Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-28
OHIOLEGISLATURE.

From u D Journal summary.
MARCH 9-lSe7adte-Bills passed: Au-
thorizing Belmont county to levy 6.
tpecial tax; enforcing against bidders
legal sales of lands; recognizing the
Hospital for the Insane.
Bills introduced: Furnishing the i'll
treatment or illegal employment of
children; Furnishing teachers for hav-
ing Grim nal intercourse with pupil;
providing for marking the corners of
original surveyed townships.
HouSe-Bills introduced: Authori.
ZiDg guardians to give bonds by mort
gage ON real estate; authorizing CiDcin-
natl to borrow money for the street
cleaning department; making general
appropriations.
Bill passed: Reorganizing the Asy-
lum for the Education of the Blind.
MARCH 20-Sendte- Cincinnati
police bill was lost on passage.
Bills passed: Excepting Cleveland
and Cincinnati from the provisions of
the law dividing wards into election
precincts; prohibiting fishing except
with hook and line between May and
June 10, except in Lake Erie; pro-
viding for the admins ration of prop
erty for the prOmntiua of science; for
furnishing aSsgSSOr5 with platS and
maps; requiring school directors to be
residents of the sub districts for which
they were elected.
House-Bills passed: recognizing
the Reform School for boys; reOrgani.
zing the Agricultural College.
A great deal of the time of the House
was occupied in discussing the game
bill and bill to increase the pay oi
witnesses.
MARCH 21-Sendte-BilIs passed:
Creating special school district in
Fairfield county; allowing Hancock
county to levy special tax.
HOuse-The bill to increase or di
minish the width of county aud town
ship roads failed to pass.
Bill passed: Recognizing the Sol
diers' Orphans Home at Xenia.
MARCH 22-Se1dte-Bill passed.
Amending the criminal code in refer
ence to fraud.
Bills introduced: Permitting benev,
olent institutions to invest surplus ol
endowment funds; authorizing guardi-
ans TO borrow money and discharge
liens; prescribing safeguards in heating
and lighting railroad cars; paying jus
tees jurors 75 cents per day.
HouSe-Bills introduced: Authori-
zing Belmont county to pay for the ar
rest of horse thief; prescribing the
duty of the Board of Public Works il
the management of canals; amending
the school law in reference to fraction
al sub districts; taxing railroad proper
ty in the district in which the track i:
located; to tax church and sectariaI
school property; leasing the canals o
the State; authorizing Bellaire to pay
$500 to the tobacco warehouse; allow
ing the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
trustees to issue S2,000,000 bonds; fix
| ing the maximum railroad charges fo
carrying timber and stones; for com
pulsory education in cities of the frs
class; limiting the hours per day tina
children may be employed in manu-
factOrieS.
MARCH 23-Sendte-Billsi introduced
Authorizing tax levy in Cincinnati
for an astronomical observatory; ap
pointing aR assistant prosecuting at
torney for Lucas county.
Resolutions adopted: Authorizing
arms and ammunition for the Marietta
reunion; to investigate the seating a
the Institution for the Deaf and Dunn b
Bills passed: Relieving D. V. Din.
genon and Ii. II. Sprague, of Shelby
county; authorizing OImstead, of Shell
by county, to erect infirmary build
ings; authorizing Brown county Il
build connecting turnpikes.
House -Messrs. Thorp, Dalzell anC
| n i'm inr,
declining tC serve longer on the Sol
diers' Orphans Home committee un
der the present Chairman-Mr. O'COn
nor, whereupon that gentleman ten
dered his resignation, and all the re
quests were granted by the House.
MARCH 25.-SENATE-SOme time
was spent on the bill to revise the civi
code.
Bill introduced: Regulating the
pardon of cOnyicts who nave served
out their time of imprisonment.
HOUSEHOLDS introduced: Prevent
ing stay of executions on Judgment
for labor, creating commission t
prepare text books for the publ
schools; preventing the extension of
contract with street railroads or ga
companies, while an existing contraC
has more than three months TO run
making six classes of counties fo
establishing fees for county officers.
Bills passed: Preventing frauds il
the use of fertilizers; changing tn
time for the September term of cour
in Franklin county.
Mr.. O'Connor rose to question c
privilege and made a statement i
reference to his retiring from tn
Soldiers Orphans Home committee.
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