The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-23


providing the same penalty for non-pay-
ment Of turnpike taxes as in other de-
linquent taxes; to provide for payment
ofa claim of s125s45S to the stone and
brick contractors for the Columbus
Hospital for the Insane; to provide for
service Of attachment notices through
the postofiee. The House spent some
time in committee of the Whole on the
bill TO revise and consolidate the statutes
relating to crimes and offenses. A res
luton was adopted authorizing the At
torney General to take such action as he
may deem proper in case pending in
Cinciniti to collect tax levied on the
Pullman Car Company.
FEB 3.-Senate-A bill was introduc
ed providing for registration of elec-
tors. and to prescribe as condition of
Exercising the elective franchise for all
citizens not registered aresidence in the
county of three hundred and sixty days
proceeding the election. and in the
township or ward three hundred and
thirty days.
House-not quorum present; no
business transacted
FEB lls.introduced: To
require nonresident garnishied to
answer when brought within the juris-
| diction of the court; to repeal the act
making null and void bequests made to
religious sOcities unless made twelve
months before the death of the testator.
A resolution was adopted directing in
iquiry as to whether further legislation
IS necessary to protect life insurance
policy holders
HouSe-Bills introduced: To create
township road supervisors; to increase
commissioners and surveyors fees IN
partition cases; to grant extention
of payment to contractors for prison
labor; to make the Fen law include par
ties furnishing building materials or
supplies providing that i've years shall
elapse after an election precinct shall
have been constituted before any change
of boundary or location may be made; to
create the Ohio House of Discipline; to
require city officials to report delinquent
taxes to county auditors by the 1st of
July each year; to require the city
of Columbus to keep up the free turn
pike between Columbus and Green
Lawn Cemetery The House spent
some time in committee of the Whole on
the bill to revise and amend the criminal
code. The committe on insurance was
instructed to report whether additional
legislation is necessary to protect life
insurance policy holders
FEB 6-Senate-Bills passed: Senate
bill to facilitate administration of Justice
in Cuyahoga county; House bill to
divide Aurelius township, Washington
county, into election precincts; provid-
ing that actions against incorporated
companies may be brought in the coun-
ty where the principal office is located,
or against insurance companies where
the cause of action arise Bills intro
duced: To require railroad companies
to provide places where stock may rest
and be fed; to prevent and punish
frauds in securing extension of
debts and release and substitution of
debtors; to pro ide for an Inebriate
Home; to provide that political parties
may name the hours at which election
polls shall be opened; to provide that
only majority vote shall be required to
annex territory to a CITY or village.
House-BilIs passed: House bill to
provide for a court interpreter in Ham,
ilton county; House bill authorizing the
completion of town hall in Mt Gilead;
House bill providing that life insurance
policy holders shall be supplied with all
papers relating to policies; House bill
authorizing payment of bridge bonds
issued by the city of Xenia, at a date
not later than 1885; House bill to provide
for the incorporation of farm laborers'
associations. A bill was introduced pro-
viding for an additional common pleas
Judge in the third subdivision of the
Sixth Judicial district A joint resolu-
ton requiring itemized accounts of the
expenses ofcommittees,w went to the table
under notice to DISCUSS.
FEB 7-Senate-Bills passed: Senate
bill making the separate property of
wife liable for her debts; Senate bill fix
ing the minimum and maximum COM
pensation of roan supervisors at s16 and
so per annum; House bill requiring
county commissioners to keep living
streams free from drift; Senate bill re-
quiring the Board Of Public Works to
locate and provide for the appraisement
and sale of State lands within and ada
cent to the Lewistown reservoir; House
bill to authorize New London township,
Huron county, to pay town hall debt:
House bill for transfer Of funds in No
bic county; Senate bill to create two
election precincts in Richland township,
Allen county; House bill for transfer Of
funds in Hamilton, Butler county A
bill was introduced to allow railroad
trains to run through towns Of not more
thsa 10000 inhabitants at the rate Of ten
miles an hour.
House-Bills passed: House bill to
refunding Of excessive inter
est to Commissioner f Akin, of Noble
House bill TO authorize purchase
Of cemetery by the village of Marysville
and Paris township, Union county:
House bill to authorize town hall and
engine house in Wilmington; House
bill to authorize the Columbus council
to levy a tax to build a police station:
Senate bill to authorize the village Of
Kent to make private bridge contract;
Senate bill requiring that certain rail-
road reports hitherto made to the Au-
litor Of State, shall hereafter be made to
he Railroad Commissioner; House bill
% provide for park in Litehfeld town
hip, Medina county; Senate bill to pay
or a team of horse taken by Ohio Militia
Turing the Morgan raid. Bills intro
Iuced: Re-enacting the old law regulat.
no, county treasIIrers' fees IN antho-iza