Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-14
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


o. S. Journal summary.
APRIL 28-Senate--Bills passed: Sem
ate bills, fur COMMON pleas judges to is
sue marriage licenses, for equitable dis
| LrlbutiOn OF road funds, for township
physicians, reappropriating $500 for
rebuilding Imbecile asylum, for publish
| ing complete roster of Ohio soldiers
House bills, authorizing Adams county
to build free turnpikes, Clermont county
same.
House-Resolution for investigation
of brIbeTy'in connection with senatorial
contest Was defeated.
Bills passed: Senate bills closing all
saloons In Cincinnati at midnight;
Newark to levy tax for water supply,
Jefferson county to pay for moving pris-
oners, Guernsey county for schools,
Hooking county 20 pay sheriff $1,000 ex>
ira pay 1or services during strike, regur
lating collection of debts outside the
state, appropriating $1,000 each to the
clerks of Senate and House for compile
Ting records.
APRIL 29-Senate-Bills introduced: !:
Allowing horse racing and target shoot
lug on club grounds in corporate limits;
payiug managers of penitentiary $1,000
per year each; amending peddlers' Ii
cense law.
Bills passed: House bills, making it
penitentlary offense to use money at
primaries or elections, authorizing Wash
lngtsn, Guernsey county, to issue bonds,
prohibiting sale of liquors within 1900
yards of state asylum, amending gan e
laws so as to extend time for shooting
ducks till April 10 and to prevent killing
squirrels from Feb. to June /; Senate
bills for counties to clOthe patients in
asylums, tor. appointment Dy probate
judges of visitors to patients in insane
aSylums, amending law for appropria+
ting lands for cemeteries.
House-Bills passed: Senate bills in
creasing penalties for violation of mint
ing laws by operators, legaliZing fidelity
life insurance, authriZing common pleas
judges TO issue marriage licenses, for in.
deXIng records of county commissioners
back TO 1880, making it penitentiary
0tfense to give virtuous females liquor
for immoral purposes, for completion OF
sixth volume of Ohio Geological Survey
within one year, increasing salary of
insurance commissioner to $4,000, COM
pelling counties to clothe their inmates
of state asyIumS; House bills, for COM
missioners instead of county clerks TO
provide for iudexing records, for codify-
ing ordinances of city and town ceun-
ellis, providing that when two deeds to
the same piece of real estate are filed
the first one fled shall have legal prece-
dence, appropriating $4,000 for mOnu-
ment to Ohio soldiers on Gettysburg
battlefield.
APRIL 3O-Senate-Bills passed: House
bills, Governor to convey canal lands in
Stark and Tuscarawas counties, to erect
permanent buildings for incUrable in
sane, for payment of Morgan raid claim,
tor restoration of clerks records in Ham,
ilton county. Senate bills increasing the
compensation of teachers at blind asy
lum, giving managers of penitenSiary
$1,000 salary, subjecting the levy for
schools in Cincinnati to approval of tax
commissioners, amending peddlers' liz
cense law so as to conclude transient
traders.
Bills introduced: Fixing heavy pen
alties for throwing bodies of dea0 ami
mails and offal in canals or other waters
of public works, appropriating $4,000 for
dollhouse and gallows at penitentiary.
House-Bills passed: House bills COM
pelliug county surveyors to keep records
tor general use. empowering township
trustees to improve school lands, regu>
lating conditional sales of personal prop
erty; Senate bills amending ditch laws
so tnat township trustees have same au-
authority regarding underground ditch
es that county commissioners now have.
MAY t-Senate-BillS passed: Senate
bills allowing target shooting within
corporate limits when on club grounds,
MassiIlon, Newark and Defiance to con-
tract for electric lights and water works,
providing that notices of garnishec may
be left at places of business, making
deeds take effect from date of record, for
replacing records of surveys, appropria-
ting S5O9O for monument to Ohio SOL
diers that fell at Gettysburg, protecting
purchasers on the installment plan, apr
propriating $4,000 for execution depart
ment at Ohio penitentiary.
Hnuse-Bills passed: House bills fix
ing heavy penalties for fraudulent gas
bills; Senate bills eXempting only manu-
al labor from execution, regulating
practice of medicine, increasing pay OF
teachers at Blind asylum, prohibiting
killing of fish with dynamite, appropria-
ting $500 to pay expenses of COMMITTEES
of ladies to visit Xenia home, autboriz>
ing Lucas county to issue 100000 bonds
for new court house.
MAY 2-Senate-Bills passed: House
bills amending children's home law, pro-
viding for title to State Fair grounds
revertiDg to the state.
House Bills passed: Senate bills au-
thorizing Licking county to build chill.
dren's home, Pickaway county to erect
jail and repair court house, apprOpria>
ting $3.50 for the MickeyLoomis contest
for completing the Imbecile asylum,
giving managers of penitentiary $40 per
day for attending meetings of the board.
formation of local boards of
under writers to fix rates.