Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-11
OHIO LEGISLATURES.

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Limiting purchase of books by school
boards Tor paupers; preventing fraudu-
lent gas bills.
House-Bills introduced: Amending
O0erlin water works act; amending
ditch laws so as 60 allow contractors so
per cent. of estimates; liking three years
As term of enlistment IN Ohio National
Guard; compelling all private banks 10
incorporate.
MARCH g. -Senate-Houss Joint reso
luton for state centennial IN 1855 was
defeated.
Resolution offered amending Constitu-
tiOn so as to license liquor traffic.
Bill passed: House bill iutiicting Sc
we're penalties for cruelty to children
Bills introduced: Creating state board
OF health; authorizing township school
boards TO petition for opening of roads
TO schools; electing township trustees
for three years; prohibiting relatives Of
saperintendents serving except as mats
rOns; sending public documents to all
Libraries.
Resolution offered: FoH monument
at Marietta celebrating centennial of
settlement of Northwest, April Z, 17SS.
George A Hay. of COshoctoo, was ap
pointed trustee of the Girls Industrial
Home.
Reconsideration adopted to inves-
tigate Toledo House of Refuge.
Mr.. Albaugh's bill aboishing directors
and establishing township boards of ed
ucation was defeated.
Bill passed: For school examiners to
be paid from county treasury.
MAR. 4-Senate Bills pass I'D: House
bills providing for slecting township
trustees under the amendment for terms
of three years; authorizing Franklin
county to build a soldiers monument
costing $4,000; Senate bill regulating
appointments for public works; local
bills.
Bills introduced: Regulating fees of
sheriffs; requiring junk shops to hold
goods nve days.
Resolution offered: COndeming COM
pahies who discharge employees for being
Knights of Labor.
House-Resolution offered for print
ing 500 additional copies of Cincinnati
fraud testimony.
Bills passed: HOUSE bills limiting loads
on pixies in wet weather; Findlay to ist
sue bonds for gas wells, and other local
bills.
Bills introduced: Establishing state
home for soldiers; fixing penalty for de-
stroying improved roads; regulating sale
of firearms; compelling telephone COM
paniss to make returns of receipts to
county auditors; protecting signers Of
notes from fraud; fixing fees in circuit
fnr hal Hcs
from road tax; increasing compensation
of attorney general; providing chaplain
for penitentiary; for state pensions; for
inspectors of shops appointed by boards
Of health; for adjournment of schools on
all holidays; regulating practice of vet>
erinary surgery; abolishlHg piece-price
plan and restoring contracts at the peni-
tentiary.
MARCH 5-Senate-Bill introduced ::
Regulating conduct of elections about
voting places.
Bills passed: House bills relative to
the duties OF county commissioners in
the construction and repair of bridges;
authorizing sheriff5 to appoint deputies
with the approval of the court OF COM
mon pleas; fixing the weight of turnips
at sixty pounds a bushel.
House-Bills introduced: The general
appropriation bill; requiring that coun-
sci appointed by the court shall be paid
on the completion of the service for
which appointed; prescribing penalty
for voting fer supervisors outside of
their ewn district; repairing the appro-
val of the governor Oh plans for county
jails and municipal prisons; amending
the jury law so as to give sheriffs more
time; amending the law relative to de-
PENDANTS tsstifying.
Bills passed.: House bills doing away
with the publication of notices for side
walk improvements aRd repairs; for the
more complete taxation of property in
the hands of guardians.
Resolution adopted: Instructing the
judiciary committee to furnish informa-
ton as to the territory comprising each
judicial district and each subdivision
thereof, and the number of judges of the
coNmen pleas provided therefor, and the
number characterized as additional. >
the committee to report whether the
number can net be decreased withOul
detTiment to the interests of the people
March S-Senate-Bill introduced pre-
scribing that school teachers can not be
employed for ensuing year prior to sec
ond monday in April. and bill regulating
appeals from Probate courts was killed
HOuse-Bills introduced: Increasing
state tax levy mills, amending law
against employing children in shops; for
judges of elections in townships under
new law for trustees; amending statute
of limitation so as to make it the same
in criminal and civil cases; amending
ditch laws; reducing members of boards
of education from six to three; making
it misdemeaner to kill birds or rob their
nests.