Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-02-14

lnQeXes OF CIVIL actions penang, ana q
bill for the redemption of the outstand
ing notes and certificates of the Senecs
County Bank; also a bill to authorize
taxes to be levied in the year 1866, tc
pay bounties authorized by the law Of
1865, but not levied that year; a bill to
amend the act for the protection
of the canals of the State and
to prevent parties navigating the canal
from o~bstructing public highways, aud a
bill to amend the laws against kidnap-
ping SO as TO make them alike applicable
to all classes and races of men within the
State.
Mr.. Brown has introduced a bill to
authorize the sale, leasing or abandonment
of any portion of the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Canal. Bills have also been intro
duced in the Senate to amend the act
providing for appeals from Probate Courts
so that an appeal can be taken where the
amount awarded the widow is not sufi-
cient for her supp ort to amend the act
Of 1854 so that County Auditors shall levy
the special road tax when requested by a
majority, instead of three-fourths Of the
taxpayers residing on the road to be
constructed or improved to require
Sheriffs to refuse to execute process issu-
ing from other counties until money is
deposited to pay costs; the exemption laws
so as to include provisions and growing
crops for the ~sustenance of a family, not
exceeding seventy-fEe dollars.
In the House bills have been passed.
To give cities Of the second class the
same power to punish vagrsncy as is pos
sessed by cities of the first class; to pro-
vide for the appointment of commission
ers to revise and consolidate the statistics
of Ohio; to amend the 10th section of an
act concerning divorce and alimony, and
to repeal the 18th section thereof. This
bill permits appeal to the district court
by either party for alimony.
The bill amending the 10th section of
the LIQUOR law so as to render void all
contracts to rent or lease buildings in
which liquor is sold, and making both the
real and personal property of those
persons who shall lease or rent
any building for liquor to be sold therein,
liable for all fines and costs assessed
against any person occupying the same,
was indefinitely postponed. The vote
was afterwards reconsidered, and the bill
laid on the table. The bill to compel
vaccination has also been indefinitely
postponed. Also 3 bill to pay township
trustees three dollars per diem.
Bills have been introduced in the
House: To amend the infirmsry laws so
as to exclude persons of color from the
benefits of its provisions to provide for
the publication of Ohio's Record in the
wal of Rebellion to exempt discharged
disabled soldiers from labor on the high
ways; several petitions from old sol
diers Z" have been presented, asking TO be
relieved from picket duty on the high
ways, and to be placed upon the same
footing in this respect, but nc other, with
the National Guards) /; to give defendant
opening and closing argument in Grimm
al proceedings; to prevent County Re-
corders from conveyancing; to abolish
the Bureau of Soldiers Claims, and trans
fer the business to the Adjutant General;
to prevent the use of the Soldiers Re-
lief Fund for general County purposes
to permit the removal of conVicts from
the penitentiary to the counties where
sent from, for trial on other indictments;
supplementary to the act directing the
mode Of trial in criminal cases. This
bill provides that the defendant may use
dispositions where the witness does not
reside in the State, and when from age,
infrmity or imprisonment, is unable to
attend court. How does this bill square
with the letter of that clause of the Con-
stitution which requires in criminal cases
that the accused and the witnesses meet
face to face? The bill is introduced,
however, by one of the latter day saints
of democracy, and what they don't know
about the Constitution there is very little
use In learning-in their opinion.
The Senate Joint Resolution, endorsing
Mr.. Stanton, Sec'y of War, passed the
House by a strictly party vote.
A resolution has been adopted instruc-
ting the Committee on Railroads to re-
port additional legislation for the security
of life, limb and the property of railroad
passengers; also that they report a bill
requiring locomotive engineers and such
other officers as they may deem necessa-
~, to be examined by a board of commits
sioners as to their fitness to serve in their
several capacities.
The Committee on Currency, to whom
a petition was referred relative to the
taxation of shares of bank stock the
as other property, reported that the
taxation of these stocks is regulated by
United States laws, and in the opinion of
the committee the General Assembly had
no authority to grant the relief asked.
The following is the House Committee on
the Agricultural College question: Messrs.
Nixon, Gaddis; Coulter, Piatt, Gordon,
Gardner, Howard, Bloom, Sawyer, Mas
tiers, Glover, Peril, Shepley, Ault, John
son, Hare, Clark, of Columbiana, Gal
lup and Stedman. Each Congressional
District is represented. Hon. S. N.
Clark, of Columbianna, is Chairman, and
Hon. VIM. P. Nixon, of Hamilton, Secre-
tary.
The next State Fair will be held from
18th to the 18th inclusive, in
Toledo, probably, unless Warren, or some
other respectable place applies for the
honor soon. Thus far Toledo has no COM
petitor.
l have thought that, perhaps, l would
be comforting a benefit upon two classes
your readers by cleaning the following
facts and figures from the Auditors Re-
port: LIST, those who are too busy to wade
through a lengthy report; and I'd, those
who are too lazy to do hat or anything
else. You see 1 am ambitious to become
a public benefactor.
STATE taxes pdlo Dy the county OF
for the fiscal year ending Nov.
Is, 1865, were for the Sinking Fund SILL
8l2; War Fund. SI,329: General Reve-
nue., l 3,l46; School Fund, 81, 094 :
Volunteer Relief Fund, S26, 500. Your
tax was, SI3,887; Poor tax, 2,777;
Township tax, S4,150; Corporation tax,
S5,184. OF real and personal property,
you have 397, 400 acres of land, valued at
81, 488,249; value of real estate in towns,
$604,O66; value of chattle propertp, S.
S94, 717; of domestic animals you have
s,453 horses, 26,035 cattle, 29I mules,
726, $50 sheep, 6,232 hogs, and dogs 1.O1O
persuasion not mentioned. You
cultivate 1924 acres of wheat, SIS of rye,
9,022 of corn, 7,l24 of oats, 45, SCI of hay,
which yields 80, 18S bus. of wheat, 1851 of
rye, 1892 of corn, I7l,793 of oats, and
81, 429 tons of hay. You made 767, 773 lbs.
of butter, and 1902, l46 lbs. of cheese
Reckon you can afford to be cheese eat
ers. Your 1,010 dogs killed 4l2 of your
MANNED 355, causing a loss of 1851.
Soldiers and marines in service in 1865,
1,494; killed and died, 3IS; disabled