Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-31
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

lnm Tor the Insane, was received.
House-SlXty members present.
Remonslrance: Against empowering
certain boards of education to appoint
their own school examiners.
Petition: That corporations shall be
required to pay their employees semi
monthly.
Bills introduced: Requiring that
practical teachers only shall be appoint
Ell school examiners ;making contractors
and property owners responsible for in
jurieS to persons passing unfinished
buildings; exempting from taxation the
land upon which public highways are
constr ucted; to pay damages allowed for
construction of township bitches; defin-
! ing more clearly the duties of county
surveyors as TO restoring lost or decay
| ing corners; eXempting members of
| veteran organizations from serving on
! juries; allowing county auditors 10
cents instead of s cents for recording
transfers of real estate; eXempting cer-
tain persons from serving on juries; %
| bills were read a second time, ard re-
| ferred.
JAN. 3-Senate-Thirty present.
Bills Introduced: To illuminate the
State library with electric light; amend
ing sections 2269 and 227I of the Revised
Statutes as 10 assessments on real prop
ty: TO index records of probate courts; !;
enabling bank officers to be nOtaries
public.
| Resolutions were adopted Tecommen
ding that Congress provide such a sys
TEN Of inspection al meats exported as
| will remove ali yd.d objection to the
same in foreign markets.
At the afternoon session bills were
introduced: AppIop iating $4,000 to
pay d deficiency caused by publication
of the constitutional amendments; re-
storing the laws of 1880 as to equaliza
tiun OF taxes in cities
\ resolution was adopted repeating
the Democratic State platform on the
| tariff question. aB amendment faVOTing
protection Oeiug voted down.
Nominations by the Governor Of trus
| tees for various public benevolent inSti
tutions wereceived and referred.
House-Bills introduced: TO suppress
the practice OF carrying concealed weap-
| onS: to build new court house IN Seneca
CO.; abolshing seals on wills and other
personal papers; fixing weight of bushel
of cider apples at 30 pounds; amending
Scott law DIS to amount of its proceeds to
be devoted to the poor fund in large ci-
ties; simplifying the laws as to building
sidewalks.
Bills indefinitely postponed: The Bruce
newspaper libel bill; the Murray bill eX-
Guiding vendors liens.
Passed: Transferring surplus funds
under the Scott law in Cleveland to the
sinking fund.- authorizing Scott law fund
in Springfield to be transferred to the
police fund
a resolutions favoring the National
banking bill introduced by Mr.. Aldrich
| in the National Senate was referred.
JAN 25-Senate-Bills introduced:
Providing that stumps, trees and other
distractions in the way of building
bitches must he removed; excluding GER
tain farmers from operation of the Rus
sell law; supplementary te section 5190 of
the Revised Statutes: to restore the old
common law rule as to nOnSuits; authriZ-
ing appeal from ditch decisions of county
commissioners TO probate Judges.
Passed. Making appropriations for
common schools, and to pay interest and
principal of the public debt; including
| wild lands in LAWS pertaining to partition
| fences; to provide for a deficiency caused
! by publication of the constitutional
amendments; authorizing investment Of
certain funds for the maintenance of an
art school at Cincinnati.
Y resolution was introduced by Mr.
Oren. and referred. favoring civil rights
amendment to the National Convention.
The following nominations by the Gov
| IL. of ~
Deaf and Dumb aSy!um-Janathan 5.
Hare of Wyandot- county and Samuel
| Thompson of Franklin county: trustees
of the Blind asylum-Daniel McAliSter
of Franklin county and John II. Hudson
of Erie county; trustees OF the Toledo
Insane asylum-Wm. E. Haynes of San
dusky county. John w. Fuller of Lucas
county, John w. Nelson of Williams coun-
ty and George L. Johnston of Lucas
county. The nomination of Hon. Charles
! Eos er of Seneca county as trustee Of the
| Toledo Insane asylum was reiected-yeaS
u, nays 16
House-Various local bills were intro
duced.
Bills passed: Authorizing certain citi-
Zens not owners OF homeSteadS, to hold
$500 worth of real estate exempt from
levy and sale, in addition to personal
property: accepting the Longworth art
donation in Cincinnati.
\ resolution was introduced by Mr.
Greiner, and refe red, favOring an act of
| Congress granting to every honorably
discharged so dier and sailor Of the civil
war, over 40 Years of age, a pension.
House bill providing for the constitu-
tional amendment delicienty was passed
JAN. 26-Senate-S the law
law regarding the indeXing of county
commissioners records.
Passed: Partial appropriation bill, ap-
prOpriatIng $40 900 for the public insti-
| tutions Of the State; providing that road
superintendent shall not eXpend more
than S20in repairing bridges and culverts.
| Ten bills were read a second time.
Hnuse-The matter of paying certain
sums to clerks and officers of the last
Legislature was tediously debated, with
out result.
Bills Introduced: Relative to printing
bills and other legislative documents.
Some unimportant local bills were
passed.
Mr.. Ford's resolution, endorsing the
| Aldrich bill, pending in the United States
Senate. WAS defeated.
JAN 2j-Senate-Bi, S introduced: To
amend section 4510, Revised Statutes, as
to bitches: authorizing compromise with
defaulting treasury of the Alliance school
board.
The committee appointed to investigate
charges against Senator Fassett was au-
| thOTiZed TO send for persons and papers.
House amendments to Senate resolu-
ton to pay expenses (S100.90) of the Gov
ernOr'S Inauguration, were concurred in.
House-PetltionS: For passage of the
Reed pharmacy bill.
Bills introduced: The general apprO-
priatiOn bill; increasing penalties for is
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