Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-13
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Senate, March 4.-The following bills were
introduced: Repeating the sections of the |
stoves SO made that the fire will be ex-
certain townships in Noble County to build
rarUad and lease h,O or operate the
the the law Of 1867 requiring counties to
pay bounties due soldiers in the late war; al
lowing trustees of Children's Homes to de-
posit funds; repeating the act requiring the
publication of delinquent personal taxes;
regulating relations of landlord and tenant;
allowing boards of equalization to notify de-
linquent taxpayers by mail or agent; limiting
the time for bringing actions for damages for
personal injuries not resulting in death to one
year after the injury is received; authorizing
the appointment of women as trustees OF Chill
dren's Homes. The bill requiring the adver
tisements of Sheriffs sales in the township
wherein the property is located if a paper of
general circulation is published therein, was
lost, but was finally reconsidered and laid on
the table.
House.-Petitions were presented from TO-
215 citizens of various sections of the State
for local option legislation. The following
bills were introduced and referred: To pro-
vide that decennial boards of equalization
may summon before them District Assessors
to give testimony in cases of dispute; en-
powering the directors of sub-schoO1 districts
to purchase apparatus for use in schools;
giving further protection to sheep by increas-
ing the tax on dogs, and giving constables
power to collect delinquent taxes or kill dogs;
empowering the several cities of the State to
give additional compensation to real estate
appraisers for the year 1880. Bills were passed:
Making 240 ems of nonpareil type square in
legal advertising providing against trapping
of game and trespassing. Mr.. Bloom offered
a resolution, which was adopted, to allow the
Auditor of State to employ some competent
person to complete the records of Virginia
military lands.
Senate, March 5.-On motion of Mr.. Pringle
the vote whereby the Entrekin bounty bill
passed the day before was reconsidered.
Bills passed: Vesting jurisdiction in minor
criminal cases in the Probate Courts of Guern-
sey, Perry, Tuscarawas and Knox Counties.
Adjourned until the Sth.
House.-The following bills were intro
duced: Abolishing the contract system at
the penitentiary; empowering administrators
to administer oaths in cases of claims against
an estate without compensation. Bills passed:
Preventing the sale of liquors by itinerant
venders within four miles of harvest home
festivals; providing that the reports of all
State institutions be submitted by the 10th of
| February.
Senate, March The following bills were
| introduced: Authorizing certain Incorporated
| villages to build railroads and to lease or op-
crate the same; appropriating money issued
by the city of Gallipolis and the county of
Gallia to prevent the spreading of yellow fe-
yer throughout the State. Adjourned until
| the Sth.
| Hoasse.-Bills introduced: Making it the
duty of township clerks to provide a safe re-
| ceptacle for ballot boxes; imposing fine of
pure butter; char ging the present statute
regulating the fees of county officers so as to
| give Recorders fees for printed words in
printed blanks for deeds. A number of bills
! were read the second time and the House then
adjourned.
Senate, March S.-Bills introduced: Pro
| viding that witnesses who have demanded
their fees and travelling expenses need not
obey subp9nas unless the same are paid
| protecting brook trout and salmon requiring
mutual benefit associations to make annual
statements to the State Superintendent of In
| surance.
House.-The following bills were intro.
duced: Fixing the time of payment for the
ten per cent. subscription of stock on corpo-
rations in process of organization at the time
of electing directors, instead of at the time
of subscribing, also changing the amount to
be paid from ten per cent. to the total amount
making it crime to falsify or destroy bal
lot or tally sheet before the result of an cleo
tion is declared. Bills passed: Regulating the
erection of county buildings; authorizing ad
ministrators to make distributions in Kind
and make their final settlements with Pro
bate Courts; extending the time from five
days to eight days for returning the tall,
sheets of school elections ip sub-districts; re
qufring Boards of Equalization to report tt
the Auditor of State in August instead o
October. The House joint resolution asking
the Ohio delegation in Congress to vote for
bill making the Office of Commissioner o
, Agriculture Cabinet office, came up, an,
after being amended by authorizing the Pres
ident to appoint a Secretary of Agriculture
it was carried. A motion to reconsider tn
vote was made, pending which the House ad
I-journed.
, Senate, March 9.-The following bills wer
, introduced: Providing that previous account
of administrators or executors in cases il
vuh will 10 cot do fhoo cfofo ~ Nth a
grounds Is taken out of their hands, shall b
+ valid when said acts were done in goo
faith; preventing the spread of contagiou
and infectious diseases among domestic an
mails. The bill reviving the old law of 1S6
l giving to re- enlisted soldiers bounties of on
, hundred dollars each with six per cent. intel
est to date was taken up, amended by strilkin
out the interest clause and passed.
Hoasse.-Bills were introduced as follows
Establishing an agricultural experimental
5 station at the State University; to comp'
railroad companies to use heating and lign
ing apparatus for cars which will not set fl
to the same in case of accident; giving court
: charge of ballot boxes and ballots upon tn
{ filing of notice OF contest in election cases an
3 requiring clerks to keep record of ballots b
tally; changing the time of election for men
bers of school boards in cities of the secon
! class from April to May; authorizing villae
Councils to clothe Marshals with powers
Street Commissioners. A resolution to n
, meve the boys from the Toledo House {
= poned one week. House bill authorizin
County Commissioners. to change the dire
{ tton OF roads to avoid bridging was passet
3 Adjourned.
Senate, March 1O.-The following bills wei
+ passed: Authorizing the formation of par
. nership associations in which the capit
! of the same shall be responsible for tt
debts of the concern; making appropriation
3 to pay the principal and interest on the pu
4 lie debt and the expenses of the Sinking Fun
: Commissioners; requiring the officers of Stat
institutions to keep itemized statements of a
expenditures; regulating the notices fe
requiring the reporter. of the g.
preme Court to bestow all his time to tt
8 State, and fixing his salary at 81, 500 per yeal
e providing that the Warden of the Penitel
= tiary shall execute all the prisoners that al
!, sentenced to be hung, and that the e.
ecution shall take place before sui
it rise on the day designated. Bills introduced
e Providing for the issue of duplicate bonds
% lieu of bonds lost or destroyed; regardif
y Workhouse fines.
Hoasse.-A number of bills were reported fro
Il committees and indefinitely postponed Bit
were passed as follows: Allowing the purcha
" porated; providing that all lands acquired /
J railroads for the right of way for main line
y shall revert to the original grantors unle
; the line is completed within ten years; requi
l. ing corporations to give security for costs
!. certain cases; allowing purchasers of finishe
railroads to be Incorporated. Bills intr
duced: Restoring the old law in regard
q witnesses, giving them the right to demar
8 their travelling fees and their fees for Of
h days service at the time the subpoena
- served; providing that the issue of sa
> ity in criminal cases shall be tried onl, on
IS under each Indictment; governing the appoin
Y ment of cemetery directors; preventing al
corporation, having a right Of way as raj
O road or turnpike, from subletting an excl
+" sive right to use the same to any tel
e graph company, and to control the action
,r telegraph com panieS SO that they shall inte
n change business with each other, and upt
- refusal to do this suit can be brought by Il
~ company who has offered the dispatches fl
transmission. Adjourned.
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