Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-11
Ohio Legislature.

March 2.-Senate-No business of con-
sequence transacted.
House-Bills introduced: To repeal
the law fixing compensation of teachers
and matrons at the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home; to provide for the cleo
tion of seven additional members of the
Supreme Court; to provide that in vii
lage school districts where annual spring
elections are held outside OF such village,
school elections shall be held on subSe
quent day; to authorize the Governor
by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, to remove officers appointed
by him.
March 3.-Senate-Bills introduced:
To enable associations for building ho-
tells to become Incorporated; to amend
justices code so as to allow judgments to
be rendered on affidavits; to enable cor
porations to invest surplus capital in
bonds; to authorize the Governor to re-
move his appointees for cause.
Bills passed: Twenty-one House bills
to correct that number of errors in the
Revised Statutes; Senate bill to author
ize both fine and Imprisonment for vio-
lating liquor law.
HOuse-Bills introduced: To regulate
the leasing of ice ponds; on the line of
the canals; to provide for the appoint
ment by the Governor of five trustees to
select site and build an additional
Deaf and Dumb Asylum; to allow wit
nesses to demand their fees when sub
pen@d; repeating certain provisions of
law relative to the sale of Intoxicating
liquors.
Bill passed. House bill amending the
road law so as to extend the time for
working one month.
March 4.-Senate-Bills introduced /:
repeating the act requiring railroads to
use certain appliances in lighting and
heating cars; limiting time for action
for personal damages to one year; re-
quiring that trustees of children'S homes
shall consist of two men and two wO-
men.
Bills passed: To reorganize the peni-
Tertiary; allowing partners of prosecu-
ting attorneys to assist in criminal pros
ecutions; allowing 500 to all soldiers of
the late war who have not received that
amount of local bounty to deposit funds
belonging to childrens homes.
HouSe-Bills introduced: Relative to
taking the census, when complaint oc-
ours; increasing the tax on dogs: allow
ing school directors to purchase text
books.
Bills passed: Making 24O ems a square
in legal advertising; preventing the trap
ping or catching of wild game
A number of local bills were passed.
March O. -Senate-The vote on the
bounty bill was recOmmitted.
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railroad depot at Cincinnati; several To-
cal bills were also passed.
House-Bills introduced: AbOlishing
the contract system at the Penitentiary;
allowing administrators and executors
to administer oaths; providing for the
sanitary improvement of the Peniten-
tiary.
Bills passed: Making assessments for
street improvements on the just yalua-
tion of the property; preventing the sale
of liquors at harvest home festivals
providing for a system of accounts to be
kept at the State institutions.
March S.-Senate-Bills introduced:
To require officers of mutual benefit as
sociations to make annual reports; rela-
tive to witness fees; to prohibit catch
ing trout or salmon except with hook
House-Bills introduced: To punish
the destruction of ballot boxes, and the
defacing, erasure or addition
to ballots, and the mutilation or destruc-
ton of poll-books by Imprisonment in
the Penitentiary; to provide that ten
per cent. of the stock Of new corpora
tiOns shall be paid when directors are
elected; to provide for general appro-
priations.
Bills passed: Senate bill to provide
for the more speedy distribution of the
estates of deceased persons; Senate bill
to prohibit the sale of fire arms to min
Ors; House bill to extend time foF re-
turning tally sheets Of school elections
Senate bill requiring boards of equaliza-
ton to report to the Auditor of State in |