Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-06
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OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From O. 5. Journal Summary.
FEB. 24.-Senats-No quorum.

fees secretary OF state Tor copying rec
ords at Zoe per 100 words and soc for
seal; advisory boards of three women
to visit county children's homes every 90
days; sell municipal bonds at private
sale at not less than face value when no
other bids have been received; allow
killing of duck on land other than min
eral, timber or agricultural; legislate la
Dor statistician out of office: include war
nurses in INDECENT soldier act; de-
claring all roads in use twenty-one years
public highways; submit to a vote all
questions of municipal Improvement
FEB. 25.-.Sendte-Bllls introduced:
Authorize county auditors to refund
taxes enormously collected; extending
Adair law at soldiers home at Dayton;
authorizing foreign livestock insurance
companies to do business in this state
HoUSe-Bill introduced: Authorize Gin
cinnati superior court to appoint jury
commission.
Bills passed: II. Bs. repeal Poorman
law taxing fish nets; give justices, mayors
and police judges final jurisdiction in
violations of fish law; name antidote on
of sheriffs, insane for conveyance to
asylums; requiring railroad companies
to construct crossings; authorize courts
to issue writs of possession in execution
sales; allow step-father or step mother
to adopt child of either
FEB. B. s passed: Pre-
vent manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine as butter; compel payee to in
dorse warrant on county treasurer; Sen
ate bills disqualifying supreme court
judges from sitting on cases in which
they have an interest ;reorganize peniten-
tiary; provide that prisoner sent on 9th
er than first term must serve one term
before being eligible to parole.
Resolution adopted: Senate joint res
olutiOn to adjourn March 81.
Rev. D. H. Moore, of Cincinnati, con-
firmed truestee State university.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: Authorize
township boards of education TO admit
persons over q to school; allow majori-
ity voters of a village to attach village
to adjoining city; pay members of the
legislature so a day, 10 cents a mile,
and limit the sessions to 60 days; allow
clerks common pleas courts 25 cents for
affidavit in pension claims; collecting
Dow tax out of tax; not to prosecute
under section 6951 one who wounds
stray dog; eject railway or street railway
passengers who refuse to pay fare; pro-
hibit corporations from compelling
women and children to ride In smoking
cars; permitting township clerks to act
as truant officers; allow probate Judges
to file itemized cost bill with papers in
stead of recording it; provide that all the
names must be drawn from jury box be-
fore box is again filled; authorize gov
ernor to appoint three state examiners
of building associations.
Bills passed: H. Bs. to gerrymander
the state; authorize administrators to
administer oaths.
Both houses visited the university.
FEB. 27.-Se11dte- introduced:
Permit ex-Union soldiers to form mutual
insurance companies; prevent giving of
preferences by insolvent debtors within
three months of assignment; make illegal
any rate of interest over per cent; pro-
vide that in order to enfore habitual
criminal clause previous indictments
must be set up; amend admissibility of
testimony law.
Bills passed: H. Bs. $4,000 improve
ment bonds at New Philadelphia; public
improvement board for Cincinnati.
House Bills introduced: Permit duck
shooting from September l to April l;
amend act relating to judicial sale of
railroads; state and county boards of
elections; regulate street and electric
railways by placing poles, ETC., out of
way of travel.
Bills passed: 5. Bs. prevent appoint
ment of school teachers until after spring
election so as to give new member a
vote; II. Bs. increase form $500 to $500
amount infrmary directors may use for
ordinary repairs; prohibit sale of ice from
stagnant or impure ponds; require ad
ministrators and executors to file item
lied statements of investment, security
and interest; change time of holding an
nual meeting of state board of agricul-
ture from first Wednesday after first
Monday in January to first Thursday.
Resolution referred: S. J. r. to adjourn
March 81.
FEB. -Senate-Bills passed: II. Bs.
authorize relief commissioners to pay
transportation INDECENT soldiers to home
at Sandusky.
Adjourned to P. NJ. Monday.
HouSe-Bills introduced: File chattel
mortgages with county recorder instead
of township clerk: amend registration
laws so that where city is redistricted
into wards within thirty days prior to
election registration shall be necessary;
repeal registration law in all cities ex-
cept Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland,
DAYTON, Toledo and Sandusky; require
county commissioners to give notice of
overpaid taxes on transferred property
to the vendor and vendee; making it a
misdemeanor for an officer of building
association to receive money on account
of same without authority from the di-
rectors, and providing for semi-annual
reports; provide that all arbitration cases
shall be settled in probate court; separate
schools for colored children when peti-
toned for by majority of the heads of
colored families; elect township clerks
and treasurers, in case of vacancy, at
next annual election; limit jurisdiction
of justices to county in which they were
elected; extend provisions of the indi-
gent soldier law to wife or widow; make
trustees of township liable for bill of
physician attending pauper.
NEWS BRIEFS.
The West Virginia Legislature ad
lourned last week.
AN illicit still is said to be in opera
tion at indianapolis.
RHODE ISLAND Prohibitionists have
nominated State ticket.
CLEVELAND has sold "Red Top and
cleared hundred thousand dollars.