The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-26
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


INTHE House on the 14th, bills were passed as fol.
bws Enabling societies or benevolent associations
% own stock In buildings used fo1 lodge or meet
0g purposes; amending sections 436 49, 6710, 6711
and 734s - to relieve the Supreme Court docket,
oy giving the District Courts final Jurisdiction in
many cases which are now carried up; suthorizng
the Commissioners Of Hamilton County TO levy o
Ipecial tax for the improvement Of Cornell and
Cooper avenues; for the more effective protection
" dealers in timber by giving them all the rights
If = trademark; supplemental to section 14z3 and
i4sO, % that Township Trustees shall have the
,ower to condemn property for Town Hall pur-
poses; amending section 10s, as amended February
a, 1881 to make certified copies transcripts
lvidence;, granting the right Of way to tine
Cincinnati and Eastern Connection Rail-
Dad Company through State lands in
ng section 1851 50 as 10 require that school
,numeratofn shall take the name and age of every
child Of school age and keep the reports on file with
ID to prevent any such frauds as that recently dew
,loped st steubenville; amending section Ss41 30
aused by lightning, whether fre e. ensues or not;
.utherizing the trustees to open; enlarge, widen,
liter, deepen or wall up any sink-hole or hssure,
he Commissioners Of Ashtabula County to build
bridge across Ashtabula River; amending section
1928 - to allow the division of sub-school dis
ory withdrawn. the Senate no business o.
Importance was transacted.
In TIE State Senate on the 18th bills were passed
a follows: Authorizing Trustees of Newton Town
Ihip, Trumbull County, to transfer funds; House
lby Mr.. Prlce-Authorizing New Concord, Mus
kingum County to build q Town Hall In the
House, Representative vallandigham presented q
remonstrance from 235 taxpayers of Montgomery
County against the Mead bridge across saltwater
Bills were indefinitely postponed as follows: House
bill by Mr.. Hughes-For an aqueduct in Van Wet
County; Senate bill by Mr.. Chapman-To pay
tessees OF canals S. $50 interest old claim for
Implements; Senate bill by Mr.. Norton-Fixine
limit of taxation in Toledo. Bills introduced
sprinsc,eek Township, Miami County. and Orange
.tery appropria,ing % 400 to pay Franklin County
wright cases; authorizing vandsl a, Montgomery r
C0untv, to borrow money for street improvements;
recognizing the Cincinnati police force; authoriz-
franklin County; extending the time of Cincinnati
Board of Equalization tao weeks. Bills passed
q: follows: Reducing the State tax levy txo-tenth
Versailles. Darke County, to issue IS 900 in bonds
to pay Indebtedness; authorizing the Board of Edu
the Board of Education of Mclean Township,
Shelby County, to issue bonds for new school
house.
In THE State Senate on the 18th, the report Of
the Conference COMMITTEES on House bill by Mr.
Jones, Of jackson, giving laborers, mechanics
miners and other workingmen first lion on both
real estate and personal property agreed to- and
the bill became law. Other bills were passed as
follows: Providing for the appointment of assistant
assessors in Toledo; authorizing the Governor to
convey by deed one hundred acres of land situated
In Montgomery County, to Charles E. Taylor and
Flora Taylor; amending sections 25I2, 343s and
1885, relating to street railroads. The Scott Liquo,
Tax BILL providing against the evils resulting ON
the traffic in intoxicating liquors passed-yeas
~; nays 10 In the House the Scott Liquor Tax
bill was passed by vote of-yes So, nays 10, and
Is now . law. Among other bills passed were tn.
following: Amending sections 21o7 and 6so1 that
persons can be sent from counties having no work
houses to the work-houses In other counties; au.
thorizing Middletown, Butler County, to refund
$50 900 Of water-worKs bonds and reducing the in
struction Of trunk sewers in Cincinnati and a spe-
cal tax levy of sixteenth of mill therefor for Ave
years; authorizing the Commissioners of Clermont
County to construct free turnPikes; amending sec
ton 5l67, 20 do away with professional jurors
authorizing special sessions Of Common Pleas
Judges are Interested authorizing Board Of Public
Works to grant to the Cincinnati Hooking Valley
and Huntington Railroad Company right of way
low Bud to Chillicothe; paying the claim of Gross
Dietrich for g, 500 of damages to their soap aud
overflow Of the canal; amending sections All, 4sos
and 4sl2 soas to allow second assessment for fret
turnpikes.
