Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-09
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- MESSAGES. -
A message from the Senate announced |
the passage of Senate bill supplementary |
TO an act entitled an act to provide for the |
creation and regulation of incorporated
companies in the State of Ohio, passed May
l, 1852. Read the first time.
Also, Senate bill to exempt from levy and
SAFE upon execution certain articles named,
and to repeal an act passed March 20, 1867.
Read the first time.
Also, ) nate bill to amend section six of
an act passed APRIL 13, 1865. amendatory
to acts providing for the election of prose-
cutting attorneys and prescribing their du-
ties. Read the first time.
Also, Senate bill supplementary to an act
to regulate the election of State and county
offices, passed May 3, 1852. Read the first
time.
Also, Senate bill to amend section seven
of an act establishing boards of county
commissioners and prescribing their du-
ties, passed March IL, 1865. Read the first
time. sd
| Also, Senate bill to amend section 592 of
the code of civil procedure. Read the first
time.
| Also, Senate bill to change tn, sub 'ivis-
ions in the second judicial district, and to
provide for the election of an additional
|
first time.
Also, Senate bill to amend an act entitled
| an act to incorporate safe deposit compan-
les, and supplementary to the act to pro-
vide for the creation and regulation of in
| corporated companies in the State of Ohio,
passed May l, 1852. Read the first time.
| Also, Senate bill to amend the code of
civil procedure in reference to the replevin
of property, and to repeal sections 179 1S3
| and 1S4 of said code as amended April Is,
1867. Read the first time.
RESOLUTION
| Mr.. STICKNEY offered the following
| joint resolution: ~
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United
States by an act passed July 2, 1862 entitled
IAN act donating public lands to the sew
eral States and territories which may pro-
| vide colleges for the benefit of agriculture
and the arts" donated to the State OF Ohio
land script, and
WHEREAS, The General Assembly OF
Ohio, by an act passed February 8, 1864
accepted said donation, subject to all, the
conditions and provisions contained in said
act, and pledged the faith of the State OF
Ohio, to the performance of all such condi-
tions and provisions, and n
WHEREAS, The State of Ohio has received
from the United States land scrip for the
purpose of establishing an agricultural
college or colleges in said State, and
Il WHEREAS, The said land scrip has been
sold, and there is now in the State Treas.
ury, to the credit of the agricultural col.
lege fund the sum of $342, ,450 80, and
WHEREAS, One of the provisions of tn.
! act of Congress making such donation, re-
quires each State which may claim the
benefit of said act, to provide not less than
one College where thu leading object shall
be, without excluding other scientific aut
classical studies, and including military
b | fn fooo hro oh "a
as are related to agricultural and mechanic
!. arts, in such manner as the Legislatures o
the States may respectfully prescribe, in
order to promote the liberal and practica
education of the industrial classes in tn,
several pursuits and professions in life
! and = 5
WHEREAS, The time for providing suci
college OF colleges will expire on the q
day of July, 1872, at which time, unles
such college or colleges are provided, tn,
! grant to the State of Ohio will cease ant
said State will be bound to pay the United
States the amount SO received; therefore
be it
> Resolued, 1. That it is important for tn,
General Assembly of Ohio to take imme
diate steps to provide one college for tn,
objects and purposes aforesaid.
2. That to this end joint committee o
the Senate and House OF Representatives
consisting of three on the part OF the Sen
ate, and six on the part of the House, b.
appointed, with authority to receive prop
ositions for sites for the location of suci
college, and examine the same; also, propo
sitions tor experimental farms, and pro
posas of donations of such sites and farms
and also donations toward the erection O
suitable college buildings.
8. That the said committee shall have au
thorivk to meet for the transaction of bust
ness during any adjournment of the Gen
eral Assembly at such time and place a
the committee may agree upon.
a. That the said committee shall repor
, at as early day as possible, by bill o
otherwise. 1
On motion of Mr.. SHERWIN, the reso
luton was SO amended as to make the Sen
ate committee four and the House commit
tee eight, and, the resolution as amended
was adopted-yeas77 ~, nays 6.
COMMITTEE REPORT.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, from the Judiciar,
!. committee, to whom was referred Hous
bill to repeal an act to provide the device
of the great seal ard coat-of-arms of tn
, State OF Ohio, reported the same back, re
commencing its indefinite postponement
The question being on postponing,
Mr.. LEETE said he was opposed to tn
report of the standing committee on tn
Judiciary to indefinitely postpone his bill
for repeal of the acts of 1865 and 1867
fixing the devices and changing the Stat
seals.
He said that there was no good reason
for changing the seal; that its devices wer
known throughout the entire country
that the seal first used should continue s.
long as Ohio was State of the Fedora
Republic.
That the new seal contains device thai
CRATES harshly upon the ears of a Demo
cratic people, Imperiuna in Inperio,"
now burned into the broad forehead of tn
+ State. 1t is maxim imported from Im
/ perial Rome. and has its place in the calen
dar of Republican people.
Besides, it is gross imposition upon tn
Notaries Public, all OF whom will be com
f PEELED to purchase new seals the 1st o
+ April next, unless this bill shall be passed
The report was laid on the table.
Recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The SPEAKER laid before the House
: communication from the Secretary of Stat
: in response to 81. r. No., concerning ex
: penditures OF his office for the last year
: which was laid on the table and ordered t.
; be printed.
Mr.. RUKENBROD offered the followin,
resolution, which was adopted:
II WHEREAS, The present tax law require
money and credits on hand to be returned
for taxation on certain day (first Monda,
in April,) and -
WHEREAS, 1t is claimed that many per
sons prepare for this tax return by invest
ing their moneys temporarily in Govern.
ment bonds, and as soon as their returns
are made, re-convert their securities int
r money, thereby greatly diminishing th'
amount of personal property returnabl,
for taxation at such time as the assessor i
required to list the same, therefore, -
Rssotued, That the standing committe,