suited to its purposes, and at a further cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 4. The said commissioners shall have power to issue bonds of Hamilton county to the amount of ninety thousand dollars, bearing seven per cent. interest per annum, one-third of which amount shall become due and payable on the first day of June 1866, one-third on the first day of June 1871, and one-third on the first day of June 1876; said bonds shall be issued for sums not less than one hundred dollars each, signed by at least two of the commissioners, and countersigned by the county auditor, and shall be sold at not less than their par value, which shall be applied to the construction of said building, and for no other purposes whatever. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. April 10, 1856. President of the Senate. RESOLUTIONS. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to Kansas affairs. WHEREAS, the original policy of our country contemplated no extension of slavery beyond the limits of slave states, and no increase of the number of such states; AND, WHEREAS, experience has sufficiently proven that every departure from that policy has been productive of evil, and of evil only; AND, WHEREAS, by the repeal of the slavery prohibition of the Missouri Compromise, the whole question of slavery in its relation to the Union, the States and the Territories, has been re-opened; AND, WHEREAS, the people of Kansas deprived of the protection of that prohibition and despoiled by armed invasion of their undoubted right to elect their own Representatives, have been compelled to choose between the alternatives of resort to the inherent right of every community, in the absence of valid laws, to provide for its own safety and good order, or submission to the unauthorized edicts of a pretended legislation seeking to compel the admission of slavery by appointing its own creatures to all territorial offices whether executive or judicial, and by imposing such restrictions upon the right of suffrage at future elections as will exclude the opponents of slavery from the polls; AND, WHEREAS, the people of Kansas properly adopting the former alternative have proceeded to elect a delegate to Congress, and to form themselves a state constitution with a view to application for admission into the Union; AND, WHEREAS, it is the duty in the judgment of this General Assembly, of the Federal Government, and of the people of the several states, to unite their efforts to save the territory of Kansas from the renewal of the civil tumult and from the further shedding of blood; be it therefore Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the cause of the people of Kansas engaged in defending themselves against lawless violence and in asserting their inherent right of self-government be and hereby is earnestly commended to the warm sympathies of the people of Ohio. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and Representatives requested, to oppose all acts and measures which tend to recognize as legal and binding any of the acts of the pretended Legislature of Kansas held at Shawnee Mission. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and Represen tatives requested, to use their best endeavors for the immediate passage of an act of Congress admitting Kansas into the Union as a free state with such limitation of boundary as by Congress shall be deemed advisable; and in case Congress shall not consent to such admission, then to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of acts enabling the people of that territory to elect their own Governor and other officers, and fully protect them in the exercise of the elective franchise. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be further instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of a law prohibiting slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and all territory embraced in the Missouri Compromise, and re-establishing the original American policy as declared in the regulation proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1784, for the exclusion of slavery from all territory ceded, or to be ceded, and of such other laws as shall best fulfill the high, duty repeatedly acknowledged by the people of Ohio, of using all power clearly given by the terms of the national compact, to prevent the increase, to mitigate and finally eradicate the evil of slavery, without encroaching upon or in any way legislating upon the right of each state to adopt and modify its own municipal laws, to regulate its own internal affairs, and to hold and maintain its equal and independent sovereignty with each and every other state. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to cause a copy of this preamble and resolutions, properly certified, to be forwarded to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the Governor of each state in the Union. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 9, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to furnishing Fayette county with copies of Ohio Reports. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state is hereby required to furnish to the clerk of the court of common pleas of Fayette county, for the use of said clerk's office, vols. 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 19, of the Ohio Reports. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Rep esentatives. THOMAS H FORD, President of the Senate. March 29, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to furnishing Hardin county with weights and measures. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he hereby is required to furnish, forthwith, to the county auditor of the county of Hardin, for the use of said county, copies of the original standards of weights and measures provided for in an act “to provide for a uniform standard of weights and measures," passed February 21, 1846, to supply the places of the copies heretofore furnished to said County by the state, and which copies have been destroyed by fire. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, March 5, 1856. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to renting a room for holding the supreme court. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state, under the direction of the supreme court judges of the state, or a majority of them, is hereby authorized and required to procure in the city of Columbus a suitable room for holding the supreme court. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 7, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to furnishing Geauga county with certain of the Ohio Reports. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the secretary of state furnish the clerk of the common pleas of Geauga county with No. 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, of the Ohio State Reports if he have them on hand, or such of them as he may have, for the use of said county. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 10, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to preparing the Hall of the House of Representatives. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a joint select committee consisting of George M. Parsons and James H. Smith, on the part of the House, and Alfred Kelly, on the part of the Senate, be appointed whose duty it shall be to supervise the preparation of the Hall of the House, and who shall be and are empowered to contract for such furniture and employ such labor as may be necessary to properly prepare the same for the use of the members of the General Assembly: Provided, That contract or expenditure shall not be made without the assent and advice of the state house commissioners and secretary of state. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LESTER TAYLOR, President of the Senate, pro tem. April 11, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to closing the waste weirs near Dover. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works be instructed to close up the two waste weirs in the berme bank of the Ohio canal, near the town of Dover, in Tuscarawas county: Provided, That said weirs can, in the opinion of said board of public works, be closed up with safety to the canal at an expense to the state not exceeding five hundred dollars. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, April 9, 1856. Presiden of the Senate. |