made for the relief of the flood sufferers, are hereby authorized to pay out of the fund therein appropriated, on the order of the adjutant-general, to Company B, 17th Regiment Ohio National Guards, the sum of $188 for subsistence, and the sum of $400 as compensation for services while on special duty at Zanesville during the flood in the month of February last; and also to Company C, 13th Regiment Ohio National Guards, the sum of $81, for subsistence, and the further sum of $572 as compensation for services while on special duty at Manchester, Adams county, Ohio, during the said flood; and the said several sums shall be paid by the adjutant-general according to law. 66 A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Adopted March 13, 1884. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 26.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to having the governor, secretary of state, and adjutant-general to have printed in book form, the complete roster of regiments or parts of regiments furnished by Ohio in the war with Mexico, or the war, of the rebellion. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor. secretary of state, and adjutant-general be and they are hereby authorized to secure the publication in book form, of the complete roster of all the regiments or parts of regiments furnished by Ohio, in the war with Mexico, and in the war of the rebellion; said publication to contain the main items of the record of each officer and soldier, so far as the same is attainable, from the rolls now in the adjutant-general's office, and in the war department at Washington, and they shall begin said work as soon as practicable, and continue the same until the said printed roster is complete. The printing and binding to be under the direction of the commissioners of public printing, and the publication when completed shall be under the control of the officials first named, for such disposal as the general assembly may hereafter direct. A. D. MARSH, Requesting our senators and representatives to use all honorable means to secure an appropriation for the purpose of constructing a levee upon the water-front of Cincinnati. WHEREAS, By reason of the recent annual overflows of the Ohio river, a large portion of the city of Cincinnati, one of the first internal revenue districts of the country, has been desolated, the commerce among the several states has been greatly impaired, the revenue of the general government and of the state have been largely diminished, and the lives, health and property of many citizens have been destroyed; therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators. representing the state in the senate of the United States be and they are hereby instructed, and that the representatives in congress from Ohio in the house of representatives be and they are hereby respectfully requested to use all proper means to secure an appropriation by congress for the purpose of constructing a levee upon the water front of Cincinnati, which shall protect said city of Cincinnati from damage by the overflow of the Ohio river in case said river shall rise to the extent of 72 feet. Resolved, That the governor of Ohio be and he is hereby requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the several senators and representatives in congress from Ohio. Relative to requesting our senators and representatives in congress to secure copies of muster-rolls of Ohio regiments in the late rebellion. WHEREAS, A very large number of the muster rolls of the companies and regiments which served both in the Mexican war and the late civil war, have by some means been lost; and WHEREAS, The secretary of war has been repeatedly requested by the adjutant-general of Ohio to permit an agent of the state to have access to the copies of the same belonging to the general government, and he has refused to accede to the request; therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in congress be and they are hereby requested to take such action as may be necessary, either to have the general government furnish such rolls, or to get permission for an agent or agents of the state to have access to the proper departments and books or rolls for the purpose of procuring the same. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JOHN G. WARWICK, Adopted March 20, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Joint Resolution No. 26.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to repairing time-locks on safe in state treasury department. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the treasurer of the state be and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract with the Holmes Burglar Alarm Telegraph Co. of New York, for the cleaning and adding the dynamite safety device to the two time locks now on the safe in the state treasury department, at a cost not to exceed three hundred dollars. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem. of the Senate. Adopted March 20, 1884. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 42.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to authorizing the commissioners of the state library to procure three hundred copies of papers herein specified, and to their distribution by the state librarian, as herein specified. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the commissioners of the state library be and are hereby directed to procure from the publishers, at a price not exceeding that heretofore paid by the state, three hundred copies of the so-called St. Clair papers. The state librarian is hereby directed to distribute the same as follows: one copy to each member and officer of the present general assembly; one copy to each member of the daily press now engaged in reporting the legislative proceedings, whose said employment shall be certified to the state librarian by the president of the Senate and speaker of the House; and one copy to each benevolent, penal and reformatory institution of the state not already supplied pursuant to a joint resolution adopted by the 65th general assembly, April 8, 1882. All copies that may remain after making the distribution provided for in this resolution, shall be retained in the custody of the state librarian, for the purpose of exchanges with other state libraries, and such further disposition as the general assembly may hereafter direct. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. ELMER WHITE, President pro tem.of the Senate. Adopted April 3, 1884. [House Joint Resolution No. 40.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to loaning tents to the state board of agriculture. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the adjutant-general be and he is hereby authorized, if in his judgment it will not be detrimental to the best interest of the militia, to loan to the Ohio state board of agriculture, for use during the state fair in September next, such number of tents in possession of the state and not then in use as may be required by said board, and said board shall return said tents in as good order as when received, and be responsible for all loss or injury. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 4, 1884. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 47.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to William Morris, insane. WHEREAS, William Morris, a resident of Butler county, is in a condition of insanity; and WHEREAS, The quota for said Butler county in the Columbus asylum for insane if full; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the superintendent of the Lucas county asylum for the insane be and is hereby authorized, directed and required, if not inconsistent with existing statutes, to receive the said William Morris as a patient into the said Lucas county asylum for the insane; provided, that there is room in said asylum for said patient, without discharging any patient now confined therein under existing law. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 10, 1884. [Senate Joint Resolution No. 51.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to authorizing the secretary of state to forward certain volumes herein named to the law library at Cincinnati. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state forward to the librarian of the Cincinnati law library, three copies of each volume of the Ohio state reports, three copies of the re revised statutes, and one copy of Charles Cummin's and Sayler's statutes, one of each volume of general and local laws, now belonging to the state or which he may be able to purchase for the purpose; these volumes to be stamped "property of the state of Ohio," and to be retained in the said law library for the use of the courts and county officials of Hamilton county until required to be returned. A. D. MARSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 10, 1884. President of the Senate. [House Joint Resolution No. 56.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the printing of the proceedings of the state forestry association. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Ohio state horticultural society be and is hereby directed to embody in its next annual report, the proceedings of the last meeting of the state forestry association, and as soon as the forestry matter can be put in type, the supervisor of public printing shall cause to be printed and stitched separately ten thousand copies, of which five thousand shall be apportioned among the members of the general assembly and five thousand to the forestry association for distribution among the public schools of the state. L. A. BRUNNER, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 10, 1884. [House Joint Resolution No. 23.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the organization of a național bureau of labor statistics. WHEREAS, There is now before congress the consideration of measures looking to the organization of a national bureau of labor statistics; and WHEREAS, Honest intelligent labor is the acknowledged foundation of all material prosperity in human affairs; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That we most earnestly sympathize with and approve of the measure, believing it to be an act both of wisdom and of jus ice and a step in the right direction for the increase and diffusion of that particular knowledge and information |