JOINT RESOLUTIONS. [House Joint Resolution No. 67.] JOINT RESOLUTION As to the printing of seven thonsand copies of the second annual report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed seven thousand copies of the second annual report of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, to be bound in muslin, and distributed as follows: For the general assembly, 5,000 copies; for the use of the commissioner, 1,600 copies, and for the state library, 400 copies, and that additional 1 500 copies of said statistics be printed in the German language, for the use of and to be equally distributed to such members of the general assembly as may desire them. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Repres ́ntatives. Adopted January 28, 1879. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 60.] JOINT RESOLUTION As to the correction of adjutant-general's records and rolls in regard to name of Thomas S Hart. WHEREAS, Thomas S. Hart, of Richland county, Ohio, served as a private soldier during the war of the rebellion. in company "I," 15th regiment, O. V. I., by the name of Thomas Porter, and under the belief that such was his true name; and, WHEREAS, It was afterwards discovered that such was not his true name, but that his true name was Thomas S. Hart; and, WHEREAS, He desires the rolls and records of his services to be corrected so as to show his true name; therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the adjutantgeneral of said state cause to be made the proper correction of said name upon said rolls and records in his office, and that he certify the same to the adjutant general of the United States, that the rolls and records in the office of the war department, at Washington, may be correspondingly corrected. JAMES A. NORTON, Speaker pro tem of the House of Representatives. Passed January 29, 1879. JABEZ W. FITCH, President of the Senate. [Senate Joint Resolution No 63.] JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a joint convention of the senate and house of representatives to canvass the vote for secretary of state. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the two houses. of the general assembly meet in joint convention in the hall of the house of representatives on Friday, January 10 at 3:30 o'clock P.M., for the purpose of counting the vote for secretary of state, in accordance with the third section of article three of the constitution of the state. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of R presentatives. Adopted February 12, 1879. President of the Senate. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 62.] JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for a committee to wait upon the governor. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of two on part of the senate and three on part of the house, be appointed to wait on the governor and inform him that the general assembly is now in session and ready to receive any communication he may have to transmit Adopted February 12, 1879. JAMES E NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 71.3 JOINT RESOLUTION Petitioning congress to pass a certain pension bill. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the con-gress of the United States be and is hereby requested to pass the house bill No. 3524, providing for the increase of pnsions to thirty-six dollars per month of soldiers who lost an arm or leg in the army of the United States during the war of the rebellion. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted February 13, 1879. President of the Senate. House Joint Resolution No. 88.] JOINT RESOLUTION Requiring clerk of the senate and clerk of the house to furnish certain daily calendars. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 1st. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives to each keep a daily calendar of all bills of a general nature finally passed by the respective bodies, which, under the joint rules heretofore adopted, should be referred to the committee on consolidated laws, which calendar shall show the number of the bill, the name of its author, and its title. 2d. Said clerks shall furnish the chairman of the committee on consolidated laws with copies of such daily calendars, before the hour of ten A.M. of each succeeding legislative day. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted February 13, 1879. President of the Senate. [Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 64.] JOINT RESOLUTION Governing bills prepared by the codifying commission. Resolved by the General Assmbly of the State of Ohio, 1. Upon the introduction and first reading of any bill embodying printed matter prepared by the commission to revise and consolidate the general statutes, the printing thereof shall be dispensed with. 2. Any amendments adopted by the branch of the general assembly in which the bill is introduced, shall be printed in slips, with wide left margins, corresponding in type with that in which the bill is printed, and shall be pasted on the left margin opposite the amended. sections; and no other engrossment of the bill shall be required 3. The foregoing rules shall apply to the branch in which such bill is originally introduced; and when a bill so engrossed is received in the other branch, it may take the same course, so far as applicable, or the ordinary course of bills, as such branch may order. 