has been performed, and if the whole labor is not performed within the time prescribed, the party shall nevertheless have credit for the amount of labor actually performed; and if such labor shall not be performed within the time limited, it shall be the duty of the clerk to issue an execution (without a precipie filed) for the fine and costs.

Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That all persons convicted of any offences specified in this act, or in the act to which this is supplementary, and sentenced to imprisonment, may during such imprisonment be put at hard labor in such manner as any two judges of the court of common pleas may direct, and for the performance of such labor may be taken from the jail, and so secured as to prevent an escape, and the produce of such labor shall be paid into the county treasury.

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That all fines assessed under the provisions of this act, when collected in money, shall be paid into the county treasury.

- This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of June next.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Speaker of the house of representatives ALLEN TRIMBLE

February 2, 1821,

Speaker of the senate.

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved,by the General Assembly of the state. of Ohi, That John Abbott be appointed commissione to lay out and expend fifty dollars on the road leading from the head of White Eyes' creek to Tenis Elson's in Muskingum county, in place of Gordon Dennison, appointed by the last General Assembly of this state, who has failed to lay out and expend said sum of money in pursuance of the act for the further appropriation ofthe three per cent fund, &c." on the said Abbot giving bond and security according to law.

December 14, 1820.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That Isaac Moore is hereby appointed road. commissioner, on the Captina road, from Thomas Smith's to the mouth of Captina creek, in Belmont county, on which one hundred dollars was appropriated on the 26th day of February 1820.

December 16 1820.

The General Assembly of the state of Ohio, have seen with great satisfaction, not only the re-. commendation of the president of the United States, but also the lenient and equitable measures suggested by the secretary of the treasury in his report of the fourth of December 1820. Therefore.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in. congress, be requested to use their utmost endeavors to procure the passage of a law for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, containing in substance the relief contemplated in the annual report of the

secretary ofthe treasury on the 4th day of December, 1820.

Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to forward one copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of our senaturs and representatives in congress.

December 21, 1820.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the clerk of the circuit and district courts of the United States, be, and he is herehereby authorised to occupy the north room upon the second floor of the public offices, as a clerk's office for the said circuit and district courts. December 20, 1820.

REPORT.

The committee, to whom, was referred so much of the governor's message, as relates to the roads contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown, have had the same under consideration, and have collected all the information on that subject within their reach; and find, that on the 26th of January last, a select committee was appointed in the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, to enquire whether any, and if any, what further provisions were necessary, to give.. effect to the provisions of the treaty of Browstown, in the ter ritory of Michigan. That to that committee, the resolution on that subject, passed by the General Assembly of this state, at their last session, was refer red together with other documents on the same. subject. That that committee, on the 12th day of May last, made a long and elaborate report, accompanied by a resolution, which resolution the committee have thought proper to transcribe, and make a part of this report, which is as follows, viz: Resolved, That the committee on roads and canals be instructed to bring in a bill, to authorise the secretary of the treasury

to contract with any person or persons, to construct a permanent and suitable road to extend from the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the Lake, to the western line of the Connecticut Western Reserve, according to the plan contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown; and on such route passing. through the Reserve (so called) at Lower Sandusky, as the president may direct, in consideration of the whole of the tracts on each side of the contemplated road, which were granted by the treaty of Brownstown, or so much thereof, as in the opinion of the secretary of treasury, may be adequate to the objcet. And in which bill shall also be inserted, among other things, a provision or provisions, that the person or persons so contracted with, do complete the said road within a reasonable time in said bill to be limited: That such person or `persons do stipulate to keep said road in good repair for and during a number of years, to be in said bill defined; and also that the person or persons so contracted with do also give bond, with sufficient sureties, for the faithful performance of his or their contract; and also a provision, defining the time and manner in which the title to said land may be conveyed.

The committee from an examination of the re

port and resolution above alluded to, are of opinion, that the plan contemplated therein is the best, under existing circumstances, than can be devised. The committee would, therefore, recommend the adoption of the following resolution:

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That they do concur in the aforementioned report made; and resolution reported to the congress of the United States: And that our senators and representatives in congress be requested to use their best endeavors to procure the passage of the law contemplated thereby.

Resolved further, That the governor of this state be, and he is hereby requested, to send a copy of the foregoing report and resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress.

December 26, 1320.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That the auditor of state is hereby authorised to receive the taxes for the year 1820, on residents', and non residents' land without penalty until the 15th day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty one.

January 1, 1821.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That John Pinkerton of Preble county, Francis Dunlavy of Warren county, and Henry Weaver of Butler county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to fix the permanent seat of jus tice in the county of Brown.

January 29, 1821.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio, That our senators and representatives in congress be requested to use their exertions to procure the passage of a law granting and allowing out of the United States' lands, lying within this state now unlocated, and to which the Indian title has been recently extinguished, so much lands for the use of schools in that part of the state known by the "Connecticut Reserve," as shall, with such lands as have heretofore been granted, amount to one thirty sixth part of the land on said reserve.

Resloved, That the Goververnor be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of our senators and representatives in congress.

January 1. 1821.

Whereas it appears from a resolution passed Feb. ruary 6th 1820, for the appointment of certain road commissioners, for locating and laying out state roads; and whereas it appears by said resolution,