Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
o. s. Journal Summary.

blllS passed: ID. ID. dS W Pay ilenl VI ol-
ficers of the General Assembly; II. b. to
authorize an expenditure OF S1lO 900 for
Jail and court house in Carroll county; Il.
b. authorizing jefferson county to Dor
row $4,000 for relief of flood sufferers.
House-Bills introduced: Dividing the
state into Circuit court districts; regula
ting size and width of openings of coal
screens; comforting concurrent jurlsdic-
ton on Probate courts in the partition OF
real estate ;exempting from taxation lands
devoted to forest culture; permitting lease
of the canals for SO years; authorizing
county commissioners to make private
contracts for bridges; authorizing city
and village councils to appoint sewerage
commissions; authorizing county commits
sioners to dredge creeks and bitches; to
create state board of health; making
malicious attempt to burglary felony;
to suppress boxing and sparring exhibi-
tions; various minor local bills.
Bills passed: S. B. relating to duties of
prosecuting attorneys in requisition cases;
81. B. relative to payments for necessaries
at the state benevolent institutions; H. b
empowering county commissioners TO
raise money for relief of flood sufferers;
II. B. relative draining and repairing
bitches; various local measures.
Resolutions adopted: H. R. relative to
claims growing out of the burning of the
Asylum for Imbeciles; H. 4. to pay ex-
penses of prison reform commission; s
r. favoring equalization bounties, and in
crease of soldiers pensions.
The joint rules already adopted by the
Senate were agreed to.
FEB. 20-Senate-Petitions For and
against removal of seat of justice in OF
tawa county; for state board of health.
Bill introduced: To establish a state
board of divinity "a parody on the state
board of health. Rejected.
Bills passed: II. B. to build a $4,000
court house in Carroll county; S. B. ex-
empting spiritualists from application of
the Russell license law; S. B. relative to
removing distractions from drains and
water courses; S. B. as to challenges of
jurymen and conlinuanceS of struck ju-
ries; ). B. repeating act limiting the pow
er Of Athens county commissioners; va
rious local bills authorizing transfers of
funds and for other purposes.
Resolutions adopted: To pint 500 ex'
ira copies of Mr.. Lewis state board of
health bill; expressing sympathy with Mr.
Jaeger in loss of his eldest son.
HouSe-Bills passed: S. B. as to duties
of prosecuting attorneys in requiSition
cases; 5. B. to build new infrmary in
Clermont county; H B. providing that
municipalities may unite with counties
in the construction of work houses; by
Mr.. Menke. regulation of safe deposit and
trust companies; various minor local bills.
A resolution was adopted instituting
an examination as to injuries by the floods
to the Hooking canal, and the cost of re-
storing same to serviceable condition.
FEB 2l- Senate--Rills introduced: !:
For relief of flood sufferers; to provide
for sale of Longview asylum to The
state; for completion of volume V of
the Geology of Ohio; as TO examination
and payment of military claims.
Bills passed: II. B. as to destruction,
by township trustees, of Canada thistles
and other nOxious weeds; S. b. relating
to societies for preventing cruelty to
animals; S. B. amending the law crea-
ting the Office of state inspector of oils;
H. Il. relative to Importation of foreign
labor.
House-Bills introduced: Authoriz-
ing building children's home in Viz
ton county; authorizing county commits
sioners to open useless mill dams; re-
quiring the state to pay tpr armories in
certain cases; requiring that all causes
shall proceed to hnal judgment; making
it a criminal Offense to throw stones at
passenger water craft; numerous local
measures.
Bills passed: Mr.. Reeds pharmacy
bill; Fl. b. relative to compensation for
damages in ditch cases; providing that
road supervisors shall take up estrays;
various minor local bills.
FEB. 22.-Senate-House joint resolu-
tion urging Ohio members Of Congress
to exert their influence for the esLab-
lishment of a national bureau of labor
statistics was defeated. The vote was
reconsidered.
Senate bills were passed: applying the
game laws to squirrels, making their
killing unlawful from Feb. to June /.
House-Bills introduced: Providing
for brigade iastead of regimental en-
campments; making the killing of sheep
belonging to another person, with intent
to steal the carcass or pelt, a penitentia:y
offense; to oauthorize the auditor of Ham
ilton and other counties to appoint an
assessor of new Improvements.
Bills passed: II. b. to provide for a
bureau of information for the soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home; authoriz
ing the burial of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and marines in the civil
war at public expense; II. L. to author
Ize incorporated villages TO regulate, re-
strain and prohibit the sale of unwhele.
seme and immoral literature; various
local bills.
A resolution was offered and referred
urging Ohie Cohgressmen to use all hon
Orable means to secure the construction
of levee at Cincinnati.
A report by the adjutant general was
received from the Governor. recommend
ing brigade instead of regimental en-
campmentS.
FEB. % -Senate-Mr. Levering's reso-
luton adjourning the Senate over Wash
ington's birthday, was corrected so that
the flags over the Senate chamber might
be placed at full mast, instead of half
mast.
Bills introduced: Relating to costs in
the creation OF Sub-school districts; to
reorganize the agricultural college: re
lating to transfer of girls under l6 from
jails and warehouses; to the Girls In
dustrial Home.
House Bills introduced: Restoring
the old general read law; requiring al
leys in rear of all lots in new city addi-
tioDs recognizing the Office of oil in
spector; amending law as to election of
school boards; requiring road supervi-
sOrs to clean bitches along the highways;
changing time of publication of receipts
for road improvements; facilitating op-
erations of the statutes against the truck
system in mining.
Bills passed: Ii. B. providing that no
in any cooperative compa-
ny shall have more than one vote; sun
dry local bills.
FEB. 25-Senate-A bill was introdu-
ced by Senator Crowell grading the tax
on the liquor traffic from 800 to $500, |
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