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

SATURDAY., MAkCd -
HoUsE-Bills were passed as fol
lows: House bill to authorize the
rear central wing of the Central Ohio
Lunatic Asylum; Joint resolutions
were adopted instructing the Ohio
delegations on the following sub
iects: To use their influence and
vote for bill giving to honorably
discharged Union soldiers 160 acres
of public land without actual settle
ment; to SO legislate for the i'm
provement of the Ohio river as to
secure navigation on that stream
during the whole year,
SENATE-The following bills were
passed; House bill to amend sec
ton three Of that act relating to the
State printing and binding, so as to
provide that proposals for the same
shall be advertised in Dayton and
Toledo, as well as in Cincinnati Co
lumbus and Cleveland; Senate bills
to permit associations of Odd Eel
lows and others for the purpose of
mutual protection and relief of the
members, to become Incorporated /;
House bill to enable village and city
authorities, where water works have
been established, to lease water priv
ileges for manufacturing purposes; !;
Senate bill providing that in cases
where bonds have been sold by or
der OF decree of court in satisfaction
of mortgages or other liens, and the
title changed thereby, the clerk of
the court shall enter on the record
in the recorders office a memoran-
dun of such sale and satisfaction,
giving the page and volume OF the re-
cord of the order or decree. 1t pro
vides also for a record in the re-
corder's Office of changes Of title by
partition or sale in partition, and
that the court shall, as part of the
decree rendered, in all cases where
change of title has been made by the
decree, direct the clerk to make the
necessary entries and record in the
recorders office of such changes of
title. The record in the recorders
Office will be thus perfected, so as to
show the real state of the title to all
lands, as it was designed to do.
MONDAY, MARCH 4.
HoUsE-A bill TO authorize the
Commissioners of Muskingum coun-
ty to levy tax for the purpose of
meeting a debt on the Agricultural
society of the county, was passed;
the bill to change the name of the
village of Roseville, Pike county, to
Buchanan, was also passed.
SENATE-Bills were passed
House bill providing that where two
or more free turnpike roads are so
situated that, by one ending in an
other, or by one crossing another or
otherwise, they for a continuous line
or lines of travel, such roads may
be consolidated; House bill provid-
ing for the incorporation of COM
panies for the construction Of public
halls; Senate bill to enable an attor-
ney or agent of the mortgage to
make affidavit to the account secured
by mortgage or bill of sale of per
sonal property; Senate bill to pun
ish fraudulent practices by mortga
gers Of personal property.
TUESDAY, MARCH ).
HoUsE.-blr. Mcfarland intro
duced a bill to amend the liquor
law of 1870, so as to allow the sale
of Rhine wine, or wine manufactured
from the pure juice of the grape cul-
tivated in this State, or ale, beer or
cider, without liability to civil dam
ages; Senate bill to establish the pro
rata principle in the transportation
of freight on railroads-that is, that
no railroad shall charge more a mile
for less than for a greater distance
The House bill to amend the
road law so that no property shall
be exempt from execution or sale
for poll taxes, in case the owner re-
fuses to discharge, either by labor or
money, his road tax, was defeated.
SENATE-Bills were passed as fol.
lows: Senate bill, to make the 22d
of February a legal holiday; House
bill, to amend the ditch law by pro-
viding that for the construction of
a proposed ditch an estimate should
be made, and that the work shall not
be let on contract for a sum exceed
ing twenty per cent. on such esti-
mate; House bill, to extend the iur-
isdiction of justices of the peace in
cases ofrepleYin, from one hundred
to three hundred dollars; House bill,
to enable city councils to require
railways and railway bridges to be
lighted within cities or villages, by
those leasing or controlling, as well
as by those owing the same; House
bill, to amend the civil code by pro-
viding that where defendent answers
to a part Of plaintiffs petition, and
fails to answer to another part, the
court may render judgement on that
part as to which he is in default:
Senate bill, providing for the ap
pointment by the Governor of a
commission to superintend the work
of ofremoving the distractions from
and Strengthening the channel of the
Great Miami river, between the
Lewiston reservoir and village Of
Logansville, Logan county; Senate
bill, to empower cities, towns, coun-
ties and townships to build railroads
and operate railroads. This bill is
substantially the same as the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad act, or the
Griffith bill" The House bill fix
ing the compensation of jurors be-
fore justices of the peace at one dol
lar per day instead of of fifty cents
in each case, was defeated.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6.
HoUsE.-Bills were passed as fol-
lows: House bill to authorize the |
incorporation of mutual benefit as
sociations; House bill to require To- !