The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-31
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
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HOUSE:
JAN. 2l.-Petitions were presented for
building bridge across Horns run in Warren
county; for feeder from the Mama and Erie
canal to the Mercer county Reservoir; for the
passage of the bill relating to building and
loan associations; for the Board of Public
Works to take possession of parts of the Penn
sylvania and Ohio canal-Bills were intro
duced for the liability of parties to promissory
notes; prescribing the duties of Probate Judg-
es in reference to incomplete business coming
into their hands.
JAN. pa copy of the decision OF the Su-
preme Court in the case of the Pittsburg Fort
Wayne & Chicago Railroad company was re-
cieved and ordered printed Bills were in
troduced requiring officers of corporations to
answer under oath; providing for destroyed
municipal records; for election returns Of ius-
tices OF the peace to be made to the Clerk Of
the Common Pleas Court; authorizing county
commissioners to construct roads on petition
of majority of resident land owners; to amend
section l72 of the criminal code; to amend the
law in reference to township school Libraries.
JAN. 23.-House bill passed authorizing the
consolidation of joint stock fire and marine
insurance companies-A bill for the protec-
ion of fish was tabled-The Morgan Raid
bill was referred to a select COMMITTEES
Bills were introduced to increase the salary of
Prosecuting Attorneys in counties of less than
twenty thousand nhabitants-Houss bill
passed to extend the advisory duties of the
Attorney General to the departments of rail-
roads and insurance-The bill passed for the
payment into the county treasury after three
years all unclaimed costs of justice of the peace
courts-The bill to appropriate $4,000 to
the Northern Lunatic Asylum was referred to
the committee on fnance-Messra Clyde
and Oliver were made additional members Of
the committee on lnance-The bill to PRO
vide for the western branch of the North'n Ohio
Lunatic Asylum was postponed--A resolution
was offered calling for a statement OF expenses
incidental to the burning of the North'n O., ,Lu-
natic Asylum-House bill to amend interest
laws was referred to special committee -
Bills were introduced to provide for the elect-
ion of the Cincinnati Board of Aldermen; in
aicting penalty for removing pauper from
one county to another for permanent resi-
dence; giving County Commissioners discre-
tionary power in assessing costs for new roads
"A resolution was offered and referred, to
allow Clerks and Sergeants-at-Arms mileage
same as members-The joint resolution to
allow mileage and per diem to the Senate and
House committees on Benevolent Institutions, |
in connection with the burning Of the North |
ern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, was referred.
JAN. PA petition was presented from
Rev. David Thompson and others of Guernsey
county, for an act regulating litigation be-
tween parties where one is a member of a Sc
eret society and the other is not-Senate |
bill in relation to clothing for mute children,
was passed-The bill requiring engineers to
blow the whistle at crossings instead of ringing
the bell passed-The bill also passed in ref
erence to the names and post Office address |
of officers and directors OF railroad corpora
tions-The bill to authorize Coshocton
county to build a 100000 court house was re-
ferred-Bills were introduced to confer on
township trustees power to locate and con-
struct bitches; to take from Prosecuting Attor-
neys the power to approve or disapprove of
contracts by County Commissioners for coun-
ty work; to repeal the ditch law of 1871; to
prescribe the liabilities Of persons voting in
railroad corporations; to authorize cities to ex-
tend streets across railways; to prevent lotter-
les and games Of chance; to enable cities TO
issue instead of per cent. bonds--The
resolution passed calling for statement of
expenditures in connection with the burning
Of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum-Sen-
ate bill to create board of health in any city
was indefinitely postponed; also the bill to
regulate the advertisements Of shows-A re-
solution for committee for the protection
and propagation of fish was adopted Mes
'ages from the Governor were received, with
! copy of the bill before the Michigan Legis-
ature for fish culture, and the manuscript of
.he report OF the Commissioners relative 10
military claims.