Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-02-14
OHIOLEGISLATURE.

FEB. 6.-SENATE-Bills introduced:
Authorizing the board of public works
of Cincinnati to appoint the city audi
tor; making it a criminal Offense pay
ing goods for labor to charge more
than for cash sales; providing for the
sale of mortgaged personal property.
9 Resolutions: Providing for printing
advance copies of the laws-adopted;
to print 10000 copies Of the school laws
of IS1S-referred.
-Resolut;ons: To print adj
vance copies of the laws-adopted;
,contraeting for keeping insane in the
Lucas county asylum-referred; to
examine the soldiers record in course
preparation In the AdjHtant -Generape
Office-tabled; directing an appropria-
tion 20 Professor A. H. Tuttle for
services on the commission to investi-
gate the hog cholera. l
FEB. 7.-SENATE-Bills introduced:
Authorizing reissuing OF certificates of
Incorporation where the original has
been lost, or destroyed; creating a board
of directors for the Toledo house of
refuge; prescribing the time in which
poll tax shall be worked on the road.
Resolution: To print 10000 copies
of the Agricultural Report for 1871
adopted. JOSS 7al -a--li--i l't'-
HoUsE-.BiIis passed: Releasing
Wayne township, Belmont county,
from the operation of section 16 of the
law in relation to school lands; to pay
for advertising the late proposed
amendment to the Constitution; re-
quiring township assessors the report
the number Of unmarked graves of
Union soldiers. aCd 7"al Ai.- ID.
Bills introduced: Prescribing the
nate OF taxation for bridge aud road
purpose; euacting laws in relation to
5enexossnth y ipef day; yie ereatng
board of public works for Cleveland
notaries public to
solemniZe marriages; making partial
appropriations for the current year;
taking from boards of education the
power to create any school of higher
grade than the common school; that
all branches taught in this State shall
be in the English language, and pre-
scribing the same.
b Resolutions: Asking Congress to
establish port of entry for mer-
chandise ct Portsm outh-adopted; to
print 20, 900 copies of the Agricultural
report-adopted.
sg FEB. 8-SENATE-The bill to provide
for publishing sheriff's advertisements
in German newspapers, was consider.
ed at great length, but without definite
actien. ~ % = - s'' ~ .'i,-
HousE.-Bills introduced: Giving
common please courts like original
jurisdiction in mandamus cases;
authorizing the appointment OF women
aOtaries public; allowing service tothe
agent Of an Insurance company which
has ceased to do business in this State;
paying witnesses in civil cases one
dollar pr day;
D. FEB. ,i9.-SEEATE-A,q petition was
presented for the, restoration of the
Adair liquor law. -
Bill introdsced: Requiring all
travelling statesmen, who sell goods not
in Ohio, to. procure
license, under penalty of. fifty dollars
HousE.The partial appropriation bill
was reported back, failed to pass, was
reconsfdered and postponed till Mon
day afternoon. "ei-f1 Z =.i n,ia"
10 Bills introduced: Allowing party
to testify in a case where, though the
ad verse party is dead, the agent who
represented such adverse party in
making the contract is living and COM
.petent to testify; providing a uniform
standard of weights and measures.
FEB. 11-SENATE-Bills passed: For
the removal of cases from probate
courts to courts of common pleas in
cases where the judge Of probate is a
witness.
Resolutions To print 10000 copies
of the report of the commission to in.
vestigate the hog cholera-adepted;
proposing and amendment to the Con-
stitution providing for holding State
elections in November biennially-'
ordered printed.
Bill introduced: Providing for a
commission to compile school books,
the copyright to be vested in the State
HoUsE-Bills introduced: Provid.
ing for the appointment of assistant
prosecuting attorneys in counties hav.
ing upward Aof 100000 inhabitants;
allowing county commissioners travel.
expenses when on official business in
their respective counties; reducing the
redemption on lands sold for taxes.
Bill passed: Requiring physicians
o give notice to township trustees
when they have claim for attendance