Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From Ohio State Journal.

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To create the Office OF county schoo
superintendent; Incorporating an omit
ted section in the. municipal code; TO
appointment of steam boiler inspectors
changing attachment law OF last win
ter; establishing fire commissioners il
Dayton; requiring sheep killed b,
dogs to be reported by affidavit; com
pensating assistant attorneys in crimi
nal prosecutions.
Joint resolution introduced to amenC
the Constitution-making one session
Of the General Assembly every othe
year.
JAN. 9-SenGte-Bills introduced
Requiring the State Auditor to certify
tax levies to county auditors June 1
instead of June Is; repeating the law
emitting each county to Penitentiary
guard; requiring the execution o.
criminals to be within the Penitentia-
ry walls, before sunrise, and for each
execution the Warden shall receive
S1O0.
A petition from Seneca county was
presented, for a law authorizing in.
corporated villages to suppress all beel
and porter houses, etc.
Hottse-Petitions presented: From
Gallia county for relief from sale of in
toxicating liquors; from Carroll fol
more efficient school law.
Bills introdnced: For support oi
wives and children OF persons confined
in the Penitentiary; codifying the
ditch laws; exempting property from
taxation when covered by mortgages,
In certain cases. -
Resolutions offered: Authorizing Ap-
preparation committees to at once ex.
anime to see and report what appro-
priations should be made; instructine
the Finance committee to reduce the
rate Of taxation and prepare legisla-
ton for reduction of fees OF public Off
referred; to inquire as to the de
lay In printing the House journal, Ag-
ricultural report AMI the last volume
on Geology; providing for select com.
mittee to examine into and report On
the charges preferred against Judge
Cox, of Cincinnati-agreed to; COM
mittee of three was appointed to in
vestigate the matter of CoWgill's and
Carpenters names to a report of the
committee on Military Affairs in May
last, which those gentlemen declared
forgery.
Joint resolutions offered: Providing
for subcommittee to visit the public
State institutions and ascertain their
wants-referred; providing for daily
printing the journals of the two houses
referred to committee on Public
Printing; for the collection of claims OF
the State against the United States.
House bill: To permit directors OF
private or National banks to become
directors Of savings banks, WAS passed.
JAN. Observation-Disclosures presented:
FROM citizens OF Morrow county, for a
local option law.
Bills introduced: Repeating the act
letting of contracts for pub
lie works; protection of mechanics; to
encourage the study of anatomy; to
increase the salaries OF Supreme Court
judges from $1,000 to $4,000; coditying
laws in relation to property.
Resolutions offered: Providing for
adj0urnments, adopted; for
procuring wardrobes for the States
use, adopted:
The Senate joined the House, and in
Joint session canvassed the vote at the
election OF October, 1873.
House-Petitions presented: For
prohibitory law; for local option law;
for re-apportionment of the Third Ju.
dicial district. ~ 5H"
Bills introduced: Making partial ap-
for 1879; to provide for
supply of water for fire In cities of sec.
)nd class; to enable soldiers monu-
ment associations to record names of
deceased soldiers; amendingbluuder in
asst winters law regarding the de.
of fees by witnesses; prevent
ng foremen of corporations compelling
employees to purchase goods of certain
Itores; requiring school board treasu.
'ers to count their funds each year;
notification OF highway laws; authori-
ling surplus funds Of the Sinking Fund
invested in four per cent bonds; ma
ting infirmary superintendent dis !
,ursing officer; amending the poor act, |
making the clerk OF the infirmary di.
ectors the custodian of moneys derived
rom sales OF psuper's effects; for reap.
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