JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the auditor of state and attorney-general to adjust the claim of William M. Ampt, Esq., of Cincinnati, provided he complies with certain conditions herein mentioned. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the auditor of state be and he is hereby directed to immediately demand of William M. Ampt the money in his hands belonging to the state, with interest from the date he received it. Resolved, That in default of said Ampt paying over the moneys mentioned in the foregoing resolutions within a reasonable time after demand, the attorney-general of the state is directed to bring suit to recover the same. Adopted April 27, 1877. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the binding of additional copies of the debates of the constitutional convention. WHEREAS, It appears from a communication from the supervisor of state printing and binding, made to this general assembly at its session for 1876, that there are three thousand copies or sets of the debates of the constitutional convention of the years 1873 and 1874 remaining unbound, quite a proportion of which are now ready for binding, and of the first volume all but one thousand, and of the second volume a part, are already bound; and, WHEREAS, It also appears by said communication that the "volumes unbound are not in a safe condition," and "are exposed to vermin," and that a small amount comparatively will be necessary to complete the work; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the supervisor of public printing and binding be and he is hereby directed to have bound the remaining unbound copies of the debates of the constitutional convention of 1873 and 1874 aforesaid, in numbers not exceeding sufficient to complete three thousand sets. Said debates when so bound shall be distributed as follows: To each member of said convention ten copies (two volumes each), and to the members of the sixty-second general assembly seven copies (two volumes each); and the remainder to be deposited in charge of the secretary of state, and disposed of as shall be hereafter determined. Copies for members of the convention and of the legislature shall be boxed, and sent to their order by the secretary of state, under the regulations and provisions requiring the distribution to members of the general assembly the reports of the secretary of state. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 27, 1877. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Awarding damages to H. P. Clough and company. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of trustees for the Columbus insane hospital and the board of trustees of the asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth be and they are hereby directed to certify and pay out of the moneys appropriated for said institutions for construction of drains thereto the sum of five hundred and thirty-seven dollars, damages sustained by H. P. Clough and company by reason of the non-fulfillment of the contract awarded to H. P. Clough and company for work to be done at said institutions. Upon the payment thereof, said Clough shall receipt in full of all claims growing out of non-fulfillment of said contract. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 28, 1877. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Secretary of State to ship and distribute certain public documents. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby directed to have boxed up the geological survey reports and the statistical reports of the secretary of state to which the members of the general assembly are entitled, and ship the same to the address of the several members respectively; and the secretary of state is hereby directed to prepay the charges for shipping the same out of the amount appropriated for the distribution of the laws, journals, and public documents, and to take vouchers for the same. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. H. W. CURTISS, Passed April 30, 1877. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Railroad Commissioner to confer with authorities of other States, with a view to the adoption of an improved system of accounts for railroad corporations. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the railroad commissioner be and he is hereby instructed to confer with the authorities of other states, as far as practicable, with a view to the adoption of an improved system of accounts for railroad corporations, and that he report his action herein to the next general assembly. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Adopted May 3, 1877. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the printing and distribution of the fifth volume of the final report of the Geological Corps of Ohio. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed of the fifth volume of the final report of the geological corps of Ohio (being Volume III, Geology) twenty thousand copies, with such maps, plates, and sections as are prepared to illustrate the report; the printing to be in the best style, on good paper, in royal octavo, and bound in muslin; two hundred and fifty copies for the geological corps, two hundred and fifty copies for the geological board, five hundred copies for the state library, and the remaining for the présent general assembly, to be divided equally among the members thereof, and sent to them as soon as printed and bound. To determine what number of such reports are to be printed in German, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to ascertain from each member of this general assembly, also from the geological corps, geological board, and state librarian, what number of the reports they are entitled to receive they wish in the German language. The aggregate amount so determined shall be the number authorized to be printed in German, and they shall be distributed accordingly. That there shall be deposited in the the township library in each county in the state of Ohio one copy of this report, by the member representing the same in this general assembly at the time of their distribution. Resolved, That the joint resolution relative to the printing and distribution thereof, adopted March 30, 1875, be and the same is hereby rescinded. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted May 3, 1877. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the removal of insane persons to district hospitals, and for the treatment of the chronic insane. