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AMENDMENT NO. 4.

Resolued By the General assembly Q te State
of Ohio, Three-ifths of the members elected
to each House concurring therein, That it be
and hereby is proposed TO the elt ctors of the
State, on the second Tuesday of October next,
to approve or reject the following amendment
as a substitute for the first and second sections
of the thirteenth article of the Constitution.
Viz: Corporations of every description shall
be created, and corporate powers granted only
by general laws which shall define the powers,
privileges and immnnities, and prescribe the
duties and liabilities of each class or descrip-
tions of corporations, but the General Assem-
bly, may enact special laws for the relief of
corporations in peculiar cases, and may make
special provisions in regard to corporations in
eases where from their peculiar location or in
~aterests such special provisions are required,
and may from time to time alter or repeal all
such laws, as are authorized by this section.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.
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to each House concurring therein, that it be,
and hereby is proposed to the electors of this
State to vote, on the second Tuesday of Octo-
Der next, upon the approval or rejection of the
following amendment as an additional section
to article eleven of the Constitution. Every
county which now is, or may hereafter be emit
tied to more than one Senator, or Representa-
tive for the residue of the present decennial
period, or for all, or any portion of any subse-
quent decennial period, shall be divided into as
many Senatorial and Representative districts
as there may be Senators or Representatives
elective in any year of the present, or any sub
sequent decennial period, which districts shall
be of contiguous territory, and each district
shall contain as nearly a ratio for Senator or
Representative as is attainable, without violat-
ing the rule herein given as to contiguity of
territory, and without dividing any township,
election precinct, or ward. If any Represen-
tative, or Senatorial district, composed of two
or more counties shall by reason of any excess
of population over a ratio, be entitled to adj
ditional Representatives or Senators for any
portion of the presenter any subsequent de-
cennial period, the district shall be divided into
two districts, for each portion of such decen-
NAL period, which shall be contiguous territory,
and each shall contain as near a ratio as is at
tainable without dividing counties.
If by reason of the annexation of one Sena-
terial district to another, there shall be any
excess of population over a Senatorial ratio,
which shall be entitled to additional Senatorial
Representation for any portion of any decen-
NAL period, each district, as now constituted,
shall elect one Senator.
Counties shall be divided into districts by
the County Commissioners or such other board
of officers elective and resident in the proper
county as may be provided by law. At least
four months prior to the general election in
1858, the counties entitled to more than one
member of either house shall be divided into
districts for the residue of the present decen-
NAL period, and at least four months prior to
the general election in the first gear of each
subsequent decennial period, the counties enti-
tied to more than one member for all, or any
portion of such decennial period, in either or
both houses, shall be divided into districts for
the whole of the decennial period. A descrip-
ton of the district of each county shall be
published as may be directed by the County
Commissioners or as may be prescribed by law.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the Houseo Of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.
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Cornells Biographies.

TNHE series recommended blythe teachers of
i Monroe County, at their last association,
and decidedly the best series published-for
sale by the undersigned, who respectfully in
vites the attention of parents, teachers, and
T" Boards of Education" to the sterling merits
of this series, and its many excellent features
not found in other School Biographies.
Liberal arrangementsswill be made for first
introduction.
Merchants having on hand "Mitchell's Sc
ries," can exchange them for CorneH-s, at
wholesale prices.
Teachers and others are requested to cor
respond. WILLIAM WHEELER, ~
Agent for Monroe county.
WoopsF1ELp, Dec. 5, 1856. If.
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LrArHEn .CHEApra.-A little while

LEATHER CHEAPER. little while
ego We were startled at the rapidrise in
leather, (which advanced about 40 per
cent. in the space Of nine months. Now
the boot is on the other leg. The raw
meterial has fal.eh. It dropped down
about 25 per scent in the lastsfew weeks,
and the dealers in the Swamp are ex-
ceedrpgIy anxious about prices. There
is no telling how it. will end. Notwith-
standing the eIate fluctuations in this
branch Of trade, however, we hear of very
few who have succumbed. The dealers in
the Swamp thus far stand firm.
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School! school!.

