Salaries of officers and teachers, and trustees' ex

Salaries of officers and teachers,and trustees' ex

Salaries of officers and teachers, and trustees' ex

Partial appropriations for 1900 and 1901.

Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home.

Current expenses

$25,000.00

Salaries of officers and teachers, and trustees' ex

SECTION 2. The moneys appropriated in the preceding section shall not be in any way expended to pay liabilities or deficiencies existing prior to February 15, 1900, nor shall they be used or paid out for purposes other than those for which said sums are specifically appropriated as afore

said.

SECTION 3. No bills for clerk hire, for furniture or carpets, or for newspapers, shall be paid out of appropriations made for contingent expenses; no bills for carpets or furniture, or any expenses for officers attending state, interstate or national associations of benevolent institutions, shall be paid out of the appropriations made for current expenses of said institutions; and no money herein appropriated shall be drawn except on a requisition on the auditor of state, approved by the head of each department or the trustees of the institution, which shall set forth in itemized form the service rendered, or material furnished or expenses incurred, and the date of purchase and the time of service, and it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to see that these provisions are complied with. No bills for extra clerk hire in favor of any clerk or clerks, while drawing salaries from the state, shall be allowed from any amount hereby appropriated, and this act shall take effect on its passage.

J. B. SNYDER,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.
JNO. A. CALDWELL,

Passed February 15, 1900.

President of the Senate. 6G

[House Bill No. 136.]

AN ACT

To make appropriation for the support of common schools.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

for common

SECTION 1. That there be, and is hereby appropriated, Appropriations. from any moneys raised or coming into the state treasury schools. for the support of common schools, for the fiscal year ending November 15, 1900, and for the fiscal year ending November 15, 1901, the sum of three million five hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred ($3,570,900) dollars, or as much as may come into the state treasury for that purpose at a rate not exceeding one dollar and forty-five ($1.45) cents, for each enumerated school youth, to be distributed and paid in the manner provided by section 3956 of the Revised Statutes.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

J. B. SNYDER,

Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

JNO. A. CALDWELL,

Passed February 15, 1900.

President of the Senate.
7G

[House Bill No. 137.]

AN ACT

To make an appropriation to pay the principal and interest on the public funded debt and interest on the irreducible debt and expenses of the sinking fund commission.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated from any money that may be in the treasury or that may come into the treasury, belonging to the sinking fund, the following sums for the purposes herein named: For the payment of the principal of the funded debt due July 1, 1900, and July 1, 1901, five hundred and fifty thousand ($550,000) dollars; for payment of interest on funded debt, fifty-five thousand ($55,000) dollars; or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the interest falling due July 1, 1900, and January 1, 1901, and July 1, 1901, and January 1, 1902; for interest on irreducible debt of the state, which constitutes the school, ministerial, indemnity fund, Ohio university and Ohio state university, five hundred and seventy-five thousand ($575,000) dollars; for the expense of the commissioners in paying the loan and interest due July 1, 1900, and January 1, 1901, and July 1, 1901, and January 1, 1902, fourteen hundred ($1,400) dollars; for payment of the office expenses of the commissioners of the sinking fund, including salary of clerk, three thousand ($3,000) dollars.

Appropriation

and interest on to pay principali public debt.