Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-23
La,ns Of Ohio.
PUBLISHED AUTHORITY.
AN ACT,
Making special appropriations for the year
1877

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AN ACT,
Making special appropriations for the year
1857.
Section l. Be it enacted By The General As
se,n6ly of the State of Ohio, That the following
sums be. and are hereby appropriated out OF any
money in the treasury applicable thereto, vZ:
For the payment of George RIordon' meSsen- s
ger for the Supreme Court, the sum Vi oie
dred and eight dollars;
For the payment of cost and witness ices In
curred bv the committee on the Penltenlflary
in investigating the complaint against Doctor D.
r. Dawson. under the resolution of the House,
the sum of fifty dollars and twenty cents.
For paving balances for furniture and labor
in furnishing Legislative halls, committee rooms,
executive offices, supreme court rooms, and 9TH
er apartments In the State House, in addition to
the amount heretofore appropriated, and to be
paid under the same restriction, the sum of ten
thousand eight hundred and eighty EIGHT dol
lars and sixty-eight cents;
For the payment of taxes refunded where
enormously charged and collected, twenty-five
thousand dollars;
For the payment of mileage of county treasu-
rers, sixteen hundred dollars
Sec. 2. For balance due on contract for deep
ening and widening the Lancaster side cut, out
of the canal fund, eleven thousand two hundred
and ninety-five dollars and fourteen cents. And
to complete the Lancaster side cut, the sum OF
seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided
that if, upon careful examination of the subject
by the Board of Public Works, it is found that
no contract exists for the completion of this
work, the money hereby appropriated shall no!
be expended until there is new letting of the
word.
Sec. 3. For the payment of Hilliard HAYES
d Co., for account renderered againt the North.
ern Lunatie Asylum in 1855, the sum of two
hundred and seyenty-nine dollars and three
cents.
For the payment of Richard Riordan Mes
senger of the Supreme Court, December Term
1856, the sum of hundred and sixty four dol.
lars.
For the payment of rent, gas light &C., fol
rooms of Clerk of the Senate after the adjourn.
ment in 1856, forty seven dollars and twelve
cents.
For the payment of the Clerk of the House
and Senate for making out list of the eondi.
tions of all bills pending in each House at the
time of adjournment in April last, to each the
sum of forty dollars, (being ten days pei
diem.)
Sec. f. For Superintendence and repairs on
section number three, Ohio Canals, thirty-seven
thousand seven hundred dollars; and for the
payment of engineers, special superintendenfs
attorneys fees and incidental expenses, two
thousand dollars.
For prosecuting the work on the State House
thirty thousand dollars.
For enIarging the canal on the first level be-
low the city of Dayton, five thousand dollars.
For4he purchase of three hundred and fifty
copies of the Reports of the decisions OF the
Supreme Court, published in 1856, under the
act of April IA, 1854, at one dollar and sixty
cents per volume five hundred and sixty dol
lars.
Sec. 5. For paying balance due on account
of expense incurred by the joint committee of
the General Assembly appointed on the eleventh
day of April last, to investigate the transactions
and expenditures of the Board of Public Works,
for services of various persons employed by
said committee, travelling and other incidental
expenses, including the per diem allowance to
the members os said committee, as members of
the General Assembly, the gross sum of eight
hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty-two
cents.
For the payment of balances due on account
of similar expenses incurred by the joint COM
mittee appointed at the aforesaid time to inves-
gate the transactions and expenditures about
the New State House, the Penitentiary, the
three Lunatic Asylums, and the Blind and
Deaf and Dumb Asylums, inclusive of the per
diem allowance to the members of said commit
tee, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-sey-
en- dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For paying the balances due on account oi
similar expenses incurred by the joint commit,
tee appointed at the same date to investigate
the transactions of public agents in regard tt
the custody and disbursement of public mon
eys, including the per diem allowance to tn,
members of said committees, the sum of tw'
hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty
cents.
Sec. 6. The several appropriations made il
the next preceding section shall be held to b.
in addition to the appropriations heretofore
made for the same purposes, and as authorizing
the payment of the money therein appropriated
in addition to the money heretofore drawn froI
the treasury on the arants of the Auditor O
State, whether The Auditors shall have constru.
ed the acts making such former appropriations
correctly or not. And all warrants for the pay
ment Of money appropriated by the said pre-
ceding section, shall be predicated on the GER
tifcate of the chairman of the committee by
Bhich the expense was incurrrd.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in
orce from and after its pas sage.
N. II. VAN WORRIES.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS b. FORD,
President of the Senate
Columbus, April 3, 1857.