Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, Vol. 47: Being the First Session of the Forty-Seventh General Assembly, Held in the City of Columbus, Commencing on Monday, December 4, 1848 Over these gentlemen, Mr. Leiter, of Stark, presided, and Mr. Smith, of Brown, discharged the duties of clerk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.