16. Whether they have loaned or paid out the notes of other banks since the 15th of May last, and to what amount; 17. Whether they have furnished brokers or money changers with bank notes or specie to carry on their business, or with eastern exchange, to sell on behalf of the bank; if so, on what conditions, and to what amount; 18. What were the causes which led them to suspend specie payments, and at what period they expect to resume them; 19. Has any foreign bank, directly or indirectly, to your knowledge, drawn from your bank any gold or silver coin, or bullion, since the twenty-third day of May last; if so, what amount, and what foreign bank or banks did thus draw. Resolved, further, That the Auditor do also inquire from the said banks whether any dividends of profits, or other application of profits, premium, or other income of any such bank, has been made to the stockholders in payment of their shares, or otherwise, since the 1st day of August, 1825, and not reported to the Auditor of State, and a tax paid thereon; and that the several banks be requested to state the amount of such dividend, and the time of declaring or applying the same, if any such was made: Also, whether any dividends of profits, or other application of profits, premium, or other income of any such bank, have been made to the stockholders since the eleventh day of May, 1837; and if any such payments have been made, what amount, and in what kind of funds. That he also, Report to the General Assembly by the fifteenth day of January, 1838, the answers of the several banks, with a list of the banks to which his circular shall have been addressed. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Auditor and Treasurer of State be, and they are hereby authorized, to receive taxes on all lands and town lots, not delinquent and advertised for sale on the last Monday of the current December, until the fifteenth day of February, A. D. 1838, in the same manner that they are authorized by law to receive the same, if paid prior to the first day of January, 1838. December 28, 1837. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the Senate. L. L.-51. RESOLUTION Directing the Secretary of State to have collated and printed certain acts and parts of acts. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby directed to collate and cause to be printed, with the laws of the present session of the General Assembly, all laws, and parts of laws, which may be now in force defining the powers and du ties of justices of the peace and constables in civil cases, passed since the 14th day of March, A. D. 1831. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. December 28, 1837. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION Appointing Trustees of the Medical College of Ohio. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Morgan Neville, John C. Wright, William Burke, David K. Este, William Stephenson, Calvin Fletcher, William S. Hatch, George Lucky, and Samuel Fosdick, of Cincinnati, John Cotton, of Marietta, and Joseph S. Carter, of Urbana, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Medical College of Ohio for the term of three years from the ninth day of March, 1838. December 28, 1837. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION For printing Professor Stowe's Report. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That eight thousand five hundred copies of Professor Stowe's Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe, be printed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, subject to the future disposition of the Legislature; and that one thousand copies [be printed] for the use of the members of this General Assembly, three hundred for Professor Stowe, and two hundred for the Superintendent of Common Schools. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. January 4, 1838. RESOLUTION For exchange of certain Public Arms. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Quartermaster General be, and he is hereby authorized to receive of Joseph Sullivant, captain of the Columbus Guards, the muskets and bayonets now in possession of said Columbus Guards, and to deliver to said Captain J. Sullivant the same number of muskets and bayonets out of the arms now in the possession of the said Quartermaster General, and stored in the public office: Provided, The Quartermaster General shall be satisfied that said arms are in as good order as when received by said company. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the members of the Geological Corps of this State be privileged to detain from the public library any Geological works thereto belonging, so long as may be convenient or necessary in the course of their scientific researches and explorations. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Board of Public Works be instructed to cause such further and other examination of the Raccoon creek, in the counties of Athens and Gallia, as will enable them to report definitively in relation to the utility and public benefits of said creek, and heretofore reported upon in part only; and that they make report to the next General Assembly of this State. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 10, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION To provide for certain engraving and printing. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Samuel Medary be authorized to procure the engraving and printing of such diagrams, maps, and profiles as may be necessary to illustrate the reports on the geological survey of the State; and the copper plates shall, after use, be deposited in the Geological Office. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the thanks of the General Assembly be presented to Professor Stowe for the able, instructive, and interesting report, submitted by him to the Legislature, in relation to the systems of education, and present state of intellectual and moral improvement, in various parts of Europe. C. ANTHONY, January 4, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION For an appropriation to Professor Stowe. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby allowed to Professor C. E. Stowe, for his labor in collecting facts and information in relation to elementary public instruction in Europe, communicated by him to both branches of the present General Assembly, to be appropriated by law. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 16, 1838. Speaker of the Senate. RESOLUTION Appointing Trustees for the Kendall Charity School, in Stark county. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Arvine Wales, Isaac Bowman, Gilberthorp Earl, Samuel Schrants, and Alexander Mc Cully, of Stark county be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Charity School of Kendall, in the county of Stark, in the place of Arvine Wales, Isaac Bowman, John Everhart, William Henry, and John Saxton, whose term of office expires on the 24th day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. January 17, 1838. RESOLUTION For a survey of Ottawa river. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Board of Public Works be instructed to cause an examination and survey of Ottawa river from Kalida, in Putnam county, to the Miami and Maumee Canal; and report to the next session of the Legislature as to the practicability of making a navigable feeder or slackwater navigation from Kalida to said canal; and also make an estimate of the expenses of constructing the same: Provided, The same can be done without prejudice to any other work authorized by law, and without employing any additional assistance for this object. C. ANTHONY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 26, 1838. the RESOLUTION AND DECLARATION In relation to the public lands and other matters. Resolved by the General Asssembly of the State of Ohio, That the people of the separate States of the Union have, at all times, the right, and it of ten becomes their duty, to express their opinions freely in relation to measures affecting their prosperity; and while this General Assembly disclaim power to give binding instructions to their co-ordinate representatives in Congress, they yet claim the right to declare what they believe to be the will of their common constituents on measures which directly concern the rights of the States, and the private business of the people; and believing, under existing circumstances, that this right has become a duty, and that the positions taken by other States of the Union in expressing their separate opinions on Federal measures, makes it necessary that the State of Ohio should raise her voice, we do, therefore, declare: That the public lands of the United States are the property of the whole Union, held in trust for the States; that this trust can only be answered by giving |