Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-02-01

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From o. s. Journal summary
In the Senate, on Tuesday, a bill was
introduced to authorize the trustees OF
Geneva township, Ashtabula county,t
levy a tax and issue bonds to erect q
sOluiers' monument.
A resolution opposing the conference
committees plan for counting the elec-
toral vote was referred.
In the House, bills were passed: Sem
ate DILL to legalize the contract for
building the Licking county court
house; House bill providing that the
estate Of q widow at death shall be
equally distributed among her heirs
and the heirs OF her husband; House
bill to provide for the Incorporation of
mechanics associations; House bill to
give justices of the peace Jurisdiction in
matters of attachment involving real
estate.
Bills introduced: Defining the du-
ties OF superintendents, principals and
teachers of the common schools; to
limit the time of leaving deeds in the
Recorders Office to ten days; to pro-
vide that if q Judgment creditor shall
cause real estate TO be offered for sale
without having msrshalled the liens
thereon, be shall pay the costs.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, bills
were passed: Senate bill exempting
fearnings of laborers for three months
from application to liquidation of
debts, when it can be proven the earn
ings are necessary to support the debt
Or's family; House bill providing for
minority representation in electing
township trustees.
In the House, Ssrste bill to incr ease
the gas manufacturing capscity of the
PeniteLtiary and to provide for COM
pletiOn of the cells, was passed.
A resolution was adopted providing
for the purchase OF new. chairs and
desks for the House.
In the Senate, on Thursday, bills
fwere passed: House billt 10 regulate the
traffic in scrap iron, etc.; Senate bill
Iextending the time in which evidence
in contested election cases may be ta-
ken.
Bills introduced: Transferring con-
test In the election OF Presidential cleo
tors from the Senate to the Supreme
Court; to limit taxes in cities for all
purposes to twenty mills; TO authorize
street railroad companies to determine
the number of their directors. net less
than three nor more than seven.
| A joint resolution WAS adopted, in
structing the Attorney General to ask
leave To test in the Supreme Court the
eligib ty of DIR. Z. L. Wilson to be Su-
perintsndent of the Athens Hospital
for the insane.
In the House bills were passed:
| House bill to amend the act for con-
verting toll roads into free roads, by
lenabling county commissioners TO
make an assessment to put such roads
| in good conditions; House bill to allow
the people OF Madison county to vote
on taking charge of the National road;
House bill fixing the weight of pOta-
toes at sixty pounds to the bushel;
Senate bill requiring the reputed father
Of an iliigitimate child to give appro.
we'd security for its maintenance;
House bill to amend the turnpike road
law 50 as to Authorize condemnation of
gravel banks, and appeals to the Com-
mon Pleas Courts.
Bills introduced: Requiring boards
of education to determine text books,
which shall not be changed for three
years, and providing for fine OF $50 10
500 for violation of the law.
In the Senate, on Friday, bills were
introduced: Allowing Sergeants-at-
Arms mileage and fees while serving
committees; to allow sheriffs to select
commissioners of partition.
Ia the House bills were passed:
House bill providing that when an in
junction is granted and no notice has
been given the party enjoined, the
summons shall state what the party is
enjoiued from doing; Senate bill to al
low Judges to Sci aside judgments OBJ
tanned by false testimony; House bill
to authorize senior justices of the
peace to fill vacancies in boards of
township trustees.
Among the bills introduced were the
following: To provide for the appoint
ment Of State board of medical ex-
aminers; to create the Office of Superin-
tendent of the Site House; to give
Justices concurrent action with corr
mon pleas c)urts in sums over 800
and under $500; to provide for ineorpo-
ration Of farm and labor associations;
fixing county commissioners pay at
So per day while sitting as board of
equalization; allowing chain carriers
$2 per day.
Ia the Senate, On Saturday, petit
ton by $50 citizens of Fairfield county,
for repeal OF the law against working
in barber shops on Sunday, was pre-.
scented. s
Bills introduced: For town hall in
Malta, Morgan county; making a coun-
ty auditors term three years.
Iu the House, the committee on
bitches, Drains and Water courses re.
ported q long amendment to the Sem
ate ditch bill, relating to the north
western counties.