The Auditor of State.

which a tax of one per cent. is charged and collected annually by the Auditor of State.

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9. STATE BOARD OF APPRAISERS AND ASSESSORS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT, GAS, NATURAL GAS, PIPE LINE, WATER WORKS, STREET RAILROADS, RAILROAD AND MESSENGER OR SIGNAL COMPANIES. Duties: To fix the amount of gross receipts of the aforesaid companies, upon which an excise tax of one-half of one per cent. is charged and collected annually by the Auditor of State.

10. STATE BOARD OF TAX REMISSION, composed of the Governor, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: For the remission of illegal taxes and penalties and to correct tax duplicates.

11. EMERGENCY BOARD, composed of the Governor, Auditor of State, Attorney General, Chairman of Senate Finance Committee and Chairman of the House Finance Committee. Duties: To authorize departments and institutions in case of an emergency to expend a greater sum than the amount appropriated by the General Assembly for such department or institution.

12. PRINTING COMMISSION, composed of the Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: To contract for all printing for the state. 13. PAFER COMMISSION, composed of the Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: To contract for furnishing paper for the

state.

14. BOARD TO APPROVE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, composed of the Governor, Auditor of State and Secretary of State. Duties: All plans and specifications of state buildings, improvements or betterments of whatever kind, must be submitted to and approved by this board.

15. FEE COMMISSION, composed of Auditor of State, Secretary of State and Attorney General. Duties: To prepare a schedule of fees to which the various county officials are legally allowed to charge under the provisions of the statutes.

16. BOARD FOR UNIVERSITY LANDS, composed of Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: To determine the claim of title to unpatented surveys of persons in possession of lands in the Virginia military district of the state.

17. FURNITURE COMMISSION, Composed of Governor, Auditor of State and Treasurer of State. Duties: To purchase furniture and carpets for the various departments of the state.

18. BOARD TO GRANT PERMISSION TO CERTAIN BANKING INSTITUTIONS TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN OHIO, composed of Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: Defined in the title.

19. LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT BOARD, composed of the Governor, Auditor of State and Secretary of State. Duties: To ascertain and determine the ratio of representation in the General Assembly according to each decennial census.

20. BOARD TO APPOINT AGENT TO PROSECUTE CLAIMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT, composed of the Governor, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: Defined in the title.

21. BOARD TO EMPLOY COUNSEL FOR STATE OFFICIALS, INSTITUTIONS AND BOARDS, composed of Governor, Auditor of State and Attorney General. Duties: Defined in the title.

AUDITORS OF STATE, FROM 1803 TO 1901.

UNTIL THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN 1851, TERM, THREE YEARS; AFTERWARD, FOUR YEARS.

THE STATE BOARD OF ARBITRATION.

RGANIZED May 29, 1893, under an act of the previous session of the General Assembly of Ohio, Governor McKinley having appointed as members of such board, the Hon. John Little (R.), ex-member of Congress, from Greene County, the Hon. Selwyn N. Owen, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and Joseph Bishop, a representative of the Trades Unions, both of the latter from Franklin county. Mr. Owen was elected Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Bishop Secretary, and these officers have served uninterruptedly by reappointment and re-election. Mr. Little died October 18, 1900, and in his stead the Governor appointed the Hon. R. G. Richards, of Steubenville, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio. There have been no other changes in the board since its creation in 1893.

1. OBJECT AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD.

The State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation is charged with the duty, upon due application or notification, of endeavoring to effect amicable and just settlements of controversies or differences, actual or threatened, between employers and employees in the state. This is to be done by pointing out and advising, after due inquiry and investigation, what, in its judgment, if anything, ought to be done or submitted to by either or both parties to adjust their disputes; of investigating, where thought advisable, or required, the cause, os causes of the controversy, and ascertaining which party thereto is mainly responsible or blameworthy for the continuance of the same.

2. HOW ACTION OF THE BOARD MAY BE INVOKED.

Every such controversy or difference not involving questions which may be the subject of a suit or action in any court of the state, may be brought before the Board; provided, the employer involved employs not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in the state.

The aid of the Board may be invoked in two ways:

First - The parties immediately concerned, that is, the employer or employees, or both conjointly, may file with the Board an application which must contain a concise statement of the grievances complained of, and a promise to continue on in business, or at work (as the case may be), in the same manner as at the time of the application, without any lockout or strike, until the decision of the Board, if it shall be made within ten days of the date of filing said application. A joint application may contain a stipulation making the decision of the Board to an extent agreed upon by the parties, binding and enforcible as a rule of court.

An application must be signed by the employer or by a majority of the employees in the department of business affected (and in no case by less than thirteen), or by both such employer and a majority of employes jointly, or by the duly authorized agent of either or both parties.

Second A mayor or probate judge when made to appear to him that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened, or has taken place in his vicinity, is required by

The State Board of Arbitration.

the law to notify the Board of the fact, giving the name and location of the employer, the nature of the trouble, and the number of employes involved, so far as he can. When such fact is thus or otherwise duly made known to the board it becomes its duty to open communication with the employer and employes involved, with a view of adjustment by mediation, conciliation or arbitration.

3. WHEN ACTION OF THE BOARD TO CEASE.

Should petitioners filing an application cease, at any stage of the proceedings, to keep the promise made in their application, the Board will proceed no further in the case without the written consent of the adverse party.

4. SECRETARY TO PUBLISH NOTICE OF HEARING.

On filing any such application the Secretary of the Board will give public notice of the time and place of the hearing thereof. But at the request of both parties joining in the application, this public notice may, at the discretion of the board, be omitted.

5. PRESENCE OF OPERATIVES AND OTHERS, ALSO BOOKS AND THEIR CUSTODIANS,

ENFORCED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE.

Operatives in the department of business affected, and persons who keep the record of wages in such department and others, may be subpoenaed and examined under oath by the Board, which may compel the production of books and papers containing such records. All parties to any such controversy or difference are entitled to be heard. Proceedings before the Board are conducted at the public expense.

6.

NO COMPULSION. EXERCISED, WHEN INVESTIGATION AND PUBLICATION REQUIRED. The Board exercises no compulsory authority to induce adherence to its recommendation, but when mediation fails to bring about an adjustment it is required to render and make public its decision in the case. And when neither a settlement nor an arbitration is had, because of the opposition thereto of one party, the Board is required at the request of the other party to make an investigation and publish its conclusions.

7. ACTION OF LOCAL BOARD ADVICE OF STATE BOARD MAY BE INVOKED. The parties to any such controversy or difference may submit the matter in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation consisting of three persons mutually agreed upon, or chosen by each party selecting one, and the two thus chosen selecting the third. The jurisdiction of such local board as to the matter submitted to it is exclusive, but it is entitled to ask and receive the advice and assistance of the State Board.

8. CREATION OF BOARD PRESUPPOSES THAT MEN WILL BE FAIR AND JUST.

It may be permissible to add that the act of the General Assembly is based upon the reasonable hypothesis that men will be fair and just in their dealings and relations with each other when they fully understand what is fair and just in any given case. As occasion arises for the interposition of the Board, its principal duty will be to bring to the attention and appreciation of both employer and employes, as best it may, such facts and considerations as will aid them to comprehend what is reasonable, fair and just in respect of their differences.