In THE State Senate on the 18th bills were passed
- follows: Abolishing the Cincin natl Board OF
Health, and providing for q Health Commission,
appointed by the Mayor; amending section 4e31 50
that school enumerators shall take the name and
age of children of school age and preserve tn,
record for five years; providing that bonds shall
be exacted from sherifs and others for the safe
keeping Of persons charged with misdemeanors
dividing Rock kportTownship, ,Cuyshoga County ,inte
TIVE election precincts; authorizing the appoint
nent Of persons to view and locate roads At speca
meetings of County Commissioners; authorizing
trademarks for the protection of lumber and tim
ber dealers; providing for cleaning and repairing
bitches and water-courses; authorizing the removal
of mill-dams; authorizing the Governor to deed
lands in Athens County leased from Ohio Univer.
eity at Athens; requiring hoel proprietors to keep
fre-escapes and gongs In Railways; compelling CO.
cperstivs lis insurance eommpaniss 70 dTepe.s ,e
ton which was adopted, providing that the Com.
missioner of Labor Statistics and two others ap-
mission t. make an examination Of the work done
in the pen State institutions and its effect out
side labor. James W. Gregor, as Trustee of Miami
Columbus, rs Trustee Of the Blind Asylum
and James Scott of Warren, as Trustee Of the Deal
and Dumb Asylum, we're confirmed: House joint
resolution by Mr.. Robinson, calling for full state
ment of annual waterrents Of canals per year. to b<
made to the next Legislature was adopted .......Ir
the House the following bills we're passed: Amend.
the oath of Office to be taken by Justices of the
Peace, and for fling with County Clerks the record
shs es@ps
Surveyors to keep the pats and field note. of al
their survey. and allowing them fifty cents in each
section 7I36 90 to relieve Sheris, deputies and
other officers making arrests from giving security
tIate: M amending section $3.50 30 as to compel 60.
operative insurance companies organized under sec
ton 1884 to make reports to the State Superintend
woke the commissions of NOtaries Public for cause
authorizing the Commissioner OF Montsomery
County to build . bridge across Mad River.
In THE State Senate on the 18th, bills wer,
passed as follows: House bill by Mr.. Kithcart-
Authorizing the Auditor of ntate to settle certain
tax claims; Senate bill by Mr.. Perkins Author
ixing the Trustees of Mecca Township, Trumbul
County, to buy the Baptist Church for a Towr
Hall; House bill by Mr.. Observation-Disclosures,
an additional tax levy at Riverside, Hamilton
County, for current expenses; House bill by Mr.
Moore, of Pike-Authorizing McConnellsville t,
transfer funds; House bill by Mr. Highlands-Au
thorizing the Commissioners of Hamilton COUNTY
to levy special tax for the mprovement of Badgely
avenue from the Mount Airy free turnpike e
journed sine die - Bills were passed as follow,
In the House: House bill by Mr.. Kithcart-Au
thorizing the Auditor of State to pay certain claim
section 4OiO so as to allow County Children Home
their proportion of the State Common School Fund
according to their number of children of schoo
ages; Senate bill by Mr.. Palmer-Dividing Rock
port Township. Cuyahoga County, into two elec
tion precinc The House then adjourned
sine de.
"A handsomely dressed woman, who
gave an evidently assumed name, was
arraigned in the Yorkville N. "
Police Court on a charge of intoxica-
ton. She wore solitaire diamond ear
rings, diamond finger-ring, and Other
jewlery. She had with her valuable
pug dog, which she led by a red ribbon
In her pocket-book were one hundred
and sixty dollars. A policeman said he
had found her at Fifty-ninth street and
Third avenue so drunk that she could
not take care of herself. Justice Power
fined her ten dollars, and said she was
lucky to have fallen into honest hands.
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