CHAPTER X.

An act supplementary to "the act authorising the secretary, audi tor and treasurer, to contract for the printing and distribution of the laws and journals, and for other purposes."

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Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That all printing, for the use of the General Assembly, shall hereafter be executed in manner following, that is to say: the laws shall be printed with a neat small pica type, each page there of shall be forty eight lines long, including head and foot lines, and twenty five M's wide, so as to contain twelve hundred M's-The journals shall be printed with a neat long primer type, each page thereof shall be fifty two lines long, including head and foot lines, and twenty nine M's wide, so as to contain, as near as may be, fifteen hundred M's-The governor's communications, auditor's and treasurer's reports, and all extra printing, other than bills, with the exception only of such tabular work as may not admit of it, shall be printed with a type of the same size, and contain precisely as much matter in cach page. as the journals-The bills shall be printed with a neat pica type, each page shall contain twenty four lines of solid mater of the usual length, with at least a pica blank between each line.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all proposals for executing the printing aforesaid, shall explicitly designate the price which will be required for the composition of each page of the laws, journals, bills, and extra printing, together with the additional charge, if any, for each page of rule and figure work, which may be contained within the same: and also, the price per token of one hundred and twenty five sheets

of sixteeen pages, for the press work of said laws, journals, and extra printing, as well as for the press work of each form of two pages, for any number of bills which may be required, not exceeding two hundred and fifty.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That for each item of the printing aforesaid, separate proposals shall be required, which, after being sealed up, and directed on the outside, "Proposals for printing the Laws," (or the journals, bills or other extra work, as the case may be,) must be forwarded to the public officers who shall decide thereon agreably to the pro visions of the act to which this is a supplement.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any prin ter, who may be employed in executing any part of the printing aforesaid, shall commit any error in the same, by which the sense or meaning may be altered, he shall forfeit to the state double the amount of the compensation to which he may have been entitled, for the composition and press work of such law, or for the composition and press work of a whole sheet of the journal, (as the case may be,) in which such error may be found: Provided, That no printer as aforesaid shall be deemed accountable for any error which may have originated in the copy furnished him by the clerks of the general assembly, or by the secretary of state: Provided also, That where in cons sequence of directions from the General Assembly, the work may be performed in a manner vari ant from the original contract, no extra allowance shall be made therefor, except by resolution of the General Assembly.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives, ALLEN TRIMBLE,

CHAPTER XI.

An act supplementary to an act to establish certain roads passert, February 26, 1820.

Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly, that the above recited act contains a provision for the laying out and establishing a state road from Old Town, in the county of Ross, on the nearest and best ground to Christian Benner's forge on Paint creek, and from thence to Bainbridge in the aforesaid county; and whereas no commissioner has yet been appointed to carry into effect the provisions aforesaid. Therefore,

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That John Clouser and Christian Benner, or either of them, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of laying out, making, and opening, said road, (at least forty feet wide.) The above mentioned road shall hereafter be considered a public highway.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the road commissioners to return to the clerk of the commissioners of the county, an accurate map and field notes of the survey of such road; and it shall be the duty of the clerk aforesaid, to record the same.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That before the road commissioners proceed to the discharge of their duty, enjoined on them by this act, they shall, before some justice of the peace, take an oath or affirmation, faithfully to perform their duty as road commissioners; and shall moreover govern themselves by the provisions of the act to which this is supplementary, JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives. ALLEN TRIMBLE,

December 29, 1820.

Speaker of the senate.

CHAPTER XII.

Anact making a temporary appropriation of money for certain purposes.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That there shall be the further sum of three thousand dollars appropriated for the pur pose of discharging the debts contracted by the keeper of the penitentiary, and for the use of said institution, during the year eighteen hundred and twenty.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the members and officers of the present General Assembly, in part of their wages for the present session, on the certificate of the speaker of their respective houses; and the auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to issue bills, payable at the treasury of state, to the amount of said certificates.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying the extra salary of the president judge for the third circuit, for holding courts in the counties of Wood and Sandusky; and that the further sum of two hundred dollars be appropriated to make up any deficiency of former appropriations for the payment of the officers of government, supreme judges, and presidents of courts of common pleas.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand dollars be appropriated as a fund for the auditor of state, to enable him to refund money when the taxes on land have been twice or improperly charged and paid.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, thar a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars be appropriated for the payment of paper furnished the

legislature, and for printing the laws and jour nals of the present session, to be settled by the secfetary, treasurer and auditor, agreeably to contract.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON,

Speaker of the house of representatives.
ALLEN TRIMBLE,

December 29, 1820.

Speaker of the senate.

CHAPTER XIII,

An act, respecting a canal, at the falls of the river Ohio..

Whereas much difficulty has arisen in determining satifactorily, which side of the river Ohio at the falls, affords the greatest natural advantages for a canal: and whereas it is important that the state should have satisfactory information on this subject, from some skillful and experienced engineer, before she embarks her means in aid of a canal on either side. Therefore.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the Governor of this state be authorised to employ a skilful and practical engineer, to examine the sitution of the ground, on the line of the proposed canals, on each side of the Ohio river at its falls, and to make an accurate survey and estimate of the cost of making a permanent canal, on each side of said falls, with a detailed statement, of the advantages and disadvantages of each side of said falls, with reference to the comparative permanancy, utility, and safety, of said proposed canals.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Governor to lay before the next General Assembly of this state, the report of the said engi