Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-02-20
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Erom o. S. Lonrnal SUMMARY.

FEBRUARY 0.-SenGte-Bills intro
duced: To authorize township trustees
to employ physicians for the poor
Resolutions adopted: II. ]. r. asking
Congress to support the pending bill sup
pressing shanty-boats along the rivers.
House-Bills introduced: Leave op-
tiOnal with county boards of agriculture
advertising abstracts of treasurers' ac-
counts; attach bill of exceptions to JUS
tiees transcripts; better care for property
of insane and imbeciles; regulate charges
of railroad companies for switching;
allow husband OF wife to petetion for
leave to adopt step-children of either;
prevent shooting of quail for five years.
FEBRUARY 11.-Sendte- passed:
Partial appropriations bill; $1,000 ap-
preparation for legislative expenses; 5.
Bs. providing that school teachers shall
not be employed for longer than a year
by outgoing school boards.
Resolutions offered: Investigate death
of Jennie Whitehead at Imbecile asylum;
authorize superintendent of insurance to
withhold 1900 involved in litigation
from his report.
w. V. Marquis assumes the chair.
HOuse-Bills passed: S. b. pay Mrs.
Ashburn, widow of Senator Ashburn, a
years salary.
FEBRUARY 12.-SeRdte-Bills intro
duced: Place Noble in counties where
probate judges have final jurisdiction in
misdemeanor cases; secure service on
nOn-residents.
Bills passed; 5. Bs. require land ap-
praisers to ascertain mortgage indebted
ness: enable mutual fire insurance asso-
Citations to organize as companies.
House Bills introduced: Make legal
interest on contracts per cent; allow
lien on crops after furnishing seed gram;
repeal act authorizing county infrmary
directors to contract for medical aid for
poor: compel railroads to use one board
at top of wire fences; fine fathers 800
who desert their families; require sol
diers' relief commissions to be chosen
from Grand Army posts; allow sheriff
fees in cases where there is failure to
convict; amend compulsory education
law to include minors IA to 18 who can
not read and write; allow county COM
missioners to make an allowance of 5000
in lien of fees in cities or townships
having 10000 population; compel boards
of education to furnish INDECENT pupils
books and compel them to attend school
the first sixteen weeks of the school year;
prohibit the employment as teachers of
brother, brother-in-law or father-in-law
of any member board of education.
Bills passed: II. Bs. allow councils
to license transient dealers; watering
trOughs in highways; require payee to
indorse warrants on county treasurer;
classifying school youth to conform to
the compulsory education law.
FEBRUARY 13-Senate- BILLS intro
duced: Permit catching of black bass
with hook May l to June Is; 2-cent
passenger rate except where ticket is
not purchased where cents may be
charged.
Bills passed: b, B. improve road
in Belmont county; S.Bs. provide that
not more than 1900 pounds shall be
hauled over improved roads; authorizing
the Governor to appoint cadet annually
to Portsmouth Military academy.
HolGse-Bills introduced: Require cars
to be heated with steam from locomO-
tives; prohibit hunting without permis-
sion from land owner; increase contin-
gent fund of county infrmary directors
70 $1,000; allow county commissioners
10 control roads as to weight to be
hauled over them.
Bills passed Increase Secretary of
States bond to 100000; substitute
nominate" for appoint" in instruments
naming executors, ETC.; require guardians
If minors to make statements of invest
nents.
FEBRUARY 14-Senate-Mr. Coles
pill authorizing the Governor to appoint
one cadet to the Portsmouth
Military academy reconsidered and post
1oned to Tuesday.
No quorum and adjourned to Mon
lay at P. N.
H0Use-Bills introduced: To fine 81
o $25 intoxicated persons; authorize
,lerk, probate Judge and commissioners
o certify plats to the recorder; limit to
hirty days time for appeal from common
,leas court; allow physicians and drug
fists having had five years experience
o compound drugs; turnpike in Jeffer-
on county; prevent road supervisors
rom working out tax other than their
,wn.
Bills passed: S. B. .appropriating
;600, ,947 SO for payment public debt ETC.;
Increase bounty on sparrows to 20 cents
,er dozen.
Resolution adopted: Five hundred
xtra copies Secretary of States PAM
'hlet containing public officers of the
tate.