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

FRB. 15.-Senate-The vote by
which the compulsory education bill
was passed was recoDsidered, and the
bill was laid on the table. Bills pass
ed: Senate bill giving justices of the
peace and police judges jurisdiction
under the game law in cases of tres
pass ON unimproved property; House
bill to authorize express companies to
charge storage on unmarked packages; /;
House bill authorizing senior justices
of the peace to fill vacancies in boards
of township trustees; Senate bill TO
change the powers of the Cincinnati
police board; House bill for the relief
of the bondsmen of Treasurer Spencer,
of Somerser. Bills introduced: Re
pealing the act providing for the equal
ization of bank shares; to divide Perry
township, Columbiana county, into
two election precincts; to repeal sec
ton 665 of the municipal code, allow
ing munic pal corporations to issue
bonds in anticipation of taxes; to de
crease the number of codifyipg com
missioneTs, and to provide for the
completion of the work of codifyiDg
by the 1st of October; to waive the
appraisal of lands in forced sales; to
require railroad companies to make
cut lists of their stockholders annual
ly. House-Bills passed: House bill
to provide for payment for town hall
in Gallon; House bill 10 limit the issue
of bonds in Toledo, in anticipation of
taxes, to S100, 600. and u prevent ad-
ditional loans until previous bonds are
cancelled; Senate bill TO provide for
two election precincts i'll Richland
township, Allen county; forbidding
action for ogercharges by railroad
corporations until judicial decision
has been obtained as 20 legislative
authority House bill TO require Marsh
ais oi cities of the second class 10 ac
count for all property falling into their
hands; House bill to provide for the
preservation OF piats, etc, in pfelim
mary proceedings for road improve
ments. A bill was introduced 10 allow
any corporate BODY 10 erect colnpeti
tive gas works.
FEB. 1G.-Senate- Bills passed Sen
ate bill TO authorize the issue of bonds
for school purposes in Portsmouth;
Senate bill 70 create a special school
district in Seneca county: House bill
to authorize incorporation of town
ship agricultural societies; Senate bill
10 require title deeds 70 State lands to
be deposited with the State Auditor;
House bill directing payment of bridge
bonds in Xenia; House bill TO allow
township trustees ompensation for
transportation of paupers. Bills Ia
troduced: Prescribing mode of proc-d
ure in settling insolvent insurance
companies; authorizing issue of in
firmary bonds in Rockport township.
Cuyahoga county. Some time was
spent in the committee of the Whole on
rhe report of the Codifying Commission.
House-Bilis passed: House bill to
authorize township trustees to take
charge of bequests to a fractional part
of township; Senate dill to authorize
a tax levy for soldiers monument in
Geneva township, Ashtebula county;
Senate bill making it optional with
street railroad companies TO elect from
three to seven directors. Among the
bills introduced were the following:
To create a special school district in
school districts Nos. 6 and 2, Munich
township, Nos. 4 and 5, Brown town.
ship, and No. 2, Prairie towDship-all
in Franklin county; to divide Jackson
township, franklin county, and create
the new township of Liberty; TO auth
orize the city of Dayton to build and
maintain bridges across the Mad river
feeder; 10 authorize a tax levy in
Franklin county for making a turn
pike from High street, Columbus, along
Greenlawn avenue, to the old Chilli |
cothe road: to refund the treasurer of