Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From o. S. Journal Summary.


MARCH 17-Senate-Bills introduced:
Defining credits in listing property add
ing November to the months in which
Western CATTLE cannot be transferred
through the state; return discharged
cOnvictS to county where convicted.
H0uSe-No quorum.
MARCH -SenGte-BillS introduced:
Advertise introduction of local bills ex-
cept to transfer funds and where propo-
sitiOn is to be submitted to vote; amend
building association law.
Bills passed: House bills, to isolate
jail prisoners; authorize commissioners
to contract for food, ETC., for prisoners;
20 cents a dozen bounty for killing Eng
lish sparrows.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: Abandon
Hooking canal, Carroll to Lockbourne;
tax mortgages; print notices of election
in two papers opposite politics.; give
keeper of jack lien upon get of same for
one year; school book bill; striking out
clause preventing girls at Industrial
home from taking in outside work.
! MARCH 19-Sendte- Bills introduced:
Providing that where husband OF wife
becomes insane the other can dispose of
property acquired after insanity took
form; board of appraisers for telegraph
and express companies.
Bills passed: House bills, prohibit
railroad companies from requiring en-
| ploy6S to work more than twelve consec-
utive hours; make more definite law re-
lating to estates of deceased partners;
elect trustees in civil townships under
section 10 first Monday in May instead
of April; Senate bills, make report COM
mittee investigating county treasurer
prima facie evidence in court;r ;refile chat
tel mortgages :preventing party first part
from teStify1ng in agreement made with
agent party second part after agent is
dead unless agreement was made in
presence of third party; give prosecuting
attorneys extra compensation in certain
cases; preventing debtor about to assign
from preferences in favor of relatives or
friends; asylum for epileptic insane;
providing that where property is sold on
foreclosure order of sale shall be title to
purchaser; authorize guardians to lease
real estate of wards for oil or gas;
permitting order of partition within
NtdI dlbCI uCdIu DClSOJAd1 CSIdlO
is insufficient to pay debts.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: Construct
Pipe Creek, Belmont county, maeadam-
lied road; relieve executors and admin
iStratOrs from responsibility for un-
claimed money; provide that where par
ty offers evidence of conversation, ad-
missions or acts of agent of opposite
party; amend township road law by Civ
ing authority to locate roads to cemete-
ries; amend section 9, Dow law, so that
in townships the money shall be paid to
the toWnship fund as in corporations;
pay trustees county children's homes
50 day; prevent employment by rail
roads of one addicted to intoxieants;
regulate burdens to be hauled on public
roads; depositary for school funds at
Akron; value real estate every five years;
authorize councils and commissioners
to transfer funds not exceeding $1,000 .
without act of legislature; deposit in
bank bidding highest county funds if
bid is not less than 2 per cent; fixing
compensation county, city and state
boards of equalization for 1890; release
mortgaged securities given by guardi-
an to minor in case final settlement is
made before minor attains his majority;
repeal township local option law.
Bills passed: House bill, authorize
governor to execute deed for lands in
Belmont county.
MARCH -Sendte-Bills introduced:
Equitably distribute offices to Demo-
Gratis; antitrust bill, preventing corpora
tiOns from delegating their powers; ar
rest, ETC., cOcoaine, opium eaters, ETC.;
burglary law; amend law re-
lating to publication list insurance COM
panies.
Bills passed: House bills, authorize
governor to execute deed for lands in
Belmont county; provide that where
vacancies in offices of township clerks
and treasurerS occur shall not be filed
until next election apply compulsory ed
ucatiOn law to special school districts;
make order of sale title to property sold
in execution; give use of school houses
for literary and other entertainments;
authorize banks other than national to
elect more than three directors; Senate
bill, amending law relating to admins
traitors accounts.
HOUSt-DLl pdSSeu' houSe OlA, LnaAO
on speaker to deduct S5
day for absenteeism.
MARCH 21-Sendte- introduced:
Make misdemeanor punishable by i'm
prisonment to desert within five years
wife welded to compromise bastardy.
Bills passed: House bills, creating
special road district in Pultney town.
ship, Belmont county; prevent deposit
of filth, garbage, etc, in public high
ways; Senate bills, incorporate live stock
insurance companies; require foreign
insurance companies to deposit $780,
300 in securities with state treasurer,
and provide for appointment of three
inspectors; compel all insurance compa-
MES organized under old constitution to
report to insurance commissioners to tax
collateral inheritance and bequests.
HOuSe-Bill introduced: Sell property
Church of Christ, Beallsville, Monroe
county.
THE New York Court of Appeals has
decided that execution by electricity is
egal.
CONDUCTOR HoUGHTALING, charged