Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-20
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Senate, March 11.-Bills passed: Extend
ing to harvest home gatherings the protection
accorded to camp-meetings: authoriaIng in
corporated companies to hold property and
carry on business in any county in the State
and beyond the limits thereof, and in
vest surplus moneys in United States bonds
and stocks Of solvent corporations; reguiat-
ing the manner and place of holding elec ctions
for school directors; requiring application
for leave to file petitions on error to ue
made to the supreme Court; providing that
Probate Judges msy pay fiom the county
funds for the transportation of incurable in
sane patients from asylums; limiting the
bringing of suits for personal damages to one
year. A bill was introduced to limit The as
sessment for Improvements to twenty five per
cent. of the appraised value OF property as it
| appears upon the county duplicate.
Hoalse.-No business of Importance was
transacted.
passed, and after the transaction of some OH
er minor business, the Sen te adj j)urned.
House The bill reducing the price for lie
gal advertising was put upon its passage
and lost. Bills PISSED: Providing that il.
cases where wrongful death has occurred the
court distribute theuroperty of the heirs; re-
quiring non-residepts of rhe State TO issue
undertakings in attachments; providing thst
| real estate assessors separate values of land
and buildings in returns of property of cor
porations. Adjourned.
Senate, March l3 Bills introduced: Re
quiring the Auditor of State to give certified
copies of deeds in the Land Depar Jment of his
office upon the payment of proper fees, and
in the absence of original records max
ing such certified copies prima faeie evidence
of ownership; abolishing District Courts and
creating in lieu thereof a Circuit Court in
each Judicial District, with Judge elected
especially therefor; adding two members to
the Board of State Charities.
House.-Tbe following bills were intro
duced: To give the Agricultural College trus-
tees from each Congressional District: amend
ing the election laws to provide a penalty in
case the judges of election refuse to permit
candidates Or their friends 20 be present at the
counting of ballots; for the relief of the late
lessees of the Public Works; authorizing City
Councils to plant shade trees; protecting the
citizens of the State in matters of life insur,
ance, and to regulate and bring under the su-
pervision of the State Superintendent of Insur-
ance all cooperative life associations or com
pauies; Furnishing Probate Judges and their
clerks for making accounts, preparing pc
titions or answers for executors, administra
tors or guardians; for sup olving the public
schools of Ohio with text hooks at reduced
prices; increasing the minimum of militia
companies from forty to sixty and the
maximum to ninety men; exempting from
taxation vaults made under the supervision
and at the expense of villages; to bring all
CO. operative insurance companies under the
supervision Of the State Inspector of Insur-
ance. Adjourned.
Senate, March 15.-Bflls were introduced
Authorizing Auditors to appoint deputies to
inspect weights and measures in their respec-
tive counties; putting plank road companies
under the same laws as turnpike companies In
regard to improvements. Adjourned.
Rouse.-The following bills were intro
duced: Reducing the fees of Sherifs in Ger.
tain counties sixty per cent; directing the
appointment of commission of experts to
investigate and report upon the subject o1
hereditary insanity. number of local bill:
were passed and the House adjourned
Senate, March 16.-Bills introduced: Ex-
tending the life Of chattle mortgages from
one to two years; Regulating the matter
ury; repeating obsolete or useless sec
tions of the insurance law. Bills passed
Authorizing the grading of unfinished plank
ginia Military Land Ofice at Mansfield.
House-A bill was introduced to repeal the
law requiring the Secretary of State to fur
nish copies of the Governors message and
State reports to the State institutions and to
newspapers sthroughout the State. Bills passed
Consolidating the First and Fourth sub-divis
ions of the Ninth Judicial District; requiring
Assessors TO administer oaths in assessments
OF personal property; allowing Boards o.
holders by mail or agent The House joint
resolution providing for the maintenance OF
one hundred and Fifty boysby the State at tha
Toledo House OF Refuge was adopted. Ad.
journed.
Senate, March 17.-Bills passed: Making
grave robbery penitentiary offense; to pro
hibit the pursuing of game on another mani
premises, and to prevent trapping and nettinl
of game; to provide for the payment of tn,
State debt by the levy of six-tenths of a mil
for three years; authorizing municipal cor
porations to grant the use of streets, avenue
and alleys for steam pipes for heating pur
poses: providing that an affidavit to an &C
count before Justice of the Peace be prins,
focie evidence; empowering the Audito
of State to furnish titles where the same hav
been lost or destroyed. The House join
resolution renewing the contract with Toled,
to keep the boys at the Reformatory wa
| adorted.
II .asse.-A bill was introduced providing
hat QUE stious as to the sale of toll roads shal
be submitted to a vote of the people. Tn
general appropriation bill was then taken VI
aud the amendments considered item by item
Puudiug this the House adjourned.