Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-26
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
sixty Ninth Session.


Providing for the distribution of the Roster OF
Ohio soldiers In the late war TO members of the
present General Assembly; requiring the de-
cennial appraisers to deliver to land and lot
owners the valuation placed upon such prop
erty, and also to ascertain the mortpaped in.
debtedness on the same; enabling mutual fire
associations which have secured sufficient cap
ital stock and policy-holders to reorganizc as
mutual fire insurance companies; requiring the
filing OF inventories in all cases and providing
that residuary legatees shall give more extern
sivc bonds than heretofore, and that an abb
stract OF each inventory shall be filed with tho
auditor by the probate judge A number of
bills were introduced, mostly of local char
acter.
HOUSE Bills passed: Providing for tho
erection and maintenance OF water.troughs in
the public highways; providing that warrants
on county treasurers shall be indorsed by the
payee; to prevent nn excess of public expendi-
lures over receipts in the city of Cleveland;
authorizing municipalities to license transient
dealers; extending the time in which bills of
exception can be fled from thirty to forty days;
providing that the school children enumeration
blanks shall correspond with the requirements
of the new compulsory education. Bills intro
duced: To make legal interest on contracts six
per cent. instead OF eight; to amend the lien
law by allowing persons to perfect the liens on
crops to be produced after furnishing seed
grain; to amend Section 1924 so as to compel
fences.
COLUMBUS Feb. 3.-SENATE.-Bills intro
duced: Redistricting the wards OF Dayton; for
viaduct In Cncinnati; to permit the catching
OF black bass with hook from May to June 10;
for two-cent passenger rate, except where the
ticket is not purchased, where three cents may
be charged. Bills passed: II. b for $4,000
sewer bonds for Canton; to complete n town
hall at Utica; for $4,000 street improvement
bonds at Jackson S. B. to provide that not
more than ], 500 pounds shall be hauled over i'm
proved roads; appropriating $3.50 for the relief
of Michael Malone, injured in the Cincinnati
riots; authorizing the Governor to appoint q
cadet annually to the Portsmouth Military
Academy.
HOUSE. Bills introduced: To require cars
to be heated by steam from locomotives; to
prohibit hunting without permission from o
land owner; to increase the contingent fund of
County lnfirmary Directors to $1,000; to allow
County Commissioners to control roads as to
tho weight to be hauled over them. Bills
passed. House bill for $4,000 school bonds in
the Paulding special district; House bill for
$4,000 school bonds at Van Vert; House bill to
increase the Secretary of States bond to $780,
600: House bill to substitute nominate" for
"appoint' in instruments naming executors,
etc; House bill to require guardians of minors
to make itcmiZed statements OF investments.
Resolution adopted: For 600 bound copies OF
the Adjutant Generals report.
CoLuMBUs, Feb INSTRUMENTATION by
citizens OF Fairfield County asking the abandon
ment of the Hooking canal from Carroll to Nell
sonvie; Mr.. Coles bill authorizing the Govern
or to appoint annually one cadet to the Ports
mouth Military Academy was reconsidered and
postponed TO Tuesday. No quorum, and ad-
journed TO Monday at 4 p m.
HoUSE.-Bills introduced: To fine 81 to S25
intoxicated persons; giving justices jursdic-
tion in disputed boundary cases; TO authorize
clerk, probate judge and commissioners to cer-
tfy plats to the recorder; TO limit to thirty
days the time to appeal from The common
pleas court: to allow physicians and druggists
having had five years experience to compound
drugs; TO prevent road supervisors from work.
ing out n tax other than their own. Bills
passed: S. B. to extend the provisions OF the
parole law to the GAINESVILLE Work house; for
the relief of Samuel Taggart, bondsman of
David Horst treasurer of Baughman Town
ship, Wayne County; appropriating SGOS 9i5 for
the payment of the public debt, etc; 5000
town hall bonds in Superior Township. Will
Jams County; to increase the bounty spar
rows to twenty cents per dozen; S25, 600 water
works bonds for Plain City. Resolution adopt
ed: Five hundred extra copies of Secretary
of States pamphlet containing public off,
GERS of the State Adjourned 10 Monday at
p. m.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 1I-SENATE-Bils INTRO
1uced: Doing away with the requirement
that judges must sign bills of exceptions;
amending Section t035 SO as TO make publica-
ton equivalent to summons. Bills passed: Au-
thorizing Gahana. Franklin County, to COM
plete school-house; n law; authorizing Will
.amsburg, Clermont County, to repair n school
building; n law; authorizing Hamden, Vinton
County, to complete a schoolhouse.
HoUsE.-Bills introduced: To extend tho
lien law to animals boarded at livery stables;
providing that the mayor must appoint the
Columbus Board of Elections; to establish uni
form time throughout the State. making I'M
lawful, unless advertised. the granting of muni-
cipal franchises; taking contested election
gases from the Senate and putting them in tho
Judiciary; for the State TO pay couvicts having
children to support sixty cents day; making
it a misdemeanor punishable by one to three
gears Imprisonment, for man to desert his
family; for Common Pleas Judges to appoint
Board of Visitors to county penal and benevo-
lent institutions, to appropriate from the State
Treasury 81, 900 for memorial at Dayton TO the
Dayton Zouaves; for the relief of the Treasurer
Of Catawba Island, Ottawa County.
COLUMBUS. Feb lS.-SENATE. Bills introduce
ed: For an electric light plant at New Rich
nond, Clermont County; to pay clerks and
Judges of election 81 90 per day when votes in
township exceed 20); to pay township clerks
E25 per year; requiring prosecuting attorneys TO
draw in legal form contracts made by county
commissioners; to pay costs in disbarment
proceedings against attorneys; for Chldren's
Toledo sewer system. Resolutions adopted:
Asking Congress to appropriate to improve the
Cumberland river; authorizing the Adjutant
General TO furnish camp equipment and inspect
camp of Sons of Veterans; the appointments of
State Librarian Sibey, Rev. j. g. Hutsenpier
as Trustee of the Athens Asylum, and John c.
Entrekin rs Trustee of the Columbus Asylum,
were not confirmed.
HousE--Blls passed: For board of city inn
provement for Dayton $1,000 bonds for n gas
well at the Fairfield County Inflrmary; $6,0OO,-
900 water-worls bonds for Cincinnati; to de-
fine the residence of inmates OF the Trumbnll
County In6rmary. Representative Blair, of
Adams, unseated. Mr.. Monnot's bill, provid-
ing for change of venue in litigations was de-
feated receiving but thirty-six votes. Mr..
Wright's bill TO authorize administrators to
perform the duties of appraisers in the alb
sence of the latter was lost.
THE Cadiz glass-worlSs were sold to M.
j, Burn, of that place. for So, 400.
CINCINNATI saloon-keepers are making
another effort to secure a refund of tax
1o,