Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-23

MAY 14.-Senate-BiIls passed: APP
portioning salaries among deputy clerks
in Hamilton county. Requiring annual
of life insurance COM
panies and changing the base of valua-
ton. Prohibiting Insurance Companies
adopting names Of other Companies and |
to waive the right to take suits to United /
States courts. Authorizing Mansfield to |
appaint treasurer. In relation to the |
Cincinnati Southern railroad. Regulat-
ing fees of county officers. Redistricting
the State for Representatives in Congress.
Admitting women to practice law. Max
ing it the duty of infirmary superintend-
ents to ascertain the place of residence of
persons claiming relief as paupers. Au-
thorizing the incorporation of lawful
sporting associations. Authorizing the
payment of compensation to the board of
Dayton for 1877. Makingan appropria-
ton for publishing advance copies of the
municipal code. Requiring insurance
companies before organizing to have
! agreement by at least two hundred solv-
ent applicants, etc. Relative to the con-
| troll of burial grounds outside of muni-
cipal corporations. Authorizing associa-
tions with limited liabilities.
The following trustees of the Soldiers
Orphans Home were appointed and con-
frmed Barnabas Burns, Richland; B.
C. Blackburn, Coshocton; A. NJ. Stark,
Greene; A. NJ. Stimson, Fayette; John
Kirkpatrick, Guernsey.
A partial report of the committee to in
yestigate the Cincinnati Southern rail-
way was made to the effect that no irreg-
ularitfes had been discovered or truth OF
charges on the floor of the House.
House-A resolution was offered declar-
ing vacant the seat of John 0'Conuor, OF
Montgomery county. A protracted dis,
cussion was had on the resolution, and {
vote taken resulted-yeas 81, nays Is. The
Speaker reserved his decision as towheth
er the resolution was adopted or net.
Bills passed: incorporating assoeia
, tions for reclamation of men and wo
men from immortality and intemperanee
: Authorizing Youngstown to invest sink
/. ing fund bonds. Abolishing coroners
' Ijuries. Furnishing false pretenses' in ne
$ gotiating commercial paper fraudulent.
i 0DGa4u6us
e Resolutions adopted: Authorizing tn
Q Tyndall Association, of Columbus, t
) erect time ball on the State House. t
n print 10 900 copies of the report of tn
s hog cholera commission.
v MAY 15.-Senate-Reso1uti wer
II adopted allowing extra compensation
+ the subordinate officers, excepting tn
8 Journal and Message clerks, who decline
It the gratuities.
+ F. W. Green was appointed and col
Is firmed inspector of Illuminating oils. :
e At ntne o'clock, the gavel fell, and th
q Senate was declared adjourned until Jar
g uary next.
5. House-The Speaker announced the r.
8 suit of the vote on declaring vacant tt
y seat of Representative O'Connor, it beir
ID that the resolution had received major
ty of all the members Of the House, al
e was therefore adopted.
r. Bills passed: Prohibiting lnsuran
he companies from investing in railroad $
IS. curities. Authorizing commissioners
w keep in repair abandoned free turnpi
IL roads.
ry Resolutions adopted: Providing for t
n distribution of volume four of the Ge
les logical Survey, and the remaining cop
es. of the debates of the Constitutional CO
lid vention of 1874.
ras After few remarks by the Speaker,
IN nine O'Clock the House was declared i
by journed until next January.