Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-23
OHIOLEGISLATURE
q Z Ionrnal summary.

APRIL l4.-Sendte-Bin introduced:
Requiring infirmary directors to contract
with physicians for the treatment OF
paupers in townships.
Bill passed: House bill, providing
for the burial of widows of honorably
discharged soldiers.
Senate bill. prohibiting foreign insur-
ance brokers from doing business in
Ohio.
HouSe-Bills passed: House bills,
amending section 1885, r. 5, so that
when county commissioners provide an
armory for an o. \. g. organization, it
shall be by taxation.
APRIL Is. - Senate - Bills passed;
House bills, supplementing section SO
by appointing three ladies on the board
to visit Children's homes; permitting
physicians to ride on freight trains at
their own risk; allowing cattle to be
shipped into Ohio and Immediately
slaughtered.
House bills, transferring 81 ,332, ,025.93
direct tax into the State funds; allowin9
insurance agents to publish statements
in papers other than those published at
county seats: compelling township clerks
to publish an itemized statement OF ex
penses and expenditures at same time
of election publication; permitting school
houses to be used by farmer and labor
societies; authorizing county commits
sioners to contract for the plating Vir-
ginia military lands; compelling county
commissioners to appoint non-partlsan
boards of four for children's homes;
allowing the State to prosecute proceed
ings in error to the supreme court to get
decision on statutory questions; for
bidding county commissioners to keep
children, unless idiotic, at county in
firmaries; making it a misdemeanor
punishable by $1,000 fine or six months
in Jail to tap telegraph wires; ). }. b.
passed making Fort Ancient the o. n.
6. camping ground.
House : Bill passed: House bill,
providing non-partisan boards for all
State institutions.
Bills introduced: Reducing fees OF
county officers so per cent. and deprlv-
ing commissioners of the allowance for
mileage and expense and fixing their
compensation at So per day; to purify
elections and nominating conventions
and prevent fraud and the use of money.
APRIL -SenGte-Bills introduced:
Protecting bees from poison by spraying
trees with insect poison; amending
section 6547 so that either party may
demand jury trial in civil actions after
the defendant is served with summons;
5. j. B. providing for the adoptment OF
a tax commission by the the Governor.
Bills passed: House bills, amending
6837 so as TO include hen-houses, green
houses and wagon-houses in1iSt, making
it penal offense to break into the same;
requiring guardians and trustees to des-
ignate how funds are invested in their
annual statements; allowing testator
to exempt household goods from inven-
tory in his will; amending section 1878
of the Statutes relating to township
roads by requiring trustees to pay cost
of survey of new roads, if an application
for them is granted; amending section
633S, Revised Statutes, by providing
that creditors cannot require removal OF
assignee appointed by assignor unless
the court finds him to be an incompetent
person; supplementary to an act to
create a special road district in Pultney |
Belmont county; amending
section 1920, R. s., by compelling rail
road companies to stop three trains per
lay running each way at county. seats,
that many trains are run; pro-
yiding that notices of Improvements of
hoI w
newspapers of opposite politics instead
Of all the papers in the county.
APRIL 17-Sendte- passed: Sen
ate bills, amending section 1885 Revised
statutes, so as to provide that actions in
Dastardy must be brought within ten
years after the cause accrues; supple
nenting section 3246 by compelling the
president of corporation or company
20 call special meeting to elect officers
IN application of majority of the stock
amending section 1868 Revised
Statutes, by allowing corporations to
guarantee s per cent. on the preferred
stock.
House Bills passed: House bills, to
the breeding and improving
IF trotting and pacing horses; for the
prevention and punishment of fraudu-
ent entries and practices in contests Of
speed, providing penalties therefor;
section 4185 so as to provide
hat when found conducive to the pub
ic health levees may be built along lake
'r body of water, or near any stream,
water course, lake or body of water;
section 1856, Revised Stat
ties, so as to require mutual foreign in
urance companies to come under the
anne restrictions as companies in this
state, and in addition thereto the same
as placed upon them in the
tate where organized, and requiring
tatement to this effect in the policy.