Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-03-11
From the o. s. journal.
OHIO LEGISLATURES.

MACH -Senate-Bills introduced
To protect railway stockholders;
amending the civil code ---- Passed:
House bills authorizing incorporated
companies to construct railways; en-
abling manufacturing and mining
companies to borrow money at eight
per cent; regulating practice in the
Cincinnati police court; for the better
regulation, organization and govern
ment 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 valuation of lands included in
new town plats giving mayors iuris-
diction coextensive with justices in
cases of attachment and forcible de-
tainer; amending section SIG of the
civil code.
House.-Bills introduced: Appro
priating $4,000 for per diem of mem
bers of the General Assembly; pun
ishing forgery with imprisonment for
from one to twenty years; providing
that person who pays usurioUs in
terest shall have no right to recover
the amount of such interest; several
private amendments to the General
! Appropriation bill made in committee
of the Whole were agreed to, and the
bill ordered printed in advance of 9TH
er matter. Joint resolution request
ing Congress to reduce the President's s
salary was adopted.
MARCH .-4Senate--Passed: SEN
ate bill regulating election of town
ship officers; House bill authorizing
commissioners Of highways to stright-
en- and clear out creeks and other wa
tercourses A joint resolution was
adopted autho rizing the directors of
the Penitentiary to appoint commit,
tee of their own number to inspect
the prisons of other States.
House-A resolution was passed
requiring the Directors and Warden of
the Penitentiary to explain discrepen
cies in their reports A resolution
was also adopted providing for an in
vestigation of the financial manage
ment of the penitentiary for the pur-
pose of testing alleged charges of cor
ruption House bill providing for
appointment of store-keeper at the
Penitentiary, gave rise to bitter dis
cussion, and was postponed until
Wednesday next Bills passed
Senate bill Furnishing Boards of Edu-
cation for neglect to make school lev
les; House bill authorizing township
| fo fI,o ~oo9
J mills per dollar, instead of 1 mill,
as now.
MARCH -Senate-Several local
bills were introduced - Passed
House bills amending section 247 ot
the civil code so as to include within
its provisions restraining orders as
we'll as injunctions prescribing the
manner of appropriating property foi
the use of corporations authorizing
railroad companies to extend theil
lines through one or more counties on
a vote of the stock holders.
HoWse-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 OF
deed of any ancestor or grantor an
der whom they may claim title; au
thorizing the Governor to execute 6
} deed to certain canal lands; to regu
late the keeping in order Of partition
fences; authorizing corporations tc
issue either registered or coupon
bonds, and exchange the one for the
other; amending the municipal code
in regard to no tice Of improvements
to provide compensation for clerk!
to boards of intirmary directors; pro
tecting property abutting on banks o.
rivers and streams; requiring county
auditors to summons before them per
sons who are marked on assessors re
turns as absent, refused to swear Of
failed to list all their property; equal
izing taxes on railways between town
ships, cities and villages; authorizing
college trustees to prevent the ap
pointment of visitors; forfeiting sub
scriptions to railways and turnpikes
unless work shall be begun within two
years Passed: Senate bills reqniH
ing payment of checks and drafts a
sight; preventing street operas an6
protecting mendicant children House
bill providing that if man has had
children by two wives, his widow shall
have full control of his one-third in
terest, and if she dies intestate the
property shall be divided equally