Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-04-20
OHIO LEt;IsLATGRE,s..,. .
RILLS PASSED.

sEsATE5e--Ffiday, April 7.+s@Senate bill il
provide Tor the payment Of q bounty 10 veter
,nstre-enlisted from this State, who have mo-
S heretofore received local bounty ;Gv III,
10 increase the fees Of judges Of probate
.ourts. naajN % ei al" idsi : ID d 'itA1
Supplementary to "anf act to authorize the
county commissioners, trustees Of townships
md city councils, to- levy a tax for the pay
nAnt of bounties to volunteers, and to refund
Subscriptions made for that purpose" " passed
\ March %, 1864 .stx.c
1t is designed to cure omissions in the exc
cntion Of the law to which IL is supplemental
Try.
10 prescribe n scale of fees for county
4 rcasurcrs, corresponding with the amounts
Z s'yeraNy collected BY them '' tA'
ITO enact tile law as it existed prior to til,
aeislation Of 1862, regulating Tho fees o,
\ clerks Of the courts of Common Pleas. Fi'
April S--liouse!bill-increasihg the fees
Of County Recorders from ten to twelve cent,
aaer hundred words recorded .'a as8'
4 House Blll-Authoriziig Prosecutiong Al,
5torneys to receive commission of ten PEI
cent on collections made BY them in their off
tial capacity. 1i3r' ~ ~" b''s& o' hg' ''@l .4a
House Bill to authorize county commission
ars to levey special road tax iii case of extra
aerdnaiy damages sustained by freshets lane
3aides, Ne 10 fT2ni az 1ab III '"i ~,tyl''
House bill authorizing city, town, and vii
Alage councils to levy takes and borrow money
ITO purchase site and erect thereon vllag}
Hrison, engine room and council hall. ii "iT.
II The House bill authorizing the councils o.
acities and towns Of not exceeding 20 900 in
ahabitants to purchase land and lay out thereon
#,mblie pSrks and s1rares-%lth power to bor-
Srow money for that purpose-with a limit to
Expenditure of 5000 for each thousand III
8habt,tntsl daH7T' ~ 7"'@'H i.l "1'e
House bill fixing the compensation of Pros
ntuting attorneys graduated by the Federal
,ensus-of which the following are specified
4 IN counties Of not less than twenty Thousand
Inhabitants not exceeding four hundred dol
lars 1T also allows on the order Of the Coun!
aty Commissioners, ten pei cent on all monies
collected on fines forfeited, recognizarces anl
,osts collected by defendants in criminal. ca
ies, limiting thGPer3 3centuni to not more than
one hundred dollars in one case! .'Fl'9f
1 L IYyt.t+I., BILLS PASsED ...pr1 hay.,t.
a Senate, Wednesday April 12A-Authoriz.
ling the recorders of the several counties OF
this State to keep q separate book for the rec,
Iord of leases 7,,e, .,5i,gi, l.;y.a,..,7 h1n,'.
To provide for the sale of land scrip donated
BY the aft of Congress for the endowment Of
an agricultural college, ,.a ~ a,..z- ,aa..a
To place public, burying grounds under
charge Of township. trustees, and authorize
them to levy taxes to enclose and keep them
lin repair, 81, .sg,t,,a,.. t-a,I .ni ~ I.n, -,
TO authorize county commissioners; city
councils and township trustees to levy a tax
to refund money borrowed Of. pledged for To-
fcai pouhues' 49, q .42aT2sib a"go afofi isat
d. s., lr,,i CHARGES AGAINST AJuDGE. ~ .uI4
Columbus, April l2-Mr Stevenson pres-
scented the following memorial: ~ T'i''si
/ To the General Assembly of the State of
Ohio :5s1H9J 'sd. i,;iPl y ! 'ihl'a 5. .raR
Your memorialist, Charles Miller, Of the
county Of Fairfield, and State Of Ohio, re-
specially represents and complains that Phil
|ddelphas Van Trump, Judge Of the Court Oh
Common Pleas of theSeventh Judicial Dis
|trict has been guilty of such conduct as rem
ders him unfit to retain his position as 4 Judge,
In this--that onf'the Goth day Of February,
1854 one John See, Of Fairfield County, ,di. ,mur
|dered two soldiers in the city Of Lancaster,
Ohio that one Samuel Eautz, was charged
/ with being AN alder and abettor IN the com.
mission of said offense, and fed as fugitive,
from Justice, and was concealed from the Off
GERS Of the law in the city of Columbus, Ohio,
for the period of several days that said Judge
Van Trump was cognizant ofs4he fact that
said Lautz was fugitive from Justice, and
was with him, when concealed, as his coun-
|selor and advisor, and interested himself in
(concehlihg said fugitive, and preventing his
chat your memorialist was Ill
fvited by said Judge, togetheriwith one Simon
ton, Of Columbus, Ohio, to visit said fugitive,
Lautz, in his room, where he. remained con
lcealed, in Columbus and where your memo
|rialist heard said Judge advise said. fugitive,
|and ,counsepwith him as to the probability Of
Ibis being convicted Of the offense charged,
land gave his opinion as to his guilt, and also,
heard the said Judge Van Trump say, in the
room wher' said fugitive was concealed, that,
ii'ifwe had In our county few more like John
ISee,' (the murlerer), the Abolitionfstsf reign
would soon be over in Lancaster" that John
tSee is under indictment, in the Fairfield
Court Of Common Pleas, for the murder of
4 said soldiers, and that said Judge Van Trurau
WAS, at the time of the commission Of said
Ioffense, presiding and now presides, ovef said
court aud viii Be the Judge to try said case,
unless removed from his pfice; that, in his
3decisions for eontinuances; and preliminary
motions in said Case, the said Judge has man
iifested the same pdftiality and feeling indica-
tied in ,hisa remark heretofore quoted Your
memorialistt therefore makes this complaint,