Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-07
OHIO LEGIsLATURE.
From o. S. journal Summary.

From .. ;. Journal Summary.
FEB. 26.-SENATE-BiI passed !:
Repeating the portion of the Registry
law for the registration of voters; max
ing partial appropriations; providing
for appointing trustees for the Toledo
house of refuge.
Bill lost: incorporating life boat
manufacturing companies.
HoUsE-The House by party vote
refused to enter upon the journal
protest Of two Republican members
against the action of the House in ex-
GLIDING the minority report of the
OConDOr investigating committee.
Resolution adopted: Opposing a
reduction by Congress of the tariff on
wool.
Bills introduced: Conferring police
powers on members of mutual protec-
tion societies; fixing the pay of election
clerks; amending the school law in re-
lation TO joint sub-distriets.
Bills passed: Allowing costs to
justices of the peace in minor criminal
receive bequests and donations. i
FEB. 27.-SENATE-Bills passed
authorizing the reissuing of charters;
Including corporations and Officers
within the prohibition of nuisances; re-
quiring unclaimed dividends and
deposits to be paid into the State Treas
ury; reorgsnizing the trustees of Bev-
erly college. istl
Bills introduced: Creating and ad-H
dititional Superior Judge for Gin
cinnati; giving judgment debtor two
years to reclaim real estate in.
The committee on Elections report
ed in favor of Mr.. Curtiss ia the Ba-t
kerr -Cartiss Senatorial contest, and the
report was agrsda 10. - -#E# ytt
The Governdr seal ia the nomination
of the following Penltentiary Directors:
j. dG.7 Peetrie, Charles NJ. Roose,
Daniel McConville jr., A. d. Heffner
and s. s. Warner. Fl sa'-- -isi
House Resolutions: To sell the
tobacco warehouse-postponed
Bills introduced. Amending the
compensation to road supervisors; ap-I
pointing commission to locate the
Ohio and Pennsylvania line.
Bills passed: Authorizing compen-
sation for destroying rats, hawks and
mice; prohibiting the taking Of Texas
or Cherokes cattle through this State.
FEB. 2S.-SENATE-Bills passed:
preventing the reduction of the width
of roads. that have been laid out
twentyone years; requiring township
trustees to erect guide-bOards.
Bill lost: Creating board of public
works for Toledo.
The Democratic nominees for Peni-
tentiary directors were confirmed,
while the Republican nominee was re-
jected by party vote.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Amend
ing the road law in reference to the pay
of supervisors; providing for the com
pletion of the Geological Survey of
Ohio; authorizing the appointment of
assistant assessors in cities of the first
class. Bill lost: Suppressing nuisances
created by starch factories.
MARCH 1.-SENATE-Bills passed:
Authorizing guardians to lease prop
erty; allowing the replacing of bridges
destroyed by casualty; preventing the
recovery back of usurious inferred; ex-
tending on order of township trustees
the time that work on the highways
may be performed.
Bills introduced: Constituting Lucas
county judicial subdivision; abolish
ing the board of infirmary directors of
Hamilton county, authorizing ap-
pellate courts to try contested will cases
by jury; to improve Ashtabula harbor.
Resolution adopted: Instructing the
Adiutant General to fire a salute,
March 4, in honor of the passage of the
Silver bill by Congress.
HousE-BiIls indefinitely postpoued:
For the protection of livery stable
keepers; prescribing form of calennar
of pleadings by clerks of courts; giving
com mon pleas courts original jurisdic-
tion in mandamus; exempting personal
property from execution.
Resolutions adopted: To fire salute
in honor of the passage of the Silver
bill.
MARCH 2-SENATE-The Senate in
sisted on its amendments to the APP
preparation bill.
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Enforcing
line for work don by mechanics at
their shops; authorizing the purchase
of Swans Treatise for justices of the
peace.
Bills passed: Converting abandoned
toll roads into free roads; changing the
name of St. Johns Church in Zanes-
Vile.
Resolutions: Opposing any reduction
Of the tariff on iron and eel-referred.
MARCH 4. .-SENATE--The Conference
report on the appropriation bill was
agreed TO.
"A resolution of respect to the
memory of Hon. B. F. Wade was
adopted, and as further honor to him,
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE Bills introdueed: Amend
ing the municipal code in reference to
street Improvements; allowing the
Cleveland council to control the mar
ket fnnd.
Bill passed: Requiring sales of real
estate on order of court to be held on
the premises.
The conference report on the Ap'
preparation bill was agreed to.
Resolutions of respect to the memory
of ex Senator Wade were adopted, and
the House adjourned.