able at such time or times, not exceeding twelve years from the respective dates thereof, as said council may determine: Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value. SEC. 3. That the council of said incorporated village is empowered to levy a tax, annually, on all the taxable property within the limits thereof, sufficient to pay said bonds and interest as they shall become due, which levy shall be placed on the tax duplicate by the auditor of said county, and shall be collected as are other taxes. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Passed April 29, 1872. AN ACT To provide for the erection of a Town Hall and place for holding elections in the township of Brecksville, Cuay hoga county, Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the township of Brecksville, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, are hereby authorized to erect a town hall in the village of Brecksville, to be used as a hall for said township, and for holding elections and meet ing of the township officers therein, at a cost not exceeding four thousand dollars; and to provide for the same, the trustees, in addition to the fund already on hand, are hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars, and issue the bonds of said township for sums not less than fifty dollars each, as they may deem advisable, payable at such times as they may determine upon, not exceeding in any case the term of five years from date, said bonds in no case to be sold for less than their par value, and to bear interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum; the bonds to be signed by at least two of the trustees, and countersigned by the clerk of said township, who shall keep and preserve a record of the same, which record shall show the amount, date, time payable, rate of interest, and person to whom payable, of each and every bond so made and sold. SEC. 2. The trustees of said township are hereby authorized to levy and assess a tax on all the taxable property of said township, not exceed ing one mill upon the dollar in any one year, for the purpose of paying the amount of said bonds and interest as they may become due, which levy shall be placed on the tax duplicate by the auditor of said county, and collected as other taxes. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Passed April 29, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a joint select committee to wait on the Governor. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee consisting of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the house, be appointed to wait on the governor, and inform him that the two houses are now organized and in session, and ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted January 19, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a joint select committee to report rules for the government of the two houses. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be appointed a joint committee of five on the part of the house and two on the part of the senate, to report rules for the government of the two houses. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to expenses of committees. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That all committees of this general assembly, be and the same are hereby respectively required to make accurately itemized accounts, which shall be signed by said committees, of any and all expenses incurred by them, respectively, in the discharge of their duties, which accounts shall be presented to the standing committee on claims, of the house or senate, as the case may be, for examination and approval, and that the auditor of state be and he is hereby instructed to disallow and reject any and all claims for expenses so incurred, unless the same shall have been approved by the proper committee on claims aforesaid. N. II. VAN VORHES, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to referring so much of the Governor's Message as recommends the erection of suitable monuments at the graves of Gen. W. H. Harrison and Gen. Thomas L. Hamer, to a joint select committee. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That so much of the governor's message as recommends the erection of suitable monuments at the neglected graves of William Henry Harrison and General Thomas L. Hamer, be referred to a joint select committee of five on the part of the house and three on the part of the senate, to consider and report as to the suggestion therein contained. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 19, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing of rules of the Sixtieth General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed for the use of the Senate and House, fifteen hundred copies containing the joint rules for the government of the two Houses, the rules for the government of the Senate and the rules for the government of the House, adopted at this session, together with a list of the standing committees, officers and members of the two houses, designating the counties, post-offices, occupation of members and officers, six hundred copies to be deposited in the office of the secretary of state for the Sixtieth General Assembly in 1873, and three hundred copies to be deposited in the state library for the members of the Sixty-first General Assembly. All to be bound in brochure and pamphlet form, the remainder to be distribution equally among the members and officers of the two Houses. N. H. VAN VORHES, President of the Senate. Adopted January 19, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Instructing the secretary of state in relation to incomplete abstracts of votes. WHEREAS, it appears from the files in the secretary of state's office that a large number of the clerks of the courts of common pleas in this state have not included in their general abstracts of votes transmitted by them to the secretary of state and the president of the senate a statement of the number of votes given in their several counties in favor of and also against a convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution, together with a statement of the whole number of electors voting at the general election, held on the second Tuesday of October, A. D. 1871, as required by the third section of the act entitled an act relative to submitting the question "Shall there be a convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution," to the electors of Ohio, passed March 30, 1871; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby directed, without delay, to prepare suitable blanks and forward the same to such of said clerks as have failed to comply with the aforesaid act, with instructions to them to certify, under their official seals, a statement of the number of votes given in their several counties in favor of and also against a convention to revise, alter or amend the constitution of Ohio, together with a statement of the whole number of electors voting therein at said election, and forward the same to the secretary of state and the president of the senate respectively, and the secretary of state on receiving said certificates shall attach the same to the abstracts of the counties to which they respectively belong. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 19, 1871. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing of calendars for the use of members of the General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives cause a calendar for each brauch of the general assembly to be printed every evening, and placed on the desks of each senator and representative before the opening of each daily session, showing for the day the bills for second reading, the bills for third reading, the special orders of the day, the bills in com. mittee of the whole, and the bills on the table. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Adopted January 19, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the opening of two fire-places in the Senate Chamber. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the joint committee having the subject of ventilation of the capitol building under consideration, be authorized to have two fire places opened in the senate chamber. Adopted January 19, 1872. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Secretary of State to have prepared an outline map of the State for the use of members of the General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby directed to have prepared, as soon as practicable, an outline map of the state, showing the boundaries of the counties, with the name and population of each county marked within its boundaries, and that he cause three thousand copies thereof, with an alphabetical list of counties, in the margin, with the population of each county, and the several lines of railroad, canals and navigable rivers traversing the state, distinctly marked, and the aggregate population of the state, to be printed and distributed equally to senators and represen tatives. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted January 19, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the acts of a general nature passed by the sixtieth General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be authorized and directed to have the general laws of this session of the legislature printed as soon as possible after enactment, in forms of sixteen pages, and that he cause five thousand copies of the same to be distributed as follows: Ten copies to each member of the general assembly, and the remainder he shall distribute to the county auditors of the several counties in this state, in proportion to their representatives in the legislature, unless otherwise directed by the senators or |