Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-18
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

FEB. 9-Senate-Bill introduced: For turn
pixies in Bellefontaine township, Logan county.
House-Bills introduced: Authorizing NUM-
cipal corporations to make additional levies for
water works; giving sheriffs fees in foreclosure
of mortgages; requiring years residence for
admission TO children's home.
FEB. I0-Senate-Bill passed: Authorizing
Lebanon, Massillon and Marseilles to transfer
funds.
Resolution of respect to Hancock adopted.
House-Resolution of respect to Hancock
adopted.
Bills passed: Refunding turnpike bonds;
authorizing guardians to assign dowers to
widows; for publishing plsts of town additions;
making trustees liable for felony in embezzel-
ment case.
FEB. II-Senate-Bills introduced: Author
izing payment of drafts and orders in case of
death of the dover; repeating the act requiring
partnerships to be recorded; fixing time for
bills of exceptions; appropriating 1924, I96. .5o
for interest on state debt.
House-Dan Dalton arrested for contempt
and released on $500 bail.
Bills introduced: Authorizing conveyance of
lands free of dover; Lake and Belmont counties
and Canal Dover to transfer funds; providing
quarantine against districts of the state having
cattle diseases; regulating steam roadwagons;
changing time of holding court in Guernsey
county; creating free hospital at Cleveland;
for fuller taxation of property held by guar
diaQs; making terms of constables three years
suppressiug immoral advertising; applying
telephone and telegraph law to electric light
poles; amending law for property returns; pro-
yiding Tor location of general offices of railroad.
FEB. l2-Senate-The Pugsley election bill
was postponed till Tuesday.
number of local bills were passed, and
one to authorized county auditor. and treas
urers to employ attorneys to prosecute tax
collection eases.
House-Bills passed: Authorizing Perry
county to erect new court house and Jail; au-
thorizing Cleveland to build and equip fire.
boat; authorizing College Hill Hamilton county,
to construct a town hall; changing the number
of members of boards of education from six to
seven.
A resolution was adopted favoring an ex-
position at Columbus, in 1888, demonstrating
the material and educational progress and
growth of the senate during the first century.
FEB. l3-Senate-Not in session.
House-Bills introduced: Changing the pow
ers of trustees of hamlets; indemnifying county
treasurers for moneys paid under protest; au-
thOrizing county commissioners to employ con-
vict labor on roads; for relief of disabled fire.
men; repeating the law exempting fremen from
jury duty; dividing Gilsad township, Monroe
county, into two precincts; fixing $675 as SAL
airy of teachers who board outside the deaf and
dumb institution.
FEB. I5-Senate-Bill introduced: Amend
ing section 1343 facilitating collection of per-
sOnal property taxes.
House-Bills introduced: Compelling rail-
roads to have fagmen at all crossings, giving
justices same jurisdiction in bastardy as GRIM
inal cases, compelling immediate burial of all
dead animals as preventative of hog cholera,
repeating one-mile pike law, authorizing minor
idiot, imbecile or insane to transfer property
through guardians