman v. State)

Wood, J.

The act incorporating the town of Marietta, 35 Ohio L. L. 249, is by express provision made a public act, and the court are bound ex officio to notice its provisions, and as such it becomes, so far as it is relevant, a part of the special plea, without being set out by the plaintiff in error.