Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-02-08

tailed statement to the common pleas
court, and providing for the sppoint-
ment OF examiners Of Commissioners
proceedings; to authorize seven per
cent. interst; making il penal ofYense
TO sell adulterated spices.
On Wednesday, in the Senate, bills
were passed: Senate bill requiring
officers OF militia and fire companies to
report the names of members that they
may be exempt from jury duty; Senate
bill to compel corporations to pay en-
ployes' wages on or before the last day
of each month, and to give employees,
except officers, the first lien on thecsr.
poration's property; Senate bill TO au-
thorize county commissioners to antici-
pate taxes to build bridges and culverts;
Senate bill providing that no toll shall
tween Columbus and the Hospital for
the Insane.
Bills were introduced: Providing
for an additional Judge in the Eighth
district; to require surveyors in counties
having over 40, 900 inhabitants to turn
over fees to the treasury, and allpwiDg
them = salary of $1,000 per annup and
mileage; to repeal the section limiting
income Of orphan asylums to SIC, 600
per year, and authorizing common.
pleas courts to appoint trustees of suS$'
ssylnms; TO allow county commissi0bzs
ers TO employ counsel; TO require bank
officers to report annually, requiring
land owners to mark their boundaries.
Arguments were made in the Cox
Harmon contested election case.
In the House bills were passed Sen.
ate bill authorizing the commissioners
of Noble county to transfer funds; to
allow township agricultural societies to
hold forty acres of land.
The special coinInitter to investig q te
the alleged Poi oning at the Ohio PEN
itentiary, made report ceDsuring two
subordinate officers for carelessness, and
recommending legislation to give the
prison physician control over the dis
pensary of the institution. The report
was referred to the committee on Pen
itentiary.
On Thursday, in the Senate, the Sen
ate decided, by a vote of 10 To II, that
it had Jurisdiction in the Cox-Harmon
contested election case, for common
pleas judge, whereupon further c1nsid-
GRAFTON of the case was postponed till
February IS, to give time for taking
testimony. -.fr.-.
In the House bills were passed: Sen
ate bill restoring the law of 1862 as to
the compensation of county treasurers;
House bill to reimburse township trus-
t. es within five days for temporary re-
lief granted the poor; House bill to pro-
hibit teachers and school superintend-
ent5 from serving on boards of eXami
ners in cities of the second class and
villages having $500 inhabitants ana
upwards, subsequently, the vote was
recOnsidered and the bill recommitted. |
House bill providing that where case
has been submitted TO arbitration and
set aside, it may be set down for trial.
The bill to provide for the erection OF
two fountains in State House square
was lost-34 to 80. -
Bills were introduced; Prohibiting
incorporated companies or savings so
cieties from charging greater rate Of
interest than eight per cent; to allow
township trustees to take charge Of
property left as a bequest to the poor;
10 require township trustees tOimprove
township cemeteries; to prohibit the
firing of firearms within a quarter of
mile of any cemetery; to authorize the
appointment of women as school exam
liners; to encourage the formation of
water-works companies; to prescribe
the fees Of county auditors.
On Friday, in the Senate, bills were
passed: House bill to authorize county
commissioners to anticipate tax levies
for building and supporting cbildren's
homes; Senate bill providing for incor-'
poration of camp meeting associations
aud companies for planting shade
trees.
Bills were introduced To limit ac-
tion for recovery OF usury to two years;
to extend the provisions of the lien Law
in the construction Of public buildings.
In the House bills were introduced ::
To authorize cities of the first and sec
Ond classes to establish Kindergarten
schools; providing the same penalty
for non-payment Of turnpike taxes as
in other delinquent taxes; to provide
for payment of claim of $l2, ,5S4.5S to
the stone and brick contractors for the
Hospital for the Insane; to
provide for service of attachment
notices through the postoffice.
The House spent some time in COM
mittee of the Whole on the bill to re-
wise and consolidate the statutes relat.
ing to crimes and sOffenses. s-.
On Saturday, in the Senate, bill
was introduced providing for q regis,
tration of electors, and to prescribe as a
condition of exercising the elective
franchise for all citizens not registered
4 residence in the county of three hun
dred and sixty days preceding the elec-
tiOn, and in the township or ward
three hundred and thirty days.
In the House not q quorum present;
no business transacted. lst