pecuniary tax, every year, in support of slavery-slavery being essentially a bankrupt system.

12. Because, finally, the people of Ohio clearly possess the right to leave the Union. The Union is only a means, and if the people of Ohio think the ends that ought to be attained by it not attained, or if they think the ends that are attained by it bad ends, they have the right to come out of it, and set up a new government. This right is distinctly asserted in the declaration of independence, and is founded in the very nature of state sovereignty; by exercising it Ohio would interfere with the rights of no portion of the confederacy, not even with those of the south.

LEGAL VOTERS.

Joseph Treat,

Joseph B. Jerome,

Oliver Bow,

Solon Baker,
Joseph Heighton
H. M. Case,
Augustus Case,
Erastus Case,

Thomas C. Heighton,
Harlin Case
Henry C. Jerome,
C. W. Ensign,
Abram Baker,
O. S. Churchill,
Horace White,
Caldwell Anderson,
Horace Case,
Wesley Stanford,

Milton Moore,

A. Bancroft,

R. H. Merriman,

J. K. Kendrick,
Truman Case,
H. W. White,
William Stedman,

William H. Harrington,

Richard Osborn

Lewis M. Bloomfield,

Joseph Clickman,
E. T. Wickersham,
John T. Prise,
Clark Upson,
Warren Britton,
Jacob Stauffer,
Lanson Spees,
Frederick Dye,
H. D. Smalley
J. F. Smalley,
A. Redfield,
R. F. Clover,
D. Smalley,

Thomas Price, jr.-42.

OTHERS.

S. A. Case,

B. M. Heighton,
George Case,

George W. Paine,
Dick Quirck,

Rolin Handel,

Harriet Case,
Laura M. Ensign,
Mary Case,

Emeline Andrews,

Kezia Andrews,
Sophia Jerome,
Hannah Heighton,
Eliza S. Tagg,
Jane M. Jerome,
Sarah Heighton,
Mary E. Chapman,
Olive C. Heighton,
Alvin Bancroft,
Henry H. Ward,

REPORT

OF THE

JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON STANDING RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF BOTH BRANCHES.

The Joint Select Committee, to which was assigned the duty of preparing joint rules for the government of the two Houses, now report and recommend the adoption of the following

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the following be adopted as the Joint Standing Rules for the government of the present General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

1. When the business requires the attendance of the Senate in the Representatives' Hall, they with their Clerk, shall be conducted within the bar and there seated; and the Speaker of the Senate shall take a seat in the Speaker's chair on the right of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

2. All messages shall be conveyed by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House from which they are sent; and in the case of the absence or inability of the Sergeant-at-Arms, then by such person as the Speaker may designate for that purpose.

3. When a message shall be sent by either House to the other, it shall be immediately announced at the bar of the House to which it is sent, by the door-keeper, and shall be, by the bearer, delivered to the Clerk of the other branch, at his desk, who shall read the same to the House to which it belongs.

4. After a bill or joint resolution has passed both Houses, and amendments made by either House may be pending, it shall not be in order for either House to postpone such bill or resolution beyond the session; but all differences between the two Houses relative to amendments, may be submitted to committees of conference.

5. In all cases of difference between the two Houses relative to amendments, the order shall be to insist in the first instance, before adhering; and the first adherence, by either House, shall preclude a committe of conference.

6. Committees of conference shall be appointed when any disagreement of opinion shall exist between the two Houses, which com

mittee shall report the result of their deliberations to their respective Houses.

7. When the committees of conference of thetwo Houses shall disagree, other committees may be appointed; and if either of the Houses shall disagree to any report of a committee of conference, such House shall forthwith notify the other of such disagreement, and request another committee of conference; and thereupon other committees shall be appointed.

8. When a bill or joint resolution shall have passed either House, notice thereof shall be forthwith communicated to the other House, by message.

9. When a bill shall be reported to either House, advice thereof shall be given to the other House; but no notice of the presentation or reference of petitions, memorials or remonstrances, or of the appointment of committees, shall be given.

