Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-19
OHIOLEGISLATURE.

o. S. Journal Summary
MARCH -Senate-Bills passed.
House bills modifying duties of probate
judgse; anthrizing Guernsey county to
issue $4,000 bonds to build railroad
Freeport township, Harrison county,
build railroad; to enable incorporated
villages to refund their bonded indebt-
edness if it can be done at lower rate
of interest, amending the INDECENT SOL
dier burial law.
Bills introduced: Amending section
1867 by including annual reports of
county commissioners; amending Sec
tion 2349 relating to suits against mu-
inequalities.
HouSe-Bills passed: To promote the
safety of pupils at boarding schools; re-
lating to insurance of live stock; House
bill to authorize land owners to lay pipe
lines within the lines of the public roads;
to create tuwnship supervisors in GER
tain townships; increasing salaries of
deputy clerks of supreme court; relating
to removal of assignees; permitting fire
insurance to insure against explosions;
Senate bill providing municipalities may
levy tax to pay interest on water works
bonds; House bill providing for the col
lection and arrangement of products of
Ohio at the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
ton; to provide that riparian rights shall
not include exclusive privileges for fish
ing and hunting.
MARCH 11-Senate- passed: =
House bills, supplementing section $3.50
Revised Statutes; to provide fer insane
inmates of Ohio Soldiers and Sailors
home.
Bills introduced: Providing for the
appointment of a board of trustees of
water works of Cincinnati and the issue
of $5,000,000 bonds; regulating foreign
mutual fire insurance companies doing
business in this state; increasing the
number of aides on the Governors staff
to fifteen; to provide for the meeting of
the decennial board of equalizationsin
Cleveland.
HOIse-Bills introduced: Sandusky
county to issue 100000 in bonds to
build court house, to be submitted to
a vote of the people; providing new
government for Springfield.
House bills, giving labor commissioner
power of removing appointees; provid
ing for fencing up improved roads; pro-
viding for an insane asylum in eastern
Ohio; providing for license on trades in
Cincinnati; providing for Australian
ballot system.
Bills introduced: Providing a penalty
fn fni nf fn ,tly ot
returns, and also for one to make false
returns; amending insurance law.
House e-Bill passed: To provide a new
government for Springfield.
MARCH -Sendte-Bills introduced:
To define the rights of fathers and moth
ers living apart by divorce or otherwise;
to appropriate $4,000 to aid in construct
ion of memorial tablet at Gettysburg.
Bills passed: To provide county
to certain counties; to grant
right of way for railway through Ohio
State diversity lands.
H0use-Bills introduced: Amending
section 64l5, Revised Statutes, so as to |
enable guardians to make deeds in ap-
proceedings when they have
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making it obligatory on county commits
sioners to appoint inspectors of nuisanc-
es; providing that the records of the
adjutant general of Ohio and the adiu-
tant general of the United States shall
be prima facie evidence of a soldiers
abolishing office of county
infrmary directors and giving township
trustees power to extend relief to the
poor; authorizing canal commission to
sell lands at not less than appraised val
le; amending section 1927 so that when
village school districts become too large
% be controlled by one body the same
nay be divided by vote of the people
1t any election to be called by the board
If education; to amend section 1917,
Revised Statutes, so that county com
shall appoint commissioners
o establish road, when same passes
through more than one county; pro-
'iding that all bonds issued by county
boards of education.
tc., should be sold to the highest bidder, ,
fter advertising. /