Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-29
The Ohio Legislature.

| From o. g. Journal Summary.
MARCH 2O-Senate-Bills introduced
Prescribing $40 to $50 fine, or 10 to 20
days imprisonment, or both, for selling
toy pistols; prescribing an oath to all
officials in Ohio on entering on their du-
ties, relative to the absence of bribery in
their election.
House-PetitiOns presented: For To-
cal option; against The Peet bill; for
State care of epileptics; against the con =
tract labor sy stem.
Bills introduced: Making it a Peni-
teutiary offense for unauthorized per-
SONS to uncouple cars or tamper with
trains; requiring judges to make notes
of the peculiarities of statutes in their
decisions, for the use of codifying COM
missions; changing the name of the Re-
form School to the Ohio State Industri-
al School.
MARCH 21-Petitions received: For
the care of insane epileptics by the State.
Passed: Senate bill for the re-enumer
alton of school children where fraud is
suspected; Senate bill compelling coun-
ty auditors to index their books; H. b.
making claims for manual labor pre-
ferred against the estate of d deceased
person; s. B. for the appointment of six
lawyers to act as counsel for INDECENT
prisoners; H, b. regarding the organiza-
tion of independent military companies !;
HI. 3. authorizing municipal govern
ments to contract for water supply; S.
B. regarding the State agricultural ex-
pertinent station.
Bill introduced: Amending the law
regarding the selection of Jurors.
House-Passed: House bill for re-
turning discharged convicts to their
homes; H. B. authorizing Cincinnati to
issue 81 100000 in bonds for street i'm
prOvspents.
Resolution adopted: Granting the use
of the State House, and of certain State
arms, to the Soldiers Reunion next
summer.
MARCH 22-Passed: House bill for
the establishment of district workh0us-
es by two or more counties; II. B. pro-
viding that secret societies may have
three instead of five trustees.
House-A large number of local bills
were considered.
Passed: II. B. for the government of
railroads owned by two or more railroads
in the State; Senate resolution for con-
tracing to keep boys at the Toledo
House of Refuge; joint resolution for d
constitutional amendment providing for
circuit courts in place of the present
district courts.
MARCH % -Senate-Passed: House
bill leaving it to the discretion of the
trustees of the childen's homes whether
the register of indentures shall be open
to public inspection; Ii. B. giving the
Governor authority to remove any of
his appointees; S. B. requiring persons
engaged in trading to give the names of
their principals; S. B. prohibiting the
sale of toy pistols; S. B. amending the
Seitz election law, by requiring persons
elected to make oath no improper meas
ures were used in their election.
Bills introduced: Allowing illegiti-
mate children to inherit property; Civ
ing county commissioners the right to
extend the time for completing free
turnpikes.
House-Passed: House bill changing
the system of keeping roads in repair.
The Senate amendments to the bill
for district warehouses; were cencurred
in, and it is now law.
Petitions presented: For the repeal of
the proviso in the first ground of at
tachment in section 64so, Revised Stat
utes, discriminating between employees;
for law preventing fishing except with
hook and line in any of the streams of
the Stare; for State care of the epileptic
insane.
MARoH 24-Senate-Passed: Senate