Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26

are reported in the jails and inhrmaries
Of the several counties 721 insane per.
sons, of whom 500 will be sent TO the
new asylum, near Columbus, as soon as
the institution is prepared to receive
them.
Legislative.
In the Senate, on the 10th, a bill was
introduced to authorize County Commits
sioners to issue bonds running for five
years, to be paid from the bridge fund,
for the purpose of constructing bridges
and culverts on roads constructed under
the act for the construction of roads, on
the petition of majority of land d.owners
.,. In the House a bill was introduced
to so amend the act to secure safety to
public halls, churches, ETC., as to permit
outside doors to open inwardly when in
side doors open outwardly, and outside
doors to be kept open during the times
of occupancy by public assemblies. Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the t7Ih, the bill to
provide increased facilities for the man
ufacture of gas at the Penitentiary was
passed In the matter of the contest
between Cox and Harmon, of Cincinnati,
counsel filed & motion to dismiss on the
ground that the Senate cannot exercise
judicial powers. Adjourned. . In the
House the bill for the incorporation of
associations for the mutual protection of
themselves against losses by fire was
passed. Bills were introduced pre-
scribing penalties for intimidation of
voters, and for bribery or attempts at
bribery by candidates; extending the
provision of homestead exemption to
minor children when there is no sur
viving parent, and providing that
after the homestead in trust has
been determined, the homestead shall be
liable for debts and legacies of decedent;
providing for reimbursing Township
Trustees for money expended for the re-
lief of paupers; authorizing township ag-
ricultural societies to lease not exceed
ing forty acres of land. The Temper.
ance bill was brought up on a motion to
reconsider, and the vote postponed until
Feb. 81. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, resolu-
ton was adopted instructing the Com
mittee on Benevolent Institutions to in.
quire into the eligibility of Chas. d. Will
son medical, superintendent of the Athens
Hospital for the Insane; also whether in
his appointment the Hospital Trustees
disregarded the opinion of the Attorney
General Bills were introduced-mak-
ing the penalty for delinquent taxes 10
per cent, instead of 25; to extend the
maximum pay of Road Supervisors in
any one year from thirty to fifty dollars
The Governor sent in the nomination of
DR.. II. NJ. Lash 20 be Trustee of the
Athens Asylum, Uice Moore, resigned.
Adjourned . . In the House bills were
passed-for the protection of board
ing house keepers; for the compul-
sorry education of children-57 to
30. Bills were introduced-to prevent
the spread of smallpox and provide for
compulsory vaccination; to provide for
a registration of persons entitled to vote at
State and local elections; providing that
the Attorney General shall be a member of
the Printing Commissioners Board in
place of the Comptroller, whose Office is
abolished. Messrs. Duncan, Huberick,
Light, Bard, Nigh, Watson, Barclay,
Dempey, and Eylar, were appointed a
Committee on Elective Franchise. Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, a petition
was presented for the appointment of Il
State commission to investigate the cause
of hog cholera. A large number of bills
were read the second time and referred.
A bill providing that before any bridge
or public building shall be erected in
any county, the cost of which will exceed
$40 900, the same shall be submitted to
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passed. The bill does not apply to
bridges or buildings injured by any acci-
dent or worn by age, but to new struct-
ures only. Adjourned. In the House
bills were passed-to authorize Town
ship Trustees to clean out, widen and
deepen bitches, and to locate lateral
bitches; to authorize County Com
missioners to remove drift and OBJ
structions from living streams of
water; to authorize railroad and eX-
press companies to charge storage
on unmarked packages. The bill to re-
strain vagrancy and common begging
and the bill to establish the Ohio House
for Incurably Insane were indefinitely
postponed. The bill to extend the term
of County Auditors to three years was
postponed to Feb, 9. A bill was intro
duced to provide for the appointment of
physicians for township poor. A resolu-
tiOn was adopted, asking the Railroad
| Commissioner what roads in Ohio were
violating the law which requires them
to equip trains with bridges between the
cars. A memorial was presented asking
the passage of a law compelling un-
married men to pay their debts. Ad'
jOurned.
IN the Senate, on the Goth, the bill to
authorize County Commissioners to ac-
cept a surrender of free turnpike roads
in certain cases was indefinitely post
pOned. Adjourned. . . In the House the
! bill to enable executors and administra'
/ tors to obtain funds arising from the sale
of real estate on partition TO pay debts was
passed. A bill was introduced to provide
for State Commission to investigate the
cause of hog cholera. A joint resolution
| to submit to the popular vote an amend.
ment to the Constitution fixing the term
of Office of Township Trustees at three
years. instead of one, was ordered printed
Adjourned.
IN the Senate, on the 22d, bill to au,
thorize mining companies to engage in
the manufacture of iron without addi
tional certificates of incorporation was
! passed. The afternoon was mostly oc-
cupied with memorial speeches in honor
of Hon. p. NJ. Dechant, late Senator
from Butler County e.. In the House bills
were introduced-to reduce the price OF
legal advertising from fifty cents to forty
cents for insertions subsequent TO the
first, and rate the squares at 800 ems in
stead of 240, and repeal the law requir'
ing that legal advertisements be inserted
in papers of opposite politics; foI
a commission to receive proposals and
locate and erect a new Penitentiary
not less than eighty miles from Colum'
bus. Resolutions favoring and opposing
the proposed plan for counting the elect
oral vote were offered and laid on the
table. Resolutions were adopted grant
ing mileage to the officers of the House,
and instrucing the Committee on Com
mon Schools to report suitable measures
to prevent the frequent changes of text