REPORT

OF THE

STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS ON THE PETITION OF ENOS MANNING.

The Standing Committee on Public Works, to which was referred the petition of Enos Manning of Miami county, praying for the passage of a law authorizing him "to commence and prosecute a suit at law against the State," etc.; have had the same under consideration and

REPORT

That upon examination of the Records in the office of the Board of Public Works, it appears that on the eleventh of November 1841, William Werden, R. D. Forsman and James McBride, appraisers of damages on the Miami Canal, made an award in favor of said Enos Manning for $1500. The appraisers state that a feeder dam erected by the state-"will altogether destroy the said Enos Manning's Mill-seat, and render the mill of no valuc,-therefore the said appraisers are of the opinion that the said Enos Manning has sustained and will sustain damage over and above the benefits and advantages received by him from the Miami Canal, to the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars," &c. This amount was paid to Mr. Manning—and it would seem from the award that the appraisers considered it an ample satisfaction for the injury sustained.

Subsequent to the payment of this award, Mr. Manning renewed his application for damages on the same lot of ground. This claim was, by the acting commissioner of Public Works, again referred to the State appraisers, now consisting of James McBride, John Taylor and Daniel H. Jones. These gentlemen went upon and reviewed the premises and made a second award amounting to $450.In making this award it is understood that the appraisers treated the claim as that of a riparian proprietor of a water privilege on a navigable stream whose rights were fully defined by law. Hence if the appraisers did their duty and did not err in judgment, it would seem that the petitioner has

received the value of the property injured. Your committee will state that this last award of $450, was also paid on December 25th, 1843.

All of which is respectfully submitted by your committee, who ask to be discharged from further consideration of said petition.

L. GIDDINGS,

J. D. RINGWOOD,
WM. DURBIN,

C. P. EDSON,

R. F. HOWARD,

Com. on Pub. Works.

REPORT

OF THE

STANDING COMMITTEE ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

IN HOUSE-January 16, 1849.

Mr. Hardesty, from the committee on Unfinished Business, made the following

REPORT:

The standing committee on Unfinished Business report the following as the unfinished business of the last session, to wit:

House bill No. 9; To test the sense of the people of this State on the subject of calling a convention to amend the constitution.

H. No. 11; To secure to every family a homestead exempt from execution.

H. No. 52; To extend the time of payment for school section 16, in Royalton township, Lucas county.

H. No. 69; To continue the office of county surveyor, and define his duties.

H. No. 76; To exend and apply the forms of proceeding in chancery to all cases at common law.

H. No. 129; To erect the county of Chester.

H. No. 243; To incorporate the town of Morrow, in the county of Warren.

H. No. 278; To repeal the act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Canton, in Stark county, and all acts amendatory thereto." H. No. 318; To authorize road tax to be levied and collected in certain counties.

H. No. 325; To provide for the extinguishment of the public debt of Ohio.

H. No. 330; To provide for the construction of a side-cut connecting the Wabash and Erie Canal with the Maumee river at Napoleon, or a bridge across said river.

H. No. 341; To amend an act entitled an act to provide for the al

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teration and completion of the State road from Painesville, in Lake county, to Bloomfield, in Trumbull county, passed February 19, 1846. H. No. 393; In relation to the militia of this State.

H. No. 394; To review and re-locate the seat of justice of Ottawa county.

H. No. 402; Providing an adequate compensation for the judges of the several courts of this State, and a fund for the payment of the

same.

H. No. 407; To authorize Ashbel Chittenden to surrender the lease for, and become the purchaser of the east half of the south-west quarter of school section sixteen, in Scipio township, Seneca county.

Senate bill No. 45; For the relief of turnpike companies in which the State is a stockholder.

S. No. 65; In relation to the Urbana, Troy and Greenville Turnpike Road Company.

S. No. 120; To incorporate the Farmers' and Mechanics' Associa tion of Northern Ohio, at Huron, Erie county, Ohio.

S. No. 131; To repeal a part of the act passed February 8, 1847, entitled an act to accept the charter and franchise of the First Range Turnpike Company, in Ashtabula county, and declaring the road a free turnpike road.

S. No. 140; For the relief of John Devine, James M. Sawyer and Wm. Sharp.

S. No. 169; To amend the act regulating the sale of intoxicating li quors, passed February 8, 1847.

Petition of citizens of Harrison county, for the incorporation of a railroad company, to construct a railroad from Wheeling, by way of Cadiz and Uhricksville, to Columbus.

Petition of citizens of Athens county, relative to the taxation and sale of lands belonging to the Ohio University.

Petition of Samuel Secrets and 208 other citizens of Guernsey and Tuscarawas counties, for the repeal of all laws requiring locks on Will's creek.

Memorial of the heirs at law of Gregory Daugneaux, late of Hamilton county.

Petition of the President and Secretary of the Wheeling and Baltimore Bridge Company, for the assent of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio to a charter granted that company by the Legislature of Virginia.