Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-20

were passed-requiring Township Trus-
tees to keep record of chattel mort
cages; authorizing Township Trustees to
appropriate not more than ten acres of
land in any case for a cemetery; author
izing townships to levy additional road
taxes; extending the jurisdiction of No.
taries Public to the territorial limits Of
any city or village extending from the
county of their residence into the adioin-
ing county. Adjourned. In the House
the District Prison bill, after long dis
cussion, was defeated-27 to 54. A few
bills were passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 11th the General
Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee Of the Whole. The amend
ment proposing an appropriation of $lO,-
600 to the State Board Of Agriculture
was disagreed to. Bills were passed
providing that garnishees, non-residents
of the State, shall be compelled to an
| swer in the court in which suit is brought
and in the county where service is OBJ
tained TO prevent the waste of property
of deceased wife by surviving husband;
requiring Township Assessors to make
separate list Of property in special school
districts; requiring Assessors to make
| oCpdIdlc ilSb vi nOSS budb hhNO ultu liOu
cholera during the year. The following
! joint resolution was adopted without
dissenting vote:
RESOLVED, BY the General Assembly of the
! State of Ohio, That common honesty to the
| taxpayer, the letter and spirit of the con-
! tract under which the great body of its in
| debtedness was assumed by the United
| States, and true financial wisdom, each and all
| demand the restoration of the silver dollar
| tsN fta form, ru,s,l- lns FOL-
In the House the resolution for sine die
adjournment April 80 was adopted.
Bills were passed authorizing the for
nation of common carriers associations
to lease and operate railroads; in relation
to railroad bridges, reported by the COM
mittee on the Ashtabula bridge disaster;
to authorize villages incorporated for
special purposes to reduce the width of
streets; authorizing Township Trustees to
levy additional road taxes to an amount
not exceeding $500. The joint resolu-
tion to accept proposition of citizens
of Columbus to furnish a site and build
and furnish house for an Executive
Mansion, and receive therefor tract
of land in the city now owned by the
State, was lost by vote of 10 to 63,
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the report
of the Committee of Conference on the
bill to reorganize the Board of Trustees
of the Agricultural College was agreed
| to, and it is now law. The bill in
creases the board to twenty members,
one from each Congressional district.
The House amendments to the bill
authorizing common carriers associa-
tions to lease and run railroads we're
agreed to. The bill to provide for pub
fishing the proposed amendment to the
Constitution was passed, so amended as
to make the price of such publication 20
per cent. of the rates of legal advertising
as prescribed by law. The resolution
for sine die adjournment was referred to
the Finance Committee In the House,
the bill to vacate the Lewistown reser-
voir was indefinitely postponed. The
Senate Silver RECOMMENDATION resolution
was referred to the Finance Committee.
Several local bills were passed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, no business
of Importance was transacted and an ad-
journment was taken until the 18th -.
In the House bills were eintroduced-pro-
viding that persons living outside of
municipal corporations, and owning
property within the limits of such cor
porations, may, with the consent of the
Board of Education, send their children
to school therein; fixing the pay of mem
hers and officers of the General Assem-
bly, at $500 per annum, and deducting
therefrom $5 per day for every days alb
sence; to prevent the erection of toll
gate within one mile of any incorporated
village of upward of $50 inhabitants.
| Adjourned to the 18th.