Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
: Journal Summary

APRIL 2.-Sendte-BillS passed: Au-
thorize board of public works to remove
obscructions, etc, along canals; limit
amount of stock in building and loan as
sOciations in cities of 2500 to $500; au-
thoriZing county commissioners To pay
justices, etc. in cases where State fails
to convict $500 instead of 500.
Nominations by the Governor: Wm.
L. Mcdonald. Summit county, to be in
spector of workshops and factories: DR..
d. \. kinsman. Franklin. member State
live stock commission: Andrew SchwarS;
Franklin, trustee SoldiSrS and Sailors
Orphans home; Chas. Fleischman, Ham
ilton, trustee Longview asylum; B. F.
Crawford, Richland, manager intermedi-
ate penitentiary: VIM p. Orr, Miami,
trustees Soldiers and Sailors home; J.
II. Brigham, Fulton, member board of
control experiment station; Park Foster,
Lorain, trustee Toledo Insane asylum;
John R. Hankey, Wood, trustee Blind
asylum.
H0uSe-Bill introduced: Declare vag:
rants those without means of support
who inhabit shanty boats along Ohio
streams.
To have Governor appoint commission
to investigate duties OF State mine in
spector.
APRIL 3.-SenGte Granting corpora
tions supplying municipalities the same
rights in securing property as cities
have; punish gas companies for fraudu-
lent measurement; improve Canton
streets; requiring registration of bonds
in Office Cincinnati sinking fund trus-
tees; prohibiting sale of liquor within
two miles of Antioch college and Viii
berforce university.
Bill passed: Senate bill exempting
building and loan ASSOCIATION shares
from taxation. Resolution adopted:
House joint resolution to adjourn sine
die April Is.
Governors nominations given yester-
day confirmed.
HouSe-Bill passed: Regulate pay
ment of dividends by directors of corpo-
ratiOnS.
Senate joint resolution: providing for
taxation adopted.
APRIL 4.-SenGte-Bills introduced:
To change time of filing insurance re-
ports from February to May; extending
limited interstate trains from law re-
quiring trains to stop at all cities of
5000.
Bills passed: Consolidating State IL
brary and library and museum of Arch
alogical society, providing penalty for
refusal to give preference to employ
ment to ex-soldiers and sailors; House
bill pay transportation of soldiers and
sailors orphans to national encampment.
HouSe-Bill passed: Senate bill ex-
tending registration to all cities of 5000
or over.
Woman suffrage bill defeated.
APR. 5.-Senate-Bills passed: House
bill apprOpriating for last three quarters
of 1889 and first quarter of 1890; re-
quire sheriffs to report unclaimed costs;
dedicate and accept plats as public high
ways; prohibiting sale of liquor within
two miles of Antioch college and VIII
berfOrce university.
Conference report on legislative ap-
pointment and taxation amendments
agreed to.
House. Prescribing form of applica-
ton for certificates of incorporation.
Report of conference committee on
legislative apportionment amendment
agreed to.
APRIL -Senate-Bills passed.
House bill changing time for election of
State board of equalization from OctO-
Der to November; providing for COM
Densation for material used by road su-
oervisors taken from private lands; de-
,laring roads used continuously for 20
years public highways; authorize cOun-
y engineers and surveyors to inspect
lie and drain pipes.
Resolution offered: Calling for state
nent of funds in State treasury.
HOuSe-Bill introduced: Divide War
EN- township. Belmont county, into two
eection precincts.