JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for printing the Geological Report of 1870 in the German language. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed, in the German language, two thousand (2,000) copies of the geological report of 1870, for the use of the members of the general assembly. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted March 7, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Suspending, for the benefit of Rebecca J. Stewart, certain provisions of "An act to provide for the uniform government and better regulation of the lunatic asylums of the State, and the care of idiots and the insane," passed April 7th, 1856. WHEREAS, Rebecca J. Stewart, daughter of George Throckmorton, was born in Miami county, state of Ohio, and resided there up to the time of her marriage, her parents having resided in said county and state for a long time previous, and are now residents of said state; and WHEREAS, She having removed with her husband to the state of Illinois, had an attack of sickness which terminated in partial derangement of mind, and was brought back with her family to Ohio, by her father, and cared for, with the hope of her permanent recovery; and, although better for a time, so as to keep house, she has, by a relapse, seemingly settled into confirmed insanity, and her attending physician advises that the only hope of her recovery is to have her sent to some asylum for treatment; and WHEREAS, She may be by the 19th section of the act passed April 7th, 1856, entitled "An act to provide for the uniform government and better regulation of the lunatic asylums of the State, and the care of idiots and the insane," deprived of the right of being admitted into the lunatic asylums of the State of Ohio, because of the insanity having first occurred out of the State; therefore, Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the provisions of the 19th section of said act be suspended so far as to entitle the aforesaid Rebecca J. Stewart to all the rights and privileges of a citizen of the State of Ohio, and to entitle her to admission to some lunatic asylum of the State, under the same provisions and restrictions as other insane persons are now admitted into said asylums. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted March 11, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to a certain claim of the State of Ohio against the United States. WHEREAS, In the opinion of this General Assembly, the State of Ohio has a valid claim against the Federal Government, growing out of the policy adopted prior to the year 1802, by the Congress of the United States, in aid of immigration and settlement of the new States, in which it was proposed by the Federal Government to give to all new States five per cent. of the proceeds of the sales of all public lands within their respective limits that would, at the time of their admission into the Union, waive and not exercise for the period of five years, their right to tax any lands within their respective limits, purchased of the United States; and WHEREAS, Under the policy of the Federal Government above recited, the State of Ohio was entitled to receive the five per cent.; and WHEREAS, There remains two per cent. of the five per cent. yet unpaid; and WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States, by special act approved February 28, 1859, appropriated the two per cent fund to the state of Missouri, thereby adding another precedent to those of Alabama and Mississippi, in favor of paying all the states in which such fund originated; therefore, be it Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the senators of Ohio be instructed, and the representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to secure the passage of a joint resolution declaring the true construction of the statute of March 3, 1857, or the enactment of a special statute similar to the Missouri act, securing to Ohio the payment of such cash balance of the five per centum of the net proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within its limits, as is provided in the Ohio enabling act, approved April 30, 1802. Resolved, That the governor be and he is hereby requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolution to each of the senators and representatives in Congress from this state, at his earliest convenience. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted March 23, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to referring the part of the Governor's Message appertaining to the building of a mansion for the Governor, to a joint select committee. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That so much of the governor's message as refers to providing a mansion for the governor of the state of Ohio, be referred to a joint select committee of five on the part of the house, and three on the part of the senate, for consid eration, and that they be requested to report the result of their deliberations to this general assembly at their earliest convenience. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted March 23, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the equalization of bounties to soldiers. WHEREAS, As some inequality and unfairness seems to exist in the distribution of bounties to soldiers enlisted for the three years' service in the late war; and WHEREAS, There can be no just reason for discriminating between soldiers honorably discharged by reason of sickness contracted while in the service and on duty, and those discharged on account of wounds or injuries received under like circumstances; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in congress be requested to use their influence in procuring the passage of a law to provide for the payment of a bounty of one hundred dollars to each soldier who has not heretofore received such bounty, and who enlisting for three years' service or during the war, was afterwards honorably discharged before the expiration of two years' service on account of sickness or other disability. Resolved, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of this preamble and resolution to each of our senators and representatives in congress. