Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-15
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.

bill 10 encourage the destruction OF
woo0chuck Or grounding; Senate bii
supplementary t. section 53gS. provid-
ing Il method By which Judgment debt
orS may reclaim property sold At sheriff 5
or master commissioners sale: House bill
to refund court house and Jail bonds in
Belmont county; House bill to provide
for the labelling and marking of convict
made goods manufactured in other
States: House bill supplementary to sec
tiUn 3269. to make owners of stock in
foreign corporations liable to as great an
extent as owners of stock in similar
Ohio corporations: Senate bill TO pre-
vent the spread of glanders or farcy
among horses, and Ioot-rot and scab
among sheep.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: Authorizing
the Supreme Court to take out of its
order cases OF general interest where
two or more of the Circuit Courts of the
/ State have held the law directly opposite
upon the like facts: requiring statements
of banks, buildings and savings aSSocia-
/ tiOns to De printed in papers of opposite
politics: providing ii penalty OF from
SO to 500 for persons practicing law
without having passed satisfactory
examination: for the appointment of a
guardian for an invalid eX-soldler in the
county to which he may change his res
idence; preventing determinations by
railroad companies against persons
/ handling clay and brick; defining pure
wines, made wines, and adulterated
wines, and To prevent the adulteration
OF wines: extending the terms of county
recorders from January to July; amend
ing the township school law SO that
townships may adopt the village sys-
TEN on a vOCe of the people; amend
ing section 1901, relating 10 turnplkeS;
changing the time for filing mechanics
liens against railroad companies to four
months as in other cases; requiring town
ship trustees to publish itemiZed state
mentS Semi-annuaily where there is an
expenditure of SlUUOOr more; amending
the two-mile assessment law for pixies
50 that the county commissioners Shall
appoint a commission to ascertain the
amount of leyies upon lands where pc
tition is pending to limit the assessment
providing that damages for new roads
shall not be paid until the road shall
have been opened.
| Bills passed: House bill Monroe coun-
" to levy an additional tax to complete
the building of Il children's home.
MARCH 7.-SsRGte-Bills passed: Sen
ate bill requiring insurance companies
to publish certificates from State super
intendent at county seats where they
have agents; Senate bill to provide
against the collection Of uSuriOus inter
est on chattel mortgages; Senate bill to
amend section 1899 OF Revised Statutes,
fixing the form of tax receipts, and pro-
viding penalty of 50 for county treas
urers to deliver any others; to permit
building associations to increase or de
crease the face value of the shares OF
decrease capital stock by vote of the
directors; to amend section 4l3, provid-
ing for the cancelling of mortgages
which have been assigned to third
party, for the erection of Board of AT
fairs in Cincinnati; to give coroners ju-
risdiction throughout the county in
which they were elected: to create the
Office OF State Veterinary Inspector;
Cadiz township, Harrison county, t.
fence a cemetery: township trustees to
pay bountieS due ex-UInion soldiers; to
provide liens for Iaborers and material
men: requiring goods manufactured III
the Ohio penitentiary to be marked con-
vict goods when sold in this State.
i House-Bills passed: House bill pro-
viding for the payment of the wages OF
employees twice Il month; Senate pill to
prevent the introduction Of Texas fever
among cattle; House bill, Gettysburg
memorial commission to publish its re-
port IL pamphlet form and making an
appropriation therefor.
! MARCH S.-SenGte- passed.
House bill Monroe county to borrow
$4,000 additional to complete a children's
home; Senate bill Steubenviile, Jefferson
county, to borrow not to exceed SjO,00C
for street Improvements: Senate bill tc
prevent the payments OF dividends by
the directors of corporations, except on
surplus profits, and the advertising OF
stock not subscribed and paid up; Sen
ate bill to prevent corporations doing
business in Ohio settingup a lien against
its stock hypothecated in Ohio; House
bill requiring teachers in the common
schools to he examined in physiology
and hygiene: Senate bill regulating the
admission OF children to children
homes and providing for their care when
afflicted with contagious diseases; Sen
ate bill to amend section 1I53 50 that
witnesses held in county jailS shall not
be confined with criminals and shall be
allowed per diem for time incarcerated
Senate bill to prevent any person from
unlawfully using or wearing the Insig-
MIA of civic and religious societies i'll the
State; Senate bill to repeal section 235l
of the Revised Statutes, So that village
councils may prohibit interments III
cemeteries, as Il sanitary measure.
HouSe-Bills passed: House bill es-
tablishing toli-gate in Flushing, Bel
mont county; Senate bill amending sec
ton ll9 giving nOtarieS a fee Of 81 and
actual necessary expenses incurred i'll
going beyond the corporate limits of any
city or village to make presentment OF
demand; House bill to pay bounties foT
the killing of English spaToYs; Senate
bill Steubenville to issue bonds $4,000
to improve streets.
MARCH 9.-SRate -Rills passed: Sen
ate bill exempting from taxation grounds
held On account Of historic associations,
and opunish depredations thereon; SEN
ate bill requiring natural gas leases, Ii
censes and assignments to be recorded;
Senate bill for nOn-partiSan boards of
municipal revision where population is
5000 to $4,000; Senate bill making more
definite laws for fling certificates of in
corporation; Senate bill extending pow
er of councils for special assessments;
Senate bill providing That boards Of edu-
cation consist of five members, except
otherwise provided; Senate bill Cadiz
township. Harrison county, to improve
cemetery: Senate bill amending sections
1924 and 6225 so that administrators
and executors of inSOIyent estates shall
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