Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-05-21
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.

SENATE, May 11.-A bill was report
ed back by committee, call of the
Senate was made, q bill was introduced
and vote reconsidered, and then the
Senate adjourned til the next morning
at 10 o'clock.
HOUSE.-A resolution was ofIeIed by
Mr. Rukenbrod, providing for an appro-
priation OF $4,000 to purchase books for
the use of the prisoners OF the Peniten-
tiary /; referred. A very bitter and very
foolish resolution, censuring Mr.. Byers,
the Chaplain of the State Prison, was
offered by Representative Headley, he
knowing nothing of that of which he
spoke, and being entirely mistaken as to
the facts. The resolution went over on
a notice to discuss. A series of resolu-
tions was offered condemning Judge
BurlS, Of Summit County, for deciding
the visible admixture bill unconstitution-
| al, and ending in q stump speech, to
which the House listened as q convent
ent mode of killing time. The House
| then took recess, and then they met,
and q bill was introduced, and then a
call of the House was had, and 70 MEM
bers were found present; then mes
sage was received from the Senate in
reference to the State House square,
and Mr.. Hill of Defiance deprecated
the extravaganza which was being at
tempted to be fastened upon the State
while the people of the State were being
crushed beneath the weight of taxation"
Ito pay u thousand dollars per day. and
then somebody made q motion, and the
House agreed and then O bill was voted
on and lost, and then the vote was re-
considered, and the bill was put on the
calendar for the next day, and then a
bill was passed for the relief of Sylvester
! Grubb, and then on motion Of Mr. Hill,
of Defiance, the vote was reconsidered
and the bill placed on tho calander for
Tomorrow, and then the House adjourn
| ed.
SENATE, May 12.-The bill to enable
the Commissioners of Muskingum Coun-
to purchase the Putnam toll bridge was
passed.
HoUsE.-The following bills We're
passed: 10 authorize women whose
husbands were In the insane asylum to
sell property which they hold In their
own right, without the cost of going in
to the courts to authorize the Board OF
Public Works to grant the right of way
TO the Friend streetrailway in Columbus;
TO repeal tho act of 1867 supplementary
to an net relating to roads and high.
ways.
SENATE, May 13.-The following bills
were passed: 70 amend sections six and
seven of the act relating to the organi.
zation of courts OF justlce'-having ref
erenee TO the arrangement of business In
the Supreme Court to repeal the act OF
1862 prohibiting traffic with rebels. The
joint resolution for the appointment of q
commission to revise the laws relating
TO railroad and telegraph companies, was
adopted; also, tho resolution providing
for the payment of $500 to Chaplain Tol
fourd for makinglists of Union and Con,
federate soldiers buried In Ohio also, 6
. resolution requesting our Senators anC
Representatives In Congress to oppose al
grants Of public lands for the benefit o.
RAILROAD companies or other corporation.
or for the establishment of Institutes o
learning; also resolution to adjourn oil
the 18th TO Monday, November %. Th,
, vote by which the bill to authorize town
ship trustees TO levy q tax for q township
eemstery was lost was reconsldered, ant
the billpassed. ev4t tn-fl
A HousE.-The following bills wer
: passed To provide for the re.appralse
1 ment OF property underexecutien, whicl
!. remains unsold after being twice offered
Q to prevent the use, by unauthorized pai
r ties, OF the names Savings societies,
{ &c. /; TO provided the punishment o
9 persons who Induce any female TO sexua
X intercourse. A resolution was adopte
o requiring the trustees Of tue Deaf am
o Dumb Asylum to report an itemixed az
: count of all furniture, carpeting and II,
g lures purchased for orthenewasyium ais
d resolution to adjourn on the 18th to N,
IS vember 23d. A bill was passed provis
q ing q penalty for removing horses frol
Is stables, fields, hitching places, &c
- where they have been unlawfully place,
is without the consent of the owners.
s. bill supplementary to the general appr
a. priatiou act Was noAsau