THE undersigned will teach a sELEcT ScHooL
L in the town of W~OODSFEELD, Monroe coun-
ty, Ohio, for the term of TEN WEEKS, COM
mencing on
The Oath day of August, 1857.
Great pains will be taken to render the
School both pleasing and profitable to those
who may attend.
1horoughness i'll the branches studied, will
be the constant aim of the teacher.
Special attention will be paid to those desir-
ing to qualify themselves for teaching.
Black board exercises, in the various branches
viii form a matter of particular study; and the
best method of teaching will form important
subjects for discussion.
Regular lectures upon the "Theory and
Practice" of teaching, will be delivered to the
class.
TERMS:
Common Branches. 500. 81 90 per scholar.
Analysis of English SEMI
tence, Philosophy, 1st pit.
Algebra, Elementary Ge-
ometry and Book-Keep-
ing 80 w "
Higher Algebra, Geometry,
Trigonometry, Survey
ing, Astronomy, Chem
istry, &c.,........ Sc 90 " 10 Is
a. For further particulars inquire of the
undersigned. WILLIAM WHEELER,
Mrs. AGNES WHEELER.
WooDsFIELp, March Is, ls57.-1f.
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LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

AZ ACT,
70 amend section fourteen of an act entitled
Gan act providing for the Punishment of
Cyimes,o PASSED March Z, 1885.
SECTION j. Be It enacted By the General is
sembiy of tae State Of Ohio, That section four
teen Of an act entitled San act providing for the
punishment Of crimes = passed March seventh
eighteen handred and thirty-iye, be amended
30 as to read as follows: Section II. That if
any person shall, iu,the night season, ~wilfully,
fnaliciously, AMI forcibiy break and enter into
amy dwelling house, kitcfen, smoke house,
shop, office, store-house, ware house, malt
house, still house, mil, pottery, factory, water
craft, school house, church or meeting house,
barn or stable, with intent to kill, rob, COM
hit a rape, or with intent to steal property OF
any value, or to commit a y d led mace Grim
inai by this act, or the act to which this is
amendatory; every person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of burglary, and upon convic-
ton thereof, shall be imprisone1 i'll the pen:-
tentiary, and kept at hard labor not more than
ten, nor ess than one year.
Ssc. 2. That the original section fourteen
of the act aforesaid be and the same is hereby
repealed. s%r
- N. H. VAN WORRIES,
SpeaLsrof the House Of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD.
April ST. 1857.
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In the Court of Common Pleas
of Monroe County Ohio.
CIVIL LECTION.
Frederick A: Lamping, }

Frederick A: Lamping, TIME said Peter Pal
VS.. i mel, Ii is nota
Peter Palmer. resident of the State
of Ohio, will take notice that or the 18th day
of February, A. D.. 1857, Frederick a.. Lamp
ing, fled in the Court of Common Pleas of
Monroe county, Ohio, his petition against the
said Peter Palmer and others; the object and
prayer of which said petition is to obtain sat-
~isfaction of a judgment in favor of said Lamp
ing, against said Palmer, rendered by Moses
Markly on the Sd day of Jan. 1852, for fifty
nine dollars and eleven hundredths of a dollar,
with costs. The said Lamping asks in his said
petition for an order to sell the south west
quarter of the south east quarter of section
number nineteen, township four, and range six,
in said county of Monroe, in which lands said
petition charges said Palmer has an equitable
interest. Said Peter Palmer will therefore
appear at the june term of said Court, and an
swer or demur to said petition, or the same
will be taken as confessed, and q Judgment
accordingly.
HoLLIsrER, oKRY & HoLLIsrER,
April 20, 1857. Att'ys for Plaintiff.
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: Tavern Stand for Sale.

THE subscriber offers for sale his TAVERN
i STAND, at a bargain, for cash, or in exchange
forland in this county or in the West. Said
property is situated in the
VILLAGE OF GRAND TEW,
in Washington county, on the Ohio river. It
consists of two lots sc by 100 feet, two new
frame houses, two stories high, finished off in
ten rooms; together with a large and commo-
dious stable.
do well to call and examine this property be-
fore purchasing elsewhere, as am determined
to sell.
EgT For further particulars inquire of the
subscriber on the premises. 7
WILLIAM w. ROSE.
Feb. 4, 1s57.-6m.
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Any ACT.
For the punishment of the crime of malicious
1vsdestroyinc property,

