Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-05-13

in the sale of such lands not under per
manent leases, or leases for ninety nine
years.
SEC. 3. Section fifteen of an act emit
tied can act to regulate The sale of school
lands, and the surrender of permanent
leases thereto" be, and the same is here
by repealed.
Sec. This act shall take efTec; from
and after its passage.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD.
President of the Senate.
April Sd, 1857.
No. 78] AN ACT
Making special appropriations for the year
1857.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gener
al 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 hundred and eight dollars;
For the payment of cost and witness
fees incurred by the committee on the
peniten!iary in investigating the COM
plant against Doctor J. B. Dawson, un-
der resolution of the House, the sum Of
fifty dollars and twenty cents;
For paying balances for furniture and
labor in furnishing legislative halls, COM
miltee rooms, executive Offices, supreme
court rooms, and other apartments in the
State House, 10 addition TO the mount
heretofore appropriated, snd to be paid
under the same restriction, the sum Of
ten thousand eight hundred eigkty-eight
dollars and sixty-eight cents;
For the payment of taxes refunded
where erroueousiy charged and collected.
twenty Eve thousand dollars;
For the payment of mileage Of county
treasurers. sixteen hundred dollars;
SEC. 9. For balance due on contract
for deepening and widening the Lancas
ter side cut, out Of the canal fund. eleven
thousand two hundred and ninety five
dollars and fourteen cents. And to com
plete the Lancaster side cut, he sum Of
seven thousand FIVE hundred dollars:
Provided, that if, upon careful examina-
ton Of the subject, by the Board of Pub
lie Works, it is found that no contract
exists for the completion of this work, the
money hereby appropriated shall not be
expended until ther. IS new letting Of
The work.
SEC. 3 For Tie payment Of Hilliard
Hays Il Co, for account rendered
against the Northern Lunalic Asylum
in 1856. the sum of two hundred seventy
nine dollars and three cents.
For the payment of Richard RiUrdan
Messenger of the Supreme Court, Dec.
Term 1856. the sum of one hundred and
sixty four dollars.
For the payment Of rent, gas light de-,
for rooms OF Clerk of the Senate after the
adjournment in 1856, forty seven dollars
and twelve cents.
For the payment of the Clerk Of the
House and Senate for making out a list
of the conditions of all bills pending in
at the time Of adjournment 10
April last, to each the sum of forty dol
lars (being ten days per diem
SEC f. For Superintendent and re-
pairs on section number three, Ohio Can
ais, thirty seven thousand seven hundred
dollars; and for the payment Of engineers.
special superintendents, attorneys fe es
and incidental expenses, two thousand
dolla S.
For prosecuting the work on the Slate
thousand dollars.
For enlarging the canal cn the frs:
level below the city of Dayton, FIVE thou
sand dollars.
For the purchase ofthree hundred and
fifv copies of the Reports of the decis-
ions of the Supreme Court, published in
1856. under the act of April IA, 1855. at
one dollar and sixty cents per volume, FIVE
hundred and sixty dollars.
SEC. 5. For paying balance due on ac-
count Of expenses incurred by the joint
OF the General Assembly ap-
pointed on the eleventh day Of April last. |
10 investigate the transactions and ex
penditures of the Board Of Public Works, |
for services Of various persons employed |
by said committee, travelling and other
incidental expenses, including the per d.
em allowance to the numbers of said l
as members of the General
Assembly. the gross sum of eight hun
ired and ninety-two dollars aud forty
TWO cents; and,
For the payment of balances due on
account Of similar expenses incurred by
he joint committee appointed at the
Aforesaid time. to investigate the trans
actions and expenditures about the New
State House, the Penitentiary, the three
Lunatic Asylums, and the Bind and
Deaf and Dumb Asylums, inclusive of
he per diem allowance t. the members
If said committee. one thousand seven
hundred aud fifty seven dollars and nine
y-nine cents.
For paying the balances due on ac-
ount Of similar expenses incurred by the
oint committee appointed at the same
late to investigate the transactions Of
'ublic agents in regard 10 the custody
nd disbursement Of public moneys, in
luding the per diem allowance to the
members of said committee, the sum OF
wo hundred and eighty three dollars
nd sixty cents.
SEC. Z. The several appropriations
lade in the next preceding section shall I