HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to furnishing Hardin county with weights and measures. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he hereby is required to furnish, forthwith, to the county auditor of the county of Hardin, for the use of said county, copies of the original standards of weights and measures provided for in an act "to provide for a uniform standard of weights and measures," passed February 21, 1846, to supply the places of the copies heretofore furnished to said county by the state, and which copies have been destroyed by fire. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, March 5, 1856. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to renting a room for holding the supreme court. Res Ived by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state, under the direction of the supreme court judges of the state, or a majority of them, is hereby authorized and required to procure in the city of Columbus a suitable room for holding the supreme court. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 7, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to furnishing Geauga county with certain of the Ohio Reports. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the secretary of state furnish the clerk of the common pleas of Geauga county with No. 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, of the Ohio State Reports if he have them on hand, or such of them as he may have, for the use of said county. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. April 10, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to preparing the Hall of the House of Representatives. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a joint select committee consisting of George M. Parsons and James H. Smith, on the part of the House, and Alfred Kelly, on the part of the Senate, be appointed whose duty it shall be to supervise the preparation of the Hall of the House, and who shall be and are empowered to contract for such furniture and employ such labor as may be necessary to properly prepare the same for the use of the members of the General Assembly: Provided, That contract or expenditure shall not be made without the assent and advice of the state house commissioners and secretary of state. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LESTER TAYLOR, President of the Senate, pro tem. April 11, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to closing the waste weirs near Dover. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works be instructed to close up the two waste weirs in the berme bank of the Ohio canal, near the town of Dover, in Tuscarawas county: Provided, That said weirs can, in the opinion of said board of public works, be closed up with safety to the canal at an expense to the state not exceeding five hundred dollars. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, April 9, 1856. Presiden of the Senate. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to printing extra copies of school commissioner's report. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed, for the use of the state commissioner of common schools, in addition to those already ordered, four thousand five hundred copies of his annual report. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. March 5, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the payment of the clerks for reading proof and indexing the written and printed journals. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the clerks of the senate and house of representatives shall receive each at the rate of four dollars a day for the time actually employed, after the adjournment of the general assembly, for making out indexes to the printed and recorded journals, and for reading the proof-sheets of the same, to be paid out of any money appropriated to defray the expenses of the general assembly, on the order of the auditor of state. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LESTER TAYLOR, President pro tem. of the Senate. April 11, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the carpets in the hall of house of representatives. Resolved, That the carpeting now upon the floors of the halls and rooms occupied by the present legislature, or so much of the same as may not be deemed suitable to be placed upon the floors of the new state house, be delivered to the trustees of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, to be placed in the rooms of the female patients; Provided that 16-LAWS this resolution does not interfere with any arrangements already made by the secretary of state. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tem. April 11, 1856. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS Relative to a railroad to the Pacific ocean. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in congress be requested to use their best endeavors to procure the passage of a law by congress, making adequate provision for aiding in the construction of a railroad to the Pacific ocean, on such route or routes as they may deem to be most practicable and best calculated to advance the interests of the country. Resolved, That the governor of this state be requested to forward to each of our senators and representatives in congress a copy of these resolutions. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. LESTER TAYLOR, President pro tem. of the Senate. April 11, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS Relative to the removal of the obstructions at the falls of the Ohio river, by congress. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the congress of the United States is hereby requested to take speedy and efficient steps towards the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio river, by removing obstructions at the falls, with such exclusive government work as shall be found necessary-either a new canal, or an enlargement of the old, or a wall and locks in the channel of the river. Resolved, That our representatives be requested to submit these resolutions, and to urge their passage upon congress. Ň. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. April 8, 1856. President of the Senate. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to Woodworth's planing machine. WHEREAS, We believe the object of our present patent laws to be protection to the inventor, and not the establishment of a monopoly that may tax the industrial pursuits of the country at pleasure; and whereas, we believe the renewal a second time of a patent on Woodworth's planing machine would violate the spirit and design of all our laws relating to patents and fix an unjust and oppressive tax on mechanical pursuits of the country. Therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators in congress be instructed and our representatives in congress requested to resist, by all honorable means in their power, the renewal of said patent upon the application of William W. Woodworth, or any other person or persons in his behalf. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, April 5, 1856. President of the Senate. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to printing the appropriation bill. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the appro...priation bill be printed in advance of other printing. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tem. April 3, 1856. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to confirming the contract of the canal fund commissioners with the Columbus insu.. rance company. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the contract dated the 31st day of December, 1849, made between the late Ohio canal fund commissioners and the Columbus insurance company, by which one hundred thousand dollars of the funds of the state were deposited with said company, and the bond of William Miner and others taken to |