must be taken to print no laws not in force, and to insert all amendments of sections in the place of sections amended and repealed.

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

P. HITCHCOCK,

ROBERT C. KIRK,

President of the Senate.

Passed April 25, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative to the preserving of the official census returns of 1860.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby authorized and required to have bound in plain, substantial style, the official returns of the federal census of 1860, now in his office, and deposit the same in his office for safe keeping, as required by the act of congress in such case made and provided.

Resolved, That the bound copy of the federal census of 1850 now on file in the state library, be transferred by the state librarian to the office of the secretary of state, and by said secretary filed and preserved in his office.

Resolved, That S. J. R. No 102, requiring the state librarian to have bound the census returns for 1860, be and the same is hereby rescinded.

Resolved, That said secretary of state shall pay the expenses so incurred from his contingent fund.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT C. KIRK,

Passed April 27, 1861.

President of the Senate.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative to establishing military encampments in various parts of the state.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That a committee of three on the part of the senate, and five on the part of the house, be appointed to call on the governor and consult with him as to the policy of establishing military encampments in various parts of the state, where troops can be mustered into service, boarded, drilled, and kept in readiness for service on call.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT C. KIRK,

Passed April 30, 1861.

President of the Senate.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative to donations to the asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the board of trustees of the Ohio asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth are hereby authorized to receive and hold all donations which may be made by individuals for said institution; and they are also further authorized to receive propositions for donations of land for a site for said institution, and report upon the same at the next meeting of the general assembly: Provided, that the state shall be involved in no expense in the carrying out of this resolution.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 11, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to publishing military laws and state regulations.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the adjutant-general is hereby authorized and directed to issue, as soon as practicable, a second edition of the Ohio State Regulations, of ten thousand copies, with all the military laws of this state in force added thereto, of which not more than one thousand copies shall be bound in muslin, and the balance in paper, for distribution to the militia, and the militia of the reserve of this state.

Resolved further, that senate joint resolution No. 118 be, and the same is hereby rescinded, and that the secretary of state is hereby authorized to publish, on a single sheet, five thousand copies of the militia laws passed at the present adjourned session of the general assembly.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 11, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to the claim of Samuel Doyle.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the auditor of state is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasury, in favor of Samuel Doyle, for the sum of twenty-seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-four cents ($2,761 44), being the balance due on three checks drawn Dec. 15, 1856, January 15, 1857, and February 15, 1857, each for the sum of one thousand

nine hundred and fifteen dollars, and payable to Samuel Doyle; which money, when so received, shall be in full of all demands on the part of said Samuel Doyle and Samuel Doyle & Co. against the state of Ohio, of every kind and description, growing out of the contract between said Doyle & Co. and the state of Ohio, for repairs of section number two of the public works of the state up to February 15, 1857, the time for which said checks were given.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 11, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

For a sine die adjournment.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the general assembly will adjourn sine die on Monday, the 13th day of May, 1861.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 10, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to work on the marble balusters.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the superintendent of the state house be authorized to make settlement with the contractor for the marble hand-rail and balusters leading from the south and north wings of the state house to the rotunda, with full power to accept or reject said work, or compromise with said contractor by paying any sum less than the contract price, at his discretion. P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem, of the Senate.

Passed May 13, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to amending the constitution of the United States.

WHEREAS, The general assembly has received official notification of the passage, by both houses of the thirty-sixth congress, second session, of the following proposition to amend the constitution of the United States, by a constitutional majority of two-thirds thereof; Recital: "Joint resolution to amend the constitution of the United States-That the following articles shall be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution, viz.: Article XIII. No amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state :" and

WHEREAS, Three-fourths of the legislatures of the said states composing the United States are required to give assent to said proposed amendment of the constitution of the United States before it becomes a part thereof; therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That we hereby ratify, in behalf of the State of Ohio, the above recited proposed amendment of the constitution of the United States.

Resolved, That a certified copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution be forwarded by the governor to the president of the United States, with the request that he lay the same before congress when it convenes.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 13, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to the duties of the chief clerks after adjournment.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the chief clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives shall each receive at the rate of four dollars per day for the time actually employed after the adjournment of the General Assembly, for making out indexes to the printed and recorded journals of the present session, for reading proof sheets of the same, and for such other necessary work as they are, by law and the duties of their offices, required to perform; to be paid out of any money appropriated to defray the expenses of the General Assembly, on the order of the auditor of state.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 13, 1861.

JOINT RESOLUTION,

Relative to thanksgiving day.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor be and he is hereby requested, in the course of the current year, to issue his proclamation designating a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God for his blessings vouchsafed to the people of Ohio.

P. HITCHCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed May 13, 1861

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 15, 1861.

I certify that the foregoing General, Local and Special Laws, and Joint Resolutions, are correctly copied from the Original Rolls on file in this office.

ADDISON P. RUSSELL,

Secretary of State.