The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-04
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

I hfhib 1J-CcIAdtt-f)i!IS passed
Senate bill to authorize the commits
sioners of Cuyaboea county to borrow
money and pay liabilities; tht General
Appropriation bill; Senate bill TO auth
orize narrow gauge railroad companies
to issue bonds; Senate bill to author
iZe boards of trade and chambers of
commerce TO erect buildings :or their
own use; House bill TO authorize the
village of Monioeville TO purchase 81
fire engine and apparatus and build an
engine house Bills introduced: To
provide ior anneXing territory to the
school district of Biuffton, All; COUP
Iy; 10 create gas works in liftoD.
Hamilton county. The nomination of
! b. f. Martin, OF Franklin county, TO
be Trustee of the Blind Asylum was
referred. A resolution for bindiI Z the
unbound volumes of the constitutional
debates of 1873, was adopted. House
Bills passed: House bill authorizing
the Directors OF the Penitentisry TO
dispense with the foot hall IN the new
addition; House bill providing for
quarterly meetings of the Trustees of
the Soldiers Orphans Home; House
bill for The relief Of the cveTseeis of the
poor in Cincinnati; Senate bill regula-
ting the speed OF railroad trains in
corporations, allowing a speed of eight
miles per hour in town OF two thous
and inhabitants: House bill to prevent
tie abandonment of passenger or
freight trains at any other point
than schedule destination; Senate bill
to punish the practice of resortiug to
distant courts 10 oppress citizens Of
Ohio; Senate bill 20 authorize free
banking; House bill TO provide .or
collection OF delinquent taxes tor free
turnpike roads; Senate bill revising
the ditch laws; House bili to provide
for the purchase OF books for the com
mon schools House bill TO allow the
illumination of railroad passenger cars
with oil or fluid tina. will bear a test
of 800 was lost.
! APRIL 20.-Senate-Bills passed
Senate bill to atborize the auditor of
Hamilton county 10 appoint deputies
! to act as ward assess Ors; House bill
requiring the proceeds of a sale Of Ger
tain canal lands TO be placed to the
credit Of the Agricultural College fund
| House bill to authorize the city of
! Lancaster to issue bonds and fund $
| Indebtedness; House bill 10 provide
for cleaning streets i'll Cleveland by
contracts; Senate bill providing that
in foreclosure cases, the persons hold
ing mortgages. when their residence is
known, may be servrd By sending
copies of papers containing notice |
House bill TO authorize counsels TO
require new bonds Of city officers when
old bondsmen become insolvent; |
House bill for detaching territory rom !
cities or villages; House bill to auth |
ize the commissioners of Brown cnuu-
ty 20 levy an additional tax TO pay |
caunty expenses. Ten other bills all |
of local interest strictly, were passed.
Bills introduced: Empowering the
city of Cleveland 10 +. gulate fares Oh
the East Cleveland street railway; to
re1uire inn aud boarding house keep /
ers TO provide efficient fire escapes; TO |
transfer funds in Fremont; to provide
more effectuslly against accidents
from fire On railroad trains. Resolu |
tious adopted: Senate joint resolution
asking Congress to make appropria
lion, for the improvement of rivers in /
the Missippi Valley: House joint res
olution giving the SciOto Valley rail
way right of wey along part OF the tow
gath Of the Ohio canal; House Joint |
resolution giving the care of the flag
rooms and flags 20 the A6jutant Gen
eral b. Z. Martin was confirmed as
Trustee Of the Blind Asylum. House |
Bills passed: House bill creating a |
special school district in Thorn town
ship, Perry county and Walnut town
ship, Fairfield county; House bill to |
provide for the incorporation of church |
sessions; Senate bill fixing the rate of |
taxation for municipal purposes in
Toledo at nineteen mills on the dollar:
Senate bill to Indicate who shall have
the power OF declaring incorporated
religious societies extinct; House bill
TO prevent the spread of CaDada this
ties; House bill giving Mayors casting
votes, in cities of the second class, IN
cases of tie vot. in councils; Senate
bill to protect real estate owners |
against waste by tenants by courtesy.
Eleven other bills, of local interest
only, were passed. A bill to amend
the school law, SO as to require vote
of the village to make such village a
school district was introduced. Reso
lutions adopted: House joint resolu
tiou granting the Scioto Valley
Railway the right of way over part Of
the tow path of the Ohio canal; Sen
ate Joint resolution relative TO tie res
toiaiion of the silver dollar to its for
mer rank as lawful money: House
Joint resolution TO allow H. =. Cough
& Co., contractors, S537. House joint
resolution suspeudiDg the law fixing
the price Of convict labor until August
l, was icst-6 TO 66. House bill to
recognize Longview Asylum was lost.
House bill to provide for official legis-
lative reports was lost. a communi
cation from Superintendent Fay of the
Instituti,u for the Deaf and Dumb,
asking for in vestigation of a charge
made in telegraph TO the Cincinnati
Enquirer, OF neglect 10 one OF tue pu
pills, was referred TO the appropriate
committee.
APRIL 21- Senate-One bill was
passed, and cpe iDtroGuced-botiii
local. No business of general interest.
uouse-B Bills FasseG: Senate tiil 10
authorize the commissioners Of Cuya
hoga county TO borrow money Oh tie I
bonds of tine county; House DILL 10
make the free turnpike law apply 10
Clarke and Butler counties. and take
the execution OF the law out of the
hands of the county commissioners and
place il in the hands of the township i
trustees; House bill 70 consolidate and
amend the statue, relative 10 jails and
Penitentiary. House bill to purish
officials for making false election re
turns was amended and lost.
APRIL % 3-Senaie-i Bills passed:
House bill 10 authorize the commis-l
siorers of Franklin county 70 levy a
tax for making q turnpike hoad from
High street, Columbus, alorg Green {
lawn avenue road, to the Chillicothe
road; House bill TO provide for quar-
terly meetings of the Trustees of the T.,
Soldiers Orphan Home; House bill to
authorize the city of Dayton TO build !
AID maintain stationary bridges across {
the Mad river feeder of the Miami and ;
Erie caIai; House bill authorizing the +,
commissioners of Scioto county to
bridge the Seioto near Mackey's ford {
Senate bill 20 aid in the establishment :
of Normal school in Garfield Mahon ! ,
Ing county. Aresolution was adopted, =.
directing the Board of State Charities
to report, within ninety days from the .
time Of the completion of the Colum-
bus Hospital for the insane, the names 7
and personal history of insane inmates
of county intirInaries. TO the respective .
Superintendebts for the Insane, who [
are required to receive said patients. {
provided that in each hospital fifty /
beds shall be reserved for recent cases
of insanity; i'll case the quotas snail be
more than tlled patients whose disease