Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-18
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Apra S.-No quorum present.
House The journal was read and approved
and the House adjourned.
Senate, Apr 0.-Thc following ILLS were
| passed; House bill allowing teachers to sue
| Boards OF Education for their pay when they
have been discharged for frivolous charges
making appropriations for the support OF the
common schools.
Honse.-The bill authorizing The free in.
corporation OF free avenue companies was
| read the third time and passed. Bills intro
| duced: Allowing Boards of Education in
| certain cases to transfer hooks from Pub
lie Libraries; prohibiting any cemetery as
| ISOLATION from excluding from burial any
person for having been member during
his life of the Masons, Odd-Fellows, Forcsters
or any other secret association not prohibit
| ed by the laws of Ohio; providing that the
supreme Court MAY appoint an additional
clerk; providing for the readmission of dis
| charged patients of Longyiew Asylum on the
recurrence OF their insanity. Mr.. Benson's
| Dill providing for the execution of the death
penalty at the Penitcntiary In private was read
the third time, and after much discussion and
some little amendment, was placed upon its
passage and lost It was fterward reconsid-
cred and postponed until the following day.
Senate, AprH 10.-Bills passed: To compel
township trustees to authorize the services
OF a physician to paupers before Day for
such services can be collected; making an.
propriations to pay interest on the public
debt and the expenses of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners. Bills introduced: Amending
the act for the protection of wool growers
and the contiscation of dogs: providing that
service may be had on conductors in places
where there are no agents, in suits against
railroads. The Committee on Judiciary
reported in favor of amending the substitute
for House joint resolutions Nos. IS, 73 andS4
to allow each county one Representative but
the report was disagreed to. The substitute
was then adopted. The Governor sent in the
name of John Schriener, of Mddleport, Meigs
County, to be Trustee of the Athens Asylum
for the Insane, for the period of five years
from April 4, 1879. Referred to the Commit
tee on Benevolent Institutions.
HOuSe.--A House Joint resolution was adopt-
ed instructing the Committee on Consolidated
Laws to number the sections consecutively,
beginning with number one. Bills introduced: !:
To amend the codi6ed work of last winter by
inserting certain clause in the laws relating
to taxation; to allow bank officers to become
notaries public. The bill making il a Grim
inal offense for employers or agents to pay
employees in scrip or orders on stores was read
the third time and passed.
Senate, april 11.-Bils passed: Permitting
township trustees to require additional bonds
OF township treasurers when in their iudg-
ment the original bond has become INSULT
cient; relating to public ways; providing for
necessary advertisements of Constitutional
dllltlullCuJS dJ llb1 per cent. less Lnan the
usual rates. A bill was introduced providing
for the distribution OF the Consolidated Stat
utes of Ohio.
HOWse.-Bills passed: Requiring County
Treasurers to keep in their books four columns
containing the description of the property, its
valuation, the rate OF tax, and the whole
amount of tax; providing that Boards of Pub
lie Works in the cities in which they are To-
Gated shall revise the work of the plating
commission. A bill was introduced providing
for the advertisement of the proposed amend
ment at fifty per cent of the present legal rate.
Senate Apra 12.-Bills passed. Author
izing Probate Judges to settle differences
which may exist between Government sur
veyors and land owners; providing that such
amounts of the excess of the dog fund over
the 81 600 required by the law to remain in
the Treasury as an irreducible fund, may be
appropriated as may be necessary for
the support of industrial homes or
homes for children in counties where
such homes are established. The Senate, on
the recommendation OF the Committee of
Conference, rccedcd from its amendment to
the resolution amending the Constitution by
fixing one time for both State and Presiden-
tial elections, and for fixing the term of town
ship officers at three years instead of one
The resolution has now been adopted by both
Houses.
hOuSe.-Mr. Townsend asked suspension
OF the rules that a resolution call
ing lot Tue investigation OF the charges
preferred against the Athens Asylum might
be introduced, and called the ayes and nays
on his motion. 1t was disagreed to by an al
most strict party vote-yeas, 40; nays, 81.
The bill providing for the advertisement of
the Constitutional amendments at fifty per
cent. of the legal rates was passed. A bill
was introduced repeating the law which pro-
vides that each county shall have only one
guard in the penitentiary.
Senate 1DTil IA bill was introduced nv
Mr.. Steedman authorizing courts to correct
errors in tax and assessment proceedings
The entire afternoon was spent in the codify-
ing work.
House Mr.. Bloom, from the Committee of
the Whole, reported back Groschner's House
bill codifying the laws relative to the Legisla-
tive Department. All the morning was spent
in offering en1ments and discussing the
same. The afternoon was spent in discussing
the codifying work and the bill making APP
preparations out of the Asylum Fund. After
voting down all proposed amendments to
Groschner's bill codifying the laws relative
to the Legislative Department the bill was
passed.