The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-03-06
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.



R sl.ty .Niath session.
CoGunDua Feb. a. -snNArn--No querun.
HousnA --Bllls Introduced: 70 sell or ieass
the Walhoudins canal; 70 compel Stewards
etc., Of STATE iastatutions 70 purchase native
live stock for fsed sonsumption; 70 transfer
standard Of weights and measures from secro-
tary Of State 70 Professor Of Physics, State
University; 70 az the fees Of the Secretary Of
State for copying records % ten cents per hun
dred words end nfty csnts for seal; for Advi-
sory Boards Of thrse womon to visit county
children's homes every ninety days; TO exempt
the shores Of Lake Erie from the laws govern
ing the killing Of fur-boaring animals: to cell
municipal bonds at private sale at not less than
face value when no other BIDS have been re.
ceived; to allow the killing Of duck on land
other than mineral, timber or other sgricultu.
once; to include war nurses in INDECENT soldier
act; TO provide that Ia the construction OF joint
bitches the commissioners may call upon disln-
terested parties when they fail to agree upon
assessment or appointment; TO provide that
when railroads consolidate, the value Of the
property may be hxed by the common pleas
judges
duced: To place Shelby County in Third Judi
cial District; to authorize county auditors to
refund taxes erroneously collected; for $500
additional courthouse bonds In Madison Counr
compensation for conducting suits against the
bondsmen Of the auditor and treasurer; extend.
ing tho Adair law OF the Soldiers Home at
Dayton; authorizing foreign live stock insurs
ance companies to do business In this State.
Bills passed: House bills amending free turn.
pike law for Ottawa County
HOueE.-Bills introduced: To authorize the
Cincinnati superior court to appoint jury
commission. Bills passed: Senate bill for e25,.
600 Children's Homo bonds IN Lucas County;
House bills for 5000 school.house bonds at
MELVILLE, Cuyahoga County; to repeal tho
Pooiman law taxing nsh nets: 10 give Justices
mayors and police judges hnal jurisdiction in
violations ofthc fish law; TO create township
road supervisors in Cuyahoga County; to name
antidote on poison labels; TO deliver TO rela.
tives, instead Of sherins, insane for conveyance
TO asylums; requiring railroad companies to
construct crossings; to authorize courts to issue
writs of possession in execution sales; to allow
q stepfather or stepmother TO adopt tho child
Of either.
C0LUMBUs, Feb. @-SENATE. BILLS passed:
House bills, to prevent excess Of public expend.
itures over receipts In Cleveland; creating an
additional Judge in Crawford, Marion and wy.
andot Judicial Districts; prevent manufacture
and sale OF oeomargarine as butter compel
payee to indorse warrant on county treasurer.
Senate bills, disqualifying Supreme Court
Judges from sitting on cases In which they
have an interest; reorganize penitentiary;
provide that prisoner sent on other than first
term must serve ON term before being eligible
to parole. Resolution adopted: Senate Joint
resolution to adjourn March 3l. Rev. d. II.
Moore, of Cincinnati, confirmed trustee of Ohio
University
HoUsE-Bills introduced: To authorize town
ship boards Of education to adiDit persons over
twenty.ono to school; to allow majority voters
OF . village to attach such village to the city;
10 pay members OF the Legislature ten dollars
law f,yai IL nd Unit "a
sions to sixty days; to allow clerks Of common
pleas courts twenty-five cents for affidavit In
pension claim; to pay fees OF auditors and treas
urers for collecting Dow tax out OF tax; not to
prosecute under Section G95i one who wounds
stray dogs; $4,000 In anticipation OF tax collec.
tions IN Butler County for deficiencies; to eject
railway or street railway passengers who re-
fuse to pay fare; to prohibit corporations from
compelling women and children to ride In
smoking cars; permitting township clerks to
act as truant Officers; to allow probate judges
TO file itcmized cost bill with papers instead Of
recording IL; to provide that all the names
must be drawn from the Jury box before the
box Is again filled; to authorize the Governor
to appoint three State Examiners Of Building
| Associations. Bills passed: To redistrict the
State; 10 authorize administrators to admin
Ister tho oath.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 2s.-sENATz-Bills intro
duced: To permit ex.Union soldiers to form
preferences by insolvent debtors within three
| months OF assignment; making illegal any rate
Of interest over six per cent allow thirty days
after motion for new trial has been decided, for
| fling bill Of exceptions, separate prisoners In
| county jails; provide that In order to enforce
habitual criminal clause previous indictments
must be set up; amend admissibility of testi-
| mony law. Bills passed: H. BIS, $4,000 i'm
provement bonds ut New Philadelphia; public
improvement board, for Cincinnati; hall In Su
| perior Township, Williams County; s. b.,
authorizing Hamilton County surveyor to ap.
| point his own assistants.
HoUsE Bills introduced: To permit duck
shooting from September I to April /; amend
act relating to judicl al sale OF railroads; Stats
| and county boards Of elections; regulate street
and electric railways BY placing poles, etc., out
Of way OF travel Bills passed: 8. B.'s, to pre-
vent appointment Of school teachers until after
| the spring election, SO as to give new members
Hvoice. H. b.'s, to increase from e2O0 to $500
.he amount infrmary directors may use for or
| dinsry repairs; $4,000 sewer bonds at Marion;
repeal special act relating to Lima water
| works; $4,000 school bonds at Covington; pro-
hibit the sale OF ice from stagnant or impure
ponds; require administrators and executors to
Ale itemized statement Of Investment security
and interest; change time OF holding annual
| meeting State Board OF Agriculture from first
| Wednesday after hrst Monday In January to
first Thursday; relief Of r. B. Humphrey, late
treasurer OF Green Township. Ashland County;
resolution referred, g. ]. r. to adjourn March
| 81.
| COLUMBUS Feb. 2s.-SENATE.-Bills intro.
| duced: To authorize the construction OF sub.
| ways and underground conduits for electric
wires, etc.; to establish employment agencies
In the larger cities Of tho State to appropriate
1000 for Revised Statutes. Bills passed; H.
| B.'s authorizing relief commissions to pay the
| transportation OF INDECENT soldiers to the Home
| at Sandusky; to SO amend the law to license
transient dealers as to include cities Of the
fourth grade, second.class. Adjourned to p.
| m. Monday.
| HOUSE BILLS introduced To file chattel
mortgages with the county recorder instead OF
| the township clerk to amend the registration
law SO that where o city is redistricted into
wards within thirty days prior to the election
registration shall be necessary; to repeal the
registration law In cities except Cincinnati, Co
lumbus, Clevel and, Dayton, Toledo and San