Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-03-06
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From Ohio Slate Journa!.

From Ohio State Journal.
FEB % .SeHdts-A message was re-
'eived from the Governor appointing
3. Burns trustee OF the Soldiers aud
sailors Orphans Home. Referred.
HOUSe-NariouS petitions Oh tempe
rance ami school uperiutendency we're
presented.
FEB 26-.StRdte-B lis passed: House
Iill amending the law 50 that land OWL
rs are not required TO posi- notices to
-respassers; to protect the right vi sep
allure.
Bills introduced: Requiring deeds to
Oe recorded as soon 6s signed; enabling 6
,laIntitis to lake judgment as on de-
ault for such part OF claims as are no,
Jut in issue; eXempting the parapher-
lalia of secret societies from seizLro
or debt; regul&ting the receiving,
transportation and delivery of graiIs b.
uilroad corporations.
i. Burns appointment as Trustee OF
he Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
home was confirmed; and the al point
nent OF IL. V. Kerr as State Librarian
Jy the Governor received.
HOuSe-A large number of petitions
we're presented, mostly on temperance.
Bills introduced: To authorize town
ship trustees 10 require addIllonal
ponds OF township treEsufers when eX-
sting bondSmen are worthless; ma
king the marshals Of municipal cOrpO-
cations street commissioners; TO prevent
improper practices by attorneys-at-
Jaw; giving the legatee OF will tie
right 10 have the court pal Construc-
ton on the instrument.
Senate bill providing that when real
sstate is ordered sold at Sheriff : sale
Inc court may order the Sheriff to sub
divide the same and sell it in parts, was
passed.
A number of bills were indefinitely
posponed, and various oues Of local ma
lure only, passed.
FEB. Z7-Seu0te-Bi!ls passed: Pro
viding for the purity OF elections; su-
thorlZing officers OF agricultural sOcie-
ties to make arrests.
a proposed amendment to the Con
,titution to regulate salaries OF county
officers according To population OF coun-
les was considered.
H0use-Bills passed: Giving the
probate conrt of Licking county iur.s-
fiction in misdemeanOr cases; Ina king
sales on execution optional Instead ol
mandatory; authorizing Cleveland to
Guild an armOry.
A bill to authorize municipal cOrpo-
;etiOns to impose tax Oh the sale Of
spirituous liquors, was lost on passage.
FEB. 2S-.Seadte-R Resolutions for t
IONS itutional amendment regulating
he terms OF Off e of county officers
II a IIIg
Tor constitutional amendment to di-
vide the Stale into nine common pleas
districts.
Bills introduced: Recognizing the
Girls Industrial Home.
Bills passed: Authorizing cOmpro-
mise with the detaulting Treasurer OF
stark county; providing when sem
fenced prisoner escaped, if captured, he
shall be resenteBced; making il an Of
tense punishable by hne and ImprisOn-
meut TO compound felony.
Henry V. Kerr's appointment as
State Librarian was confirmed.
HOuse-Bills passed: 70 increase the
pay OF judges in CuyahOga county; ma
King apprC Cpriations for deficiencies
which are payable out of the general
revenue fund making appropriations
for deficiencies out of the asylum fund.
MARCH I-JSeRdte "A oil was intro
duced for the better protection of ma,
lerial, men and contractors; Il substi-
tute for the bill now before the Senate
On the subject of fare on sleeping cars
Was introduced, which reduces Iare to
about twO-thirds present charges.
UOUse-BIlls introduced: To prevent
officers from creating debts by or on
behalf OF the State; TO define liability
and pleadings in criminal action for Ii
bel; TO abolish the Office of assistant
law librarian; to provide that service,
actual or constructive, shall be made in
probate courts the same as in other
civil actions under certain conditions;
TO authorize county commissioners to
construct Tree turnpike roads; to au-
thOriZe county auditors to correct er-
rors made in preparing the duplicates
or assessment notices, and with the
approval of the county commits
5iOnerS to repay money enormously
paid for taxes or Improvements
within three or four years; to fix pay
of members of the Legislature at So per
day, with deductious for each days
absence, and limiting the amount Of
per diem to $500 per year; TO regulate
public warehouses; to regulate the let
ting of convict labor; to forbid unqual-
ified persons taking charge of steam en-
gines, and to authorize local boards OF
steam engine RS to issue certificates OF
qualification to persons to act as engi-
neers; to provide for county funds with
banking firms or corporations.