The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-02-26
General Assembly.

FEB. 11.-Senate-Bil introduced:
Providing for a new roof on the main
Penitentiary building; authorizing clerks
of probate judges to issue marriage Ii
censes. Passed: House bill amending
turnpike law; Senate bill providing for
the propagation of fish; recognizing the
city government of Toledo. House
mendments to Mr.. Reese's Senate bill
amending the adair law were con-
Cured in.
House-Bills introduced Fixing com
pensation of members of the general as
sembly at four dollarsa day and mileage;
relating to appraisement of railway prop
erty; enabling savings socities to invest
funds in county and municipal bonds
and charge 8 per cent. interest; to let
public printing and legal advertising to
the lowest bidder; increasing hepenalty
in bribery cases. Bills passed: House
bill reducing fees of county officers; en-
abling the Franklin County Agricultural
Society to discontinue holding fairs;
giving employees first lien on property
assigned; providing for more equal APP
Iportionment of work among common
pleas judges.
FEB. -Senate-After the present
alton of some petitions and the introduc-
ton of private bill, the Senate ad-
iourned.
House-The following bills were in
troduced: Allowing manufacturing COM
Ipanies to borrow money at eight per
cent; allowing renewal of ten-year GER
| titicates without re-examination; author
izing trustees of the Blind Asylum to
purchase three acres of land The
House adjourned after a brief session.
FEB. -Senate-Bills introduced:
Providing for bills of exceptions to mat
ters Of law as well as matters Of fact;
taking away reservations in the District
Court to the Supreme Court; permitting
petitions in error from the District
Court, except in cases involving life or
liberty; requiring the Supreme Court to
hold sessions in May, September and
January; requiring copartnerships to
/ file certificate of names of partners
with the county recorder; authorizing
railway and mining stockholders to vote
by proxy; prohibiting city and town
councils from restraining the sale of ale,
beer and porter; giving justices jurisdic-
ton in steamboat cases. Passed: House
bill forbidding auctioneers to farm out
their offices; Senate bill authorizing rail
way and mining stockholders to vote by
proxy; authorizing commissioners Of
Mercer county to build a Jail; requiring
.cOroners, surveyors and infirmary direc-
tors to report fees received. The ap-
pointment of Hiram H Robinson to be
State Librarian was concurred in.
House--Bills introduced; Relating to
notice in reference to change of bound
aries in municipal corporations; allowing
inmates of prisons to choose their own
spiritual advisers; permitting manufac-
turing companies to borrow money at
eight per cent. requiring that all trans
fers of mortgages and assignments shall
be recorded within sixty days. Passed:
House bill enabling religious socities to
abandon their organization under special
charter and reorganize under general
laws; prohibiting the killing of fish by
conclusion upon ice and by spearing;
allowing that assessments for improve
ments in towns may exceed twenty-five
per cent. of the value of property assess
ed on petition of three-quarters of the
property owners.