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted March 25, 1872. President of the Senate. 66 JOINT RESOLUTION Suspending for the benefit of Peter Menager certain provisions of An act to provide for the uniform government and better regulation of the lunatic asylums of the State, and the care of idiots and the insane," passed April 7, 1856. WHEREAS, Peter Menager, aged thirty years, unmarried, was born in Gallipolis, Gallia county, Ohio, and resided there with his parents until rear manhood, when he went from home to provide for himself; and WHEREAS, After an absence of some twelve years, he returns to the home of his widowed mother insane; and WHEREAS, He may be, by the 19th section of the act passed April 7th, 1856, entitled "An act to provide for the uniform government, and better regulation of the lunatic asylums of the state, and the care of idiots and the insane," deprived of the right of being admitted into the lunatic asylums of the state of Ohio, because of non-residence; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the provisions of the 19th section of said act be suspended, so far as to entitle the aforesaid Peter Menager to all the rights and privileges of a citizen of the state of Ohio, in and to an admission to some lunatic asylum of the state, under the same provisions and restrictions as other insane persons are now admitted into said asylums. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted March 25, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing of additional copies of the Report of the Secretary of State for the year 1871. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed of the Secretary of State's Report for the year 1871, ten thousand copies in addition to those already printed, to be bound in muslin; five hundred copies for the Secretary of State (three hundred copies of which shall be retained by him for the use of future general assemblies) and the rest for the general assembly, to be divided equally among the members, and sent by the Secretary of State to the care of the auditor of each county, or as may be directed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted March 26, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to insane persons belonging to the Central Asylum District. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That until otherwise ordered, the Central Lunatic Asylum district shall be so divided as to assign the patients to be committed from the counties of Carroll, Stark, Wayne, Ashland, Holmes, Crawford, Harrison, Tuscarawas, Knox, Richland, Morrow, Marion, Wyandot, Hancock and Jefferson, to the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, at Newburg; those from counties of Belmont, Monroe, Noble, Guernsey, Coshocton, Muskingum, Morgan, Fairfield, Licking, Delaware, Franklin, Pickaway, Madison, Union and Hardin, to the Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Dayton; those from the counties Fayette, Ross, Pike, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Washington, Athens, Vinton, Hocking and Perry, to the Longview Asylum. The patients now at the several asylums shall remain where they are until regularly discharged, unless by mutual arrangements between the several superintendents exchanges are effected. Resolved, That the joint resolution on the same subject, passed April 2, 1870, be and is hereby repealed. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted March 29, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the establishment of gas works at the Ohio Penitentiary. Resolved, That a committee of two on the part of the senate and four on the part of the house, be appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the propriety of establishing gas works at the Ohio Penitentiary, for the purpose of supplying the public buildings of the state within reach of the proposed works, with gas; and that said committee be and are hereby authorized to ascertain the amount of expenses necessary, to be incurred in the construction of said gas works, together with the expenses of laying main and lateral pipes from said gas works, through the penitentiary, to and through the State House, Deaf and Dumb Asylum and Blind Asylum, together with the necessary annual cost of supplying, keeping up and repairing said gas works. Resolved, That the committee be further instructed to inquire into the manner in which gas has been furnished to the state for the past three years, the quantity and quality of gas furnished each year, and the number of gas burners used in each of the state buildings in the city of Columbus, each year for the past three years, together with the method of measuring the gas used. Resolved, That the committee have full power to examine witnesses, and to send for persons and papers. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted April 4, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the approval of the plans, etc., of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum. WHEREAS, The trustees of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, in pursuance of the act entitled "An act in addition to the acts authorizing the building of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum," have filed in the office of the auditor of state a complete plan for the rear central wing of said asylum, as contemplated and authorized by said act, together with the |