The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-03

Penitentiary, over and above the expenses OF
their keeping, to the support Of their families.
Tho Senate was occupied nearly all day in
considering the General Appropriation bill.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20.
Local legislation, in most part took up the
attention Of the General Assembly.
SEEATE.-The Senate Finance COMMITTEES
submitted a bill prescribing the rate of
State taxes, and providing for the levy
annually for State purposes, on each dollar Of
valuation of taxable property, for general reve-
nue., one mill and thrse-tsnths Of one mill; for
sinking fund, eight-tenths of one mill; and for
the support of common schools one mill.
MONDAY, APRID %.
HoUsE.-A House bill to suppress and pro-
hibit obscene publications, was passed.-The
session was principally consumed in consider
ing and passing local bills.-House bill to
authorize and require the Board Of Public
Works to ascertain and locate all lands be-
longing to the State which lie at or near the
public works of the State, with a proper de-
scription of the same, and also providing for
the appraisement and sale of said lands, was
passed.
SENATE.-The House bill to regulate insur-
Rnce companies doing insurance business in
the State of Ohio, being in the main codia-
cafian of insurance laws, was passed.
TUESDAY, APRIL %.
HoUsE.-The following bills were passed:
House bill amending tho act regulating the
mode of administering assignments in trust
for the benefit of creditors In the following
particulars. Creditors of an estate may cite
the sssignor of that estate, as well as the as
signee, to appear before the probate court and
testify as to what disposition he has made of
the estate;salso, they may cite the creditors
of the assignor to testify on the same subject;
Senate bill to provide for the examination and
better ventilation OF coal mines-(amended by
striking out the provision with reference to
the appointment of two commissioners to en-
force the law.)
SENATE.-House bill to regulate the sale Of
mineral oils and other substances for illumina-
ting purposes, was passed. The bill prohibits
the sale Of illuminating mineral oils, unles:
the same shall have been tested in the manner
prescribed in the bill, or of any substance in.
tended for Illuminating purposes that vii
emit gas or vapOr that will ignite at any TEN.
perature below lI0s Fahrenheit, under the
penalty of fine not less than one hundred
dollars, or imprisonment in the Jail of the
ounty not exceeding twenty days, or both a
the discretion Of the court.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL a.
HoUsE.-The forenoon was spent in con
sidering the Senate amendments to the Gen
eral Appropriation bill, of which those maxim,
the largest additional appropriations were no
cUneurred in.-In the afternoon both bran
ches Of the General Assembly attended in
body the funeral obsequies.
SENATE.-The House bill codifying tn
'chool laws was postponed till next session
A bill to apportiOn the Stats into Congress
sional districts was passed, This bill Is diff
terent from the one which passed the Hous
last week. and will have to receive the concur
renee OF that body before rsdistrictiDg is &C
complished.