Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-20
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From o. S. Journal Summary.

ings at any time; providing that public
contract printing shall be done by skill
ed labor; repeal clause preventing trust
ees of one public institution from selling
aeticles to another public institution.
Bill passed: Senate bill transfer funds
at Wooster.
HouSe-Bills introduced: Provide that
any transfer made by insolvent debtor
within three months prior to assignment
shall be void unless proven to be bona
! ide; except children's homes from tru-
ant clause compulsorory education law;
remit, in case of sickness, etc, fines for
non payment of dues in building associa-
tiOns; 1000 to pay deficiency caused
| by repeal of Scott law in Hamilton coun.
| ty; allow county auditors to appoint
clerk to restore omitted taxes; cumula-
/ tive system of voting in joint stock COM
panies; making it burglary to forcibly
enter hen house, ,wagOn-house or green
| house; exclude minors under Is from
billiard or pool-rooms; making it unlaw-
full to attend or witness a. prize fight;
make members present assembly ineli-
gible to be trustees of any state institu-
ton; provide that where executors and
administrators sell real estate the pur-
chaser may pay costs and court order
distribution re appraise real estate every
| five yeare.
Protest from Mansfield ministers
against amending Owen law.
MARCH 11-Senate- passed.
House bills to extend time for duck
shooting to April 10; repeating Poor
man law taxing fish nets; Senate bill
repeating special road law for Lake
county.
Resolution adopted: Senate joint res
olution asking congress to propose
amendment to constitution to elect Uni
ted States senators.
Nomination of J. F. Charlesworth,
Belmont county, as trustee of the Sol
diers' home at Dayton, and F. P. Bower,
member of state board of pharmacy, re-
ferred.
House-Bill introduced: Re6nact road
law in Champaign county.
Bills passed: House bills, prohibit en-
ployment of minors under 10 where NOR
ais may be corrputed advertise all coun-
ty contracts in two papers of opposite
politics; compel township boards of ed
ucation to allow use of school houses
for religious meetings, singing schools,
ETC.; advisory boards of three women
for county children's homes; amend oe-
cupying claimant law by providing that
same law shall govern selection of jury
as applies in other cases.
MARCH 12-Sendte Bills introduced:
Twenty-Five free scholarships in colleges
having less than $4,000 endowment;
companies; making November election
day legal holiday; writs of possession to
purchaser of mortgaged property; new
insane asylum in eastern part of state.
Bills passed: Redistricting Spring
field; Senate bill, salary bill for Lucas
county officials.
House-Bills introduced: Giving only
bona fide residents of this state benefits
of exemption laws; make compulsory
on presiding officers of both houses to
deduct So day from pay of members
absent; take from probate judge author
ity to give corporations rights of way
through streets; exempt farm products
of preceding year from returns of per-
Sonal property; amend act extending
geological survey.
Bills passed: Senate bills, require dis
trict assessors to give owners of land
certified copy valuation; prevent super
visors- from working out road tax other
than their own; give city solicitors pow
er to mandamus city officials for nom
feasanee; require matrons of children's
home where no teacher is employed to
secure certificate to teach; allow banks
other than national to elect from three
to nine directors.
MARCH 13--Sendte- introduced:
Admitting ex-soldiers becoming resi-
dents of state to Sandusky home; strik-
ing word Juvenile" out of truant act;
take cases out of their order without
usual motion.
Bills passed: House bills, allow in
spector workshops to compel semi
monthly payments; compel railroads to
keep rights of way free from eombusti-
BILE material; legalize service by publi-
cation in case of non-residence.
HouSe-Bills passed: Senate bills, re-
organize penitentiary; House bills, COM
pei officers public institutions to pur-
chase native live stock for food con-
sumption; sell municipal bonds when no
bids are received at rate not less than
could be obtained at private sale; fill
vacancies in Office township clerk or
treasurer at next election; include in
compulsory education laws special school
legislate labor statistician out
of office: abolish Columbus board health;
abolish Cincinnati board of aldermen.
MARCH 4-SeRGte-Bill introduced:
Providing that none but United States
prisoners convicted in this state shall
be confined in the penitentiary.
House Bills introduced: Appropriate
ing S419.500 to pay Morgan raid claims;
compel members to make itemized state
ment money expended for travelling ex-
penses; special road district of Pultney
township and city of Bellaire; compel
farmers to destroy thistles and obnox-
ious weeds in 10 and 80 days; author
ze guardians to lease lands of wards be-
yond period of minority.
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