authorized to release the said Henry Fish and his sureties on his official bond from the payment of the sum which shall be deficient after the payment by the assignee to the said Henry Fish the per cent. collected from the estate of said Price Brothers, and that said release shall be entered on the journal of said council: Provided, that before said release shall be made the question shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said village, at some general election, or a special election, notice of which shall have been given at least twenty days prior thereto, by putting up posters in three public places in said village, and a majority of the electors voting at said election shall vote in favor thereof. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Passed May 5, 1873. AN ACT To authorize Daniel Bender to surrender his lease, and receive a deed for a tract of fifty acres of land in school section sixteen, township three and range three, between the Miami rivers, Butler county, Ohio. WHEREAS, An act was passed by the legislature of Ohio, on the 19th of February, 1846, (see page 126, local laws,) authorizing the lessees of school section sixteen, township three, and range three, between the Miami rivers, in Butler county, Ohio, to surrender their leases, and take deeds for said lands in pursuance to the laws then in force; and WHEREAS, In pursuance to said act, a vote was duly taken of the legal voters of said township, which resulted in favor of the surrender of said leases, and in pursuance to certain proceedings in the court of common pleas of Butler county, Ohio, at September term, 1846, in which all said lessees were petitioners, the several lots (numbered from one to eight inclusive,) were duly appraised, and the appraisment confirmed; and WHEREAS, All the said lessees, (except Robert S. Kenox, who held a permanent lease for a tract of about fifty acres off the east side of lot numbered seven (7) in said section,) surrendered their leases and paid for their respective lands at said valuation, and obtained deeds in fee simple therefor; and WHEREAS, The said lease of Robert S. Kenox which he neglected to surrender, is now held by Daniel Bender, who is anxious to surrender said lease, and receive a deed in fee simple for said land at the said valuation, and without any further vote being taken; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Daniel Bender be and he is hereby authorized to surrender his permanent lease for said tract of about fifty acres off the east side of said lot number seven (7) in said section sixteen, by indorsement thereon, 25-LAWS. attested by the auditor of said county to the state of Ohio, for the benefit of said township, without any further vote of the legal voters being taken, upon the terms and manner of appraisement and payment provided by existing laws; and upon full payment being made, to receive from the auditor of the county a final certificate showing such payment, and that said Daniel Bender is entitled to receive from the state of Ohio a deed in fee simple for said premises; and upon filing such final certificate with the auditor of state, said Daniel Bender shall receive a deed in fee simple for said land, signed by the governor of the state of Ohio, sealed with the great seal of the state, and countersigned and recorded by the secretary of state as provided by existing laws. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed May 5, 1873. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of a joint select committee to inform the Governor that General Assembly is in session. 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. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 2, 1873. President of the Senate. 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 houses of the general assembly meet in joint convention in the hall of the house of representatives, on Thursday, January 9th, at 11 o'clock A. M., to count the vote for secretary of state at the election held on the second Tuesday of October, 1872. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 6, 1873. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the appointment of a joint select committee to investigate and report as to the best manner of collecting and disbursing taxes. WHEREAS, As a consequence of the present system of legislation of this state on the subject, large sums of money collected from the people for taxes and assessments remain locked up in the several county treasu ries, amounting, in the aggregate, to millions of dollars, for several months in each year and to a very considerable sum most of the entire year, being thereby wholly withdrawn from circulation, rendered improductive and contributing to the complaint of scarcity of money and financial embarrassments, as well as constituting a standing temptation to frauds, embezzlements and defalcations on the part of public officers and a general invitation to burglars and safe-blowers, thereby rendering the public money insecure, and some adequate remedy therefor is generally demanded by the people; therefore Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a joint select committee, consisting of three on the part of the senate and five on the part of the house, be appointed to investigate said subject and report at the earliest practicable time, by bill or otherwise, such measures as may be deemed most advisable in the premises. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted January 7, 1873. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the payment of the two per cent. claim of Ohio. WHEREAS, By the act of congress entitled "an act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the Ohio river to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on the equal footing with the original, and for other pur poses," approved April 30th, 1802, and the "act in addition to and in modification of the propositions contained in the above entitled act," approved March 3, 1803, it was provided that five per cent. (one-twentieth) of the net proceeds of the lands lying within said state (Ohio), sold by congress from and after the 30th day of June, 1802, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be expended and applied for the benefit of said state (three per cent. to be applied under the direction of the Legislature of said state in laying out roads within the state), upon the condition that all lands sold by congress within said state after the said 30th day of June should remain exempt from taxation for the term of five years from the day of sale; and, WHEREAS, The state of Ohio has faithfully and fully performed the said conditions on her part and the government of the United States has received full benefit thereof, but a large part of said fund of five per centum of the net proceeds of said lands as aforesaid, amounting in the aggregate to a very large sum of money, has never been expended or applied for the benefit of the state of Ohio, as required by said act of congress, or paid over to said state; and, WHEREAS, The congress of the United States, recognizing the fact that the state of Ohio (as well as others provided for by law) was entitled to receive any and all balances of said funds not heretofore paid over to her, on the 3d day of March 1857, passed an act requiring the commissioners of the general land office to state an account between the United States and the states concerned (including Ohio), for the purpose of ascertaining what sum or sums of money are due said states, heretofore unsettled, and to allow and pay each state such amount as shall thus be found due, estimating all lands and permanent reservations at one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per acre; and several of said states have already been paid their claims in full, while the state of Ohio has never received her said claim but is now justly entitled thereto; and, WHEREAS, A bill providing for the payment of said claims to said state of Ohio, has passed the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our Senators in Congress be instructed to use all reasonable and honorable exertions to secure the passage by the Senate of said bill so passed by said House Representatives providing for the payment of said claims at the earliest period of time. That the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to receive from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and receipt to him for all money the state of Ohio may be entitled to upon said claim, or that may be hereafter paid thereon, the same being certified unto the State Treasury by the Auditor of State, and the money so paid into the hands of the Treasurer shall remain in the State Treasury until drawn out pursuant to law. That the Governor of this State be and he is hereby instructed to forward a duly authenticated copy of these resolutions to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and one copy to each Senator from Ohio. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President pro tem. of the Senate. Adopted January 11, 1873. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the binding in muslin of the Report of the Secretary of State for 1872. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Supervisor of Public Printing be directed to have the report of the Secretary of State, including the statistics for the year 1872, bound in muslin. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Adopted January 11, 1873. JOINT RESOLUTION Making inquiry into the cause of the burning of the Northern Ohio Insane Asylum. WHEREAS, The coroner's jury holding an inquest in last October over the bodies of persons who lost their lives by the burning of the Northern |