Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.

MARCI -Sendte-Bills passed:
House bill for the suppression of houses
of i'll fame; to prevent the sale of intox-
icating liquors within one mile of the
Soldiers and Sailors home at Sandusky;
Senate bill to prevent cruelty to horses
and other animals: Senate bill to extend
the powers of safe deposit and trust
companies.
HouSe-BillS passed: House bill ex-
tending the time for fishing with hook
and line; House bill requiring foreign
insurance companies doing business in
this state to make reports of their re-
ceipts to the several county auditors in
stead of the State auditor; Senate bill to
give preference of appointment or en-
ployment to honorably discharged SOL
diers of the late rebellion; House bill to
prevent mining companies from pollu-
ting streams SO as to kill fish.
MARCH 2S.-Senate-Bills passed:
House bill Muskingum county to ap-
propriate $1,000 for that county to make
centennial display; House bill to amend
an act for the relief of INDECENT Union
soldiers and families; House bill amend
ing section 1925 so as to provide for re-
appraisement of land which has decreas-
ed in value; House bill providing for
the payment of bounties for the killing
of English sparrows; Senate bill provid-
ing for the dissolution of joint school
sub-districts upon the concurrent ac-
ton of the boards of education.
Bills introduced: To add to the power
of courts in granting injunction In GER
tain cases.
Resolutions adopted: The Senate to
attend the funeral Of Chief Justice
Waite in body.
House-Bills passed: Senate bill al
lowing the food and dairy commission
to bring suits before justices of the
peace and mayors for violation Of the
act to prevent adulteratiOn Of food and
dairy products; Senate bill providing
that where a judgment debtor carries a
case up from Justices court he be-
comes liable for the increased costs;
Senate bill authorizing city or town
councils to take the census OF such city
or town between the years of taking the
federal census; House bill making ap-
preparations to pay the interest on the
public debt and the irreducible debt and
expenses of the sinking fund commits
SiOners.
Resolution adopted: To attend the
Waite funeral at Toledo.
Recess to Friday morning.
MARCH H30.-SenGte-Billsp passed: Sen
ate bill providing for the appointment
by the Governor of a non partisan pO-
lice board for Hamilton.
HouSe-Bills passed: House bill pro-
viding for the temporary government of
cities of the first class, fourth grade;
House bill municipal corporations to
own natural gas works; Senate bill
amending the Children's home law as
regards the admission of children; House
bill requiring maps to be made of all
mines; House bill providing for the
burial of the wife, widow or minor chill
dren of any INDECENT soldier; House bill
providing that in appeals in road cases
which remain imperfect for five years
the commissioners may proceed and
complete the road; House bill incorpora-
ted religious societies to elect trustees
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trustees; House bill for the appointment
of assistant secretaries for boards of cleo
tion in Columbus, Toledo and Dayton.
Bill introduced: To abolish the State
board of charities.
Adjourned to Monday 4 p. m.
MARCH 31.-Ssndte-Billsp passed.
Senate bill extending law Of arson so as
to include railroad property; House bill
amending section 1913 authorizing pro-
bate judges to grant injunctions in case
of absence of other judges; Senate bill
to prevent the stealing Of scrap iron,
brass and other metals; House bill
amending mining laws, giving inspectors
control of mines where ten or less min
ers are employed, as in other cases;
House bill to establish school of mines
and mine engineering at Ohio State
university; House bill Muskingum coun-
ty to build a bridge across the Mus
kingum and to repeal an act passed
February 10, 1888; House bill to prevent
the killing of fish by the use of dynamite.