The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-09
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

1857 relative to formation OF special school dis
triots; TO authorize the board of public works
70 construct culverts under the Miami and Erie
canal In Poulding county.
HoUsE-Bills passed. Authorizing the com.
missioners Of Brown county to build q pike
from Feesburg to Higginsport; correcting
constitutional defect in tho law providing for
the election OF councilman at large OF Hamil-
ton, Butler county; providing that where one
corporation brings suit against another cor.
poration, and no private person is interested
therein, the suit may be tried in the federal
courts authorizing the commissioners OF Darke
county to erect a Soldiers memorial hall.
COLUMBUS April "a. SENATE. Bills passed:
Amending Section 4194 as to provide that
any person loaning to an art museum or asso-
citation any property may file n certificate OF
reservation to reclaim such property at any
timo within hvo years; authorizing the COM
missionors OF Adams county to repair md con.
struct certain roads; authorizing Georgetown,
Brown county, to issue $4,000 bonds for street
improvements; to provide for the enlargement
OF culverts under the Miami and Erie canal.
HoUsE-Bills passed. Providing for levy
for township graded schools; requiring the
building of county roads to cemeteries on the
petition OF majority OF the owners of abut-
ting property; requiring the posting OF finan-
cial statements OF the township ten days before
the election Of township trustees; permitting
owners of property abuttlng on township roads
TO construct sidewalks. Bills introduced Pro.
vidings that fines imposed on disordery women
shall be paid into the fund of the Cleveland
Shelter for Friendess Women; prohibiting the
locating of saloons next to the deaf and dumb
institution at Columbus.
COLUMBUS, April 2S.-SENATE. Bills passed:
To provide for the election OF state
food and dairy commissioner; au-
thorizing the fish and game commits
sion to settle claims for fishing nets destroyed
under act Of April 15 1889, and to permit the
owners of the nets to sue the state; giving to
the probate court the same authority in town
ship ditch cases as it has in county ditch cases;
TO empower probate courts to provide for the
constructing OF levees along bodies of water
when required by public health; to authorize
the mayor of Cincinnati to appoint the three di-
rectors OF the house of refuge; to prohibit dis
elimination between insurants of the snme
class or to offer rebates on insurance; to pro.
vide that when county decennial board of
equalization does not finish its work within
reasonable time, the state decennial board OF
equalization may fix a time for the fling of the
report and II the county Is then delinquent
make up the report from the assessors returns.
HoUsE.-The house passed bills to prevent
the doing Of an insurance brokerage bus mess
and prohibiting the placing of business in
Ohio with agents outside tho state; appropriat-
ing $62 939 of the direct tax to pay maturing in
debtedness of the state board of agriculture |;
compelling every owner or operator of q manu-
featuring or other industrial enterprise to fur
nish the commissioner of labor statistics with
Information required by him as outlined in his
circular blanks; regulating the management
and providing for state inspector of building
associations
COLUMBUS April 29-SENATE-Bills passed
Providing for the payment from the direct tax
fund OF the mortgage debt on the Ohio state
fair funds; appropriating $500 to reproduce the
portrait Of Ex-Governor Tod, injured by the re.
cent fire in the rotunda, and to repair the paint.
ing Of Perry's victory also in the rotunda; 10
amend the semi-monthly payment act so us
| TO make it apply to all corporations and firms
to prevent and provide for the punishment OF
fraudulent entries ofhorses in speed classes; to
| authorize the guardian or trustee of any minor,
| insane or imbecile person, when he has agreed
| with corporation on the compensation to be
| paid in condemnation of property, 10 file his ap
| plicaton in the probate court for authority to
! convey the property; to make il misdemeanor
| for an assessor to fail TO swear a person listing
| personal property, or for person to make q
false return of personal property.
! HoUSE-Bills passed: Providing that in cit
| les of the third grade of the second class the
municipal tax levee shall not exceed eight
| mills providing for the payment of all fines i'm
| posed on women of bad character to the Cleve
! land home for frendless girls; amending section
G355 of the Revised Statutes so as to extend the
preferred claims of laborers to cases where the
| business of individuals, firms or corporations /!
closed up by any proceeding in court; abolish
Ing the fee system in the offices Of Justice of the
peace in Cincinnati and paying them a salary o
So, 800, with additional allowances for clerk hire
and office rent.
| COLUMBUS April 80-SEN ATE-Bils passed
Amending section 560I of the Revised Statutes
SO as to permit II wife to testify against Il hus.
band as to personal violence in divorce pro
| ceedings; TO authorize township trustees on
the petition of twenty-five properly holders tC
condemn property for public road to GENE.
tery providing for the appointment of com
mission and approprating 5000 for tho loca
| tion and erection of monuments to OHIO troops
on the Chickampuga battle field; authorizing
administrators and executors to administer
| oaths to appraisers; fixing the time to be gain
ed by conyicts in IN" Ohio penitentiary for goot
conduct; providing that squirrels may be killed
between June and December l5.
HOUSE Bills passed: Providing for the mp
pointment of II commission and appropriatiul
| $2 800 for location and erection OF q mouumon
on the battle fields of Chicamaugs to Ohit
troops making the stealing OF sheep or th
malicious injuring of sheep folony punish
able by year in the penitentiary; appropri
ating 5000 for repairing of paintings in capito
rotunda; authorizing township trustees to Ia!
out roads to stone quarrles, coal lands anC
other mineral lands.
COLUMBUS May 1.-SENATR-Bills passed
Appropriating 81, $50 for the relief of j. w
keene, injured in elevator accident Mt deaf am
dumb asylum; requiring rairo NJ trains to COM
TO full stop before crossing street car tracks
authorizing trustees of Ohio state university L
borrow $4,000 in anticipation OF annual levy 4
complete buildings; authorizing Canton t
Issue $780, eco in bonds TO ray Indebtedness
providing for the payment az the salaries q
Representatives Heffner and Ceyer, and Sena
ri md pnf fNr tI,n
pired term OF their preduC ssors deceIrsed
Adjourned until Monday.
HOUsE-Bils passed To facilitate the wor
OF the state board Of equalization by requirtn
county auditors, through the auditor OF stnto
TO furnish the board with the returns of towr
ship assessors; TO provide a permanent canI
ing ground for the Ohio National Guard At
journed until Monday.
GEO. PoTTERF, of near Augusta, Car
roll county, had his leg broken Will
unloading salt Frank Manful, u neigh
bor's son, mounted one of the horse
and started for doctor. Two mile
from Augusta the horse became fright
ened and threw the boy, killing him.
THE new city council of Sidney ha
passed an ordinance prohibiting tn
posting of show-bills of an immodes
nature on and after May 10.
THE comptroller of the currency ha
approved the State and Central Nj
tional banks of Cleveland as reserv
. agents for the First National bank g