Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-03-03
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From o. s. Journal. ]

Feb. 22.-Senate-Billsp passed: House
bill for the improvement of free turn.
pixies in Washington county; House bill
to authorize plank road companies in
CuyahOga county to charge extra tolls
in certain cases; Senate bill to regulate
the use of official seals; House bill to
authorize city boards of examiners to is
sue teachers certificates for five years,
fifteen years and for life.
HUuse-BillS introduced. To author
ize the village of Logan to issue bonds
for purchase of cemetery; to punish
common carriers for transporting game
out of season; to permit railroads to
make crossings over or under other
roads, highways, and streets; to regulate
the sale of railroad and steamboat tick
cts; to provide for construction of bernie
bank on Kirkersville feeder.
Bills passed: House bill to give cor
pOrations control of water works outside
of corporation limits; House bill making
partial appropriations; House bill re-
qniriBg artificial" butter to be labeled,
and requiring hotel and boarding house
keepers to inform guests of the nature
of the article.
Feb. 23-Senate-BillS introduced: To
prohibit the adulteratien of food; to
provide that railroads shall not cross
each other at even grades; to amend the
law relating to the admission of pupils
to enlarge the powers of the Cincinnati
board of public works; to provide for the
suspension of prosecuting attorneys
when charges are perding against them /;
to provide a commission to revise the
insurance laws; to make the salary of
railroad commissioner $4,000.
Bills passed: House bill to distribute
surplus doX tax in Paulding county;
Senate bill to regulate children's home
in Cuyahoga county; Senate bill to au-
thorize the planting of fruit and shade
trees along roads. .... ....
House-Bills introduced: To require
superintendent of repairs to give bonds;
to increase the salary of assistant State
librarian to $1,50O; to regulate the sale
of petroleum, and abolish the office of
oil inspector; to authorize township
trustees to build foot bridges; to pro-
hibit the adulteration of wine, ale and
beer; to prohibit corporal punishment in
schools; to authorize directors of county
infrmaries to prosecute persons for in
juring or abusing paupers; to authorize
the council of the city of Cincinnati to
compel consumption of smoke.
Bills passed: Senate bill relating to
compensation of Secretary of State;
House bill enlarging the powers of the
police commissioners of Toledo.
Feb. 24-Senate-BillS passed: Senate
bill for the relief of sureties in certain
cases; House bill to authorize the city
of Hamilton to build machine shops );
Senate bill to authorize Jamestown,
Greene county, to issue bonds and build
a fire engine hall; House bill to author
ize the board of education of Woodsfield
to refund its debt; House bill giving the
Supreme Court additional jurisdiction in
quo warranto. in certain cases; Senate
bill to levy tax, ETC., for Port Clinton and
Fremont railroad; House bill to author
ize certain persons to vote for street
commissioner; Senate bill providing
penalties for violation of mining laws
HOuse-Bills passed: Relating to
shipment of dead bodies to medical col
leges; relating to contracts for State pa
per; relating to sidewalks along country
roads; to prevent fraud in commercial
fertilizers. ..... ..-r
Feb. 25.-Senate-Bills introduced: To
provide Tor certain disbursements by
Board of State Charities; to rovide a
board of State examiners for teachers
to authorize the issue of five or ten-year
certificates to teachers.
Bills passed: House bill to authorize
to protect water works
Senate bill authorizing Steubenville to
issue bonds for water mains; House bill
to provide for the listing of omitted real
OF personal property for taxation; Sem
ate bill to suspend prosecuting attorneys
pending charges against them.
HouSe-Bills introduced: t. correct
error in veteran bounty act of last win
ter; relative to assessments for street
improvements; to provide by gen raj
law for distribution of surplus dog tax
to prohibit change of text books within
Ten years when once adopted; to punish
gambling in taverns and saloons; to re-
Iuire convicted liquor dealers to give
bond; to require the State School Com
MISSIONER TO incluLe in his annual re-
lorJ il statement. of new school books
published each year; two other bills re-
ating to certificates of teachers,