representatives from such counties. Said copies to be furnished under existing contracts, and out of the number now required to be printed by law. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of a Joint Committee on the subject of re-districting the State for Representatives in Congress. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of seven on part of the senate, and nineteen on part of the house, be appointed, whose duty it shall be to report a bill for re-districting the state for representatives in Congress. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the distribution of a portion of the Reports of the Geological Survey for 1870. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the supervisor of public printing, be directed to distribute the portion of the report of the geological survey of 1870, ordered for members of the general assembly, among the members of the present general assembly. Resolved, That the resolution providing for the printing, binding and distributing of the annual rep rt of the geological corps of Ohio, for the year 1870, passed April 18, 1871, so far as the same is inconsistent with the foregoing resolution, be and the same is hereby repealed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the ventilation of the Senate Chamber and other parts of the State House. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of three be appointed by the senate, and five on the part of the house, to take into consideration the better ventilation of the senate chamber and some other parts of the capitol. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a joint convention of the Senate and House of Representatives to canvass the vote cast for State officers, at the October election, 1871. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the two branches of this general assembly meet in joint convention on Thursday, January 4, 1872, at 10 o'clock A. M., in the hall of the house of representatives, to count the votes cast for state officers, at the election held on the second Tuesday of October, 1871. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the inauguration of the Governor elect. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of three on part of the senate and five on part of house be appointed to make such arrangments as may be necessary for the inauguration of the governor elect on Monday, the eighth instant. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of a joint select committee to report rules for the government of the General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of two on part of the senate and five on part of the house, be appointed to prepare and report joint rules for the government of the two houses of this general assembly. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Adopting joint rules for the government of the General Assembly temporarily. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the joint rules of the fifty-ninth general assembly of Ohio, for the government of the two branches thereof, be adopted by this general assembly until otherwise ordered. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing and distribution of the report of the trustees of Athens Lunatic Asylum. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed one thousand copies of the report of the trustees of Athens Lunatic Asylum for 1871, three hundred for the use of the trustees and the remainder to be distributed among the members of the general assembly. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 26, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of State to donate to the Chicago Law Institute, in behalf of the State, certain books. WHEREAS, By the recent conflagration in the city of Chicago, the entire collection of law books belonging to the Chicago Law Institute were destroyed; and WHEREAS, By reason of said conflagration, the ability of said Chicago Law Institute to repair its loss has been greatly impaired; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby authorized to donate on behalf of the state of Ohio, to the Chicago Law Institute of the city of Chicago, one (1) set of the Ohio Reports, one (1) set of the Ohio State Reports, one (1) copy of Swan & Crithchfield's Statutes, one (1) set of Swan & Sayler's Statutes, and one (1) copy of Ohio Digest. N. H. VAN VORHES, Adopted January 26, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing, binding and distribution of the Report of the Mining Commission. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the report of the mining commission, transmitted by the governor to this general assembly, be laid on the table, and that two thousand copies thereof be printed and bound in brochure covers, and furnished for the use of the general assembly. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted January 26, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of additional members of the joint committee on the subject of redistricting the State for Representatives in Congress. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the committee provided for by joint resolution on the subject of redistricting the state for representatives in congress, of seven on the part of the senate and ninteen on the part of the house be increased by the addition of two more on the part of the senate. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 26, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to constructing a straight passage way between the House and Senate Chamber. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the committees on public buildings of the two houses be directed to inquire and report the same as to the cost and practicability of constructing a straight covered passage-way between the hall of the house and that of the senate. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 31, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing that authors of bills shall be notified of the time when their bills will be considered by committees. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the chairman of each committee of the senate and house of representatives, shall, at some time before the final consideration of any bill referred to his committee, give personal notice to the senator or representative introducing such bill, or written notice left on his desk fixing a time when he may be heard by the committee for the purpose of stating the objects of the bill, or making an explanation thereof. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted January 31, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a certain disposition of one hundred and fifty copies of the Report of the Geological Survey for 1870. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the supervisor of public printing be directed to deliver one hundred and fifty of the report of the geological survey of Ohio for 1870 to the |