Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-30
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

y. s. Journal summary.
APRIL 21-Senate-Bills introduced
Amending the act authorizing land
grants for cemeteries; furnishing for
Sodomy by sentence of twenty years in
penitentiary.
HouSe-Bills introduced: Protecting
people from eXtortions of sewing ma
chine agents; making an appropriation
to meet deficiencies in sheriff s costs in
Jefferson county.
AARIL 2-Senate-Bills passed. Sen
ate bills closing saloons in Cincinnati
at midnight; Miami county to return ex-
cessive taxas; defining incest; making
salary of insurance commissioner $1,000
per year; house bills regulating sale of
dynamite: making it burglary to break
into public halls; preventing sale of oleo-
margarine; for apportionment of rail
road taxes.
Bills introduced: Authorizing Lucas
county to issue 100000 bonds for new
court house; for underground telegraph
and telephone wires; repeating the act
for new court house in Butler county.
House Bills passed: Senate bill for
all hangings to take place at penitentia-
ry; House bill making general appropri
tions: Senate bill for better inspection
of county treasures; House bill prohib-
| itiHg sale of oleOmargarine.
APRIL 23-Senate-Joint resolution
offered and referred, that after menu
bers puTged themselves before bribery
Investigation by swearing to specific
questions certificates of character be is
sued to such members, and newspapers
be requested to publish the same.
Senate bill creating mixed schools was
lost, and House bill repeating old black
luws was tabled.
Bills passed: Senate bills regulating
mutual life associations, amending law
for inspection of mines, making it PEN
itentiary offense to furnish reputable
females liquor for immoral purposes,
fixing annual meeting of circuit judges
on first Tuesday of October, requiring
justices of the peace to be residents
of townships where elected, amending
insurance laws so as to separate stock
and mutual insurance companies, au
thorizing municipal corporations to con-
tract for water supply for 25 years.
amending the law in replevin cases,
prohibiting judges and clerks of courts
from practicing law, making the statute
of limitations apply to women as well as
men, providing pay for county auditors
attending meetings of trustees of chill
dren's homes, providing register law for
Cincinnati and Cleveland. allowing
county commissioners 10 cents mileage;
House bills preventing gambling in
stocks, grain, petroleum and provisions,
preventing spread of contagious diseases
among cattle, preventing fraud in can.
ming fruits and vegetables.
House-Bill passed: Senate bill chang
ing plans for street assessments,
APRIL 24-Senate-Bills passed: Sen
ate bills authorizing Hamilton county
to issue $4,000 bonds for court honse,
allowing George R. Haynes $4,000 for
contest expenses, prhibiting sale of Ii
qIors near school houses, authorizing
Lucas county to issue 100000 bonds
for court house, for perpetuating testi-
mony, for appralsing and selling toll
roads to counties; House bills authoriZ+
ing husband to administer wife's estate,
prohibiting publication of obscene liter
ature, dividing the state into districts
for mine inspection, amending law for
management of prisoners in Ohio peni-t
tentlary, amending law for change of
venue, making an appropriation to pay
officers and teachers for losses at fire of
lmbecile asylum, authorizing State
Board of Agriculture to issue $4,000 in
bonds, authorizing township trustees to
build disputed partition fences, ceding
Muskingum river to U. S. government,
protecting keepers of stations, for secu-
ring copies of land grants from auditor
of state.
Bill introduced: Reappropriat'g $574203
for rebuilding the Imbecile asylum.
Notwithstanding committee re-
ported Allen o. Myers guilty of conduct
unbecoming gentleman and member,
and John II. Littler of leaving his seat
to assault Myers; consideration post
poned till Wednesday.
Bills passed: Senate bills for new Jail
in Madison county, for advance copies |
of Ohio laws to Circuit court, amending
garnishee laws so as to have service on
any ticket or freight agent.
Bills introduced: Reducing number of
school districts; extending time for cor
rection of assessments to five years;
putting Bell Telephone Company under
same restrictions as telegraph and ex-
press companies.
APRIL 27-Senate-Bills introduced !: |
Authorizing Marion county to issue
$4,000 court house bonds, repeating the |
act to regulate the manufacture and sale
of oleOmargarine.
Bill passed: Senate bill providing for
twenty years in the penitentiary for
House Resolution offered to impesch
Judge Wylie of Columbus. for drunk
enneSS.
Bills introduced: Exempting comme--
cial travellers from special taxes, amend
ing the Cincinnati iiremen's relief law.