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[Senate Joint Resolution No. 53.]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To amend section two of article twelve of the constitution of Ohio.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION I. That a proposition shall be submitted to the electors of the state of Ohio, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1908, to amend section two of article twelve of the constitution of the state of Ohio, so that it shall read as follows:

ARTICLE XII.

FINANCE AND TAXATION.

Sec. 2. The general assembly shall have power to establish and maintain an equitable system for raising state and local revenue. It may classify the subjects of taxation so far as their differences justify the same in order to secure a just return from each. All taxes and other charges shall be imposed for public purposes only and shall be just to each subject. The power of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended or contracted away. Bonds of the state of Ohio, bonds of any city, village, hamlet, county or township in this state and bonds issued in behalf of the public schools of Ohio and the means of instruction in connection therewith, burying grounds, public school houses, houses used exclusively for public worship, institutions of purely public charity, public property used exclusively for any public purpose, and personal property to an amount not exceeding in value two hundred dollars, for each individual, may, by general laws, be exempted from taxation; but all such laws shall be subject to alteration or repeal; and the value of all property, so exempted, shall, from time to time, be ascertained and published as may be directed by law.

SECTION 2. All taxes and exemptions in force when this amendment is adopted shall remain in force, in the same manner and to the same extent, unless and until otherwise directed by statute.

JOSEPH D. CHAMBERLIAN, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

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To authorize the governor and secretary of state to re-convey to the board of trade of the city of Newark, Ohio, certain property in Licking county, donated as a site for permanent encampment grounds.

WHEREAS, On the 3rd day of December, 1891, the citizens of Licking county, Ohio, purchased from the owners thereof, about one hundred and forty acres of land in Newark township, Licking county, Ohio, west

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of the corporate limits of said city of Newark, Ohio, and conveyed the same to the state, upon the condition that the same was to be used and occupied by the state as a permanent state encampment ground for the encampment of the state militia of the state of Ohio, and that said deeds, by direction of the board of trade of the city of Newark, Ohio, were made direct from the owners to the state of Ohio; and,

WHEREAS, Each of said deeds contained the following provision, towit: "That said premises are hereby conveyed to said state of Ohio, to be used and occupied by it as a permanent encampment ground for the national guard of Ohio, or the organized militia thereof, as is contemplated in an act of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, entitled, "An act providing for a permanent encampment ground for the Ohio national guard, passed May 4th, 1891, and which is conditioned that should the state of Ohio abandon said premises as such permanent encampment grounds, then said premises shall pass to and revert to the board of trade of said city of Newark, Ohio, its successors and assigns forever." And,

WHEREAS, Said lands so conveyed included the largest, best preserved, most distinct and interesting group of ancient earthworks to be found anywhere in the country; and,

WHEREAS, Said lands have been abandoned and ceased to be occupied as a permanent encampment ground for the national guard of Ohio, or the organized militia thereof, and are going to waste; and,

WHEREAS, The state has purchased other sites for the encampment of its state militia and there is no purpose or intention to use and occupy said lands as contemplated by said act and by said deeds and agreement as a permanent encampment ground for said state militia; therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the governor and secretary of said state be and they are hereby authorized and directed to re-convey the said premises to the board of trade of the city of Newark, Ohio, in fee simple and surrender possession thereof to said board of trade, on or before the 1st day of October, 1908.

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For the appointment of a joint committee for the purpose of investigating into the number of publications printed for the various departments of the state of Ohio.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That a joint committee of two members of the senate and two members of the house be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house for the purpose of investigating into the number of publications printed for the various departments of the state of Ohio, as to the feasibility of biennial reports of some of the institutions of

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Ohio, as well as the cost of such printing, and of reporting to the governor as to any reductions in the number and amount of such printing with the aim of effecting such economy as may be possible in this respect.

FREEMAN T. EAGLESON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Providing for an extension of time under Senate Joint Resolution No. 62.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the time within which the committee appointed under Senate Joint Resolution No. 62 may make their report, is extended until April 15th, 1908.

FREEMAN T. EAGLESON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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To provide for the transfer of the control and management of certain lands, the control of which is now vested in the Ohio canal commission, to the control of board of trustees of the Columbus state hospital.

