The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-06-20
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General Assembly Of Ohio
at its Regular Session, be-
ginning January 9TH and
closing May 18th, 1873.
The following is a partial list Of the
general laws passed by the General
Assembly:
Prescribing proceedings for max
ing a township liable for medical ser
vices to paupers.
To provide for keeping in repair
gravel and macadamized and volun-
teer roads.
Requiring Township Trustees to
erect guide boards.
Authorizing any benevolent, edu-
cational, penal, or refOrmatory insti-
tuition to receive gifts, demises, and
bequests.
To amend section of the home
stead exemption law so as to provide
for reappraisement of the homestead
once in two years, at the instance Of
the judgment debtor.
Authorizing the Township Trus-
tees of any township in this State to
levy a tax to purchase a hearse and
erect a vault.
Authorizing courts to appoint as
sistant Prosecuting Attorneys.
Limiting the compensation of
Township Trustees and Township
Clerks.
To amend section 2 ofthe mechan-
les lien law so that liens shall take
effect from the date of the first item
Of labor performed, and there shall
be no homestead exemption against
it.
Regulating the payment by the
county Of costs in criminal cases.
Setting the time and prescribing
the manner of performing two days
work on the highways.
Authorizing guardians Of imbeciles
to sell real estate and complete real
contracts.
Providing for the election of-lOcal
School Directors.
Limiting the powers Of PrOseeu-
ting Attorneys to enter nolle prose
qui.
Limiting the aggregate eompensa-
ton of Road Supervisors.
Authorizing vacation and repairs
of turnpikes and plank roads which
are suffered to be out of repair, and
to establish them as county roads.
Authorizing County Commission
ers to buy the right to take toll on
toll roads.
To prevent fraud in the sale Of fer
tilizers.
Fixing the pay of Township As
SCISSORS at two dollars a day.
Providing for indexing pending
suits and executions not dormant.
Prescribing proceedings fOrputting
and keeping turnpikes and plank
roads in repair.
Prescribing penalties for catching
fish except by hook and line.
Providing for the creation Of joint
sub-schOol districts.
Authorizing Township Trustees to
procure by purchase or otherwise
material for road purposes.
Giving precedence on court dock
ct to civil cases to which the State
is a party.
recognizing the Ohio Agricultu-
raj College, and changing the name
to Ohio State University.
Authorizing County Commission
ers to grade and improve unfinished
turnpike roads.
Providing that in any assignment
case every person having performed
labor during the preceding year for
the assignor, shall be entitled to full
payment (not exceeding 5000 before
paying other claims.
To provide for the administration
Of property given for the promotion
Of science, art and like purposes, and
to protect the same from waste.
To change the Common Pleas
districts in this State and give great
er efficiency to courts.
To punish offenses by school
teachers against the chastity Of pu-
pills.
To revise and consolidate the stat
utes relating to procedure in Probate
Courts.
To repeal the act Of 1877 requir-
ing a record of chattel mortgages.
Authorizing women to practise law.
Giving Township Trustees care ol
burial grounds.
Giving priority of payment in as
signment cases to persons who have
performed labor.
Creating the Office OF inspector Oi
Illuminating oils.
Abolishing COrOners' juries.
Providing for keeping in repair
graveled or other improved roads.
To redistrict the State into Com
mon Pleas districts.