Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-08
LEGIsLATIVE.


Senate, Jan. 29.-Af few minutes were
devoted to the second reading of two
bills and the Senate adjourned.
House. Petitions were presented
for legislation to enlarge and maintain
in good repair the canals of the State;
for law to prevent manufacturing
companies from issuing checks to their
employees. Bills were introduced-to
repeal the Compulsory Education act
of 1877; to provide for courts of cOncilia-
ton to settle controversies growing out
of strikes and to carry into effect the
constitutional provision in relation to
arbitration. Adjourned.
Senate, Jan. 3O.-the bill to repeal
the law requiring Township Clerks
to record chattel mortgages and sub
stitute therefor a law requiring such
Clerks and County Recorders to keep
an idex of chattel mortgages was
passed. Petitions for a law to protect
quail and to provide for enlarging,
maintaining and preserving the canals
were presented Bills were introduced
to enact the statutes in relation to
taxation as revised and consolidated by
the Codifying Commission; to make sill
yer dollars of the United States legal
tender for all amounts and subsidiary
silver coin legal tender for fifty dollars.
Adjourned .... ..-,..
HouSe.-A large number of petit
tions were presented. Bills were intro
duccd--to provide for curing defects in
the organization of incorporated COM
panies to allow jurors in Justices
courts one dollar for each case tried,
and fifty cents if the jury shall be held
in session in the night time; to enact
the statutes in relation to elections as
prepared by the Codifying Commission.
The bill increasing the salaries of the
Supreme Judges hereafter taking seats
from $4,000 to $1,000 was, after long
discussion, defeated-12 to rs. Ad-
| journed. ..f,a...s. ...
Senate, Jan. 3I.-Bills were intro
duced-to repeal the Compulsory Edu-
cation law; to provide that property
shall not be detached from any city or
incorporated village where public inn
provements have been made upon such
property until the Council of such city
or village consents thereto; to make
changes in the criminal code; to limit
the number of challenges allowed in
capital cases to twelve on each side
Petitions for the protection of foxes and
for the enlargement and preservation
of the canals were presented. Adj
journed. 'o
HouSe.--A large number of petitions
were presented. Bills were introduced
authorizing County Commissioners
to bring suit to recover moneys illegally
or fraudulently obtain from County
Treasurers; abolishing the Office of Rail-
road Commissioner; to provide for the
conversion of toll roads into free roads;
increasing the exemption of taxable
property from $50 to 5000; repeating
the act for the collection of delinquent
taxes; fixing the weight of bushel of
corn in the car at seventy pounds; pro-
hibiting the introduction into the State
of animals having the Spanish fever;
providing for the election of State
hCommissioner and Solicitor in villages.
Adjourned. 10,
Senate, Feb. Bills were passed
to punish by fine of from five to fifty
dollars and imprisonment from sixty
days to six months, the offense of bet
ting or selling pools on elections; to
regulate the compensation OF brokers,
real estate agents and auctioneers. A
bill was introduced, authorizing guar
dams of imbeciles to sell lands by order
of the Probate Court. Adjourned.
House.-A bill to prohibit insurance
companies from adopting the name of
any other insurance company organ
lied under the laws of the State was
introduced. Almost the entire session
was occupied in consideration of the
bill to reorganize the Penitentiary, and
various amendments were adopted.
Adjourned.
Senate, FEB. 2.-The bill to give
Justices exclusive and original juris-
diction in suits for replevin where the
property does not exceed 800, and
concurrent jurisdiction where the prop
erty is valued at $500, was passed. A
bill to fix the rate for legal advertising
at seventy cents per square, or 800 ems,
for the first insertion and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion was
introduced. Adjourned. ...,.
House.-The bill to reorganize the
Penitentiary was passed by party
vote-59 to 29-after long discussion.
The Senate joint resolution to provide
for the distribution of the remaining
copies of the report of the Ohio Board
of Centennial Managers was adopted.
Bills were introduced regulating insur-
: ance companies; preventing and punish
ing fraud in the manufacture and sale
of butter and cheese; authorizing the
vacation of abandoned turnplkes and
| their establishment as county roads;
, providing for keeping in repair gravel
roads. The bill apPropriating $1,000
for the expense of the militia, ETC., en-
, ployed during the riots OF 1877 was
, passed. Adjourned.
Senate, Feb. 1.-The bill making the
| silver dollar legal tender for any
' amount, and subsidiary silver coin q
1 legal tender for fifty dollars and under,
e was reported back from the Currency
v Committee and ordered to third read
t ing. The greater part of the session
/ was spent in Committee of the Whole
on the bill revising the tax laws.
: HouSe.-A large number of petitionl
, and remonstrances were presented and
s referred. A bill was introduced to sc
. amend the act requiring owners OF
J, buildings to provide suitable means OF
g escape from fire as to require this to b'
done within sixty days from the passag'
4 of this act Bills we're passed-authOr
+ izing the publication of Sheriffs' sale
in daily newspapers in cities of thu
/ second-class; prescribing as penalty
G fine not exceeding $500 and imprisOn
n ment not exceeding six months for pub
> fishers of newspapers printing notices
i for lawyers of divorce procured; Great
ing Board of Fire Commissioners TO
O Cincinnati; providing for the remoys
!. from the Probate Court of cases il
8 which the Judge is a witness. MI
: OConnor rose TO a question of priv
,f lege, and had read letters from officer
of the Twenty fourth Michigan Reg
! ment, showing that his absence iron
his regiment in 1864, four months prio
to the time he is accused Of deseT
= ton, was occasioned by sun-stroke, an
g on his motion an investigating COMMIT
;" tee was appointed. Adjourned
l, AT Adairsville, Ca, the other day
d a man named Manning and two Gen