Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-03-14
Ohio Legislature.
COLUMBUS, Mar. 5.

The bill authorizing County Com
missioners to employ detectives. and
offer rewards for the arrest of crimi-
nails, was ordered to be eEgrossed
for the third reading tomorrow.
COLUMBUS, Mar. 6.
Bills passed in the Senate:
Bill authorizing the guardians OF
Nonresident minors to sell real
estate of their wards.
Bill to suthorlze the Commission
ers of Guernsey County to levy a
special tax for the erection of q
bridge at Cambridge.
Bill to authorize the Board of Edu-
cation Of Cardingten Union School
District to borrow money.
The Committee of the Whole had
under consideration the bill reported
by the select committee fer the regu-
lation of railroads; but no test vote
on any of its important sections was
reached.
The House passed the following
bills:
Authorizing the City Council and
Board of Education of Cleveland to
condemn and appropriate lands for
sehoel-house sites.
Authorizing the incorporation of
independent agricultural societies.
Mr.. Nixon's bill to legalize the To-
cation of the street railroad from
Pendleton to Colum bia, and apply to
other cases of street railroads outside
of city limits.
Legalizing the 22d Of February as
holiday.
Mr.. Fitzgerald's bill authorizing the
Commissioners of Hamilton County
to pay for the Whitewater bridge
from the general bridge fund.
Authorizing the Commissioners of
counties to offer rewards, and employ
detectives, for the arrest of persons
charged with or convicted of crime.
Twenty seven bills were read the
second time and referred to appro-
pirate committees.
Mr.. Coulter called up his bill to
authorize the incorporation of dray-
mems associations, and pending the
question on its passage.
Messrs Bruff, Hibbs and others
opposed this bill as calculated to fos-
ter menspolies detrimental to the in
terests of those who engage in dray-
ing.
Mr. Coulter advocated the bill
He thought the apprehensions of
gentlemen opposing it were ground
less. Similar objections had been
made to public improvements, but
experience had shown their absurdi-
ty.
On its passage the bill was lost by
vote of yeas Is, nays 80.
COLUMBUS, Mar. Z.
In the Senate the bill requiring all
minor criminal cases sent to the
County Court, in counties where Pro-
bate Courts have jurisdiction, be
sent to such courts, AID not to the
Common Pleas.
Mr.. Berry offered a resolution me-
moralizing Congress to issue bonds
subject to taxation, to replace those
now exempt. Laid on the table.
Mr.. Kellogg reported a Temper
ance Bill, from the Committee on
Temperance, recommending a con-
currance in the House amendments
by which its provisions are made
general throughout the State. After
some discussion indicating the prob
able agreement of the Senate to the
amendments, the bill was laid on the
table without vote on the main
question.
The remaining hour, until adjourn
ment, was occupied in the discussion
of the bill to reform criminal prac-
tice.
The House occupied most of the
day in the discussion of a local
Bounty Bill.
SOLC MBUS, MARCH o.
In the Senate the following bills
were introduced.
By Mr.. Brdabury-To change the
subdivisions of the Seventh Judicial
District, making Fairfield, Hooking
and Perry counties the first; " ash
ington, Athens, Vinton, jackson,
Pike and Scieto, the second; and
Meigs, Lawrence and Gallia the
Third.
By Mr.. Bradbury-To repeal Sec
ton three of the act OF 1866, author
izing the levy of road tax by Coun-
ty Commissioners.
The remainder of the NOR ming ses-
sion was spent in Committee of the
Whole, on the bill to regulate rail-
roads.
A resolution authorizing the print
ing and distribution of advance
sheets of the laws of the present ses-
sion was adopted.
In the House the bill introduced
by Mr.. Piatt to authorize municipal
corporations to assist in the construc-
ton of free turnpike was read the
third time, and a discussion upon its
provisions was had until the hour of
recess without coming to a vote, ex-
cept on some unimportant amend
ments.
The bill to increase the fees of
Auditors in the smaller counties of
the State was read the third time,
and after some discussion laid on the
table.
GyThe following is the latest state
m emf ~ the condition of affairs in