RESOLUTION

Relative to the claim of Whiting and Huntington.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the sum of eighteen dollars and forty one cents be paid to Whiting and Huntington, in full of their account for stationery and other articles for the use of the Court in Bank at their late term, to be provided for in the general appropriation bill.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Relative to John Holden and John Waggoner.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Superintendent of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum be and he is hereby directed and required to receive and consider the application on behalf of John Holden, a lunatic person, resident in Monroe county, also, John Waggoner, of Seneca county, who are aliens, in the same manner and on the same conditions, in all respects, as if John Holden and John Waggoner were naturalized or native born citizens.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Fixing a day for the final adjournment of the General Assembly.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That this General Assembly will adjourn, sine die, on Wednesday the thirteenth day of March, inst., 1844.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 184!.

PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS

Relative to the Utica and Schenectady Railroad.

Whereas, the legislature of the state of New York inserted in the act incorporating the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Company a provision prohibiting the carrying of freight on said road; and, whereas, said road is a connecting link in the great thoroughfare from the states of the west to the markets of the east, and the only northern route over which the produce of the west can now be carried to eastern market during a large part of the year; and, whereas, the consequence of said restriction is that all the produce of the west is forced to the markets of the east, either through the New York Canal or by a southern route, and that, consequently, transportation must cease early in the fall, to commence again late in the spring, and of necessity force the produce business of the west into the hands of the speculators and large capitalists, who are able to purchase in large quantities and keep on hand during the winter season; and, whereas, the further consequence is that, at the opening of the New York Canal in the spring, the produce of the west is forced into market and the glut followed by the reduction of price, which reduction must be provided for by those who purchase from the farmer, and consequently the reduction of prices in our western market; and, whereas, the further consequence of said restriction is that it imposes on western merchants the necessity of purchasing a large quantity of goods in the fall and bringing them on before the close of the New York Canal to the great injury, not only of our merchants but especially of the consumers, for the reason that a large amount of capital must of necessity remain idle in our western mercantile houses during a large part of the winter season, which causes a loss to be made up by an increase of price to the consumer; and, whereas, all of these evils might be avoided by a removal of said restriction, and which removal would be the precursor of a continuation of a railroad along our northern lakes, to stop only at Chicago or some other western or southwestern point; therefore

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the interests of the people of the great west, as well as of the east, require that some action should be had by the Legislature of New York which would remove said restrictions and thereby open a way for the transportation of the produce of the west and the importation of goods by our merchants during all seasons of the year.

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution be signed by the speakers of the respective branches of this general assembly and, after being duly certified, a copy forwarded by the Governor of Ohio to the Governor of the States of New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, to be by them laid before the Legislatures of those States respectively.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Relative to the Institution for the Blind.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for the use of the Institution for the Blind, for the purpose of procuring philosophical apparatus for the use of the pupils, and that the same be provided for in the general appropriation act; also, that the said institution be permitted to receive one of the duplicate boxes of geological specimens of Ohio now deposited in one of the state buildings.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Appointing Trustees for the Institution of the Blind.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Rev. James Hoge, be and he is hereby appointed a trustee of the Ohio Institution of for the Blind, for the term of three years from and after the passage of this resolution; and that Matthew J. Gilbert, be be and he is hereby appointed such trustee, for the term of two years from the said period.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

March 12, 1844.

Speaker of the Senate.

RESOLUTION

Relative to furnishing copies of the report of the Directors and Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary to said Directors and Warden.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, That out of the three thousand extra copies of the report of the Directors and Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary, ordered to be printed by this general assembly, one hundred and fifty copies be for the use of said Directors and Warden.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS. W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Relating to a claim of Franklin County.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary be and he is hereby ordered and directed to pay into the county treasury of the county of Franklin, on the order of the auditor of said county, the sum of seventeen hundred dollars in full of the bill of costs accruing in the several trials of the state against William Clark and Hester Foster, late convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary, at the late term of the supreme court in said county, for murder committed within the Penitentiary, to be paid out of the revenue arising from the Penitentiary.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.

RESOLUTION

Appointing Trustees of the Ohio Medical College.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That William Burke, John Č. Wright, David K. Este, William Mount, William Stephenson, William Concklin, George Lucky, Robert Buchanan and Samuel Fosdick, of Cincinnati, and Joseph S. Carter, of Urbana, and John Colton, of Marietta, be and the same are hereby appointed Trustees of the Ohio Medical College for the term of three years from and after the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

JOHN M. GALLAGHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS W. BARTLEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

March 12, 1844.