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the state board of charities, within ninety days after the opening of the Columbus hospital for the insane, to report by name, with so much of the personal history as may be deemed important, of all insane inmates of county infirmaries who shall have been declared insane by inquest of lunacy according to law, to the superintendent of the hospital for the insane in the district in which said county may be located, who is hereby required, as soon thereafter as practicable, to receive said patients without any further proceedings being had: Provided, that in each hospital for the insane fifty beds shall be reserved for the reception of recent cases, at the time this resolution takes effect, and also that of [if] the quotas of such county shall be more than filled by such transfer of these inmates, and the hospital be filled, then such patients whose disease is complicated with epilepsy shall not be transferred. Be it further resolved, That from and after the expiration of said ninety days, it shall not be competent for directors of county or city infirmaries to receive to the care of such institution any insane person whatever, for any period of time beyond what may reasonably be required to secure the transfer of such insane persons to the state hospital for such district, unless by written permission of the state board of charities, whenever they shall consider it for the best interest of any patient that shall remain in said infirmary. Be it further resolved, That at any time when it shall become necessary for the accommodation of recent cases of insanity (as provided by law) in any state hospital to remove chronic cases therefrom, all such chronic cases shall be sent to the care of the north-western hospital for the insane, under such conditions as have heretofore existed with the commissioners of Lucas county, it being distinctly understood that only such. chronic cases are intended that would otherwise go to the county infirmaries, and not those who can be cared for by their friends. Be it further resolved, That in order to carry out the intentions of this resolution, the superintendent of each hospital for the insane shall be required to report to the board of state charities total capacity of the hospital, including the number of rooms for single patients and the number in associated dormitories, at the ratio of one patient to each five hundred (500) cubic feet of space, and also the quota of each county in the district to which said hospital is attached. Speaker of the C. H. GROSVENOR, Passed May 3, 1877. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the board of publie works to condemn and appropriate certain lands therein described. WHEREAS, The lands lying on the west bank of the Great Miami river adjacent to the state dam, near Middletown, and situated in section seven, town one, range five, in Warren county, have been a source of great expense to the state, by reason of overflow in consequence of the location of the dam aforesaid, and an embankment thrown up by the state, which, through high water in the river, is subjected to frequent and disastrous breakages, causing damage to the lands in the vicinity, and subjecting the state to the payment of large sums of money; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works be and it is hereby authorized to condemn and appropriate so much of the lands described in the foregoing preamble as, in the opinion of the said board, are subject to overflow in consequence of the location of the state dam across the Great Miami river, near Middletown. In the event of a failure on the part of the said board to agree with the owner or owners of the land to be appropriated as to the price to be paid for the same, the said board of public works shall make application by petition to the court of common pleas of Warren county, for appropriation of such lands in accordance with the provisions of existing laws regulating the appropriation of private property by municipal corporations; the jury created in accordance with such laws shall, in addition to fixing the price to be paid for the land to be appropriated, have the power to adjudicate and assess damages, such as the owners of the prop erty herein described may have sustained since July 1, 1875, from over flow of or breakages in the levee built by the state, located at the Middletown dam: provided, also that the board of public works shall have power to reject any or all of the propositions made by the jury. In case of a refusal on the part of the board of public works to accept any of the propositions, either to accept the land at the price fixed by the jury, or ap prove the amount of damages assessed, the owner or owners of such property shall be entitled to receive such sum as expense attending such proceedings as in the opinion of the court they may be entitled to. The board of public works shall have power to sell and convey all lands appropriated in accordance with this resolution: provided, that the conditions of such sales shall be such as to forever indemnify the state against all future loss which may be caused by reasons of the overflow of water from the Great Miami river, or any other stream flowing into the same and all cost arising from an appropriation of land in accordance with the provisions of this resolution, shall be borne by the state, and all proceeds derived from the sale of such lands shall be paid by the board of public works in the treasury of the state. C. H. GROSVENOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted May 4, 1877. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the payment of the claim of Bomm & Field, contractors for the cut stonework of the Ohio institution for the blind. WHEREAS, Joseph Bomm and Timothy Field, partners doing businessunder the firm name of Bomm & Field, were contractors for the furnishing of the materials and doing the cut stone-work for the new building of the Ohio institution for the blind; and, WHEREAS, In, consequence of certain unavoidable mistakes made by them on the estimate of said cut stone-work, they agreed to furnish said materials and do said work for the sum of twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars, which sum proved to be less by several thousand dollars than the said materials and work were actually worth upon the basis of the said Bomm and Field's estimate, which estimate was one-fourth less than the actual work required to be done; and WHEREAS, Said Bomm & Field after the discovery of said mistakes, which occurred after the closing of the contract with the trustees, for the above specified sum, did go on and faithfully complete said contract to the full satisfaction of the officers of the state charged with the supervision of said work, and thereby lost the sum of nine thousand dollars; and, WHEREAS, In the opinion of the officers of the state having the construction of said building in charge, said Bomm & Field are justly entitled to relief, which, under the law could not be given; therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That said Bomm & Field be allowed the sum of three thousand eight hundred dollars in addition to the sum already received by them for said work, the same to |