The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-03-04
LEGIsLAgIvE.

buo oeuaeo uu <ou, WetV the lOllpW-
Jog;
To authorize the appropriation
oflands for the use Of public insti-
tutions by proceedings in Probate
Courts, where their purchase could
not be Effected; to provide that the
husband shall.not have an estate
Tor life, By courtesy, in the estate
of his deceased wife, when it has
descended to her through q form
er husband; 10 reduce imprison.
mcnt for petit larceny to Is days,
and to fix the rate Of tolls by law.
The House passed the follow
ing;
A bill to provide that in case
where veteran volunteers hold
bounty certificates against town.
ships whose quotas were full. they
shall be paid by the State; biIr
70 establish a true meridian line
at county seats; and bill TO mako
tho pay Of members of county
boards of equalization three dol
lars a day, and Of the State board
five dollars day.
On tho 2ilh, tho Senate adopted
a resolution instructIng the Attor.
ney General to inquire into TIE
management Of the Cincinnati and
GAINESVILLE Railroad, Of which com
plant has been madc.
House proceedings unimportant.
In tho Senate, on the 25th, the
President pro tem presented com
munieation from A. G Byers, Sec.
retary Of tho Board OF State Char.
tiles, in reply to a Senate resolu-
ton requesting the Board TO report
the number Of orphans Of Ohio
volunteers now in the county in.
firmaries and childrens' homes.
Referred to the special committee
on that subject.
Tho Communication shows that
in forty one counties, from which
returns are made, there are forty
nine soldiers orphans in county
in6rmarics snd childrcnA homes.
Their ages are from three to six.
teen years, and, so for as reported,
tweniy.six are boys and thirteen
are girls.
The following is from the Ohio
State Journals report Of House
proceedings on the 25tb:
Mr.. Ross presented tho memor.
ial of Z. q. Walcut., wardcn OF tho
Ohio Peniicntiary, representing
that said prison is net and probd
bly, will not he filed, TOR the max
imum number OF convicts is grad.
ually, surely roceding..lhe number
now being eigbty.eigbt less than
ak years ago, and the number re.
ceived during the last year two
hundred and three less than in l8.
10, and hence concludes tbero ia
no pressing necessity for immedi
ato action in regard 10 building a
new Penilcntiary. Also represent
ing that the expense Of building
such institution. will be at least
ono and halt million. of Dollars,
and will require the same number
OF officers, nj the same salaries as
in the Ohio PenitenIiary; and to
have these prisons in different 10.
calities, will load 10 confusion in
their management, as in,tne State
of Now York and Indiana. And
further, representing that the Pen
itentiary in the past two years had
placed in tho State Treasury s2O,
900 more than il had drawn
from it; and made $4,000 worth
Of improvements; and il tho
present Penitentiary can bo ex.
tended the work can be done by
convicts, at very little extra ex.
ponse to tho State. For these, and d
other reasons he asks the Leglsla.
ture TO suspend the location Of q
new Penitentiary at any point, for
tho presont,
Mr.. Gordon moved that the
foregoing memorial be sent back
TO the author, and that tho War.
den ofthe Penitcntlary be instruct.
cd 10 report tho capacity ofthe
prison and the number of con victs,
and respectfully inform him after
that, hisduty will have been per.
formed.
After somc remarks by Messrs
Gordon, Ball, Hughes OF Butler,
and Stewart,
Mr. Sherwin moved that tho
memorial and resolution bo refer
rod to the committee on tho Pen.
itentiary, Tho motion was agreed
70,
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CHARLEsToN, on tho Kanawha.
has been selected by tho Logisla.
ture NJ tho permanent capital Of