Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-16

to send the Toledo and Columbus Ca
diets to Philadelphia, was indefinitely
postponed.
Mr.. Woodbridge, the unsuccessful
conteStOr of the MahOning county con-
tested election case, was allowed the
per diem and mileage of member
from the opening of the session.
MARCH 9-.SeRGte-G. f. Howe, B.
W. Chidlaw and J. NJ. Pugh were con-
firmed as Trustees of the Reform
| Farm.
Bills passed: Senate bill to create
and regulate inclined plane railroad
companies; Senate bill to abolish the
office of Gas Inspector, and provide
for the appointment of gas inspectors
| in cities and villages.
The bill requiring druggists to be tx
amined by board of physicians was
laid on the table.
HOuse-Bills passed: Senate bill to
reduce the mihimum penalty for forge
ry to imprisonment for one year; Sem
ate bill TO reorganize the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home.
Messrs. Duncan, Dow, Nichols,
Groom and Hart were appointed a
committee TO investigate charges con-
ceruing the Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans' home.
Bills introduced: To prescribe the
rate of State taxes; to require the pu-
tative father of a bastard child to
pay $500 into the township poor fund
for its suppOrt;to make habitual drunk
ennesS or absence for one year, sutfi-
cient ground for divorce; to repeal the
election law of 1874 specifying how
tickets shall be headed; to provide that
councils OF villages of 1000 to 1000 i'll
habitants shall have complete control
of the water works; to author iZe county
commissioners to purchase any part of
a turLp pike between city or town and
cemetery, for the purpose of making it
d free road; to prohibit the insertion of
more tnan one heading on a ballot.
MARCH 10-,SeIlae-BIllS passed:
Senate bill 10 amend the election law
by repeating the student prohibition
and visible admiXture clauses; Senate
bill authorizing the issuing of preferred
stock by hotel companies House bill
authorizing the sale of discontinued
burial grounis and the removal of
bodies by township trustees; House bill
TO authorize the levy OF a special tax to
repair free turnpike roads, House bill
to authorize township trustees to con-
struct culverts or bridges not costing
more than $50; Senate bill to compel
nOn-residents to give security for costs.
Bills introduced: To authorize the
setting aside of verdicts obtained ON
false testimony, in certain cases; to
compel county officers TO return vital
statistics on the first Monday in Au
gust; to provide for joint sessions OF
commissioners of two or more counties
TO consider new roads; several local
bills were Introduced.
A message was received nominating
t. Q. Ashburn for the Supreme Court
Commission, vice II. c. Whitman, re-
signed.
HOUSEHOLDS passed: Senate bill to
protect wild plgions while roosting or
nesting; House bill to create board of
public works in CIncinnati; House bill
to authorize one religious society to
convey real property to another relig-
ious society formed by union of said
societies; House bill cOdifying the laws
for the relief of the poor.
March .-SENATE-Fifteen hund-
red citizens of Green county petitioned
for local option law and re-enactment
of the Adair law.
Senate bill creating a special school
district in Somerset township, Belmont
county, Was passed.
- Bills introduced: Directing the pur-
chase OF five hundred copies each of
volumes l, ,, and 4 of Swan d Sayler's
Revised Statutes.
HOUSE Bills passed: Senate bill
providing heavy penalty for injuring
buoys, lamps, etc.; House bill to pro-
vide that in cases of writes of error
where one of the party dies the admin
istrstor may continue proceedings.
Bills introduced: To authorize cem-
etery associations to purchase or ap.
propriate lands, not exceeding fifty
acres, in addition to that to which they
are limited by their incorporation; to-
authorize the FISH Commission to pro-
cure fish from Ohio streams in man
ner now prohibited by law.
March 13.-SENATE-Bills introduc-
ed: To equalize sentences of cOnvicts;
TO require that in petitions for CONVEX
sion Of rOaes into free turnpikes, one
half of the lands, in value, shall be rep
resented.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To allow
assignees to resign; to provide for an
addition Judge in the First subdivision
of the Fifth Judicial district.
Senate bill to authorize Il railroad
to change the gauge of the
road, was lost; but the vote was recon-
sidered and the bill was laid on the
table.
Messrs. Monaham, Nigh and Con-
verse were appointed to examine into
alleged incorrectness of the journal as
to the Penitentiary bill.