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For the punishment of the crime Of malicious
Z, lyedestroyins property.
SEc7lox 4 Be it enacted by the GeneraL-As.
= sem5fy d Tie State Of Ohio, That if any per-
son shall willfuliy and maliciously destroy or
ipiure tothe amoent of enc hundred dollars,
any personal property of airy description what
soever, or any building or other structure upon
1andsof any kind whatsoever, owned by any
other person or persons, corporation or asso-
citation of persons, every person so offending
hall be aeemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upoa conviction thereof, shall be punished by
confinement in the penitent.aiy and kept at
hara 1alor forsany period not less than one
nor more than three years; and moreover be
liable to the partyinjured in double the amount
Of lama ses sustained thereby.
Sec. p. That il any person shall wilfully
ard maliciousIy destroy or injure toan amount
less than one hundred dollars and more than
: fye;aollars, any personal property of any de-
scription whatsoever, or any building or other
structure of any kind, owned by any other per-
son, every person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of.a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be imprisoned in the Jail of the
proper county not less than ten, nor more than
thiftySdays, and shall moreover be fined in
double the amount of the damages to the prof.
erty injured or destroyed.
8. That all prosecutions under this
act shall be by Indictment in the Court of
Common Pleas of the proper county; and this
act shah be in force from and after its passage.
r. N. H. VAN WORRIES,
~ Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
~ President Of the Senate.
April 18th, 1857. AZ
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AN ACT,

Furtherst to preservethe purity of elections.
aSEc1aos L. Be it enacted By The General ds-
sszs6lye Of he Stale of Ohio, That every person
who, on cath or Affirmation, in or before any
court within this State, or oficerauthorized to
administer oaths, shall, to procure or acquire
the right to vote therein, for himself or any
ether person, w%illfully and corruptly depose,
azRrna or ieckare any matter to be fact, knowing
the same to be false; or shall, Unlike manner,
deny any matter to be fact, knowing the same
to be true, every person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction
thereof'shsllsbe imprisonedin the penitentlary
and kept at hard labor, not more than five nor
less than one year.. This act shall apply to
allproceedings to procure any papersor papers
Of STANDARDIZATION, and every such willful and
corrupt falsehood, deposed, affirmed, or declar-
ed, on oath or afifmation, in'the manner be-
FORE stated, in any such proceedings, shall be
held and taken to have been made to procure
and acquire the rightto vote within thisS State.
THIS act to take effect from its passage.
AEhs N. II. VAN WORRIES.
sss Speaker ef the. House Of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD,
a. Presideat Of the Senate.
Dated April 81, 1857.
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JOINT Resolution Relative to Proposed
Constitution Amendments.

RESOLVED by the General assembly Of the State
Of Ohio, That the Secretary OF State be and
he is hereby instructed to cause the Proposed
Amendments to the Constitution, passed at
the present session, to be published in the
newspaper having the contract for the pub
fishing of the Laws for the State, without de-
lag, and forthwith forward three copies of the
same, together with a copy of this Resolu-
tion.) under his certificate that said copies are
correct, to the Auditor of each county; and the
Auditors respectively, shall Immediately pro-
ceed to contract for the publication of the said
Proposed Amendments in two weekly (English)
and one weekly Germany newspaper, if pub
lishea in the county, till the second Tuesday
of October, 1857; and the publication shall be
paid for out of the county treasury.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives..
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April 4th, 1857
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Examination of Teachers.

tufts MERCANTILE COLLEGE
and Burlington, Iowa.
Founded in 1910, and incorporated by the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, with perpetual
Charter.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
His Excellency the Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN,
President elect of the United States.
" Moses HAMPTON, Gen. J. X. MooRHEAp
6: w. II. LowRIE,
Faculty at Pittsburgh.
President, P. DUFF, Author of .Duffs Book
keeping" 0The Western Steamboat Account
amt" &C.; Professor of the Principles and Prac-
tice cf Double Entry Bookkeeping.
A. T. HOWDEN, Professor of Mathematics
and adjunct Professor of Bookkeeping
THos. MocARTY, o,a puot...o
THOS. McCABE, paoIaoain~
T. G.. JONES,
J.. C. STOCKTON,
j. D. WILLIAMS, Cthe best business and Or
namental Penman in the United States,) Pro-
fessor of Penmanship.
N. B. HATCH, Esq, Professor of Mercantile
Law and Political Economy.
Hon. Judge SHANNON and Hon. j. NJ. KIRK.
PATRICK, Special Lecturers on Mercantile Law.
Rev. DAVID FERGUSON, A. NJ, Cate Profess
sor of Classics, &C., in Washington College
Professor of Commercial Ethics.
JOHN MURPHY, Teacher of the Art of De-
tecting Counterfeit Bank Notes. (The only
thoroughly qualified teacher of this Art in this
part of the country.)
F. L. APPEL, Prof. of French and German
languages.
Z. OUDRY, Professor of Mechanical and
Architectural Drawing.
PARK BENJAMIN, of New York, and other
equally distinguished literary gentlemen from
eastern cities, will also lecture before the Col
lege during winter.
This is believed to be the only Establish
ment in the Union founded, organized and con
Quoted by a practical Merchant, who, from the
most matured experimental information, has
brought the Accountants and Merchants edu-
cation to a degree of perfection never attained
by the best theoretical teachers.
Upwards of 1000 Students have been edu-
Gated for the Mercantile Professions; and such
has been the recent increase of business that
a large additional Hall and several additional
teachers of Bookkeeping have become neces-
sary for the accommodation of the students.
Students have access to a library of 5000
volumes. - ~
For full particulars send for specimens of
Mr.. WILLIAMS Penlnanship and a circular of
"A pages-mailed free.
DUFFS BOOKKEEPING, PIP. 1872, Royal Oo-
tayo, Harper's edition. Price 81 so; postage
81 cents.
DUFF'S STEAMBOAT BOOKKEEPING
Price 81; postage 8 cents.
E5 To ensure prompt answers, address all
letters respecting the College to the Principal.
For Duff's systems of Bookkeeping or blanks,
address any of the Pittsburgh Booksellers, or
the Publishers, Harper & Brothers, New York.
Jan. Z, 1857. ~ syI
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AupIToR's OFFICE, WoopsrfEID,
Monroe Co, O., June Is, 1857.
eertify that the foregoing laws have been
compared with the laws published by author
styIn the ohioS6fatesman, and found to be cor
feet. JOHN s.. HOLIDAY,
Aud. M. G. o..
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SPRICC HOUSE
WHEELING, VA.
MAC. POLLARD, Proprietor,

