The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-06

and also making it unlawful for any
deputy or county officer or clerk
in such county; authorizing the Probate
Courts to settle differences between legatees
and parties interested. Senate pill allowing
sale was read the third time and passed.
Senate, Feb. 27-Bills passed: Granting
police powers to officers of agricultural socie-
ties; to preserve the purity OF elections. The
bill makes it 2 felony for any candidate for
from $500 TO 81 600 fine and imprisonment
from six months to three years in the peni-
tentiary, and vacates the office of any such
official II elected; the bill also provides by q
seek money or articles of value from any
candidate, or offer to sell him tickets to any
entertainment.
House-Bills passed: Senate bill, No. 213,
to give the Probate Court concurrent juris-
dictioc In certain cases in certain counties;
Senate bill No. IS, to provide for the better
regulation of sales on execution and orders
of sale. Mr.. Dodd's bill to tax the sale of
to A.
Senate, Feb. 2s-Mr. steedman offered res
come tax. 1t was laid on the table and or
dered to be printed. Mr.. Worley's House bill
authorizing compromise by the County Com
missioners Of Stark County with their default
ing Treasurer, George Fessler, was read the
third time and passed. Mr.. Owens joint res
olution, providing for an amendment to the
Constitution by which Township Trustees
shall be elected for terms Of three years, in
stead Of one as now, was taken up and adopted.
Bills passed: Authorizing the establishment
or vacation of any street or alley when, in any
village or hamlet, in the opinion of the trus-
welfare; Senate bill No. 253, providing that
penalty of six per cent. shall be added in case
q tax is not paid the year it is assessed,
and repetition Of the penalty every
year the tax is not paid: provided
felony and the execution of the sentence
is suspended the court shall order him into
the custody of the Sheriff, and, If such per-
son escapes, when again recaptured he shall
be resentenced upon the same verdict, and the
former sentence shall be set aside. Bills intro
duced: Amending the laws relating to the va
cation Of town plots; reforming A the !. Girls ly
hereafter be more of penal than a reforma-
tory institution.
House-Bills passed: Providing that taxes
for public improvements shall not be levied in
VILLAGES Of 5000 population, unless carried BY
ing appropriations for deficiencies which are
payable out of the several revenue funds;
making appropriations for deficiencies out of
the asylum fund.
Senate, March LA bill was introduced for
the better protection of head contractors and
material men. The bill provides that the
owner of building in course of erection,
may be made responsible for the pay for ma
terial used by the contractor, on notification
by the party furnishing the material. Mr..
Johnston, from the Committee on Rail-
roads and Telegraphs, reported a sub;
No. 100 in regard to palace and sleeping car
charges. The substitute provides fine of
from 500 to $500 to be inflicted upon any
agent or employe of palace or sleeping car
who charges any more than the following
rates: For distance of 800 miles or less,
chair for use of berth or sofa, % cents; for
section, SO cents; for a state room, 81, with
25 cents extra for each berth made up in the
senger holding a frst-class ticket on a train
to which a sleeper or palace car is attached
cannot, on account of tie crowded condition
of other coaches, get q seat, he shall have a
until seat in another coach can be provided
for him. Laid on table and ordered printed.
House.-There was the usual list of local
option and temperance petitions. Those in
favor of Quinby's Local Option bill were
signed by 4,l39 petitioners Bills introduced:
Authorizing township trustees to borrow a
vault in anticipation Of tax assessed there
for; to define liability and pleadings in civil
Of 1ng the
fcers in certain cases; providing for
the depositing and safe-keeping of
county funds; to allow administra-
of the sale of ands IN paee Of
the Sheriff and summons as at present; re-
pealing the law allowing the appointment of a
messenger for the Supreme Court; making
prisonment felony for an officer to create a
debt BY or in behalf of the State; to regulate
the letting of convict labor; to regu-
late public warehouses; providing fo.
forbidding incompetent and unqualified per-
sons from managing steam boilers, engines or
apparatus; authorizing County Commission
ers to construct Tree turnpike roads; % nAing
Assembly at IS per day, but not allowing it to
exceed $500 per year, and deducting from the
pay of each member the pay for the days
which he is absent; authorizing County Audit
years.
Senate, March 3.-Bills introduced: To re-
peal sections z, and of chapter of title
of the laws relating to error, mandamus and
quo warranto; amending section III OF an act
relating to crimes against persons.
Rouse-A number of petitions were pre-
sented demonstrating against the passage of
Dodd's insurance bill; also large number OF
petitions asking for temperance Legislation
cal Option bills. Bills introduced: To pro-
vide for the disposition of life insurance pol
icies payable to the wife of the insured In GER
tain cases of divorce; for the maintenance OF
public libraries in certain cities; amending
section 60 of the exemption act making
the homestead liable for debts incurred
before the purchase of the same, and amend
ing section 63 of the same act making
personal property liable for the purchase
prize thereof on judgment; permitting mu-
nicipal corporations to license dogs. Bills
passed: Allowing Bachelors of Science the
same rights as Bachelors of Art in the cleo
ton of alumni association trustees and Uni
versity trustees; to extend the sittings OF the
Morgan Raid Commission another year; re-
lstiDg to the pay of talesmen. Senate bill No.
R~<xvrr ,TnffT q ~
partners of Prosecuting Attorneys to defend
criminals, was passed after being SO amended