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


'ng The las requiring municipal cor
porations TO pay for rurIpikes. A res
Dluriou was adopted requesting the
Railroad Commissioner to report
whether the law requiring bridges b.
tween passenger COACHES WAS enforc-d.
Jan O-SenaIe-Senateb bill to au
tl.orlz- turnpike companies 20 surreu-
der turnpike roads to county commits
sioners in certain cases, was Indefinite
ly postponed.
House-BiHs passed: House bill re
lieving the sureties of the Treasurer OF
Somerset; House bill to enable exc
Gu ors and administrators to obtain
funds from real estate sales on parti
ton 20 pay debts Bills introduced ;
! To %, oyide for commission to iuves
tigate the hog cholera; to improve the
State road in Miami county. A resolu
rion was offered proposing constitu-
tional amendment providing fer the
election of township trustees for three
years.
| JAN. % -Senate-Senate bill to
authorize mining companies to mann
facture iron without filing a new Ger
/ tificate of incorporation, was passed.
A bill was introduced to provide for
registration of voters in cities of the
! first and second classes, upon petition
| of one-tenth of the electors. Speeches
I eulogistic of the late Senate Duchard
were delivered, and appropriate resolu-
tions were adopted.
| Housr-Bilis introduced: Directing
the publication of sheriffs sales in Ger
man newspapers; reducing the price
af legal advertising. and rep-aling ii. e
law requiring publication in two pa
pers; to provide for the erection OF a
penirentiary, and the appointment vi
a commission who shall locate and
construct the building. Senate bill
fixing the times for holding courts il.
the Eighth district was passed. A joint
resolution favoripg the plan for settle.
ment of the Pr. sidenfial question re
ported by joint committee of Con
gress. went to the table under notice
to discuss. A resolution in opposition
to the plan went to the table under
similar notice. The committee on
Hospitals for the Insane made a report
stating that 613 patients are to be
transferred TO { ie Columbus Hospital
as soon as it is ready for occupancy
236 From Dayton, 81 from Cleveland,
95 from Toledo, aid 231 from Athens
Referred to Finance committee.
JAN. 23.-Senate Bills passed
House bill authorizing a transfer of
funds in the Mt Vernon treasury
Senate bill creating two election pre-
ciDcts in Milton township, jackson
county. A bill was introduced to au-
thorize the trustees of Geneva town
ship. Ashtabula county, to levy a tax
and issue bonds to erect a soldiers
monument. A resolution opposing
the conference committees plan for
counting the electoral vote was refer
red. The nomination of w. w. John
son to be a trustee of Ohio Univer.ity
was referred.
House-Bills passed: Senate bill to
leealize the contract for building the
Licking county, court house; House
bill providing that the estate of a wild
ow at death shall be equally distribut-
ted among her heirs and the heirs of
her husband; Honse bill tC provid,
for the incorporation of mechanics as
sociations. House bill to provide for
the procurement of additional lands
for cemetery purposes; House bill 70
give justices of the peace juris, iction
in matters of attachment involving
real estates; House bill TO divide Au
refius township, Wa hington county.
into two election precincts. Bills in
trOduced: Defing the duties of Super
intendents, principals and teachers of
the common schools; to limit tn. time
of leaving de. DIS in the Recorders of
flee to ten days; to create the Office of
Engineer of the Board of Public
Work. III Cincinnati; TO provide that
if a judgment creditor shall cause
real estate to be offered for sale with
out having nar>halled the liens there
Oh, he shall pay t. costs.
JAN. "a -Senate-Bills passed: Sen
ate bill ex-Inpting earnings of laborers
for three months from application to
liquidation of debts, when it can be
proven Il e earDIugs are necessary TO
support the debtors family; Senate
bill authorizing the leasing OF the Gin
cinnati Southern railroad; House bill
providing for minority representation
in elecIing township trustees; House
bill to provide for construction of
turnpikes in Brown county.
House Senate bill 10 increase the
gas manufacturing capacity of Pen
tentiary ard to provide for com1letion
of the cells, was passed. A r-solution
was adopted providing for the pur-
chase of new chairs and desks for the
House. Eulogies were pronounced
and appropriate resolutions adopted,
,elating to the death of Alexander
Phillips and r. G. Thompson.