49,
THIS new and splendid Hotel has been leased
i for a term of years by the above proprie-
tor, and this day opened for the reception of
the Travelling Public, under the General Super
attendance of J. A. SCOTT, Esq, late Proprie-
tor of the "Stacy House, GAINESVILLE, o., and
from its convenient location, enjoys the great
est advantages over all other Public Houses in
the City. 1t is
SITUATED ON WATER STREET,
at the Steamboat landing, and near the B. O..
and Hempfeld R. r. Depots.
Its whole appointments, in respect to size
and comfort of its rooms-the style and ele-
gance of it's Furniture, and in reference to the
quality of its Tables, the proprietor feels as
sured will compare favorably with the best
regulated Hotels in the country. Attached to
the House is a
BATHING SALOON,
With Large and Airy Rooms, well furnished,
and, provided with all the appliances of HOT,
COLE and SHOWER BATHS.
Ea5 Omnibuses at all times in readiness to
take Passengers to and from the Cars and
Boats.
60 The Offices of the Baltimore & Ohio
and Central Ohio Railroads are next door to
this House.
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SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE,
CoL6MBUs, April 4, 1857.
hereby certify that the foregoing proposed
Constitution amendments are correctly copied
from the original rolls on file in this office.
JAMES H. BAKER,
Secretary of Stale.
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AuDIroR's OFFICE, WoopsFIELp,
Monroe Co., O., April Is, 1857.
I hereby certify that the foregoing proposed
Constitution amendments have been compared
with the amendments published by authority
and found to be correct.
JOHN S. HOLIDAY, Aud. M. C. o.
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NOTICE.

THE undersigned is prepared to locate Land
L Warrants in Iowa. The best selections will
made in the southern part of the State, he
having secured an efficient Agent to make selec-
ions and locate the Warrants. The subscri-
Der fatters himself that he can render entire
satisfaction. Charges reasonable.
May 13, 1857. JOHN B. N0L1. Agent.
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Farm for Sale.

OO1 ACRES within 2 miles of Woodsfcld,
OOl l75 acres under cultivation, about 200
FRUIT TREES, mostly grated, a new Bank
Barn, a GOOD DWELLING and Saw-Mill on
the premises. Said farm is we'll watered.
ALSO
LOT NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR IN JAMES
TOWN.
60 Fer further particulars apply to
]. B. NOLL, Real Estate Agent.
April s, 1857.
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AMENDMENT NO. .

Resotred by the General Assemblyof the State
~ Chic, Thrssz1aohs ii The Asnssrs elected
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Blank Deeds and Justices
Ranks for sale q tthis efics
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MONROE HOUSE.
WooDsFIELD, OHIO.
THOS. K. DAVIS, Proprietor.

TNHE proprietor of the above named well
y known and popular house. begs leave to
remind the public that it still merits and main
tains its old reputation. He has recently made
extensive and costly improvements, and is bet
ter prepared now than ever heretofore to adj
minister to the comfort of his patrons. He,
promises that no Hotel in the town shall give.
better accommodations for the same money.
THOMAS X. DAVIS.
N. B. Especial care taken of horses.
March 26, 1856.