Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-04-20
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
F m the Ohio State Journal.
List of Laws Passed by the Sixty
second General Assembly.


Fixing the number of officers of any
board of trade or chamber of commerce
at one president, two vice presidents
and ten dirictors.
Making appropriations for deficien-
cies and partial appropriations for the
year 1876.
To approve deed given by the State
of Ohio to the United States of lands in
Sandusky bay.
To provide fer the creation of incor-
porated villages of territory composed
Of one or more islands in Lake Erie.
To repeal the Geghan liberty Of
conscience law.
To enable literary associations other
than colleges, universities, academies,
or seminaries to increase their capital
stock.
To provide for notices by publica-
tiOn of resolution TO construct or repair
sidewalks.
Prescribing penalties for challenging
to fight at tisticuffs or with cudgels or
otherwise provoking breach of the
peace.
10 provide for the correction of tech
nical errors and defects in proceedings
under the ditch laws.
To provide for the appointment of
Deputy Clerk Of the Supreme Court to
serve in the Sup. Court Commission.
To provide for printing and distribu.
ting journals of the General Assembly.
To authorize the trustees of the Gin
| cinnati Southern railroad to borrow six
millions of dollars.
Restoring the old law of appeals from
justices of the peace 10 common pleas
court
To encourage the planting of willows
to protect the banks of the Ohio river.
Prescribing penalties for frauds per-
petrated by the use oftelegrams or 9th
or communications.
| To allow persons who have served as
tails Jurors during the year but who
are regular jurors for the term to serve
in the trial of a cause.
To reduce the minimum width OF
township roads to sexteen feet.
| Fixing the standard weight of BUSH
ell of onions at fifty pounds.
To except the counties of Jefferson
and Delaware from the operation of the
act to give probate courts in cetain
counties jurisdiction in minor criminal
cases.
| IL pIOtSSt Wliu plSCOiio WhAiO hSoe-
ing or roosting in this State.
To allow any holders of paid up stock
( to vote on q question of increasing the
capital stock Of railroad.
| To regulate the Ohio Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia.
To authorize county commissioners
to construct approaches to bridges.
To 50 amend the act in relation to
| afr in, nj e hn
Ond class as to make it apply to i'm
prOvements costing ten thousand dol
lars or more.
val of the dead, and the sale of the dis
used burial grounds in townships.
To reorganize the management of the
Ohio Penitentiary.
To authorize examining Of county
treasurer's appointment under the in
dependent treasury law to subpoena
| witnesses and use compulsory process.
Prescribing penalties of one to twen-
ty years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for forgery.
To authorize villages to vacate and
cities to annex territory.
To provide that when the county
treasurer, probate judge and county
auditor of any county certify to the
com nissioners that it is necessary to
appoint and employ a night watch
man of the county treasury the COM
missioners shall employ such watch
man, he to be appointed by the treasu-
rer.
TO require that streets laid out in ad-
dition to any city having plating
com missioner shall conform to the
lines of previously plated streets.
To authorize any corporation hereto
fore formed nnder the laws of the State
to borrow money, to borrow further
sum noe to exceed one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the protection of mill dams,
mill race banks, and head gates.
For the establishment, support and
regulation of children's homes in the
several counties and Children's Home
districts of Ohio.
To fix the price of legal advertising.
To abolish the office of Comptroller
of the Treasury and transfer the care
of the State House to the Adjutant
General.
To reorganiZe the management of
the several hospitals for the insane.
To prohibit and punish the throwing
or depositing of coal dirt, coal slack,
coal screenings or other refuse from
coal in or near to any river, stream,
lake or pond.
Confning jurisdiction in minor GRIM
inal cases in the probate court of Mon
roe cOunyt.
TO provide for the construction of
lsvees along natural streams or water
courses.
Prescribing fees of witnesses in GRIM
inal cases at seventy-five cents a day
and five cents a mile, to be paid out of
the county treasury.
To revise sections 1, 8, s, IA, Is, 19,
26 and 80 of the free turnpike law of
March %, 1875.
Providing for publishing legal ad-
vertisements in German newspapers.
To allow trustees appointed under
the general assignment law to resign
their trusts.
Limiting the time In which actions
to revise judgments may be brought
twenty-one years.
Authorizing county commissioners
to levy additional taxes to rebuild
bridges which have become worn out
or destroyed by any casualty.
Constituting the commissioners Of
certain counties board of free turn
pike directors and prescribing their
duties.
Requiring chattel mortgages to be
filed with the county recorder in all
cases where the mortgages are execu-.
ted as relates to property in q city or
village which is the county seat.
To require surgeons and physicians
and dentists when administering an
esthetics to have present third person
competent to be witness.
To repeal the law to prevent students
in institutions Of learning from voting.
To provide for the maintenance Of
children's homes in certain counties
(Washington) where donations have
been made for the purpose.