10. When a bill or joint resolution which shall have been passed in one House, is rejected in the other, or postponed beyond the session, notice thereof shall be given to the other House in which the same may have passed.

After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be enrolled by the Clerk of the House in which it originated.

12. When bills or joint resolutions are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee of two members from each House, to be appointed a standing committee for that purpose, whose duty it shall be to compare the enrolled with the engrossed bills and resolutions passed by the two House, correct any clerical errors which may be discovered, and report forthwith to their respective Houses.

13.

After examination and report, each act and joint resolution shall be signed in their respective Houses; first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and then by the Speaker of the Senate.

14. Joint resolutions temporary in their character, shall not be enrolled, signed by the Speakers, nor published with the laws. The following, amongst others, are of this character: Resolutions for going into elections, for printing extra copies, for the appointment of joint select committees, calling upon public officers for information, furnishing copies of laws or reports, allowing claims.

15. The clerk of the Senate shall attach to each act and joint resolution signed by the Speakers, the date of the last action of either House thereon, and then deliver it to a member of the committee of enrollment on the part of the Senate, who shall deposite the same in the office of the Secretary of State, and take his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the papers of the Senate.

16 When the two Houses shall meet to proceed by joint ballot, to any election, the Speaker of the Senate shall preside so far as to declare the officers to be elected, the result of each balloting, and the name of the person elected.

17. Each House in joint meeting, shall be governed by the same rules of order that govern them in their separate Houses, and be attended by their respective Sergeant-at-Arms.

18. No person shall be delared elected to any office, who shall not have received a majority of all the votes of the members present, and voting; and each paper put in the ballot box shall be counted a vote, unless the number of papers shall exceed the number of members voting, in which case it shall be declared there is no election.

19. It shall be the duty of the Speaker of the Senate, in all elections by joint ballot, or otherwise, after the votes have been collected, to call on the members present, whether they have voted, if not, to come forward and vote, and charge the members accordingly.

20. All elections by joint ballot shall be conducted singly, only one officer being voted for at each balloting.

21. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the respective Houses shall discharge the ordinary duties of Door-keepers until otherwise directed.

22. When the two Houses shall meet to proceed by joint ballot to any election, no person shall be permitted to remain within the bar, excepting the Members, Clerks and their assistants, Sergeants-at-Arms and their assistants, and the regular reporters for the newspapers.

23. When a bill shall have passed in either House, and be sent to the other for concurrence, the accompanying documents shall be transmitted with such bills.

The Committee will now proceed to state wherein these rules differ from the joint rules adopted for the governmont of the two Houses at the late session.

1st. Rules, 11, 22, 24, 25 and 26, being rules in which the subject of printing is mentioned, are stricken out.

12.

2d. Rules 12 and 13, remain unchanged but are numbered 11 and

3d. Rule 14 is here numbered 13, the word bill stricken out in the first line and act inserted; and the words at the end directing the Speaker of the Senate, are omitted, for a reason mentioned below.

4th. Rule 14 is designed as a substitute for a rule adopted last session, and not to be found in the pamphlet copy of the rules. It is number 27, and may be be found in appendix to House Journal, 1847-8, page 57, and at page 251, of the appendix to the Senate Journal for the same year.

5th. Rule 15 is altered by making it the duty of the Clerk of the Senate to attach to each act and joint resolution when enrolled, and signed, the date of the last action of either House thereon. For the reasons of this change the Committee refers to the report of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate upon the validity of the election of Judge Key, and found in Senate Journal, 1847-8, page 668.

6th. Rule 20, is entirely changed. As that rule stood at former sessions, it was difficult to tell whether a quorum had voted; and if the two vacancies in the same office occurred at different periods not elapsed on the day of the election, it was impossible, but by the arbitrary will of the Speaker, to tell to which of the two dates the persons elected should be respectively assigned.

7th. The 22d rule herewith reported, and which excludes strangers from within the bar of the House whilst elections by ballot are