working plans, details, specifications and estimates required by law, and have submitted the same for approval of this legislature; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the said plans, drawings, details, specifications and estimates be and the same are hereby approved, with privilege to correct or modify the schedule of esti. mates at any time before contracts be given out for said work: Provided, that such change do not increase the aggregate amount. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 10, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the construction of chutes over dams built by the state. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works, or the resident engineer of said board, be required to report to this general assembly, as soon as practicable, an estimate of the probable expense of erecting chutes or passage ways for fish over the state dams, as provided for by an act passed January 31, 1871, (O. L., vol. 68, page 16.) CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 12, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the city council of the city of Chillicothe to change the location of the waste weir of the Ohio Canal at said city. WHEREAS, The city of Chillicothe, by action of its council, has decided that the general health of that city will be promoted by shutting all water out of what is known as the "old bed of the Scioto river;" and WHEREAS, There is now a waste weir which wastes the water of the canal into said "old bed," which can be changed to a point in the immediate locality without detriment to the canal; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the city council of the city of Chillicothe be and it is hereby authorized to cause the waste wier which now discharges the waste water from the Ohio canal into the "old bed," in that city, to be closed up, and a new wier to be opened at a point which shall answer all the purposes of the present wier; the expense of making such change shall be borne by the city of Chillicothe; the work to be done under the charge of the city civil engineer of said city, and to be acceptable to the engineer of the board of public works. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. Adopted April 17, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Opposing a reduction of the tariff on imported wool. WHEREAS, a strong effort is being made by the manufacturing interest of the United States to influence Congress to greatly reduce the duty on foreign wools; and WHEREAS, the state of Ohio is largely interested in the raising of sheep and wool; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in congress of the United States be requested to use their influence to defeat said proposed reduction, or any reduction whatever, of duty on foreign wools. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the above preamble and resolution to each of our senators and representatives in congress. N. H. VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 17, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara within the territory of the United States. WHEREAS, a commercial convention of business and other representative men, from different portions of the country, both east and west, was held at Detroit, in the state of Michigan, on the 13th day of December last, to take into consideration the practicability of reducing the rates and cost of transportation between the agricultural states of the west, and the eastern and European markets, by opening up continuous steam navigation by way of the northern lakes and river St. Lawrence to the Atlantic ocean; and WHEREAS, the convention adopted resolutions requesting Congress to assist in that enterprise, by making an appropriation adequate to the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara, on the American side thereof; and WHEREAS, this proposition of opening up new and competing lines of transit between the west and east, through those great water channels of the continent, thereby reducing very materially the cost of moving the vast agricultural and other products of the west to the markets of the world, has received the direct sanction of the legislatures of most of the western states and territories, and more especially of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, as also of several of the New England states, thereby most incontestably proving that the people of the whole country are making earnest and efficient efforts to secure greater and cheaper means and facilities of transportation between the two sections of our country; and WHEREAS, the people of Ohio have ever taken a deep and abiding interest in all questions and enterprises, the object of which have been to open up, extend and perfect the means and facilities of inter communication between the different sections and portions our of country, thereby materially reducing the cost of transit on her immense and varied industry; therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our senators. and representatives in congress be, and they are hereby requested to give their earnest attention to this subject, and if in their judgment it should appear to be feasible and to subserve the purpose sought to be secured, (to wit: cheap transportation) to urge upon congress that such aid be granted to the enterprise, by the general government, as shall secure the speedy construction of the aforesaid ship canal. Resolved, that duly authenticated copies of this memorial and resolutions, be transmitted by the secretary of state to each of our senators and representatives in congress, also to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, with request that they lay them before their respective houses. N. H. VAN VORHES, Adopted April 17, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the adjournment of the General Assembly April 29, 1872. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That this general assembly adjourn on Monday, the 29th day of April, 1872, at 10 o'clock A. M., to convene on Thursday, January 2d, 1873, at 2 o'clock P. M. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 19, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the loss of the reports of the Geological Survey of 1870. WHEREAS, It has been ascertained by a select committee of the house, that eight hundred and sixty copies of the geological reports for 1870, are accounted for as missing; and WHEREAS, There exists a large deficiency in the number of copies of said report, designed for the use of the senate, involving a total loss of over one thousand copies; and WHEREAS, The people of the state have a direct interest in the enforcement of a fair distribution of the public documents; therefore, Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a joint special committee, to consist of three upon the part of the house and two upon the part of the senate, shall be appointed, with power to send for persons and papers, and it shall be the duty of said committee to ascertain if possible, the party or parties by whom the aforesaid missing volumes. have been taken, and to procure the return of said missing reports, or the value thereof, to the state, and report at as early a day as practicable, said report to suggest what legislation, if any, is needful to prevent the recurrence of losses of a similar character hereafter. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 20, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to a claim of Conrad Norbach. WHEREAS, One Conrad Norbach claims that he was the owner and master of a canal boat named P. DeHart, used in the navigation of the Miami and Erie canal, and that whilst navigating the said canal, in the month of August, A. D. 1860, he ran upon a sunken rock at the foot of the Providence slack water, on the canal, in what is called the neck, leading from the main slack water into the canal, and sunk said boat, which at the time was loaded with wheat; therefore, Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of public works, be, and it is hereby authorized, to investigate and determine the amount of damage, if any, to which said Norbach may be entitled by reason of such sinking, and report the same to the adjourned session of the general assembly, with such recommendation as it may deem proper. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 20, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to investigating the cause of fire in the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture. WHEREAS, On the 27th day of March, 1872, a fire occurred in the rooms of the state board of agriculture, destroying a portion of the paper there, and WHEREAS, There are vain reports as to the origin of said fire; there fore, Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of three on the part of the house, and two on the part of the senate, be appointed to investigate the cause of said fire, and report at the earliest day possible. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. Adopted April 20, 1872. President of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the printing of the report of the commissioners appointed to examine the public works of the state. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there be printed for the use of this general assembly, one thousand copies of the report of the commissioners appointed to examine the public works of the state of Ohio, including the testimony taken on such examination; also two hundred and forty advance copies of the report alone, for the use of the general assembly. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, President of the Senate. Adopted April 20, 1872. JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to attending the funeral of the late Hon. R. D. IIarrison. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a joint committee of five on the part of the house, and three on the part of the senate, be appointed to make suitable arrangements for the attendance of this general assembly on the funeral of the late Hon. R. D. Harrison. CHARLES H. BABCOCK, Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. JACOB MUELLER, Adopted April 25, 1872. 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