The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-06
LEGISLATIVE.


Senate, Jan. 2S.-Bills introduced: Making
1t unlawful for a member of the Board of PO-
lice Commissioners to accept nomination for
press tramps. The bill provides a term of
from one to five years in the penitentiary for
or shall enter the yard or enclosure about
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.
Honse.-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-
amendment was offered, but lost, and the bill
passed by a vote of So to 30. The following
bills were introduced and read the first time:
Providing that in any county containing city
Of first or second class wherein at the pres
ent time a newspaper in the German lam
guage is printed all public notices of sales of
real estate by virtue Of execution, order or
decree of any court of record, shall, in addi-
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 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
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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 text book in the
common schools was, after much discussion,
lost by a vote of 81 to a.. The bill in regard
to the plating of county property for taxa
tion purposes was passed after considerable
discussion.
Senate, Jan. ga number of bills were
read the second time and appropriately re-
ferred. 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 fine, 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 reoIganize the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans Home; providing for the taxa
tion of money loaned where deed is taken
as security in place Of q mortgage; to
regulate the contracts OF insurance on struct-
ures, providing that the company insuring
shall give description of the building and
state the insurable value of the same. Bills
introduced: Fixing the legal rate of interest
Porter, who burned his barge Mingo at the
time of the yellow fever epidemic at Gallip-
oils. The bill to increase the salaries of the
Supreme Judges from 5000 to $4,000 was
read the third time, put on its passage and
lost by q vote of 13 to 8.
Homse.-The usual number of petitions
were presented and referred. The bills to re-
peal the law for the protection of wool grow
ers, the confiscation of dogs and to re-
weTe oPsfh Ps
Providing for the establishment
of State Board of Health and Charities, to
consist of five persons to be appointed by the
Of deficiencies out Of the Asylum Fund; to
prevent 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 laws so as to al
low the formation Of corporations for the en-
couragement of soldiers and sailors re-
unions; to regulate the sale of drugs, providing
for certain peculiar labels to be used on bot
pealing certain sections in the act to reorgan-
Ize the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home.
Senate Jan. 30.-A bill was introduced to
allow persons having claims against toll road
company to levy on and sell the right to col
lect tolls on the road in liquidation of the
claims. After the transaction Of some minor
business the Senate adjourned.
House.-Bills introduced: To provide for
the levy of State tax; authorizing the ad-
of the estates of persons killed
by railroad to compromise suits with the COM
testator; making the limit for working out
road tax Oct. Is.
Senate, Jan. 31.-No business transacted.
until Feb. 4, at O'Clock.
House.-The following bills were introduced:
Providing penalty of from IS to so fine and
from five to thirty days imprisonment for
shall trespass upon another mans land
to hunt or kill game; making appropriation
for deficiencies payable out of the general re-
serve fund; to regulate the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors. Bills passed: To allow the suing
of business firms as firms, and not individual
members; to compel hotels and boarding
houses to provide fire-escapes for the use Of
guests; to allow the United States survey to
enter property and locate landmarks without
House. FEB. Ia joint resolution was
offered amending section OF the Constf-
tuition SO that township officers shall be
elected for three years instead of one as now.
Ordered printed. Bills introduced: Author
permit savings banks to redu ce their capital
stock.
House, FEB. ga number of bills were read
the second time and referred. Several bills of
4 local nature were introduced and the House
then adjourned.