Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-03-06
Convention.


iling the Legislature from granting
any license to traffic in intoxicating
spirits. was passed and referred to
the Committee on Revision. The
report on the Judicial Department,
after being much amended in commit
tee, was passed, yeas 81, nays 81.
The report on Education was ia
ken up, and the question being on
the engrossment OF the bill, it was
read in its amended state, as follows:
SEC. 1. The principal Of all funds
arising from the sale or other dispo-
siiion Of lands or other property
granted or entrusted to this State for
educational and religious purposes
within the same, shall forever be pre-
served invioIate and undiminished;
and the interest and income arising
shall be faithfully applied to the spe-
cifc objects of the original grants or
appropriations.
SEC. 2. The General Assembly
shall make such provisions, by taxa
tion or otherwise, as with the income
arising from the school trust funds,
will secure a thorough and efficient
system Of common schools through
out the State. r-..
1t was ordered to be engrossed
for third reading, by SO yeas 10 Is
nays.
Feb. 25lh.
The report on education was pas
sed by vote Of 81 to 81.
Mr.. Lawrence moved to take up
the article on license-agreed to,
The vote being taken upon the re-
commitment, it stood yeas 46, nays
AZ.
The question was then on the final
passage-the vote stood yeas Al, nays
40.
Thus ended the Temperance dis
cussion in Convention.
Feb. 26th.
The subject or prohibiting the H.
cense Of the sale Of ardent spirits,
was again brought up.
Mr.. Lawrence was appointed a
special Committee on the subject,
and he soon reported TO the Conven-
ton the article, which was rejected
yesterday by a majority Of s, with
the recommendation that the Con-
veution submit il separately to the
people for their adoption or rejection.
The report was laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
The Convention then resumed the
consideration OF Report No. 3, on
Finance and Taxation. A part of
the second Section which proposed
to tax all churches OF over 81, 900 in
value was stricken out by vote Of
81 to 26.
An amendment to the same Section
providing for the taxation Of State
and United States stocks, was adop-
ted by vote of so to 40.
The third Section was amended
by striking out, after the word "tax-
ing,n the words "the capital stock
paid in, notes and bills discounted,
undivided profits. and real and per-
sonal estate of all banks now in ex-
istence, or hereafter coming into ex-
istence, in this State, deducting
therefrom the amount OF their circu-
lation," and inserting "the notes
and bills discounted, surplus contin-
gent fund, and undivided profits, Of
all bank" sc. -
Feb. 9Th.
The report on Finance and Taxa
ton was ordered to be engrossed.-
The report mo. q Of the Commit
tee on Apportionment was taken up.
II contains twelve sections. In the
first two il was provided that the
whole population Of the State, as
ascertained every ten years by the
federal census, should be divided by
the number 100. and the quotient to
be the ratio oi representation in the
House OF Representativss-and Gn
the secoud section,) that every coun-
ty having a population equal to half