Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-02-07
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.

| Detdtt, Jdt So.-BlllS introduced: Making
| It unlawful for a member of the Board of
! Police Commissioners to accept nomination
| for any other elective office; to define and
| suppress tramps. The bill provides a term of
| from one to five years in the penitentiary for
any tramp who shall enter a dwelling house,
! or shall enter the yard or enclosure about a
| dwelling house; shall kindle a fire on the
| highway or on the land of another without
| the consent of the owner or occupant thereof,
| or shall be found carrying firearms or other
dangerous weapons, or shall do or threaten
| any injury to person or property The bill to
change the control of turnpike roads from
| trustees to County Commissioners was read
the third time and passed.
HO1Se.-A large number of petitions were
| presented and referred. Mr.. Alexander called
| up the special order for the hour, his bill to
| allow the Sinking Fund Commissioners to in
vest surplus funds in United States bonds,
which was lost the other day, the vote recon
| sidered, and the bill laid on the table. An
amendment was offered, but lost, and the bill
| passed by vote of IS to 80. The following
bills we're introduced and read the first time :
Providing that in any county containing a
city of first or second class wherein at the
present time a newspaper in the German Ian
| guage is printed allpublic notices of sales of
| real estate by virtue of execution, order or
| decree of any court of record, shall, in addi-
tion to the publication heretofore required,
whenever the value of such appraised pro-
Perty exceeds $500, be published in
one of such German papers of gen
eral circulation; providing for the manner in
which County Commissioners shall locate
bitches in certain counties, and that if they
see fit may extend a ditch beyond the limits
asked for in the petition for such ditch; to
regulate the compensation and fees of attor-
neys-at-law; to allow the lessees of section 16
OF the school lands an extension of the time
OF their payments Of said section, which they
are somewhat behind with; providing for the
appointment of the assistant assessors in
counties of the first-class by the County Au-
ditor; allowing teachers who have been dis
missed on insufficient cause to bring suit
against the trustees thereof; to regulate the
practice Of medicine; providing for the exam
ination OF the money and accounts Of town
ship, village and school district treasurers.
The bill TO make the Bible a textbook in the
common schools was, after much discussion.
lost by vote of 81 to 81. The bill in regard
TO the plating of county property for tax
alton purposes was passed after considerable
discussion.
Senate, Jan. GA number of bills were
read the second time and appropriately refer
red. House bill for the punishment of per-
sons throwing or shooting at railroad trains
was taken up. and after being amended to
make the penalty, in addition to the iine, three
years in the penitentiary and to six months in
the county Jail, was passed. Bills passed:
Authorizing the Incorporation of associations
for the reclamation of both men and women
from lives of intemperance and immortality;
increasing the levy for poor purposes in GER
tain townships; repeating certain sections of
the law to reorganiZe the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans Home; providing for the taxa
tion of money loaned where deed is taken as
security in place of a mortgage; to regulate
the contracts Of insurance on structures, pro-
viding that the company insuring shall give a
description of the building and state the in
surable value of the same. Bills introduced
Fixing the legal rate Of interest at six per
cent for the relief of Capt. John Porter, who
burned his barge Mingo at the time of the
yellow fever epidemic at Gallipolis. The bill
to increase the salaries OF the Supreme Judges
from $1,000 to $4,000 was read the third time,
put on its passage and lost by vote of l3 to s.
HOuSe-1he usual number of petitions
we're presented and referred. The bills to
repeal the law for the protection of wool
growers, the confscation of dogs and to re-
duce homestead and personal property eX-
emptiOns were indefinitely postponed Bills
introduced: Providing for the establishment
of aState Board of Health and Charities, to
consist of five persons to be appointed by the
Governor; making partial appropriations of
deficiencies out OF the Asylum Fund; to pre-
vent Sabbath breaking; providing that all
fees received by the State Insurance Depart
ment shall be paid into the State Treasury; to
punish embezzlement by public officers;
amending the incorporation law so as to al
low the formation OF corporations for the en-
couragement of soldiers and sailors re-
for cert ain peculiar labels to be used on bot
ties of drugs SO as to prevent mistakes re-
pealing certain sections In the act to reorgan-
ize the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home.
Senate, Jan. 3O.-A bill was introduced to
allow persons having claims against a toll
road company to levy on and sell the right TO
collect tolls on the road I'm liquidation OF the
claims. After the transaction of some minor
business the Senate adjourned.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: To provide for
the levy of a State tax; authorizing the ad-
ministrators of the estates of persons killed
by railroad TO compromise suits with the com
pany as to the damages for the death Of the
testator; making the limit for working out
road tax Oct. Is.
Senate, Jan. 31.-No business transacted
Adjourned until Feb 4, at O'Clock.
HouSe,-The following bills were intro
duced Providing penalty of from S. TO $50
fine and from five 10 thirty days imprison-
ment for whoever shall trespass upon another
mans land to hunt or kill game making ap-
preparation for deficiencies PAYABLE out Of the
general reserve fund; 10 regulate the sale Of
intoxicating liquors. Bills passed. To allow
the suing of business firms as firms, and not
individual members; to compel hotels and
boarding houses to provide microscopes for
the use OF guests; to allow the United States
survey to enter property and locate landmarks
without trespassing,
House, FEB. IA Joint resolution was Of
fered amending section Of the Constitution
so that township officers shall be elected for
three years instead Of one as now. Ordered
printed. Bills introduced; Authorizing the
transfer of certain county funds; TO permit
savings banks TO reduce their capital stock.
House, FEB. "A number of bills were read
the second time and referred. Several bills OF
local nature were introduced and the House
then adjourned.