WHEREAS, The state of Ohio is the owner of the following described lands, to-wit: Being situated in the township of Franklin, county of Franklin, and state of Ohio, and beginning at the Nelson Foos double lime-kiln on the south bank of the Scioto river, thence south 60 degrees east, passing an iron stake on river bank and running 35 chains to an iron stake, from which stake a white oak 24 inches in diameter, bears north 821⁄2 degrees east 58 links distant; also a sugar tree 22 inches in diameter, bears north 2834 degrees east 32 links distant to their centers; thence south 82 degrees east to 10.75 chains to an iron stake, from which stake the southeast corner of gas and coal house bears north 64 degrees west 1181⁄2 links distant; thence north 60 degrees east, 10.26 chains to an iron stake; thence north 21 degrees west, passing an iron stake in the south property line of the Little Miami railroad and a square-cut stone with a hole in it as the north property line of said railroad, and also passing an iron stake at both the north and south property lines of the C., S. & C. R. R., and running 28.47 chains to an iron stake on the Scioto

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river, and near to and in line with a cut limestone with a hole in it 1.15 chains before reaching low-water mark; thence up said river north 61 degrees west, 2.82 north, 682 degrees west, 6.85 north 751⁄2 west, 4.25 chains to the beginning, containing 54.20 acres of land, and being a part of survey No. 2668 of the Virginia military district, and in Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio; now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the authority heretofore granted to the Ohio canal commission authorizing and empowering said commission to appraise and lease said lands, by a joint resolution adopted April 25, 1893, be and the same is hereby revoked, and the control and management of said tract of land is hereby vested in the board of trustees of the Columbus state hospital for the use and benefit of said institution, the same as the other lands connected with said institution are now controlled by said board. There is excepted from the above described land a tract containing one and threehundredths acres conveyed to John Murnane by the state of Ohio, December 9, 1893; also the rights of way across the same, as occupied by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company, and the Little Miami Railroad Company; likewise so much of said tract as is in the actual use and occupancy by the trustees of the institution for feeble-minded youth, which shall remain under the control of said trustees for the benefit of said institution. There is also excepted from the above described tract of land any portions of the same now under lease, until the expiration of the terms for which said leases were granted, at which time said leased tracts shall pass under the control and management of the trustees of said Columbus state hospital and be used for the benefit of said institution the same as the other lands herein transferred.

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Expressing to the citizens of Collinwood the sincere sympathy of the general assembly of Ohio in the calamity which resulted in the death of many children.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the general assembly hereby expresses to the citizens of Collinwood its sincere sympathy in the great calamity that has befallen them. The state of Ohio joins with the bereaved parents in mourning the unfortunate death of their little ones.

FREEMAN T. EAGLESON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS,

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Adopted April 8, 1908.

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[House Joint Resolution No. 102.]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Requesting the Hon. Myron T. Herrick to address the general assembly on the subject, "The Guaranty of Bank Depositors."

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the Hon. Myron T. Herrick be requested to address the general assembly at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of March 12th, 1908, on the subject "The Guaranty of Bank Depositors;" and

Resolved, That for that occasion the provisions of House Joint Resolution No. 87 be in force.

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Authorizing the adjutant general to loan battle flags to the executive committee of the 42nd national encampment Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo, O.

WHEREAS, The 42nd national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic is to be held in the city of Toledo, Ohio, in the months of August and September, 1908; therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the adjutant general of the state is hereby instructed and authorized to loan to the executive committee of said encampment, for the above named occasion, such number of battle flags now on exhibition in the relic room of the capitol building at Columbus, as may in his judgment be in such condition as to safely permit of their being handled and transported, and to accord to said executive committee such other assistance and privileges as shall not materially conflict with the preservation of the public property of the state; provided further, that said property shall be taken and returned without expense to the state of Ohio, which expense shall include the employment of a person (to be selected by the adjutant general of the state) who shall accompany said flags and have charge of the same. And provided further, that none of said flags shall on such occasion be unfurled or taken out of the nettings in which they are now preserved.

FREEMAN T. EAGLESON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES M. WILLIAMS,

President of the Senate.

Adopted April 8, 1908.

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