Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-16
General Assembly.

AuriI S.-S9aote-A resolution 10
print 20,009 copies of volume two OF
the Geological Report WIS referred.
Resolution TO print 10000 copies Of As-
riculturai reports WAS recOminitted.
House joint resolution providing for
icodifcation OF laws relating to corpUr;l-
tions was indefinitely postponed.
Several bills reported were set Tor
third reading tomorrow.
A resolution to adjourn sine die next
Monday was Introduced and laid over.
The Van Vert county court house
bill was lost.
Bills passed: House bills authorizing
State Treasurer to draw on county
!treasurers in advance of regular settle
ments; providing for reducing delin-
quent taxes to the form of judgment;
also, considerable number of local
/ bills.
House-A few unimportant bills,
mostly of local nature, were disposed
of. The proceedings of the House were
meagre and of no special interest.
! April 9-Seadte--The nomination o.
Senator Joha g. Thompson for Com.
missioner of Railways and Telegraph;
was received and confirmed.
S. B. to abolish the Office of Railroad
Commissioner, was ordered to third
reading next January. =l-
Bills passed: For protection flivery
stable keepers; exempting funds o
: benevolent associations from eXecu
!, ton; Senate bill to secure the wages o
labor; Senate bill to protect mechanic
and other iaborers in the quiet anC
peaceable pursuit of their avocatiOns
!, Senate Joint resolution for procuring
!, payment os the Morgan raid claims wal
passed.
House-Bill providin- for publication
of the new Constitution in two paper
of each county was lost.
| Bills passed: Amending act to pro-
tect voluntary political associations
Igiving justices Jurisdiction in case
arising under the law for prevention o
cruelty to animals, authorizing trans
mission of election returns by mail
enabling trustees of religious demon
nations to become incorporated; pro
viding for republication of Ohio Stat'
Reports; providing for improvemen
Of streets and planting shade trees.
April 10, Seaote-Bills passed
} mending the militia law; House bill
c0difying the game laws and adding
provisions for protection of trespass; re
lating to local affairs in Cleveland
Toledo and Cincinnati.
House-Bilis passed: ReOrganizins
the Soldiers Orphans Home, and tht
Institution for the Blind.
The General Appropriation bill was
reported from the Finance Committee
Recess until tomorrow.
April II, .>e'adte-Bills passed: 81. R
forbidding sale of intoxicating liquor
at or near the Soldiers Orphans Home
resolution requesting Ohio Congress
men to procure passage of IA bill cancel
ling the debt of Ohio for arms Furnished
by the General Government. Com
mittee of conference on the Senate Ag
ricuitural College bill reported, and it
report agreed TO.
II House-Considerat of tho General
Appropriation bill was resumed and
and Senate amendment increasing ap
preparation for printing the Geological
Survey report was disagreed to. Th
disagreeing vote was reconsid cred. Z
considerable number of minor amend
ments were variously disposed of. Sen
ate amendment fOrbidding sale of in
toxicating liquors within ten miles o
the Reform Farm was concurred in.
Il Two new bills were introduced.