Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

o. ;. JOurnal summary.
FEB. lS-SeRQte- introduced in
creasing levy for relief of INDECENT sol
diers, sailors and widows; giving compa-
nies the right to ask judges for change
of venue; providing for doubling the
sentences of persons habitually convicted
of misdemeanors; providing for the ap-
pointment of soldiers and sailors: re-
quiring shows, etc, to purchase IL
cense costing from SO to SIS; making
teachers certificates good in any county
and giving county boards power to issue
life certificates to teachers having fifty
months experience; providing that fees
of 81 per mile for railroads shall consti-
tute an Independent fund for expenses
of railroad commissioners office.
Bills passed: Senate bills providing
for appointment of a non partisan
board of four to review affairs of cities
upon petition of forty freeholders; pre-
venting stepfathers from receiving COM
pensation for stepchildren unless he
makes demand upon guardian once a
year; making available appropriations
for salaries of members, clerks, ETC.
giving common pleas courts final juris-
diction in certain cases brought in just
ices courts.
FEB. 19-Sendte- introduced
Reducing fees collected by county Off
GERS about 25 per cent.
Bills passed: House bills amending
section 5521, Revised Statute, by adding
personal injury; Senate bills providing
penalty for violation of law to give
preference of employment and appoint
ment to soldiers; amending parole law
so that the prisoners record as recon-
mended by the warden and chaplain,
shall determine the applicants wOrthi-
ness for parole and also to prohibit at
torneys from appearing before the man
ayers in parole cases; providing for the
sale of franchises by municipal corpora
tions to the highest reliable bidder; pro-
viding that county school examiners,
except one, shall have five years ex-
perience as teachers; requiring township
trustees to give bonds and regulating
their fees; reenacting old registration
clause for spring elections in large cities:
restoring old law for school examiners,
eliminating the provision that members
must have experience as teachers.
House-Bills passed; House bills max
ing appropriations to pay certain claims
for improvements at State House; pro-
Viding federal plan of government for
Cleveland; Senate bill defining the own
ership of game and for the protection
of landowners against trespassing hunt
ers,
Hose Joint resolution passed: Relat-
ing to amending the constitution on the
question of taxation.
FEB. 0-SenGte-Bills introduced:
Amending section 2 relative to burial
of soldiers by relief committee; provid-
ing a uniform table of fees for county
officers.
House-Bills introduced: To compel
the teaching physical culture and gym
nasts in the public schools; authorizing
road supervisors to destroy "black knot
on cherry trees and receive pay from
township fund; to tax the rolling stock
of railroad companies whose prin-
cipal Office is located outside of the state;
to permit relatives of insane persons to
conduct them to asylums; amending an
act passed in 1903 so as to provide that
the membership of the various religious
societies shall be certified to the minis
terial trustees for distribution; to pro-
hibit the publication of obscene adver-
tisements of patent medicines; creating
state board for the examination of
railroad employees running trains; to pro-
tect the interest of workingmen by pro-
viding for advancement on the docket
of suits for wages