The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-02-20
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Sixty Ninth Session.

met az O'CLOCK, and was called to order by the
president pro tenn. Bills introduced; Author.
izing township trustees TO employ physician
for the poor; to authorize Sylvania Lucas
County, TO transfer funds. Mr.. Alexander Offer
cd joint resolution authorizing the Adjutant
General to furnish the Sons OF Veterans with
hcld equipage for their encampments Re-
ferred 10 the Committee on Military Affairs
II. J. r. by Mr.. Roeser, asking Congress to pass
tho bill now pending in tho National House Of
Representatives to suppress river shantyboata
was adopted.
HOUSE. "A number Of petitions were report
cd and referred. Bills introduced Amending
Sections s88S and s6s9 SO as to nj ow councils ct
the semiannual settlements to transfer funds;
amending Section 1909 SO as tOleave II optional
with county boards Of agriculture to advertise
nn abstract Of tho treasurer's accounts; to
amend Section 0565 SO as to provide for attach
ing the bill Of exceptions tn the transcripts
from the justices courts; to provide for the
better care Of the property Of insane persons
and imbeciles; TO authorize the commissioners
OF Franklin County 10 provide for improving
roads entering Columbus; to abolish the board
Of aldermen Of Cincinnati; TO regulate the
charges OF railroad companies for switching on
side tracks by providing that they shall charge
one dollar for each half mile or less, and In
crease according TO distance up to five dollars;
amending Section 6a6i so as to prevent the
shooting Of quail for FIVE years.
COLUMBUS Feb 1i.-SENATE.-A number Of
bills were passed. among them the following:
Paying the salary Of the late Senator Ashburn
to Mrs. Ashburn; providing that township
school teachers shall not be employed for
longer term than the regular school year by
outgoing school boards; n aking appropriations
for salaries and for public institutions; o law;
making appropriations Of Legislative expenses,
vi 900; law; Senator elect Pattison pre-.
sented his credentials and took the oath Of once;
the appointment OF Charles w. Schmcx to be
trustee Of the Cleveland Asylum for Insane was
confirmed Mr. Van Cleaf offered o resolution
instructing the Committee on Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home and Institution for
Feeble-minded Youth to investigate tho death
OF Jennie Whitehead, at the latter institution.
Adopted.
HoUsE.-Two or three local bills were passed.
A joint resolution was adopted authorizing tho
State Superintendent Of Insurance to retain In
his posseesi pending litigation. taxes to tho
amount Of A,l7s pnid in by the Michigan Mutual
Life Insurance Company OF Detroit. Mr. vii.
liams' House bill amending the law as to claims
for sheep killed by dogs was lost.
COLUMBUS, Feb. IL -SENATE.-Bills passed:
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 tho valuation placed upon such prop
erty, and also to ascertain the mortgaged in
dcbtcdness on the same: enabling mutual fire
associations which have secured sufficient cap
ital stock and policy-holders to reorganize as
mutual fire insurance companies; requiring the
filing Of inventories in all cases and providing
that residuary legatees shall give more extern
sivo bonds than heretofore, and that an ab-
stract Of each inventory shall be filed with the
auditor by the probate judge. number Of
bills were introduced, mostly Of o 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 an 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 tho lions ON
crops to be produced after furnishing seed
grain; to amend Section 1874 so as to compel
railroads to use one board at the top of all wire
fences.
COLUMBUS. Feb. 13.-SENATE.-Bills intro
duced: Redistrcting the wards OF Dayton; for
vaduct in Cincinnati; to permit the catching
OF black bass with hook from May to June Is;
Tor two-cent passenger rate, except where the
ticket Is not purchased, where three cents may
be charged. Bills passed: II. for $4,000
sewer bonds for Canton; to complete o town
hall at Utica: for $4,000 street improvement
bonds at Jackson; 8. b. to provide that not
more than !, 500 pounds shall be hauled over i'm
proved roads; appropriating $50 for the relief
Of Michael Malone, injured in the Cincinnati
riots; authorizing the Governor to appoint o
cadet annually to the Portsmouth Military
Academy.
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to be heated by steam from locomotives; to
prohibit hunting without permission from
land owner; to increase the contingent fund OF
County Infirmary Directors to $1,000; to allow
County Commissioners to control roads as to
the weight to be hauled over them. Bills
passed: House bill for $4,000 school bonds In
the Paulding special district; House bill for
$40, 900 school bonds at Van Vert; House bill to
increase the Secretary of States bond to $780,
900; House bill to substitute nominate" for
'appoint" in instruments, naming executors,
etc.; House bill to require guardians Of minors
to make itemized statements Of Investments.
Resolution adopted: For 800 bound copies Of
the Adjutant Generals report.
COLUMBUS, Feb. H-SENATE.-Petitions by
| citizens of Fairfield County asking the abandon
ment of the Hooking canal from Carroll to Nell
sonville; Mr.. Coles bill authorizing the Govern
or to appoint annually one cadet to the Ports
mouth Military Academy was reconsidered and
pOStpOnco 10 iuoouuy. NO QuoTuu, anu uu-
journed to Monday at p. m.
HoUsE.-Bils introduced: To fine 81 to e25
| intoxicated persons; giving justices jurisdic-
| ton In disputed boundary cases; to authorize
| clerk, probate judge and commissioners to cer-
| tify 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 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 Daughman Town.
ship, Wayne County; appropriating sGOs 945 for
the payment of the public debt, etc. ; $1,000
town hall bonds In Superior Township. Will
Jams County; to increase the bounty On spar
| rows to twenty cents per dozen; $25, 900 water
works bonds for Plain City. Resolution adopt
ed: Five hundred extra copies Of Secretary
Of States pamphlet containing public ON
GERS Of the State, Adjourned to Monday at
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