Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-20
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
CoLUHBUs, March IA.


SENATE
Mr.. Kellogg's resolution TO amend the
Constitution Of the State so as to permit
colored men to vote, came up SIS a special
order.
Mr.. Golden moved the indefinite post
ponement of the resolution. which was
lost-yess six, nays twenty-five.
On motion Of Mr.. Hollister, it was then
further postponed until Thursday next, at
ten o'clock, 4. N.
The Judiciary Committee reported
against any legislation In answer to petit
tons asking for a law to tax bonds, bank
shares, &c, and to require lawyers, doc
tors, &c, TO give notice to parties applying
for advice that they intend to take q fee
for such sdyice. The reports we're agreed
to.
The House bill to exempt from execution
n sewing mschine kept by 8 person for
his or her use wa passed, and is g law.
HOUSE.
The bill authorizing the sale, or lease,
or abandonment of the P~ennsylvanis &
Ohio canal was passed.
COLUMBUS, March 10.
In the House the general appropriation
bill wAs made a special order for to-mor-
row at eleven o'clock A. II.
The bill providing for the publication of
q synopsis of the general laws in two
newspapers in each county was lost, but
the vote was reconsidered and the bill laid
on the table.
A bill relating to juries was passed. 1t
mobiles the laws on that subject and re-
peals numerous old laws without any great
change in principle and none as to com
pensaticn.
In the afternoon q large number of bills
was passed, among them the following:
To limit the lien of assessments made by
municipal corporations to detray the ex-
penses of improvements to two years.
Passed both Houses.
To amend Section 76 of the act to pro-
vide for the organization Of cities and in
corporsted villages, authorizing s tax for
sanitary purposes.
Tosmend the 32d Section of the common
school law, making it applicable to all vii
lagos OF three hundred Inhabitants. Wheth-
er incorporated or not.
10 exempt pensioners of the United
States from performing labor on the public
highways.
The Committee appointed to visit and
report as to the epidemic at the Deaf and
Dumb Institution, reported that about
forty OF the inmates were subjects o. 4,
and that it was induced by the bad d
lstion and decay Of the old building. By
a temporary interruption of the sewerage
and by carnations from the new earth
thrown up in excavations for the new
building. The Committee reported a res
olution for the entire suspension of the
Institution till the new building Is in a
state 70 be occupied. The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
The Board Of Organization have fixed
the State Fair at Dayton On the 18th, 18th,
IL and 18Th O. October.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 10, 81.
In tie Senate to-day, the morning ses-
sion was mostly consumed in the discus
sion of o bill which provides for the ap-
pointment, by the Probate Judges, of
guardians for habjtual drunksrds, on COM
plant BY the family or friends of the
drunkard, &c. It was finally sent to q
COMMITTEES for amendment.
The Senate agreed to the House amend
ments of the bill for the sale, lease, &c, of
the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal.
The Senate also agreed to the resolution
lcE GAsOdlluAu5 the HCLoOA ~ Tie OcAl ana
Dumb Institution until .he new building
can be occupied, which it is calculated will
be in August or September next.
In the afternoon the House bill authori-
zing County Commissioners to offer re-
wards for all penitentiary criminals, was
passed with an amendment. Also, the
House bill to provide for increasing or re-
the width Of county or township
roads, was passed.
The Senate bill to extend, indefinitely
Is to time, the law providing for the pay
nent Of local bounties to volunteers under
he calls Of July ID and August 4th, 1852,
passed.