Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY,

FEB. 81 SeHGte-Bills passed: Senate
bill making Feb. % and % one day foI
( legal purposes: Senate bill notaries to
be allowed necessary expenses when go
ing beyond the corporate limits to pre-
sent claims: Senate bill haTm0nizing The
sections of law relative to the oGliga-
tionS of man and wife in legal proceed
ingS.
Bills introduced: The guard who has
charge of the school at the penitentiary
to be known as superintendent: for a
deaf and dumb asylum at Cincinnati.
Hoase-BilIs passed: Senate bill fixing
the salaries of the county officials in
Cuvahoga county; Senate bill fer the
binding of the report of the labor stats
tician; Senate bill amending the law rel
ative to oleomar@ar;ne and imitation
cheese: House bill for the registration of
voters in new wards: House bill refund
ing certain bonds in belmont county.
Bills introduced: Providing for non
partisan Judges and clerks IN township
elections: extending the provisions of
the act providing for the burial of hon
orably discharged soldiers; making the
general appropriations.
FEB. 22.-SeHdte- day was con-
sumed in the consideration of the Ham,
iIton. Butler county, gas-works bill. De
feated and raconSidered; substitute of
f5Ted.
Horse Bill passed: House bill crea-
ting five assistant mine inspectors.
Resolutions offered: For centennial
reception committee; for survey of
lands belonging to the State.
FEB. 23.-Seaate-The greater part of
the day WAS spent in either killing bills
authorizing certain towns to prospect
for natural gas, or postponing the same
to later date.
Bills passed: Senate bill requiring
itemized reports OF county commission
ers to be published in compact form;
Senate bill to transfer Monroe county
from the Sixth to the Fourth Circuit
Court judicial district; House bill rail
road employees to be examined in colorS
only in actual use by the companies;
House bill for the appointment of boards
of health in villages having Il population
of over 500.
HoaSe-Bills passed: House bill crea-
ting the office Of chaplain and librarian
at the penitentiary; Senate bill to require
a public record of the names and
amounts due unknown depOsitors of
banks and for the final disposition of
such deposits.
Bills introduced: Sleeping car compa-
nies to paya State tag; increasing the
powers Of the inspector of shops and
factories; changing the time when coun-
ty auditors shall take possession of their
office to one month later;restOring the old
law relative to the granting of teachers
certificates in cities of the third class;
amending the insurance laws; regula-
ting the return of prisoners from work
house to jail by order of court: prohibit
ing the trustees from appointing their
relatives to positions in the institutions.
FEB. 24.-SeGdte introduced:
CuyahOga county TO designate county
depository for funds; for inspection of
beef intended for food; city councils to
determine the depth of lots in special as
sessment cases; city councils to deter
mine in advance the valuation of any
lot or land on which special assessment
is made; authorizing the bringing of
suit to cancel leases when the assign
ment of the same has not been recorded.
Both Houses adjourned until Tues
d1y