Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-11
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

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issue of bonds to build town hall. But
twenty-five Senators were present.
HOuse-A resolution was introduced
proposing to amend the Constitution so
that the election of State and county
officers shall take place on the Tuesday
succeeding the first Monday in Novem-
Der. But fortyseven members were
present.
MARCH 2.-,Sendte-Bills introduced:
To protect railway stockholders, a.
mending the civil code.
Passed: House bills authoizing in
incorporated companies to construct
railways; enabling manufacturing and
mining companies to borrow money at
eight per cent; regulating practice in
the Cincinnati police court; for the bet
ter regulation, organization and gov
ernment of religious societies: Senate
bills allowing the running of trains at
any rate of speed through villages of
less than 1000 Inhabitants; requiring
the Auditor of State to furnish annual
statement of horses, cattle and other
stock returned for taxation, provided
newspapers will publish it free of charge;
amending the act providing for valua-
giving mayors jurisdiction coextensive
with justices in cases of attachment and
forcible detainer; amending section SIG
of the civil code.
HOuse-Bills introduced: Appropi-
ating $40, 900 for per diem of members
of the General Assembly; furnishing
forgery with imprisonment for from
one to twenty years; providing that a
person who pays usuriOuS interest shall
have no right to recover the amount of
such interest; several private amend
ments to the General Appropriation
bill made in committee of The Whole
were agreed to, and the bill ordered
printed iu advance of other matter.
Joint resolution requesting Congress
to reduce the Presidents salary was
adopted.
MARCH 3.-Sendte-Passed; Senate
bill regulating election of township
officers; House bill authorizing COM
missiOners of highways to straighten
and clear out creeks and other water
courses.
A Joint resolution was adopted auth
orizing the directors of the Penitenti-
ary to appoint committee OF their
own number to inspect the prisons of
other States.
HO,lse-A resolution was passed re-
quiring the Directors and Warden of
the Penitentiary to explain discrepan-
cies in their report.
A resolution was also adopted provid-
ing for an investigation of the financial
of the penitentiary for the
purpose of testing alleged charges of
House bill providing for appointment
Of stOre-keeper at the Penitentiary,
gave rise to bitter discussion, and post
poned until Wednesday next.
Bills passed: Senate bill punished
Boards of Education for neglect to make
school levies House bill authorizing
township trustees to increase the road
levy to u mills per dollar, instead of
mill, as now.
MARCH Reimbursement local
bills were introduced.
Passed: House bills, amending Sec
ton 247 of the civil code so as to include
within its provisions restraining orders
as well as injunctions; prescribing the
manner of appropriating property for
the use of corporations; authorizing
lines through one or more counties on
a vote of the stockholders.
HOuse-Bills introduced: Limiting
the compensation of county officers;
creating Circuit courts; allowing heirs
and legatees to testify in cases to con-
test the validity or set aside will or
deed of any ancestor or grantor under
whom they may claim title; authoriz-
ing the Governor to execute deed to
certain canal lands; to regulate the
keeping in order of partition fences;
corporations to issue either
registered or coupon bonds, and ex-
change the one for the other; amend
ng the municipal code in regard to
notice of improvements; to provide
for clerks to boards of
nfirmsry directors; protecting proper
~ abutting on banks of rivers and
streams; requiring county auditors to
before them persons who are
marked on assessors returns as absent,
'efused to. swear or failed to list all
heir property; equalizing taxes ON
always between townships, cities and
authorizing college trustees to
prevent the appointment of visitors;
orfeiting subscriptions to railways and
unless work shall be begun
within two years.
Passed: Senate bills requiring pay {
nent of checks and drafts al sight; pre-
renting street operas and protecting
nendicant children; House bill provid-
ng that if a man has had children by
wO wives, his widow shall have full 6
ontrOl of his one-third interest, and if L
he dies intestate the property shall be 6
Iivided equally among all the child {
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MARCH 5.-The Senate, without
ransacting any business, adjourned till =
'uesday. +
In the House bill was introduced :
epealing the interest laws of the State. &
Adjourned until Tuesday. se