Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-12
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.


! APRIL 4.-SenGte- passed: House
bill making appropriations for the last
three quarters of the fiscal year ending
November Is, 1888, and the first quarter
of the fiscal year ending February Is,
1899; Senate bill to protect sub-employes
in manufacturing establishments; SEN
ate bill creating the Office of chaplain
and librarian of the Ohio peuitentiary;
House bill amending section 440 au-
thoriZing Circuit courts to give priority
in hearing to certain cases; House bill
extending the right of convicted crimi-
mails to be admitted to bail; House bill
amending the fish and game law to IA
cilitate the punishment of violation
thereof; Senate bill for the erection of a
monument ON the battlefield of GettyS-
burg; House bill authorizing county
commissioners, auditor and treasurer to
employ any person to furnish evidence
as to property omitted from the tax du-
plicate at cost not to exceed 20 per
cent.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate charges of bribery against certain
members reported generating all whose
names had been used in that connection,
and the report was adopted by unani-
nous vote.
HOuSe-Bill passed: Senate bill expe-
diting the collection of school statistics.
APR. 5.-Senate- passed: House
bill to provide for the study of the ma
ture of alcoholic drinks and narcotics in
the public schools and educational in
stitutiOns of the State; House bill CON-
misSioners of the State sinking fund to
borrow $250,000 to cover deficiency in
general revenue fund; House bill to pre-
vent the sale of cigarettes and tobacco
to boys under Is; House bill authOriz-
ing clerks of courts of common pleas to
receive and file bills of exception in the
absence of judges, to be signed on their
return; House bill requiring all corpora
ti0nS except railroads, to pay employees
twice in each month; Senate bill requiI-
ing village councils in constructing
streets and alleys to grade sidewalks;
Senate bill extending the provisions of
the Legislative law to all cities of the
State having a population of 5000 in
habitants or over at the census of 1880.
Senate joint resolution adopted; For
joint committee to investigate subject
of railroad fares and report to adjourned
session; Senate bill relative to the APP
preparation of property in villages for
public parks, ETC.; House bill to further
define the duties of administrators, ex-
ecutOrS and teStimentary trustees; House
State sinking fund commissioners to
make a temporary loan of $250,O0O for
the benefit of the general revenue fund;
House bill for graded 2-cent railroad
fare.
APRIL 6.-Senate- passed: Sen
ate bill extending the provisions of the
registration law to all cities of the State
having a population of 5000 inhabi-
tantS or over at the census of 1880; Sen
ate bill to extend the power of courts
in enforcing injunctionS; House bill to
regulate the taxation of insurance COM
panies and to provide for the collection
of tax on the gross premium receipts in
the State of foreign companies; Senate
bill county commissioners to compensate
county clerks for certifying pension GER
tificateS; House bill regulating the man.
ner of letting contracts for county build |
ings and bridges by county commission
erS.
Bills introduced: To establish re-
formatory for female criminals in Gin
cinnati; giving the commissioners of the
Ohio centennial the same powers as the |
State board of agriculture to prohibit
the sale of liquors; to conform various
sections of the Revised Statutes to the !
husband and wife act; to exempt pen
sion money and property of pensioners
from execution.
HOuse-Bills passed: Senate bill pre- |
venting corporation from paying |
dividend unless the same has been ac-
tually earned; Senate bill providing for
the appointment of a State board of |
pardOns; Senate bill giving husband
the same rights as the wife in partition
cases; House bill for the establishment
of normal training school in Columbus;
Senate bill majority of trustees Of
townships to transact business; Senate
bill re-apprOpriating money for the cree
ton of monuments on the battlefield Of
Senate bill to prevent prize
fights and fistic exhibitions, except by
permission of the proper authorities;
House bill to prevent fraud in the sale
of WOOL
Bill introduced: For the appointment
of assistant meat inspectors in munich
pal corporations.
APRIL 9.-Senate- Bill passed: House
bill making appropriations to pay tie
principal and interest of the public debt
and expenses of the sinking fund COM
missiOners.
Bill introduced: Providing for the
erection of a monument in the national
at Chattanooga to the memory
Of the eight Ohio soldiers who partici-
pated in the Andrews raid and were
in Atlanta, Ga, in June, 1862.
HOuse-BiIls introduced: Supplement-
Al to section 6S13, so as to punish liti-
gants or jurors before justices of the
peace for receiving any amount in excess
If the fees now allowed; amending sec
lions 247S and 2491 by giving councils
power to regulate charges by electric
light companies; amending section 2478
20 as to give councils power to compel
he roofing of buildings in the fire limit
With metal, tile, slate or other incombus-
,ible material.
EXCURSIONS.
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