The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-14
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
General Laws Passed by the
Present Session.
4 Fair Record of a Conscientious General
Assembly.
GENERAL LAWS.

Il
Assembly.
GENERAL LAWS.
To provide that Boards of Trade and
Chambers of Commerce shall have only
one Vice President, and-to prevent any
stockholder from holding the Office of
Secretary.
Making partial appropriations for the
year 1876.
To repeal the Geghan law of last ses
sion.
To approve a deed given by the State
of Ohio to the United States, and
to prescribe the mode of acquiring title
to real estate in Ohio by the United
States.
Defining the crime of obtaining goods
under false pretenses so as to provide
that the crime can be committed by let
ter or telegraph, and that persons Of
Tending can he tried and convicted either
in the county from which the letter or
telegram was sent, or III the county wnere
they were received.
To enable literary associations, other
than colleges, universities. academies, or
seminaries, to increase their capital
stocks.
To reorganize the State Hospitals for
the insane.
To permit the Steward of the Blind
Asylum to purchase supplies i'll certain
cases without advertising.
TO require that non resident property
owners Shall be notified by publication
of ordinances to repair sidewalks.
To authorize the appointment of an
additional deputy clerk of the Supreme
Court.
To provide that controversies over the
location of a ditch shall come before a
jury of twelve men, whose unanimous
verdict shall be necessary to locate the
ditch.
To provide for the distribution of pub.
lie documents.
To punish persons for fighting at fisti-
cuffs, sending u challenge to fight at fist
icuffs, or provoking a breach of the
peace.
For the establishment, support, and
regulation of children's homes in several
counties. and children's homes in dis
tricts in this State.
To fix the minimum width of private
township roads at sixteen feet.
To re-enact the Justices Act, repealed
last winter.
To permit female inmates of the Blind
Asylum to remain until twenty one years
of age, the same as males.
To fix the standard weight Of a bushel
of onions at fifty pounds.
To authorize an increase of capital
stock of railroad companies.
To abolish the officer of Controller of
the Treasury, and transfer the care of
the State House and grounds to the Ad-
jutant General.
To constitute the throwing of the re-
fuse of coal mines and oil refineries into
rivers and streams a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by fine or imprisonment, or both.
Making it a misdemeanor, punishable
by Imprisonment in the penitentiary, to
cut, obstIuct, or otherwise injure any
mill dam, mill race, race bank or head
gate.
To reduce the minimum penalty for
forgery to Imprisonment for one year.
To authorize the sale of discontinued
b burial grounds and the removal of bodies
by Township Trustees.
To authorize the levy of special tax
to repair free turnpike roads.
To authorize Township Trustees to
construct culverts or bridges where the
cost of the same does not exceed $50.
To protect wild pigeons while roosting
or nesting in this State.
To protect buoys, lamps, lanterns,
signal lights, or other aids to navigation,
by providing heavy penalties for de-
stroying or injuring the same.
Increasing the salary of the Supreme
Court Clerk $500 for increased labor in
connection with the Supreme Court
Commission.
Authorizing villages to vacate and
cities TO annex territory.
To authorize persons appointed to ex-
anime into tile condition of county
treasures to compel the attendance of
witnesses.
To permit County Treasurers, instead
of the Commissioners, to appoint night
watchmen for the treasury.
To authorize the construction of
levees
To authorize the construction and re-
pair of levees along the rivers of this
State.
Authorizing County Auditors to pay
the fees of witnesses in criminal cases.
Making it misdemeanor to poison
domestic animals.
To amend the law prescribing the rate
of taxation for county bridges and road
purposes, so that in case of an unsafe
bridge, as well as in case of casualty.
County Commissioners may construct IL
bridge to cost in excess of SIS, 900, with
out submitting the question to vote of
the people.
To limit the time for commencing
actions to revive judgments.
To fix the price of legal advertising,
and to provide for the printing of legal
advertising in two political papers of op-
posite politics in each county of the
State.
To oreorganize the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home.
To protect surgeons, physicians dent
lists, and patients from the morbid con-
dition of the nervous system sometimes
produced by the administration of an
aesthetics, by requiring the presence of
witnesses during the administration.
To create Board of State Charities.
To amend the election laws so as to
allow students to vote where attending
school.
Authorizing Probate Judges to accept
designations of assignees.
To authorize municipal corporations
to hold elections for the choice of muni-
cipal officers any time after their incor-
poration.
To authorize the incorporation of
oranges of the Order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry.
To punish road Supervisors for leaving
dirt or gravel piled up on the roads re-
paired by them.
Providing that in towns or villages
where the County Recorders office is
kept, chattel mortgages and bills of sale
may be recorded in said office.
For the relief of suitors in the Supreme
Court.
To fix the time for killing deer from
October Is to December 1.
To cede the National road to the sew
eral counties through which it passes,
and authorizing the Commissioners of
said counties to take charge of and con-
troll so much of said road as lies within
the limits of such counties respectively. |
To provide that when the Trustees of |
any township do not prepare pound,
any citizen may take up stock running |
at large.
To amend the act to authorize and |
regulate limited partnerships. so as to
require that the full name of all the |
partners shall appear.
Directing County Auditors to assess
upon all lands, not upon the duplicate,
taxes back TO the last appraisement, or,
# conveyed in the meantime, back to
.he conVeyance.