Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-18
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
o. 5. Journal Summary.


APRIL 9.-Sendte- Bills passed: House
bill, bridge at GAINESVILLE; dissolve build
ing and loan association and transfer
mortgage securities; $4,000 general i'm
prOvement bonds at Cambridge: giving
game and fish wardens power to serve
writS; excepting limited Interstate
trains from law requiring stops at towns
of $500 or over.
HouSe-Bills passed: General improve
ment bonds at Cambridge; amend sec
ton 1888 and keep lotteries seventy-five
feet away polls, etc: appointing visiting
agents for children'S homes: Senate bill
appropriating $1,000 to continue geolog-
ical survey.
PR.l0.--Senate Bills passed: House
bill to define and punish the crime of
sOdomy; allowing electors to paste
names in red ink of candidates on
ballots; authorize trustees to employ
watchmen for cemeteries; two election
precincts in Warren township, Belmont
county; label and mark convict-made
goods; doing away with requirement
that notice must be given saloon keep
ers for violation before suit can be
brought.
Resolution adopted: House joint reso-
luton print monthly bulletins expert
ment station.
House-Bills passed: House bill to
compel children under II to attend
school twenty weeks in each year; make
salaries of members 5000 a year and
conform to biennial elections amend
ment; deficiency bill; pay $2735 for work
on geological report; Senate bill to in
corporate and regulate live stock insu-
rance companies; amend section 917 and
require county commissioners to publish
their annual reports in two papers of
leading opposite parties; clear title to
abandoned cemeteries; supplement sec
tlon $685. and allow levy on property in
hands of officer, subject to first lew.
Biennial elections amendment adopt
ed.
APR. 11--Sellate-BillS passed: House
bill require mine operators to furnish
timber for props; fix weight of bushel
carrots at so pounds and beets So lbs:
fine $500 for exposing indecent pictures;
abOlishing Cleveland board of aldermen.
Braman live-beef inspection bill lost
by vote of Is to 16.
HOuSe-Bills passed: Tax fish nets: |
give church and other societies right to |
protection of property without compell-
ing Enclosures.
Columbus non-partiSan police bill and |
bill to abolish board of pardons beaten.
APR. l2-SenGte-BillS passed: House |
bill to pay sixty per cent of le-
gal rate for advertising constitutional
restricting sale of oleo-
margarine; to change judge to try case
where parties file application on grounds
Of prejudice; disfranchise persons con-
victed of bribery; collect debts before
due where debtor abSconds or has OBJ
tanned money by false pretense; author
re county commissioners to purchase or
otherwise procure material for roads:
changing date for school board meetings
20 last Monday in August; making eli
5ible to parole life prisoners who have
served twenty-five years; compulsory
amend INDECENT soldier act
md give immediate relief in urgent
,ases; facilitate placing of children from
homes in private families:
lmend section 5227 and require appeals
rom Common Pleas courts in thirty
lays from rendition of Judgment, in
tead of thirty days from close of term:
mend fish laws.
Report of Cappeller investigating
ommittee submitted.
House-Bills passed: House bill al |
DIV organization of savings banks with I
capital stock of $4,000 in villages of
800; prevent erection of dangerous ?
ublic buildings. l
APR. 13.-SeRate te-BiIIs passed: Road
TX in Guernsey county, fixing time for =
emittance of Dow tax at July 10 and
anuary 10; making salaries members
eneral Assembly 5000 a year; tax fish
cts; deficiency bill.
House passed: Senate bill to
sgulate companies formed for main
lining hotels, etc.
APRIL 15.-Senate- Bills passed: Tax 4
| persons benefited by ditch cleaning;
pay in lnstallmentS for property sold
execution; provide that law as to
'ecedence on Supreme court calendar a
all apply to pending cases; require D
ties or lagmen at dangerous railroad -
ossings; forbid lettering within seven &
five feet of the polls in municipali- "
IS having less than 5000 inhabitants. We
Adjourned sine die.
House passed: Senate bill tax
g railroads 81 mile -
Resolutions of thanks, ETC., and sever E
presentations.
Adjourned sine die.