The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-05-20
INC. 7s.lAN ACT.

ttaklhS specldl dppIoprIdbiohS luz Tic
year 1857.
Sec. /. Be it enacted 6y the Genera
Assembly Of the STATE Of Ohio, That
the following sums be, and are hereby
appropriated out of any money in the
treasury applicable thereto, viz:
For the payment of George Riordan.
messenger for the Supreme Court, the
sum of one bundled and eight dollars:
For the payment of cost and witness
fees incurred by tho committee Of the
pe~nitentiary in investigating the com
plaint against Doctor. J.B. Dawson.
under resolution of the House, tAo sum
of fifty dollars and twenty cents:
For paying balances for furniture and
labor in furnishing legislative halls,
committee rooms, executive Offices, su-
preme court rooms, and other apart.
ments in the State House, in addition
to the mount heretofore appropriated
and to be paid under the same r%estric-
ton, the sum of ten thousand eight
hundred and lightweight dollars aud
sixty eight cents;
For the payment of taxes refunded
where enormously charged and collected,
twenty-five thousand dollars
For the payment of mileage Of coun.
ty treasurer, sixteen hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. For balance due on contract
for deepening and widening the Lam
caster side cut, out of the canal fund,
eleven thousand two hundred and niuty-
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 not be expended until there is a
new letting of the work.
Sec. 8. For the payment of Hillard
Hays, & Co., for account rendered
against the Northern Lunatic Asylum
in 1855, the sum of two hundred and
seventy-nine dollars and three cents.
For the payment of Richard Riordan
Messenger of the Supreme Court, De-
cember Term 1856, the sum of one hun
dred and sixty four dollars.
For the payment of rent, gas light,
&c, fer rooms of Clerk of the Senate
after the adjournment in 1856, forty
seven dollns and twelve cents.
For the payment of the Clerk of the
House and Senate for making cut a list
OF the conditions of all bills pending in
each House at the time of adjournment
in April last, to each the sum of forty
dollars [beiDg ten days per diem.
SEC A. For Superintendent and re-
pairs on section number three, Ohio
Canals, thirty-seven thousand seven hun
dred dollars and for the payment of
engineers, special superintendents, at
torneys fees and incidental expenses,
two thousand dollars.
For prosecuting the work on the State
House thirty thousand dollars.
For charging the canal on the first
level below the city of Dayton, five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of three hundred
and fifty copies of the Reports of the
decisions of the Supreme Court, pub
lished in 1856, under the act of April
IA, 1854, at one dollar and sixty cents
per volumn five hundred and sixty dol
lars.
SEC. S. For paying balance due on
account of expenses incurred by the
joint committee of the General Assem-
appointed on the eleventh day of
last, to investigate the transac-
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 of said committee, as members
of the General Assembly, the gross sun
eight hundred and ninty-two dollars
and forty two cents, and
For the payment of balances due on
account of similar expenses incurred by
the joint committee appointed at the
aforesaid1tfme, to investigate the trans
actions and expenditures about the New
State House, the Penitentiary, the three
Lunatic Asylums, and the Blind and
Deaf and Dumb Asylums inclusive of
he per diem allowance to the members.
Of said committee, one thousand seven
hundred and ffty-seren dollars and
cents.
For paying the balances due on ae-
count of similar expenses incurred by
joint committee appointed at the
date to investigate the transactions
of public agents 10 regard to the custo
dy and disbursement of public moneys,
including the per diem allowance to the
members of said committee, the sum of
two hundred and eighty-three dollars
and sixty cents.
Sec. 6. The several appropriations
made in the next preceding section shall
be held to be in addition TO the appro-
priations heretafore. made for the same
purposes, and as authorizing the pay
of the money therein appropriated
addition to the money heretofore
lrawn from the treasury on the war
of the Auditor of State, whether
,he Auditor shall have constructed the
lcts making such former appropriations
correctly or not. And all warrants for
he payment of money appropriated by
The said preceding section, shall be pre-
Heated on the certificates of the Chair.
nan of the committee by which the ex-
pense was incurred.
SEC. Z. This act shall take effect and
in force from and after its passage.
N. H. VAN voorhees,,
Speaker Of the House of Reps.
THOMAS Ell. FORD,