Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-05-07
OHIO LEGLLA TURE.

SENATE, April 27.-Mr. Lawrence in
treduced a bill to repeal all existing laws
for organizing the militia of the State,
and also the provision which gives the
Adjutant General charge of the State
Arsenal and of the arms, &C., therein.-
The afternoon session was spent princi-
pally In efforts to adjourn and calls Of
the Senate.
HousE.-The bill to provide for the
appointment of commissioners to exam
inc certain claims growing out Of the
Morgan raid was passed. The remain
der of the day was spent in unimportant
business.
SENATE, April 2s.-The following bills
were passed: The bill for the removal
of the county seat of Ottawa county; the
bill to enable building associations to
become saving societies for their own
members; to amend an act allowing the
central depot at Columbus to borrow
money; to amend the net to provide for
making drains, &C., so as to require the
persons for whose benefit they are con-
structed to keep them In repair. The
bill to repeal the law requiring a report
of births, deaths, &C., failed for want of
constitutional majority. The bill to
extend the limitation from $4,000 to
$15, 900 in the amountto be expended by
County Commissioners in the erection
ofpublic buildings was passed.; also a
bill authorizing persons in whese hands
bounty money has accumulated to pay
1t to the township treasurer; also author
izing township trustees to appoint har-
Dor masters In certain cases; also to pro-
vide for surveying aud plating certain
lands In the county of Hocking; also to
authorize tax in a township in Morrow
county to build a town hall; also, to au-
thorize a tax in the town Of Franklin,
Warren county, to erect breakwaters for
the protection of the town. A commu-
nication war presented from the Warden
of the Penitentiary recommending that
authority be given for the purchase Of
ten acres more of ground for the use of
| the Penitentiary. Referred to the COM
mittee on the Penitentiary.
HoUsE.--The House refused to concur
| in the Senate amendments to the bill to
change the State seal. A petition was
presented praying for the adjournment
of the Legislature. Referred to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations. A bill to
regulate the practice ofjudicial courts In
cases OF error was passed. n
] SENATE, May 1.-The House amend.
ments to the Senate bill TO incorporate
musical associations were concurred in
| The following bills were passed. oamend
ain act passed in 1852 relating to wills; tc
exempt from application TO The payment
of debts the earnings of laborers. The
bill TO abolish the Office of Superinten
dent Of the State House and transfer hi
duties to the Secretary ofState, was reaC
the third time, when Mr.. Yeoman mad,
minority report from the Committe,
OH State Buildings against the passage
Of the bill, and the vote being taken upoI
its passage, it failed for want OF a consti
tutional majority, but the vote was re
considered, and the bill made the orde
of the day for Tuesday next. The bill
to amend the act prescribing the dutie
of those having the superintendence Q
public work was passed; also the bill +
, provide for constructing bitches, &C.,
/ The remainder of the afternoon session
was spent i'm discussion of the bill 3
disfranchise the soldiers at the Nations
, Home.
HOUSE. The following bills were pass
cd: to provide for struck juries; to amen
. the common school law SO as to enabl
teachers of German schools to obtain Gel
tificates; to authorize incorporated wi
lagos through which turnpike roads ru
, to improve the streets through whic
! they run. The bill to remove from offiC
, persons guilty of habitual intoxicatio
. was lost for want OF u constitutional mi
! iority- 40 members voting for 1t. Th
! bin prescribing the duties OF the owner
4 and keepers of wharf boats was passet
! also the bill authorizing a tax for certai
= purposes In Beverly, Washington count,
: also the bill in relation to the enlarg
: ment Of a culvert on the Miami CAM
!. the bill to enable building associations
: become bodies corporate was passed.