Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-12
From the State Capital.

SENATE.-Petitions were presented and
referred-for a law to prohibit the fus-
Their immigration of eolored persons into
this State.
The Senate spent most Of the day in
discussing the joint resolution which pro
vides for an adjourned session Of the Gen
eral Assembly. The resolution was then
laid upon the table by q vote of IL to IL,
after having been amended, upon motion
of Mr.. Johnson, so as to provide for a SIM
die adjournment on the 3lst of March.
inst. Numerous House messages were
read and disposed OF, and the Senate ad.
journed.
HoUsE.-Numerous petitions were pre-
sented and referred, signed by men OF all
parties, for a law to prohibit the further
immigration of colored persons into this
State. Petitions were also presented and
referred-for a change in the law for the
relief of the families of volunteers for a
law authorizing the sale ofcertain school
lands for a stay law against the redue-
ton of the salaries of the judges of courts
in Hamilton county ; in relation to pau
pers against the extension of the time
within which railroad companies are re
quired to fence their roads for the re-
duction of the fees and salaries ofStatc,
County, and Township officers.
The following bills were passed: TIC
abolish the Office of the Secretary of the
Board of Public Works; Making partial
appropriations for the ~Penitentiary Sup
Elementary to an act entitled IAN act
concerning the relation of guardian and
ward" passed April u, and took effect
July l, 1858; TO amend the 10Th section
of the code; To provide for the payment
of costs in minor criminal prosecutions
The following bills were introduced and
read the first time To amend section q
| of an act entitled IAN act to provide for
the semi-annual collection of taxes"
passed and took effect April ,, 1859; To
repeal sections Is, IA and 16 of the indie
pendent Treasury Law. A resolution
was adopted, looking to the abolition OF
the office OF Clerk of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners. Mr.. Boesel offered a
ljoint resolution, providing for q sine die
adjournment on the 7th of April next,
which went over under the rule. The
House spent most of the afternoon in
| committee of the Whole. in discussing
the interest question. Mr.. Osborn intro
duced a bill, which was read the first
time, To amend section $50 of the code.
Petitions were also presented and refer
ed-against the reduction OF the salaries
of Judges of Hamilton county for an
| eight per cent interest law ; for q stay
law for the reduction OF the fees and sal
aries of State, county and township officers.
Sundry bills were read the second time
and committed and the following bills
were introduced and read the first time
To amend section go of an act entitled an
act to provide for the organization of CT
ties and incorporated villages, passed
May 3, 1852; To amend an act fixing the
compensation OF the members ofthe Gen
eral Assembly.
The following bill, amendatory of the
law prescribing the duties of supervisors,
and relating to roads and highways, has
passed both branches of the Legislature,
and is now a law. 1t amends Section-fve,
of the old law, to read as follows:
Section 5. Any person charged with
u read tax may discharge the same Tex
cent that set apart for bridge purposes
by labor On the public highways within
the district where the same is charged,
prior to the fifth cay Of August, 1t the
rate of one dollar per day for each days
work of an a~ble-bod;ed MAJ, and a Tatable
allowance per day for any team or nipple
ments furnished by any person, under the
direction OF the supervisor of such dis
trict. Each supervisor Except as herein
after provided shall write on the mar
gin OF his list, opposite to the amount
charged against all such as may pay the
same by labor, the word paid" and
shall return his list on or before the sew
enth day OF August of the same year &c
the township clerk, who shall write on
the margin of the list sent to him by the
auditor, opposite to the amount charged
against each person who may have paid
the same in labor, as shown by the re
turns of the supervisors, the word paid,
and shall forthwith forward the same tC
the county auditor, who shall charge al
such as may remain unpaid, as shown by
the returns of the township clerks upon
the duplicate of the proper county, anc
the same shall be collected as other mon,
les are collected by the county treasurer
and the supervisor shall also, on being
requested so to do, give to each person
who may pay his tax aforesaid, a receipt
for the same, and if by mistake any per
son who may have paid his road tax
shall be charged with a road tax on the
duplicate. the receipt ofthe proper super
visor shall be conclusive evidence thatsuch
road tax is unjustly charged: Provided,
that in such counties where the commits
sioners shall extend the time for the dis
charge of the road tax in labor on the
roads and highways as provided for in
section four of the act of which time Is
amendatory, beyond the fifth day of Aug
ust in each year, it shall be the duty Of
the supervisors of every such county to
give every person a certificate specifying
the amount OF tax so paid in labor, and
the district and township wherein such
labor was performed also, that such Ia.
Dor was performed between the first day
of April and the day so designated by
the commissioners for the completion OF
all labor on the roads and highways,
which certificate shall in no case be given
for n greater sum than the tax charged
against such person, and the county
treasurer shall receive all such certificate
as money, in the discharge of said road
tax ; and in case the holder of such GER
tificate shall desire to pay taxes by semi
annual installments such certificates may
be received in payment of the December
installment, and the one-half part thereof
credited on the June payment. All road
taxes shall be placed upon tax duplicate
and collected by the county treasurer the
same as other taxes, except as herein
provided.
SEC. 2 That section Five of the act to
which this is an amendment is hereby re-
pealed. This act to take effect from and
its passage.