The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-16

its work connot be completed in the
present year, was referred to the Judi
ciary committee. A bill was introduc
ed to increase the amount of bonds
authorized for jail in Seneca county
from $4,000 to $50, 900. House-Tht
visiting members of the Indiana Leg
islature were presented. A communi
cation from the Board of Public Works
as to the effect of the abandonment oi
the Lewistown reservoir On the Miam
and Erie canal, was ordered printed.
House bill to authorize the funding o1
an infirmary debt Ia Lawrence county,
and the levy of tax to Iiquidate the
same, was passed.
FEB. 26. Senate Bills passed
Senate bill authorizing county treas.
urers to sue for personal or corporation
taxes overdue; House bill authorizing
the refuuding of certain interest paid
by an ex-commissioner of Noble coun
ty. Testimony in the Cox Harmon
election case was read. House = A
resolution looking to the transfer of
insane prisoners from the Penitentiary
to the Hospital for the Insane was
adopted. Bills introduced: Author
izing transfer of funds in Trumbull
county; requiring teachers in the pub
lie, and applicants for positions as
teachers, to submit to an examination
in algebra; to provide for improving
certain channels in Dark county, au-
thorizing transfer of funds in GarretS-
vile, Portage county; authorizing a
tax TO pay Indebtedness of the Darke
County Agricultural Society.
FEB. q. - Senate - Bills passed:
House bill to authorize payment for
town hall in Loveland; House bill for
the relief of the treasurer of jackson
township, Crawford county; Senate
bill to authorize the issue of infirmary
bonds in Rockport, Cuyahoga county.
House - Tie general appropriation
bill was reported, with amendments,
and made the special order for the Sth
of March. Bills passed: House bill to
revise aud amend the criminal statues;
House bill to authorize transfer of
funds in Warren, Trumbull county;
House bill to authorize the commits
sioners of counties through which the
Western Reserve and Maumee road
passes, to take in charge SO much Of
said road as lies within their counties;
House bill for the relief of the sureties
of Koch and Relman, late treasurers
OF Wayne county; House bill prescrib-
ing rate of taxation for county, bridge,
road and township purposes. Senate
amendment to the House joint resolu
ton asking Congress to mark the
graves of soldiers inferred in Green
lawn, was disagreed to and commit
tee of conference asked. The Senate
amendment asks for a monument in
Capitol Square.
FEB. .-Senate-Bills introduced;
To authorize tax levy for a cemetery
in Akron: to authorize townships to
levy tax not exceeding 5000 per
annum for cutting down bills and fill
ing low places in roads. Testimony in
the Cox Harmon contested election
case was read. House - Bills passed;
House bill making it obligatory upon
coroners to have personal knowledge
Of all inquests held in their absence,
and to designate the justices of the
peace who shall hold them; Senate
bill authorizing incorporation of camp
meeting associations; House bill for
the payment of contractors for stone
and brick work at the Col
1mbus Hospital for the insane. Bills
Introduced: Defining the jurisdiction
Of the pro. ate court of Ashland coun-
y; to authorize special tax levy for
repairing Children's homes or infirma-
es, when damaged by fire; to author
ze turnpikes ten feet wide; to amend |
he act for the safety of public assem-
,lages so as to provide for board of
,gress in Cincinnati.