Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-25
THE OHIO LEGISLATURES,

Senate, Aprl l5.-Bills passed: Senate bill
allowing boards OF equalization in cities OF the
second and third grades of the first class to
extend their session until the second Mon
day In July; House bill to appropriate the
sum OF $1,000 to pay the sculptor, Mr.. Jones,
the amount still due on the Lincoln memorial I;
appropriating S37, 600 for the re-ercction and
refurnishing of the administration building
of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
Mr.. Carson offered a resolution to appoint a
committee OF the House and Senate to con-
slider the business on hand and report the
probable date at which the General Assembly
can complete its labors and adjourn. Lost
yeas, Z; nays, 10. The Senate then went into
Committee of the Whole to discuss the codi.
fed bill relating to corporations.
House-BiTls passed: House bill making an
appropriation of $37 900 to re ebuild the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home; providing for
fixing fees and compensation OF county Off
GERS by commission of five, appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas, on application OF 100
citizens of the county. Bills introduced: Al
lowing compensation to witnesses from Coun-
ty Commissioners in certain cases providing
for the indeXing of Judicial records; prevent
ing life insurance companies of other States
from doing business in this State, who, by
their charter or the laws of their States are
precluded from lOauing moneys within this
State; amending the Executors and Admin
istrators act relative to the settlements OF
the estates of deceased persons, so as to pro-
vide that before the final distribution and
settlement OF an estate, certain assets such
as land certificates, etc, instead Of being sold
may be divided in kind.
Senate, april 16.-The bill to amend a sec
tion OF an act relating to roads and highways
was read the third time and passed. The bill
makes it incumbent upon township trustees
To put up guide-boards at crossroads. The
Committee of Conference on the amendments
10 BohPs German advertising bill having rec
ommended that the Senate recede from its
amendments to said bill, the report was agreed
to. A bill was introduced to repeal section
y OF the act in regard to municipal corpora
tions.
HonSe.-The bill to improve public roads, by
allowing parties to procure permission from
township trustees to improve the roads in
their vicinity by working road tax payable in
labor in advance of its levy, was passed.
Senate, april 1.-THE bill revising and con-
solidating the laws relating to township Off
GERS was passed.
HouSe.-The bill to provide for placing the
dog tax on the general duplicate was passed.
Mr.. Danford's House bill providing forthe re-
moval of the county seat of Belmont County
from st. Clairville to Bellair was reported
back with a Recommendation that it be in
definitely postponed. Mr.. Danford's motion
that the bill be engrossed was lost, which
kills the bill.
Senate, April IS Bills passed. Sanot4 LIN
taking from the Mayor of municipal orgaui-
cations the casting vote in the organization of
a City Council; reorganizing the Cincinnati
Board OF Public Works, and authorizing the
Judge of the Police Court to appoint a new
Board.
HouSe.-The House concurred in eighteen
of the Senate amendments to the codifed bill
relating to persons, on the recommendation
of the Judiciary Committee, and refused to
concur in three of them on the same recon-
mendation. Senate bill No. 200, revising and
eli sl,Ns,
was passed. A bill was introduced to exempt
from taxation money and property of the In
diana years meeting OF Friends set apart for
the poor.
Senate, Aprl 19.-BGlls passed: Requiring
County Treasurers TO have printed in tax re-
ceipts the rate of levy each year; providing
for locating, strengthening and cleaning
bitches in Seneca and Sandusky Counties
authorizing the Commissioners OF Clarke,
Miami, Pike, Pickaway and Franklin Counties
to purchase certain toll roads and convert the
same into free roads.
ROuse.-Bills introduced: Repeating the act
creating the Codifying Commission, to take
effect -; to provide for compensation of
County Treasurers for money held by them
for the sale of bonds; placing residents and
nOn-residents of the State on an equality in
the matter OF bringing actions at law; restor-
ing the exemption in the statute OF limitations
to persons in captivity; Furnishing attempts
at black-mail with fine of $1,000 and im
prisonment in the penitentiary of from one
year to five; for the protection of stock breed
ers; directing the mode of reviver in certain
cases of deceased persons; providing fol
marking soldiers graves.
Senate, Apra Ex-senator Frost introduced
q bill providing that railroads shall not cross
each other at grade, but BY bridge or tun,
mel. Nearly the entire afternoon was spent in
the codifying work relative to private corpora.
tions.
HoHse.-Bills were introduced: To regulate
fishing in streams by requiring license fol
the use of a sein; providing for the licensing
of bill posters. The bill providing for the re
recording of destroyed and spoliated deeds
was passed. A dozen local bills were passed
none of them OF any Importance.