The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-02

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property of their wards; 20 authorlze
commissioners to offer reward tor de
lection of horse thieves. Mr. Con
verse offered q preamble and Tesolu-
ton, the preamble referring tc the
''war between the States, and the res
olution asking Congress to ere;t
suitable monument in Greenlawn Gem
etery, Columbus, to mark the last rest
ing place of the Union soldiers buried
! there. On motion Of Mr. Hi.tse, the
preamble was amended By substituting
the word rebellion" for the words
''war between the States -yeas ~,
nays Il. Mr.. Dalz-n moved 10 insert
the word Democratic before the
word rebellion, which was disagreed
tc-yeas 79, nays II. The resolution
was then adcpted-yeas 80, nays 0.
FEB. 17.-Senate-Senate bill to
provide for Strengthening, cleaning out,
widening and deepening the channels
or streams in Wood and Henry couu
ties was passed. The Senate spent
some time in committee of the Whole
or the work of the codifying commits
sion. House-A bill was introduced
10 make one years absence, or drunk
enEess for one year, a cause for divorce.
Bills passed.: House bill to authorize
the sale of supposed submerged lands
about the Mercer county reservoir;
House bill to provide for payment for
a town hall III Loyeland. Professor
Orton was invited 10 deliver a lecture
on the soils of Ohio in the hall of the
House.
FEB 9.-Senate-Bills introduced: ::
Providing that summons may be issued
to any sheriff III the State i'll reviving
dormant judgment; prescribing fees OF
county auditors and treasurers; requir-
ing that members of boards and coun-
ty school examiners shall be practical
teacher, to authorize the Cleveland
police board TO sell unclaimed proper
ty; TO authorize insurance OF distiller
les; to authorize county commissioners
to employ plating commissioners; !;
authorizing the; district court in any
county constituting a district TO desig
nate a Journal and order the printing
therein of abstracts of legal notices
and advertisements; to amend the act
requiring trains to stop at railroad
crossings, so that the trains of one
road may do all the stopping. House
Joint resolution for printing G. 500
extra copies of the Secretary of
States report for 1876 was adopted.
House - Bills introduced: To allow
the city of Hamilton to purchase or
erect gas works; granting a lent Oh
property for making sldwalks; to au-
thorize the construction of a pIauk
road Oh Columbus street, BroOklyn Ii
township, Cuyhoga county; to create
two election precincts in Flushing
township, Belmont county; to require
township assessors TO take the number
and value of hogs dying from hog
cholera; to allow street commissioners
of cities of the second class to act as
civil engineers.
FEB. 20 Senate Bills passed
House bill to authorize payment of a
balance ON a town hail in Mt. Glllead
Senate bill providing for obtaining and
publishing reports OF banks and saw
ings institutions organized and doing
business under State law; Senate bill
10 allow inclined railway companies in
Cincinnati 10 operate street railway
House bill 70 increase rates of toll on
turnpikes. Testimony was submitted
in the Cox Harmon contested election
case. Some time Was spent ip com.
Inittee Of the Whole on the work of
the CodifyiDg Commission. House
Bills passed: House bill TO relieve the
treasurer of jefferson township, Noble
county; House ciii requiring life III
suranCe companies to give thirty to
sixty Gays notice before a policy can
expire; House bill requiring life insur
ance companies 40 furnish applicants
with company statistics, etc House
bill 20 provide that in cities of the sec
ond class Sheriffs' sales may be adver
tised i'll daily instead of a weekly
paper, provided the daily has the larg
er circulation; House bill requiring
Judgment creditors 10 marshal liens ia
bringing suits; Senate bill defining COM
pensaiion OF counsel appointed to de
fend IN cases where the accused is un-
able TO employ counsel, at 500 in
criminal cases and $50 III minor cases.
\ bill vas introduced TO allow railroad
companies TO use oil for lighting Dur
poses when the same will not ignite at
a temperature of 300 degree Fahrenheit
The bill to establish school of mines
and mine engineering at the Agricul-
tural College was lost. The vote was
then reconsidered and the bill laid on
the table.
FEE. 81 - Senate Bills passed:
House bill to aid the Board of Public
Works TO constr uct bridge Oh the
Western Reserve and Maumee road,
over the Sandusky river, House bill
for the relief of John MiZer, of Tuscar
awas county; Senate bill to punish the
practice of resorting to distant courts
to oppress citizens of Ohio and deprive
them of their rights under the statues.
House-Bills passed: House bill to
tax dogs 81 per head, the amount thus
raised to be used to compensate persons
who lose sheep killed by dogs; Senate
bill to provide for minority representa-
ton on election boards; House bill to
authorize the payment, of school house
Indebtedness in Perry township Law
renee county; House bill to authorize
transfer OF funds in Bellfontain; House
bill TO authorize the commissioners of
Franklin county to purchase the turn
pike betweenColumbus and Greenlawn
cemetery; Senate bill providing that
mining companies may manufacture
iron; to authorize transfer of funds in
A bill was introduced TO
regulate Iuines and mining, and estab-
fishes bureau of mining statistics.