Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-02-03
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

From o. S. Journal.
Jan. 26.-Senate-Bills introduced: To
authorize Cincinnati to issue bonds fol
| inhrmary purposes; to allow officers OF
| State institutions to draw one-tenth OF
appropriations at one time.
Bills passed: House bill to amend
section 5,367 SO as to authorize sureties
to recover in certain cases; Senate bill
providing for the delivery of fugitives
from justice.
HOuse-Bills introduced: To author
ize cities and villages to levy tax on liq-
uor dealers; to make more stringent
provision for awarding paper contracts
on behalf of the State; to authorize the
commissioners of Lucas county to issue
bonds not exceeding 100000; to enable
the village of New Philadelphia to ap-
propriate $4,000 to build glass works
to punish certain offenses on railroads
to direct probate judges to make COM
plete records in lunacy inquests; to pun
ish the stealing of timber.
Bills passed: House bill relating to
the fair grounds of Warren county /;
House bill to punish the issue of fraud
ulent diplomas; House bill relating to
awarding city contracts.
Jan. 7-Senate-BillS introduced: To
provide for the appointment of police
men at the State institutions; to author
ize the city of Newark to purchase
grounds and construct machine shops
to provide for the restoration of Peni-
tiary convictS to citizenship.
Bills passed: House bill to improve
Warren county fair groudds; House bill
TO- 10 ich of
Cincinnati; Senate bill to authorize
Judges of courts to fix counsel fees for
defending criminals.
House-Bills introduced: Relating to
jurors who have been excused; to com
pei insurance companies to inform poll
cy holder of the value of policy: to au-
thorize Toledo to remove snow and ice
from sidewalks; to pay fines collected for
violation of law on toll roads into the
school fund; to reimburse certain eX-
penses to company A, Sixth regiment, o.
N. G.
Bills passed: House bill to authorize
road supervisors to collect road tax by
fines; House bill to compel operators to
report monthly to Mine Inspector; to
authorize the board of public works of
Cincinnati to make assessments for
public improvements.
Jan. 2S-Senate-BillSi introduced: To
authorize the setting apart of a portion
of the taxes paid by foreign insurance
companies in Cincinnati as Il pension for
disabled firemen; to fix the compensa-
ton of county ;u litors for issuing tax
certificates to authorize the city of Titlin
to issue bonds aid construct machine
shops; to fix the salary of the Clerk of
the Supreme Court at $4,000; to define
the law restoring corvictS to citizenship.
Senate bill directing clerks of courts
to index pending suits, passed.
House-BilS introduced: To confer
greater power on probate judges in the
appointment of guardians for lundtics !;
to prevent fraud in the manufacture of
commercial fertilizers; to provide for
the condemnation of unsafe buildings
in cities
Bill passed: House bill relating to tes-
timony of husband and wife; House bill
regulating toll roads.
Jan. 29-Senate-Not in session.
House-Bills introduced: To provide
for the er .ctiOn of an asylum for epilep-
tic insane: to confer discretionary pow
ers upon the trustees of children's homes
rs to the admission of inmates; to au
thoriZe religious societies to exchange OF
cucumber church property in certain
cases.
Bills passed: House bill to reimburse
the sinkil G fund for moneys temporari-
ly transferred; House bill making appro-
priations fJr the principal and the in
terest of the State debt.