The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-03-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Legislative Proceedings.

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w. Bennett. The following bills were intro
duccd: For the taxation of express and tele-
graph companies; authorizing the Baptist
church OF West Lafayette, Coshocton County,
10 sell real estate.
HousE.-Bills introduced: Authorizing Mil.
ford, Clcrmont County TO build town hall;
authorizing Cuyahoga County to transfer funds;
approPriating money Mt Dayton for the erection
Of a memorial to the Zouaves; providing for an
election for trustees in original surveyed town.
ships on the first Monday in
May; providing for the enforcement
OF the act for tho bi-monthly payment
OF wages; amending tho pharmacy law 80 rs
to not apply TO persons having had five years
experience; providing for the issuing Of bonds
to the amount OF $4,000 for tho completion OF
the armory in Cincinnati; to increase the pay
OF the clerk OF the Board OF Control OF Hamil-
ton County from $500 to 81 200; to establish
city civil court for Cleveland; requiring physi-
clans to register their names with the county
recorder; authorizing the commissioners of
Muskingum County to build bridge across tho
Muskingum river; auth orizing tho construc-
tion Of q FREQ turnpike in Adams County.
COLUMBUS March 12.-SENA ATE "A large
number Of local bills were passed. Bills Of
general interest were passed rs follows: Max
ing terms OF assessors in cities having wards
two years, compensation 80 per day and bond
$1,000, except In Cincinnati whore the bond shall
be 81, 900; authorizing the use OF township halls
for Sunday-school purposes The following
joint resolution was Offered: Authoriz-
ing tho Board Of Canal Commissioners to
seek to secure the surrender OF abandoned wa
ter leases along the canals. The Senate refused
to concur in tho House amendments to Mr.
Kcrr's bill, permitting wives and husbands 10
testify in behalf Of each other in criminal cases
The following bill was introduced: Providing
that criminals twice before convicted Of
felony shall be proceeded against us haDitual
criminals
HOUsB-Bills passed: Fixing the fine for
failure TO comply with the bi monthly payment
act from be $50 to slc0; providing for pay
ing the legal advertising for bnmlets and school
districts; providing penalties when county
treasnrers fail 70 pay the money belonging TO
townships ard school districts ut the proper
time; authorizing the Auditor OF SsWe to ex.
amino county auditors and county treasures,
and when drafts are not honorc ascertain tho
reason; TO punish white Cans" providing
TIA: upon appeal In prorcrty condemnation
cases deposit may be made and the Cuse car
Iied up on error; relating to the burial Of dead
In villages; providing for the paroie OF life
prisoners after being imprisoned twenty years;
providing for readmission of girls at the Girls
Industrial Home.
COLUMBUS, O., March 13-SENATE. Bills
cient fees OF his own collection to make his
pay 5000 per year; requiring bail for costs for
appropriation Of lands before probate judges;
providing that street assessments shall not ex-
ceed twenty. five per cent. OF the property after
the Improvement; requiring that payment for
improvement OF street intersections shall be
made from the general funds; defining the du-
ties Of officers OF building and loan associa.
tions; allowing county commissioners to ap-
vNnfrN In rfatu cIi
providing for the salo OF abandoned burial
grounds; providing for the organization Of COM
panies to become surc'ies OF bonds.
HOUSE. Bills passed: Requiring the pay
ment of proportionate toll between gates pro.
viding for the erection OF a monument over the
Andrews Raiders;" res olution adopted
amending the constitution relating to taxation;
resolution defeated limiting tho amount Of
municipal indebtedness. s. b by Mr. Mort
ley, providing for the appointment Of female
physicians at insane asylums, was lost on pass
age.
COLUMBUS March 14-SENATE Bills intro.
duced: Making the standard of bushel
Of corn I'm the ear sixty-six pound
amending the statute relating to the sale Of
liquors near fairgrounds so that II shall not
apply to persons who have been in the business
six months. Bills passed: Authorizing Colum.
bia Township. Hamilton County TO transfer
funds; to enforce the payment OF wages twice
month; requiring pawn-brokers to make daily
reports OF arti cles purchased; providing u
penalty for Juror before justice accepting
brdbe; allowing ten-ccnt ground hog bounty.
HousE.-Mr G II introduced bill to abandon
the Ohio Hooking and Walhonding Canal, to-
gether with their feeders and basins. He then
moved to suspend the constitutional rule and
read the bill second time, which was agreed
TO. Mr.. Gil then moved to refer the bill to the
Committee on Manufactures and Commerce,
which was agreed to-yess a, nays 81 Bills
passed: To erect bridge over Colerain ave.
nue. at Mill Creek; appropriating $4,000 for
the armory ut Cincinnati; prohibiting discrimi-
nations by life insurance companies against
persons Of color; allowing building associations
to increase or decrease their shares
COLUMBUS, March l5-SENArE.-Bins pass.
cd: Authorizing the State Board OF Agricul.
ture to issue bonds to the amount OF $50 100 to
pay indebtedness OF the Centennial Commits
sion; to protect travellers on streets and high.
ways beneath railroad bridges; authorizing
township trustees 10 take charge of aban doned
church property; requiring railroad companies
10 pay one dollar per milo into the State treas
ury; snthori zing boards Of educ alton to furnish
school books free or ut cost; prescribing a
modeof procedure against habitual criminals
Bills introduced: Allowing guardians to dis
tribute funds arising from salo OF real estate
in tho same line Of descent; placing the pub
lic works Of the State in the hands Of the entire
board.
HousE.-The following bills were passed:
Providing that when streets are closed and un-
used for twenty-one years, the use OF the same
for public purposes Is barred In cities of twen-
~ Thousand Inhabitants; changing the time for
holding election for the State Board OF Equal.
ixation from October to November; authoriz.
Ing the printing Of additional copies of
the report Of the Gettysburg Memorial
Association; to compel railroad companies to
keep their rightof.way free from all combusti.
BILE material, and to use diligence In pre-
venting fires. Mr.. Hartpence's bill regulating
the practices Of medicine and surgery was lost
| on passage. Mr. McGregor's bill to provide for
separate schools for colored children was lost on
| passage. A bill authorizing the Commissioner
Of Brown County to construct n turnpike, was
passed. A number of local bills were passed.
COLUMBUS March 1G--SENATE.-Not in ses-
| sion.
HoUsE.-Bils introduced: Amending the lien
act SO rs to include machinery belonging to the
construction Of o building; allowing appeals In
road cases to be carried to probate courts;
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