Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-04-11
THE CHRONICLE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IL, 1856.
Our Columbus Letter


Ed. CHRONICLE The following bill
have passed both Houses of the Legisla
ture and are now laws, in addition t
those l have hitherto mentioned.
sneak of those which l consider of gen
eral interest:
To amend the 9th section of the act re
lating to dowers, so as to bring all appli
cations for dover under the "Code."
To punish persons by fine or imprison
ment, or both, who mutilate or injurt
books, news papers, magazines or othel
periodical in Libraries or Reading Rooms
To regulate the compensation of Sher
ifs for feeding prisoners, giving then
fifty cents instead of forty cents per day
To refund the four dollar military com
mutation to the one hundred days men
who were mustered into the service.
To amend section one of the act max
ing provision for the incorporation o
cemetery associations so as to permit
persons of different townships to form
an association. The old law required tina
persons forming a cemetery associations
should live in the same township.
To amend the tax law so as to allow
villages having a population less thar
$500 to levy tax for village purposes
exclusive of school tax and interest OF
village debts, two mills and three-tenths
and for sanitary purposes one mill citiei
of the second class, two mills and four
tenths, and for sanitary purposes, on'
mill.
Transferring S8OO,OOO of the Soldier
Relief Fund to the Sinking Fund.
To amend section 314 of the Code b.
adding: 9TH, nor shall any person wht
would be incompetent to testify unde
the provisions of said section in an actor
between himself and any party named
therein become competent by reason o
the sale or transfer of any property by
said executor, administrator, guardian
trustee, heir or devisee, concerning which
property said action is brought, or IL
which action the title to the same is in
volved"
To authorize the removal of convict!
confined IN the Penitentiary for trial or
other indictments found to the county
where found. This law was passed t.
reach the case of Covert confined in the
Penitentiary for perjury. He was the
murderer of the Roosa family, in Warren
county, and was a few days tried, con.
To amend the act to exempt from ex'
ecution the property of soldiers in the
Rebellion. 1t cuts off from the exempt
ion soldiers of the regular army.
To authorize the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas, to hold special terms
of said court in any county within the
districts.
Prescribing the duties of clerk anc
sheriff, in carrying into execution th'
sentence of the court, in cases of murdel
in the first degree; requires the Sherit
to make a return to the Clerk of the ex
ecution of the order, and the Clerk Il
make the return part of the court rec
ord in the case.
Provides for the transfer of certain bal
ances in the county treasures from one
fund to another.
To amend the Sth section of the ac
Regulating marriages, requires the Minis
ter solomizing marriage, to make returns
of certificate to the Probate Judge, in
stead of County Clerk.
To extend the provision of the act fol
the construction of sewers to lncorpor
ated villages of 1000 inhabitants.
Supplementary to the act providing
for the incorporation of cities and incor
porated villages, authorizes municipal
corporations to require the lighting a
night of bridges owned by corporations
or individuals, and giving city and village
councils power to prevent riots, loud ol
indecent language or exposure OF the
person on any such bridge, or the assem-
bling thereon of persons for disorderly ol
unlawful practices.
To extend the provisions of IAN act
amendatory and supplementary to al
act passed April 5, 1856, entitled an act
to amend an act entitled an act to pro
vide for the organization of cities and in
corporated villages, passed May 2, 1852
and the several acts amendatory thereof
and supplementary thereto; passed Mar
81, 1864, ''to all incorporated villages anc
cities of the second class, anything il
said act to the contrary notwithstanding
and the several councils of said cities anC
villages are invested with all the neces
sary powers for carrying out the provis
ions of said acts.
To allow to cons missioners, township
| trustees and village councils to issue
bonds equal in amount to bonds now duf
and unpaid, or TO become due on or be
fore the second Monday of January
1871, and placing the minimum amount
of the bonds at one hundred dollars each
To repeal section eight of the act reg
ulating the Insurance companies, incor
porated by the State of Ohio.
To amend 18th section of the Justice
Code so as to require Justices of the
Peace, in cases of appeal, to make out {
certified transcript of proceedings, anc
on demand, deliver the same to the ap
pellant, or his agent who shall deliver the
same to the Clerk of the Court appealed
to, on or before the goth day after the
rendition of the judgment appealed from
and the justice shall transmit all paper
used on the trial before him, to the Clerk
on or before the Goth day from said judg
ment.
To amend section two of an act pre-
scribing the duties of county Commission
ers, (page $50, Swan & Critchfeld) so a.
to allow them to make an outlay of S50(
without previously advertising the same
and in cases of urgent necessity they may
authorize the outlay of $1,000, without
giving previous notice in newspapers.
To amend the act concerning the rela
tion of guardian and maid so that wher
there is more then one heir from th'
same parentage, but one bond will be re
quired from the guardian.
The law prohi'I biting Attornies from re
ceiving or accepting fees for procuring O.
attempting to procure the pardon OF an!
person convicted of a crime against the
laws of the State, is repealed.
To amend section one of the act con
cerning the rights and liabilities of mar
ried women, SO as to allow them to maxi
contracts for labor and materials for im
proving, repairing and cultivating he
separate property; section three is 81
amended as to make her separate proper