Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
OHIOLEGISLATURE.
oS Innrnal summary.

menJ OF township hiSh SOhOOAo " oc
under the direct charge of the township
| boards, who are given power to levy
tax not exceeding 10 mills on the dollar
/ for the same; House bills, amending
section 1910 so as to provide that town
ship trustees shall, upon petition of
majority of owners of abutting real es-
tate, borrow money and build roads or
/ sidewalks to cemeteries; amending sec
ton 1864, Revised Statutes,so as TO COM
pei township trustees TO provide, under
existing laws, roads TO township ceme-
ries.
APFIL 8-!Sendte-Bills passed.
House bills, providing for the election
of Ohio dairy and food commissioner;
permitting fishermen, whose nets were
seized for non payment of certain taxes,
to sue the state; issuing bonds not to ex
ceed $50, 1000 for Improvements IN Bel
mont county; Senate bills, amending
present law so as to permit insurance
companies Withdrawing from business
in the state to withdraw deposits when
their business is settled with all policy
holders; authorizing the decennial state
board of equalization to act on report OF
assessors when the decennial county
boards do not report in reasonable
time; to prevent life insurance compa-
MES from discriminating between poll
cyholders in the same class.
HOuse-Bills passed: Senate bills, to
prevent the doing of an insurance brok
erage business and prohibiting the
placing of business in Ohio with agents
1 @l. -Nn hi
priating S62, ,939.43 out of the general
revenue fund, derived from the direct
tax, to pay maturing Indebtedness of
the state board of agriculture; Senate
bill, reducing the state levy for sinking
fund purposes to mill; House bill,
compelling every owner or operator OF
manufacturing or other industrial en-
| terprise to furnish the commissioner OF
labor statistics with information re-
quired by him as outlined in his circu
lar blanks; Senate bill, regulating the
management and providing for state
inspector of building and loan associa-
tions; House bill allowing the board of
trustees of the Ohio State university to
anticipate the collection of the special
levy by issuing certificates of indebted
ness for building purposes.
APRIL 29-Sendte-Bills passed.
House bills, creating state school book
commission and providing for publish
ing school books; amending the semi
monthly payment law so as to make it
apply to all companies and corporations
of whatever kind; amending section
GALS by providing that no corporation
can condemn private property or any
interest therein by court proceedings
except where private settlement can
not be made and authorizing guardians
to act in such matters for their wards.
House-Bills passed: House bills,
amending section 6355 of Revised Stat
utes so as to extend the right of prefer
ence to employees and laborers in cases
where a person, firm or corporation be-
comes insolvent; fixing good time to be
allowed prisoners in the penitentiary;
amending section 2745, Revised Stat
utes, so as to provide that life insurance
companies shall be taxed on the gross
business done, less amount of policies
paid, instead of gross amount as at
present; requiring the clerk of the su
preme court to hereafter keep an index,
direct and reverse, of all cases; agreeing
to the conference committees report on
the CARRIER salary bill; Senate bills,
amending section 3911 SO that where
school boards consist of three members
they be increased to six members on
resolution of majority of the members
of the board or petition of ten citizens;
providing assessors shall be compelled
to have persons who make returns of
personal property swear to the same
and making penalty of Imprisonment
for false returns.
APRIL 3d. Senate - Bills passed:
House bills providing for indexing the
cases in the supreme court and appro-
priating money for the same; giving
justices of peace final Jurisdiction in
cases of trespass by hunters; amending
the law allowing convicts good time;
providing for commission to establish
the positions of Ohio regiments at Chat
tanooga; amending game law so as to
permit squirrels to be killed June | in
stead of July l; requiring prosecuting
attorneys to have been regular practi-
tioners for two years previous to election;
amending an act providing for equip
ment of State house and electric system
by authorizing adjutant general to en-
ploy engineer to make specifications
therefor and to pay Edison Electric light
company $1,000 for furnishing light to
date; prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors in brothels; allowing a suspen-
sion of Judgment in criminal cases by a
lower court when the case is taken to
the supreme court on writ of error.
House Bills passed: House bills,
amending section 1904, Revised Stat
utes, relating to the repairs of improved
roads by providing protection to them
and prohibiting the transfer of heavy
loads; amending section 1867 and pro-
viding that either the husband or the
wife may testify as fully and completely
as other witnesses in all proceedings for
divorce or alimony; making the stealing
of sheep larceny, subject to years |
imprisonment in the penitentiary; au-
thorizing administrators and executors |
to qualify appraisers by administering |
oaths; extending the powers of township |
trustees relative to laying out public |
roads to-coal mines and stone quarries |
creating a non-partisan commission of |
eight to visit Chickamauga battlefield |
and ascertain the position of Ohio troops |
during the engagement; selecting sites
for the location of memorial tablets and |
appropriating $4,000 to carry out the
provisions of the act
MAY 1.-Senate- Bills passed: To
provide for the safety of passengers on
electric street cars crossing one another's
tracks and the tracks of steam railroads; |
authorizing administrators and execu-
tors to administer oaths to appraisers of
property.
HouSe-Bill passed: Senate bills au-
thorizing state board of equalization to
act upon returns of assessors if county |
boards fail to make returns in time; |
amending section 2249, Revised Stat