Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-29
The General Assembly.

The following bills, of q general ma
ture, have been introduced in the Sem
ate, the present session, up to this
timei
BY Mr.. Dickey. Amending the act
authorizing county commissioners to
construct roads.
Mr.. Brooks. To fix the salaries of GER
tain State officers.
Mr.. Dangler. A registry law.
Mr.. Scribner. For appointing a mes
senger for the Supreme Court.
By the same. Amending the act in
cooperating life insurance companies.
By the same. Amending the act to re-
gulate Insurance companies.
Mr.. Golden Amending law regula-
ting descent of personal estates.
Mr.. Woodwork. Amending the code.
Mr.. Keifer. Amending act for the
punishment of crimes.
Mr. Woodwork. Amending act for
regulation Of public schools.
Mr. Emmitt. For prevention of certain
fraudulent practices.
Mr.. Dickey. supplementary to the
property to be deposited with the town
ship clerk
Mr.. Carter. Making it the duty of
county surveyors to take charge of me-
ridian lines.
Mr.. Kramer. To repeal the visible
Mr.. scribner. To remove the obfee-
tions of Supreme Court TO visible ad-
mixture act.
Mr.. Linn. To provide for the release
of deeds of trust by the persons enti-
tied to receive the money secured there
in, as mortgages are now released.
Mr.. Dangler. For the appointment
of photographic reporters for courts of
common pleas and district courts.
Mr.. Potts. To permit fees to justices
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criminal cases.
Mr.. Linn. Providing that no person
having resigned an Office, shall be ell
igible to the same during the term for
which he was elected, when, prior to
such resignation the emoluments have
been increased.
Mr.. Griswold. To authorsze service
of notice in case OF garnishee upon the
ticket or freight agent of a railroad
company.
Mr.. Berry. To require officers, State
and county, to list their offices for tax
alton the same as other property.
Mr.. Scribner-S. B. 2sS. To amend
section of the act to authorize the
sale and transfer of the Walhonding ca
nal, passed April 13, 1868.
The amendment dispenses with the
necessity of procuring the release of
parties holding water leases but re-
quires the railroad company proposing
to purchase the canal to satisfy the
Board of public works that they have
sufficient means provided to insure the
construction of their road, and to enter
into a written contract with the Board
to keep up and maintain the canal for
the purpose of furnishing water to said
parties, the performance of such con-
tract to be secured by mortgage, which
shall be a first lein. In case the rail-
road company fail to perform their con-
tract, the Board OF Public Works Is
authorized to rescind the sale and re-
take possession of the canal.
Mr.. Emmitt. To repeal the laws in
regard to the seizure of water craft.
Mr.. Everett. To allow bills of excep-
tion to be taken on all judgments of JUS
Mr.. scribner. To establish a code of
criminal procedure.
Mr.. Keller. To authorize the removal
of convicts confined in Penitentiaries, in
certain cases.
urers to receive bonds in payment Of
taxes for construction of roads.
Mr.. Emmitt. To enable turnpike and
plank-road companies to procure ma
terial for keeping their roads in re-
pair.
RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Potts. To require the commit
tee on benevolent institutions to report
whether any further legislation is ne
cessary to protect the buildings of
such institutions from destruction by
fire.
Mr. Linn. To instruct the committee
on agriculture to report whether the
annual reports Of the Board of Agri-
culture may not be abridged without
affecting the agricultural or mechanical
interests of the State. Adopted.
The following bills have been intro
duced in the House:
BY Mr.. Rukenbrod. To provide for
the creation and regulation Of incorpo-
rated companies.
Mr.. Headley. To protect the citizens
of Ohio from empiricism, and elevate
standing of the medical profession.
Mr.. Ross. To amend the law en-
abling building associations to become
bodies corporate.
Nh. Dickson. Amendatory of an act
relating to the organization of courts Of.
Mr.. Wolf. To authorize the removal
Of conviots from the penitentiary for
trial.
Mr. Hill. To prevent the sale of poi
sonous mixtures for food, medicine and
drinks.
Mr.. Lee. Prescribing what shall be
prin1G facie evidence in certain cases.
Mr.. Henricxs. Amendatory of an act
to provide for registry of births and
deaths.
Mr.. Sinclair. For the establishment
and safe keeping of meridians.
Mr.. Henricks. To amend an act for
the disposition of unclaimed costs.
Mr.. BelviIle. To fix the standard by
which lard-oil shall be sold, and to
provide for the inspection -ef barrels
therefor.
Mr.. OdeII. To encourage the forma-
tion Of fire companies.
Mr. shsrwin. Supplementary to the