The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-03-15

COnIOl1fG CuS SluOCAo3 AANiCA PNh0hOJ3
to signal their steam whistle so or
100 rods in advance of every wagon
road crossing; House bill to pro
tect stockholders in railroad COM
psnies by providing that no railroad
director shall be interested in any
fast freight line association; House
bill to authorize county commits
sioners to establish coroners of
township; House bill to so amend
the act regulating Enclosures as to
compel land owners to construct and
maintain division fences; House bill
to amend the act to authorize and
regulate limited partnerships so that
special partners may be taken into a
firm without necessitating a change
in the firm name.
SENATE.-Mr. Stimson introduced
bill to redistrict the State for Con
gressmen. By the vote which Noyes
received last fall, this bill would
give the Republicans fifteen mem
bers of Congress and the Democrats
five. 1t meets with pretty general
approval among Republicans of the
Legislature.
THURSDAY, MARCH Z.
A lengthy discussion was had on
Mr.. Little's bill to provide for the
election of delegates to the Consti
tutional Convention. Propositions
were made for choosing delegates Oh
either the first Monday in May, at
the regular October election, at the
November election, or the election
in April, 1873. No time yet agreed
upon.
SENATE.-Bills were passed Us fol
lows: House bill to authorize town
ship clerks to administer oaths anG
take and certify af1idavits in certain
cases; Senate bill to authorize
bridge companies to appropriate
real estate for the sites of thei
bridges and for suitable avenues OF
approaches thereto; Senate bill tC
limit the time for the presentation Of
military claims to July 1st, and the
time for their allowance to Novem
Der 1st, 1872; House bill making ap
preparations for the payment of the
interest and a portion of the prin
cipal of the State debt; House bill
requiring county commissioners to
publish the annual statement of The
financial affairs Of the county in a
least one newspaper of general cir
culation in the county; Senate bill
for the relief of the poor. This bill
is q codifcation and amendment o.
existing laws for the relief Of the
poor. The principal changes i
makes in these laws are the follow
ing: 1t requires the directors anC
superintendents of countyinfirmarie:
to give bonds. The superintendent
is directed to require itemized bills
for all labor or articles for the USE
of the inirmary, or its farm, and tC
certify on the back Of each to it;
correctness. The directors are semi
annually to report to the county
commissioners the condition of the
infrmary, with full account of al
moneys received and paid out, ac
companied by the vouchers provid
ed for in the act, This report is tC
be examined by the county commits
sioners, and the account, if found
correct, allowed. But item in thC
account is to be allowed which ha;
not proper voucher. The direc-
tors fix the salary of the Superin-
tendent, which is to be confirmed by
the county commissioners. Penal
ties are provided for violations o.
the provisions Of the act.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8.
HoUsE.-The bill providing fol
the election of delegation to the Con
stitutional Convention was post
poned till Tuesday.-The Senate
bill creating a State Department O
Insurance, with a Superintendent
thereof to be appointed by the Gov
ernor and confirmed by the Senate
at salary of $4,000 per annum wa:
passed by a vote of 63 against %
and is now law-The Senate bill
to authorize mining companies tc
appropriate land necessary for rail
roads to and from toeir mines, was
passed. The Senate unanimously
adopted a resolution requesting oul
Senators and Representatives in
Congress to earnestly oppose and
condemn the granting of any more
subsidies in the public lands to cor
pOrations and monopolies.-Tht
resolution instructing the Ohio del
egation in Congress to press upon
the general government Ohio's five
per cent. claim for public lands sold
within the limits of the State after
the year 1902, was also adopted
without dissenting voice.
SATURDAY, MARoH 8.
Observation-Disclosures numer
ously signed any tampering with the
liquor law, poured in like a deluge
Two bills were passed, namely
Senate bill providing that all
moneys coming into the hands ofre-
ceivers of railroads in Ohio shall be
kept in this State by receivers;
House bill to authorize the trustees
of any township in the State to levy
a tax of one mill on the dollar, on
an affirmative vote of the people, to
purchase a hearse, build a hearse
house and a receptacle for the dead.
SENATE.-Bills were passed as fol
lows: Senate bill to allow judges
and clerks of election two dollars
each per day; Senate bill fixing the
standard weight per pushel of corn
in the ear at seventy pounds, until
the first of January of each year
next after it has been raised, and
from and after that time at sixty
eight pounds, clover seed at sixty
pounds instead of sixty-two pounds
as now, and oats at thirty two
pounds instead of thirty-three
pounds as at present; Senate bill
providing for the keeping in repair
of division fences, and in case of the
failure Of one party upon notice to
keep his portion of such fence in re-
pair, the other party may repair the
same and collect the expense from
the failing party; Senate bill to pro
vide for the publication of the list
of delinquent lands in one German
newspaper in those counties wherein