Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-03
Legislative Proceedings.

time OF making out road tax
and giving 10 trustees of townships, and
TO return road tax to district from which
collected and be expended by supervisor,
to increase the fees of jurors in Justices
courts TO 81 90 per day were passed. A
resolution was introduced 10 instruct
the Auditor OF State 10 instruct apprais-
ers 10 assess the real estate of the State
upon = specie basis, and one adopted to
require all committees TO report all
Items of expense 10 the committee on
Claims and the Auditor of State 10 dis
allow ali items not approved by that
committee. In the Senate, bill relating
to the construction of railroad bridges
was passed. 1t provides, among other
things, that the archways of railroad
bridges hereafter constructed, shall be
at least eighteen feet in height. The
Senate bill to repeal the act passed at
last session in reference to tax titles,
was discussed for some time and failed
to pass-yeas ii, nays Is. Among the
bills introduced was one for the estab-
lishment of an Ohio House of Discipline,
or reformatory school, and one to au-
thoriZe the election of township officers
in wards of cities. The House bill for
the adoption of children by orphan
asylums, was passed, and aise the House
bill for the allowance of allmony to the
wife pending suit for divorce in the
District Court. a Senate joint resolu-
tiOn was adopted for joint committee
of the two Houses to confer with a COM
mittee of the citizens of Columbus in ref
reference to build Governors Mansion
on a lot on Broad street, belonging to
The State. Mes-rs. Dunbar and Daugh-
al 90 on
the part of the Senate.
In the House, on Thursday, a bill to
punish as misdemeanor the altering,
destroying or defacing wholly, or in
part, any record authorized to be made
by the laws of this State, was passed. A
bill to repeal the act for taxing bonds,
treasury notes and fractional currency
of the United States, held or owned by
individuals, companies or corporations,
passed May 7th 1869, was lost. A bill
TO authorize the sale of a quarter section
of land in Darke county for school pur-
poses, was passed. The bill to encOur-
age the study of anatomy was passed.
The bill to provide for the clearing of
The channel of Big Beaver creek, Mer-
Ger county, was passed. In tie Senate,
bills were introduced to prohibit chill
dren from attending the common schools
unless they have been vacinated; to re-
fund to the Cincinnati aud GAINESVILLE
Railroad Company certain taxes, if
found to have been illegally collected;
and to prevent frauds in suits for divorce
and alimony, and for other purposes.
The bin to. allow. the Trustees of The
Commercial Hospital to invest funds re-
ceiyed from students for medical
library and one to allow the Trustees of
Harrison township, Champaign county,
to pay debt for special draft purposes,
were passed.
In the House, ON Friday, bill was
passed authorizing and requiring town
ship clerks to prosecute township treas
urers in case of defalcation Of and re-
quiring the latter to give separate bonds
for school funds. The senate resolution
relative to the erection of a mansion for
the Governor of the State was adopted.
The Senate amendments to the bill re-
lating to the adoption of children were
concurred in. The rest of the day was
spent in consideration of the Hamilton
county Reform bill, limiting the COM
pensation of certain officers in that
county. In Senate, a bill was introduced
by Mr.. Dunbar to repeal the act of last
session taxing United States bonds,
treasury notes and fractional currency.
The following bills were passed. Senate
bill providing that before a certificate
of incorporation shall be filed and re-
corded by the Secretary Estate, it shall
be approved by Attorney General. For
d special election in the town of Cald-
we'll, Noble county. A bill supple
mentary to the act for draining Hog
Creek Marsh, in Hardin county. To
authorize the trustees of Crane township,
county. to levy tax for bridge
purposes. Bills were introduced by Mr..
Streator to punish the crime of aiding
prisoners TO escape from the Peniten-
Iiary, and to regulate the management
of the Penitentiary, to equaliZe the sal
aries ofits officers and to provide for the
return OF insane convicts at the eXpira-
ton OF their confinement, to the eoun-
ties from which they were sentenced.
SIR. Hubbell introduced a bill, amend
ing the criminal code. A joint resolu-
ton, reported by MIR. Corey, for the
appointment of a joint committee to
visit the Orphans Home at Xenia, and
report the number and destitution of
soldiers orphans, and the value of the
property offered the State, was discussed
at length, and adopted-yeas %, nays s.
A Senate bill was passed, authorizing
the Board of Education of Napoleon,
Henry county, to raise by special tax
$4,000 for building g school house.
In the House, Saturday, bill was
passed authorizing the County Commits
sioners to pay bounties for killing
wolves. Resolutions appointing COM
mittees to visit the Soldiers Orphans
Home, and Defiance and Henry coun-
ties, to investigate damages done by
Public Works in those two counties. A
bill was passed to authorize the Trus-
tees of Jackson Township, Ashland
county, to transfer surplus bounty funds
to School funds. In the Senate, the
President appointed Messrs. Mckinney,
Prophet and Cowan on the Joint Com
mittee to visit the Ohio Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Xenia, and Mr.. Nc
Kinney's bill to provide for the appoint
ment of guardians of habitual drunk
ards, was passed. The appointment of
Mr.. A. G.. McBurney for Director of the
Southern Lunatic Asylum at Dayton,
was confirmed.
In the House, on Monday, Feb. %,
there was large number of petitions
presented, most of them for a Soldiers
Orphans Home, and several for the eX-
tension of the limits of Cincinnati. A
bill to punish the unauthorized use of
school houses was lost. Also one to
transfer the township of Put-in-bay
from Ottawa county to Erie county. A
resolution Was presented indorsing the
votes of the Ohio delegation in the
House of Representatives in Congress
who voted for an increase in the volume
OF currency, and to instruct our Sena-
tors to vote tor such a measure. A bill
TO authorize the consolidation of two or
more churches of the same ecclesiastical
faith and form of government when
three fourths of the members vote for
such union, was passed. Bills were in
troduced, to fix the compensation of
members of the General Assembly at
$500 W, and So % per day for extra ses-
SONS; to license the keeping of dogs and