Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-01-30
Legislative Summary.

HOUSE, January PA pet. ion vas
presented from Rev. David Thompson
and Others, of Guernsey county, for an
act regulating litigation between par
ties where one is a member of a secret
society AMI the other rot....A message
from the Governor, accompanied by a
communication from the Mayor OF
Cincinnati, was received in reference
to the Ohio river and the Water
Works. ...SprIngfield was authorized to
borrow money for school purposes.
Senate bill in relation to clothing for
mute children, was passed....Th bill
requiring railroad engineers to blow
the whistle at crossings, instead OF
ringing the bell, passed.. The bill also
passed in reference to the names and
postoffice address of officers and direc-
tors of rail, oad corporations....Th bill
for the relief of the Treasurer Of Troy
township, Delaware county, passed..
The bill to autho.iZe Coshocton county
to build a 100000 court house was re-
ferred.. Bills were introduced to con-
fer on township trustees power to locate
and construct bitches; to take from
Prosecuting Attorneys the power 20 ap-
prove or disapprove of cout-ac's by
County Commissioners for county
work; to reoeal the ditch law of ISL;
to prescribe the liabilities Of persons
voting in railroad corpora, ions; to au-
thorize cities to e..end ST eets acioss
railways; to prevent lot,e-ies and
games Of chance; to authorize Union
county to build jail; to aulnolize
Washington county 20 build a count
house; TO enable cities to issue Instead
of per cent. bonds.... The resolution
passed calling fOr a stat atement of ex-
penditures in connection with the burn
ing of the Northern Lunatic Asylum
go. Senate bill to create bUard of health
in any city was indefinitely postponed;
also, the bill to regulate the adve, tise-
ments of shoWs....A resolution ior
committee for The protection ard prop
agation of fish was adopted. ;. Messages
from the Governor were received, with
a copy Of a bill before the Michigan
Legislature for fish culture, and the
manuscript of the report Of the Com
missioners relative to military claims.
SENATE.-The morning session was
consumed in debating the reference of
the bill repeating the act creating a for
feiGure Of illegal i1rerest to select
committee, with instructions to amend
providing virtually for free trade in
money. The discussion of the bill was
continued through the afternoon, and
until half past eleven o'clock, when
the bill was referred, reported back,
and passed by vote of % to IL.
House, January 25.-Bllls were in
troduced to a''ow regular shippers and
receivers of freight 70 make commuta=
ton rates with railroad companies for
periods of three months; for the pre-
emption to settlers on Virginia mill
tary lands in Ohio of 120 acres, instead
of only forty acres, as limited by act of
last session, 1.-The bill passed for Co
shocton county to build 4 new court
house; providing for a State Inspector
of Coal-"alary 81 300 per annum; to au-
thorize Angalize county to build
SCHOOL house in Wapakoneta.. IA reso-
luton WIS offered and adopted in rela-
ton to salaries of superintendent and
architects since 1868.
SENATE.-House bill passed 10 amend
section IL Of the act for tue punishment !
Of certain offenses named. Bills were
introduced to authorize the appoint.
nept of commissioners of fisheries foy
he State of Ohio, and defining their
luties; to amend section 2O5 of the JUS