discharge the same in labor, shall apply such labor under the direction of said commissioners, or their agents appointed for that purpose. SEC. 6. So much of the taxes appropriated by this act as shall be paid into the county treasury, shall be computed by the county auditors and paid over to said commissioners or their agents, and all taxes so computed and paid over shall be expended on said road by said commissioners. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the respective county auditors, in computing the portion of road tax that may have accrued within the aforesaid limits on each side of said road, to embrace the whole of any tract of land, not exceeding eighty acres, of which at least one half shall be within said limits; and for all duties performed by them under this act they shall be allowed the same fees allowed by law for similar services in other cases, to be audited by the county commissioners and paid out of the county fund. SEC. 8. The commissioners shall have power to receive donations of land to aid in the construction of said road, and to sell and convey the same in fee simple; they may take releases of the right of way, and they shall expend the money in their hands only on such parts of the road as shall have been permanently located and established. SEC. 9. The said commissioners, and their successors, shall be a corporation by the name and style of the Wapaukonnetta, Gallatin and Fort Jennings Free Turnpike Road, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act; and it shall be their duty to prosecute for all obstructions to said road, or for injuries done to the same, or the bridges thereon; and the form of such prosecution shall be in the action of debt, and the amount recoverable in each case shall be the amount of damages actually found by the court or jury, with ten per centum thereon; and in all cases the said commissioners shall have a right to sue either before a justice of the peace or in the court of common pleas of the proper county, which suits shall be appealable as in other cases; and the amount so collected in each case shall be for the benefit of said road, and shall be paid over to said commissioners. SEC. 10. The said commissioners shall, annually, in the month of January, make a full settlement of their receipts and expenditures, under this act, and deposit a copy thereof in the auditor's office, in each county through which said road may pass. SEC. 11. The supervisor of any road district through which said road may pass, shall be and hereby is authorized to appropriate any portion of the two days labor within his district, which he may deem expedient, to the construction, preservation and repair of said road; and the same shall be applied under the direction of said trustees or their agent or agents. SEC. 12. The commissioners of said road shall be allowed their reasonable expenses when engaged on the business of said road, and no more; and when any vacancy shall happen in said board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the commissoners of the county, on being notified thereof, shall fill the same as often as it may occur. SEC. 13. The expenses of surveying and location and other expenses incidental to the construction, preservation, superintendence and repair of said road, shall be paid out of the funds appropriated by this act to the construction, preservation and repair of the same. SEC. 14. All claims for damages arising out of the location of said road shall be settled in the manner prescribed by the act for opening and regulating of roads and highways, and all damages assessed for injury to property shall be paid out of the county treasury, if, in the opinion of the County commissioners, the benefit resulting from the establishment of said road will be equal to the amount of damages assessed. SEC. 15. That the Auglaize river, so far as the appropriation for the aforesaid road shall conflict with the tax appropriated for the construction of the Lima and Defiance Free Turnpike Road, shall be a dividing line between the two appropriations, all laws or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 16. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to apply to any tax heretofore appropriated to any road, except as provided in the fif teenth section of this act. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. March 6, 1844. RESOLUTIONS. RESOLUTION In relation to the postage of members of the General Assembly. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Speakers of the two Houses, be and they are hereby authorized and required to audit and allow for payment out of the treasury, the postage accounts of members of the present General Assembly, on all letters and communications on public business, by them received, and on all letters on public business which members may deem proper to mark paid. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. December 30, 1843. RESOLUTION Relative to the Reports of State Officers. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Bank Commissioners, Fund Commissioners, Board of Public Works, and each and every other person having public service in charge, whose duty it is to make report to this General Assembly, be requested to make said report at the earliest moment practicable. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. December 30, 1843. 32-L. L. RESOLUTION Relative to the settlers on the Indian Lands, in the County of Crawford. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That as the Indian title to the lands, in the county of Crawford, formerly owned by the Wyandott Indians, has been secured by the general government, and, by the fifth article of the treaty, it does not get full possession of said lands until the first of April next, and inasmuch as the Indians have all left for their new home in the west, and all, or nearly all, of said Indian improvements are at this time occupied by white settlers, by the permission of its former occupants, and that the present occupants, generally, have seeded large quantities of wheat and rye on said lands, the Senate and House of Representatives therefore recommend that our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their influence in procuring the passage of some law that will protec the present occupants. Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded, by the Gover or, to each of the Senators and Representatives, of this state, in Congress. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. December 30, 1843. RESOLUTION Relative to the incorporation of Churches and Religious Societies. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That all petitions or memorials praying for the incorporation of churches and religious societies, towns, literary societies, library associations and beneficent societies, and all bills introduced on leave for the same purpose, shall be referred to the standing committee on corporations of the House, in which presented or introduced, which committee shall be instructed to retain the same until near the close of the session of the General Assembly, when they shall report one bill for the incorporation of all such churches and religious societies, one for the incorporation of all such towns, one for the incorporation of literary societies and library associations and beneficent societies, and at the close of each of said bills, in one section, define the powers, rights and liabilities of such corporation, and subject them to the provisions of the several laws respecting such corporations. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. December 30, 1843. RESOLUTION Relative to printing extra copies of the report of the Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That four thousand extra copies of the report of the trustees and superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum be printed for the use of the members of this General Assembly, and five hundred be printed for the use of the Principal of said Institution. JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate. January 22, 1844. Relative to the reception of Jacob Miller into the Lunatic Asylum. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum be instructed to receive Jacob Miller, of the county of Putnam, as a state patient, as soon as there may be room in said Asylum. JOHN. M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, January 22, 1844. Speaker of the Senate. Relative to the construction of a Bridge across the Ohio River, at Wheeling, Virginia. Whereas, the people of the State of Ohio are deeply interested in the construction of a bridge over the Ohio river, at Wheeling, in Virginia, to connect the eastern with the western section of the National Road; and, whereas, the erection of a bridge at that place would insure greater security, speed and regularity in the transmission of the mails of the United States carried over this great national thoroughfare, and in the event of war avoid delay and secure expedition in the transportation of troops and military stores, and moreover, be a work of important public utility; therefore Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best efforts toprocure an appropriation from the National Treasury |