4. In addition to the standing committee of the two houses, as now constituted, there shall be a joint committee appointed by the presiding officers of the respective houses, of seven members on the part of the senate, and seven members on the part of the house, to be known as the joint committee on consolidated laws, and to which shall be referred all bills introduced from the codifying commission, in the manner provided in the following sections, as well as the parts of the general code heretofore passed, together with copies of all laws of a general nature (to be furnished by the enrolling clerk) passed at the present session, which shall be by said joint committee, in connection with the codifying commission, arranged in their proper piace in the code. 5. When, during the session, any part of the codified work heretofore completed or reported at this session by the ccdifying commission, has been finally passed, instead of being enrolled, it shall, on motion, be re If considered, on which motion to reconsider there shall be no debate. said motion prevails, such bills shall, without motion or vote, be referred to the joint committee on consolidated laws; but all laws of a general nature that shall be passed at the present session, and that should be put into the revised statutes, shall, before being deposited in the office of the secretary of state, be copied, which copy shall also be referred to the joint committee on consolidated laws. 6. The powers and duties of said joint committee shall be confined to arranging the laws and numbering the sections, and they shall have no power to change, alter, or amend any of the work so referred to them. After the final passage of the bill prepared by said joint committee, in connection with the codifyne [codifying] commission, it shall be revised and enrolled as other laws under the joint rules now existing of the general assembly. 7. When said joint committee shall have reported such consolidated laws to either house, no other business shall be done in said house after the third reading until completed and passed thereby; and when transmitted to the other branch of the general assembly, they shall, in like manner, after the third reading, receive exclusive consideration until completed and passed 8. The rules heretofore adopted by either branch of the general assembly, or by both branches, are hereby rescinded in so far as the same are applicable to such bills at the stages herein named, and the joint rules governing bills prepared by the codifying commission are hereby rescinded. JAMES E. NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted February 13, 1879. President of the Senate. [House Joint Resolution No. 77] JOINT RESOLUTION, Providing for the payment of the claim of Jacob Haynes, former secretary of the board of trustees of the soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home. WHEREAS, Jacob Haynes, secretary of the board of trustees of the soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home, at Xenia, Ohio, during the period from May 1, 1875, to March 14, 1876, has received no compensation for his services as such secretary, by reason of the repeal of the statute under which the board of trustees then held their offices, before any provision had been made by said board for the payment of his said services; and, WHEREAS, The present board of trustees has adopted a resolution recognizing that said Jacob Haynes has just and valid claim for two hundred dollars for his said services, being the same rate of compensation which. has been paid to other secretaries of said board for like services, and have recommended an appropriation for that purpose; therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the trustees of the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home are hereby authorized to draw their warrant for the payment of the aforesaid claim of Jacob Haynes, out of any moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the fund for the payment of the necessary expenses of the trustees of the various benevolent institutions, the sum of two hundred dollars in full payment of said claim. JAMES E NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted February 14, 1879. President of the Senate. [House Joint Resolution No. 94.] JOINT RESOLUTION, Granting the government right of way through certain state works. WHEREAS, Congress has now under consideration a proposition to establish an ice harbor at the mouth of the Muskingum river, at Marietta; and, WHEREAS, The Muskingum river is now controlled by the state of Ohio as one of its public works for the purpose of navigation; and, WHEREAS, To facilitate navigation on said river, the state of Ohio has built a dam across said stream, which will interfere with the free use of said stream by the general government for the purpose of said ice harbor without considerable changes in said dam and lock; therefore, Be it resolv d by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the general government are hereby granted the right of way through said state works, and are hereby authorized to enter upon the Muskingum improvements to make such changes in the dam or lock at sa d point as may be necessary for the construction of said ice harbor: provided, that the right of the state of Ohio and interests of navigation shall not be interfered with. JAMES E NEAL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted February 28, 1879. [House Joint Resolution No. 95] JOINT RESOLUTION, To request the board of trustees of the Ohio soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home to furnish information therein named. WHEREAS, The report of the trustees of the soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home, located at X-nia, dated November 15 1878, does not report the number of children in said home from each county, nor the number each county is entitled to have in said home; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the superintendent of said home be requested to report to this body at an early day the number and names of children in said home from each county, also the number each county is entitled to, designating first such as are children. |