The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-01-26
LEcIsLATIvH.
,r,..os6 ~. January 10th, 1872.

monument to General lmon henCOh
- I1rhana In 1864 the Legislature
nsseed n law to that effect, and
commissioners were appointed to
execute the work. An appropria-
tion of one thousand dollars to de-
frav the expense of the work was
made. but the commissioners failed
to perform their duty further than
to remove the remains to Urbana,
where citizens had presented a suit
able burying lot. The money was
not drawn from the Treasury within
two years, and could not be drawn
after that. Mr.. Fulton's bill revives
the old act, authorizes the Governor |
to fill the vacancies in the Board of |
Commissioners.
In the Senate, Mr.. Daugherty in
troduced two bills. One provides
for amending section 43 Of the act
relating to wills, so as 20 allow the
widow to make her own election af
ter the expiration of one year. The
other is to prevent unnecessary ac-
cumulations of money in public
treasures. 1t divides each county
into ten collection districts, and pro-
vides for the collection of taxes in
each during a different month, no
collections being made in March
and November. 1t is the same bill
introduced near the close of the last
Legislature, changed only as to the
number of collection districts, the
former making twelve.
The papers relating to Mr.. Sayler's
contest of the seat now occupied by
Mr.. Kemp, from the Montgomery
Preble district, were received aHd
referred to the committee on Priv
iIeges and Elections.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II.
HoUsE-Fred Blenker was elected
Third Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms
by acclamation. Mr.. BerkstEesser
offered a resolution instructing the
Ohio delegation in Congress to urge
the passage Of a bill granting 160
acres of land to each officer, musi-
clan and private enlisted IN the mil
itary and naval service, of the Unit
ed States DUNG the late rebellion,
and to the legal heirs Of those who
Lost their lives while in such service,
the land to be theirs to hold, occupy
or dispose Of at their pleasure.
The resolution was referred to the
committee on Military Affairs.
The following bills were introduced:
To amend the ditch law of 1871, by
giving County Commissioners power
to order the keeping open and re-
pairing Of bitches by landowners, to
amend the same law by providing
that before any ditch shall be order
ed an estimate of its cost shall be
made-the contract price shall not
exceed the estimate, nor snail the
levy to meet the expense be made
until the ditch has been completed
and accepted by TIE County Com
missioners, to provide that where
two free turnpike roads cross each
other, the property within one-half
mile Of such crossing shall be taxed
to defray the cost of constructing
the roads; to authorize the consoh,
dation of two or more turnpike road
companies; to increase the compen-
sation of clreks aud judges Of cleo
tions from $I.50 to $500 per day
each. Mr.. Strong's bill to amend
the homestead act by reducing the
exemption on realty from $1,000 to
$500, and on personally from $500
$500, was indefinitely postponed.
SENATE.-The proceedings, were
brief and in the main unimportant.
Stimson's joint resolution, relative
to distributing one hundred copies
of the report of the Geological Sur
vey of Ohio among the scientific per
iodicals and libraries of Europe, was
adopted.
THURSDAY, JANUARY Ii.
In the House, bills were intro
ducea-to extend the jurisdiction
of justices of the pease; to give jus
tices of the peace the same jurisdic-
ton in cases of Feplevin as in civil
cases. To amend the act to preserve
the purity Of elections so as to re-
ouire the judges Of elections, under
penalty of fine and imprisonment, tc
continue counting the ballots cast a
an election without postponement
or adjournment, and to forbid the
removal of the ballot box from the
presence of all the jadges. The
election of an official reporter being
the next thing in order, Mr.. Haas
! nominated E. G. Orebaugh of the
. State Journal, who was unanimous
! ly elected. Mr.. Curtis offered re
I solution that our Representatives II
| Congress use measures to secure The
payment of some $800,000, due Ohi(
f on lands that were sold within he
q limits, after her admission as State
a portion of which proceeds iron
o said sales are due the State, Re
ferred to the Committee on Fedora
p Relations. To protect stockholderi
p in railroad companies, by abolishing
fast freight lines on said roads. TX
allow directors of railroads to pur
y chase stock in the roads over whicI
. they are directors, with the consen
n of three -fourths of the stockholders
, In the Senate, bills we're intro
f duced-to reorganize the board o
v county commissioners, giving cour
= ties with less than thirty thousan
a inhabitants four commissioners
,r those less than seventy-five thous
, and six; less than one hundred an
Il fifty thousand eight. and ten CON
4 missioners for counties of NOR
than one hundred and fifty thous
n and inhabitants, to be elected by th
n people. Relative to warehouses; an,
the confinement therein of certai
class of offenders. This bill author
% ICES courts to sentence persons gui
:, ty offenses punishable by fine or IN
&c prisonment in the county iail,or boil
4 in any workhouse in the county, G
4 the nearest workhouse in any othe
Y county, etc.
# FRIDAY, JANUARY Is.
T. Opened with prayer by Rev. c. {
/ Tate. The journal was read an
IS approved. Mr.. Berry's House bi
/ to admit as competent jurors, pei
s, sons who may have formed an opiI
2. ion as to the guilt or innocence {