Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-03-09
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

Bills introduced: FOR quarterly ap
propriations by county commissioner:
for children's homes.
| House-NO business of any import
ance was transacted.
March 1.-Senate-Petitions present
ed: Twelve for the Brigham bill; sil
for the Smith Sunday bill.
Bills passed: Amending section sos;
of the Code so that proceedings may bt
commenced without naming the defend
ant; making an appropriation for dam
ages sustained by the lessees of the pub
lie works; requiring rolling stock com
panies to file certified copy with th'
Secretary of State when wishing to hole
their property till paid for; prescribing
the width of ballots.
Bills introduced: To encourage Asl
culture; for an agricultural experiment
station; providing for y return of lis
Of personal property by county auditor
by July each year. .-s,sl
The Brigham bill was taken up il
COMMITTEES of the Whole.
| House-Petitions received: Twenty
eight for the Brigham bill; for prohib
itiOn amendment to the Constitution
six for an insane asylum for incurables
five against sale or lease of the Hooking
canal; one in favor of the lease of saiC
canal.
Bills passed: For paying clerks anC
| treasurers of school boards out of con
Urgent fund.
Bills introduced: Amending section
5673 Of the Code, so that one-halt in
stead of one-fifth of the stakeholder.
can petition for receiver; providing fol
the election of boards of managers OF
agricultural societies; preventing a dep
uty county treasurer from being clerE
of council; fixing the time Of settle
ment for license fees at the date of an
nual settlement with the State Auditor
an apportionment bill; requiring paint
ed board placed along the top of wire
fences bordering railroads.
March 2.-Senate-Petitions received
Ten for the Brigham Railroad bill; three
for the Smith Sunday bill.
Bills passed: That varification of in
ventories by executors, ETC., may be be
fore any one entitled to administer al
oath; for a children's home in Darkt
county.
Bills introduced: For allowing count,
auditors extra compensation in certain
cases; for reducing cost of advertising
judicial sales; providing that arbitrator
in sheep killing cases shall be paid.
Considerable time was spent in Com
mittee of the Whole on the Brigham
Railroad bill.
House-Bills passed: For transfer
ring unexpended balances of turnpike
construction funds to the road repair
fund; allowing judgments on cognovii
notes to be reopened for hearing.
The Board of Health bill was defeated
Bills introduced: Prescribing certain
requirements for leasing the Columbus
feeder and Hooking canal; AUTHORIZING
issue of bonds for water works in Lima
authorizing Dayton to issue water works
bonds; to create State Board of Health
to provide homes for inmates of the Re
form School and Girls Industrial Home
to ledistrict the State (fifteen Repubii
can and six Democratic districts.)
March 3. Observation-Disclosures received
For the Smith Sunday bill; two for the
Brigham Railroad bill.
Bills passed: Allowing municipalities
to sell or lease real estate; allowing
boards of education to exchange real es.
tate with municipalities; amending the
law regarding children's homes.
Bills introduced: Giving the Governor
power to appoint resident engineers OH
public works; increasing salary of Clerk
of Supreme Court to $1,000.
| House-PetitiOns received: For the
lease of the Hooking canal; nine for the
Brigham bill; six for an epileptic and
chronic insane asylum; three against
bill prohibiting use of read engines; for
a prohibition constitutional amendment
for salaries for councilmen; fer free
turppikes. 81 i
Bills introduced: Reconstructlng the
ditch laws; for appointing guardians
for deaf mutes; for security for costs in
criminal cases in probate courts; for
payment OF witness fees in felony cases
from the county treasury; extending
probate court jurisdiction to criminal
cases; to redistriet the State (13 Repub-
lican and s Democratic distrlcts); an
other, making IA Republican and 7 Dem
ocratic districts; restricting the author
ity of netaries public to the county
naming subjects for legal advertising.
Bill passed: Amending section. 34Ts
of the Code. .ie.
March 4.-Senate-Petitions present
ed: Three for the Brigham bill.
House-Bill introduced: To apportion
the State into Congressional districts &
Democratic and ii Republican,
Petitions presented: Against the bill
prohibiting the use of steam road en-
gines two against the bill to exclude
foreign mutual life insurance compa
nies; four for temperance legislation
two for an epileptic and chronic insane
asylum.
March 6.-Senate-Petitions present.
ed: Four for the Brigham bill; five for
the Smith Sunday bill; two for the bill
protecting quail.
Bill introduced: For publication of
legal advertising in tive papers of oppo-
site politics in cities of the fourth grade.
second class.
House-Petitions presented: Against
the bill prohibiting the use of road steam
engines; for prohibition amendment
to the Constitution; against preventing
foreign cooperative insurance compan-
les from doing business in the State
three for an eDileptic asylum.
Bills introduced: Allowing $1,000 ex-
pended by infirmary directors annually
for repairs; making incurable insanity,
after ten years. ground for divorce; for
apportioning the State (13 Republican, 5
Democratic, doubtful.)
Bills passed.: Authorizing Montgom-
cry county to purchase the fair grounds,
and to sell or lease them; for Furnishing
timber thieves; giving right of action to
any one whose earnings are attached
outside the State under transfer of the
claim, to recover the same. 2a
Mother Died of Salt Rheun,.
]. W. Adams, Newark, Ohio, says: 'Cuti-