Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-30
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From Ohio State Journal.


From Ohio State Journal.
JAN. 21-ISendte-Bill introduced for
listing property now exempt from tax
alton.
Resolution oirespect 10 the late Hon.
W. P. Reid, former member Of the
Senate, and to display the Senate flag
at hall mast on the day of the funeral,
the 22d, adopted.
HOuse-Bills introduced: Amending
the game laws; limiting advertise
ments of sheriff s sales; to adopt a uni
form standard of text books.
Joint resolution urging Congress to
pass law to enable the unemployed
to settle on the public domain-re-
ferred.
JAN. 2-.Senate-Senate bill grading
pay OF road supervisors, passed.
Appointments by the Governor OF
F. 5. Pursell as Trustee of the Athens
Asylum, and F NJ. Atkinson as State
Inspector of Tobacco, the former con-
tirmed, the latter consented to.
HOuSe-Petiiions from various coun-
lies, on various subjects, were received.
Bills introduced:s sFOr prevention OF
the husbands wages to the support OF
bis family; allowing insolvent gusrdi-
ans sureties the benefit of ali defenses,
ETC., including compensation Of main
tenance of wards; changing the time
for killing deer so that they may be
killed from the 18th of October to the
18th of November, instead Of from the
Doth OF September to the 15t OF No
Sem6er, as now.
House bills passed: Making partial
appropriations for the. present year; TO
prevent false statements regarding fire
insurance business; making penalty OF
fine and imprisonment for hunting
and trapping out of season; authorizing
women to become nOtaries public.
Resolution adopted: That the House
go into Committee of the Wh0le at 4
o'clock each day on codifying the laws.
JAN. 23-,SenGte bills passed:
Giving the Chief Engineer control OF
the appointments of the Board of Pub
lie Works; for Furnishing bankers Tor
using special deposits.
House bills passed: Making partial
appropriations; authorizing sheriffs to
advertise sales, in amounts of $500, in
one German paper.
Bill introduced: Permitting county
commissioners to dispense with resur-
veying and plating lands for assess
ment for taxation.
HOuSe-VarioGs petitions were re-
ceived on various subjects, among
which was one complaining that the
Legislature paid no attention to tenn
perance petitions.
The most of the day was spent in
discussing the report of the conference
committee on tha joint rules govern
ing the two houses, considering the
work of the Codi(ying Commission,
and the report was finally disagreed to
and another comittee asked for.
JAN. 24-Sendte-A bill, was Intro
duced authorizing agricultural boards
to arrest persons selling intoxicating
liqnors on their fair grounds.
The House bill making partial ap-
preparations for the benevolent instl-
tutOns was passed; also Senate bill to
amend the tax laws authorizing county
com missioners to advertise for maps
and plats.
Some routine business was transacted
HOuse-Bills introduced: Consolida
ting the laws relating to county affairs;
making it optional for county commits
sioners to advertise for maps for reap
praisement of real estate; for making
county directories; to abolish city mar
shal's Office in cities of the second class,
third grade, and transfer the duties to
the chief of police; TO cut down hOme-
stead exemptions in real estate To $500
and personal property TO $3.50.
Af
common roads was passed.
Various petitions on the temperance
question were received, and a large
number of bills were read second
time and referred.
Jan 25-.Ssa0te-Biils introduced:
To establish circuit courts in the nine
judicial districts of the State; author
izing probate and police courts to COM
nit young women convicted OF minor
offenseS to some charitable institution
instead of jail or work house; 10 cause
insurance agents to fix an insurable
value on all buildings they insure.
HOuse-B!Lls introduce /: For the pro-
lection of wool growers; allowing Wit
nesses in justices and mayors courts
fees in criminal cases, whether there
is conviction or not.
Bills passed: Senate bill for the relief
of the poor also several bills OF an in
dividual and sectional nature.
A joint resolution looking to the es'
tabllshing of home for INDECENT
widows of soldiers was presented and
ordered printed; resolution for the
House TO meet "A half hour earlier, fore
noon and afternoon, was laid on the
table.
JAN. 2-.Senale-BiIl5 introduced:
Requiring insurance agencies to report
direct to comfy auditors their gross
receipts for taxation, instead of having
them reported from the general Office;
providing for an additional deputy
clerk for the Supreme Court; to pre-.
vent partners of prosecuting attorneys
from defending criminals.
HOuSe-BillS introduced: Providing
that subscribers to stock of narrow
gauge railroads have five years to pay
the same, and making the subscription
a lien on the property of the subscriber;
limiting the time of physicians certi'
ficateS, who have attended one course
of lectures, To one years duration.
Joint resolutions offered: Thanking
the President and Congress tor the
passage and signing of the Arrears
Pension bill-adOpted, against the re-
pepeal of the Resumption law-tabled,
under notice of intention to discuss.
A portion of the day was spent in
of the Whole on cOdIfying
The public highway laws.
CONGRESS.