Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-01-22
OHIOLEGISLATURE.
O. s. Journal Summary.


Limiting rate of Indebtedness per capita
for one purpose in villages; making il
mandatory to appoint a visiting com.
mittee for county institutions; amend.
ing section 4155 not requiring chattel
mortgages secured by notes, etc to be re-
filed before maturity; discharging sure
ties of county infirmary directors; re-
lieving supreme court without creating
commission; giving mayors, justices
of peace final jurisdiction over hunters
who trespass.
House-Bills passed: Paying bounty
to Solomon Fish, color bearer 12lst re-
giment o. V. l.; appropriating $4,000 to
pay salaries and mileage of members of
general assembly.
JAN. 14-SenGte-Bills introduced:
Exempting from taxation farm products
of the same year; preventing corruption
and intimidation at elections; extending
power of state inspector of shops; pro-
viding for the Indiana system at elect
ions; enlarging duties of canal commits
sion; abolishing fee system in Franklin
county and fixing salaries for county Of
ficers; granting 5000 salary of late Sena-
tor Robertson to his daughters; regulat-
ing width of tire upon certain county
roads; allowing fire insurance compa-
nies to withdraw their deposits upon
quitting business in state; regulating
primary elections; defining legal de-
scription of land; amending parole law;
selling real estate to pay debts of wards.
Bills passed: Senate bill changing
names of Elizabeth A. Hinkle and Clyde
E. Hinkle to Elizabeth A. and Clyde E.
Van Buren of East Richland; House bill
appropriating $4,000 to pay expenses
of general assembly; Senate bill making
a wife competent witness against her
husband for violence
HouSe-House bills passed. To value
lands producing oil as it may diminish
or increase according to productions;
permitting boards of councils to transfer
funds without legislative acts; permit
ting the distribution of estates on cash
payment of purchasers at administrators
sale.
JAN. 15-SenGte-Bills introduced
section 2759 of R. s. to COM
pei banks to pay taxes on all moneys on
hand without deducting their liabilities; |
law so that suits to enforce |
the liabilities of stockholders shall be |
brought in the county where the compa- |
ny is located.
HOuSe-Bill introduced: To provide |
for the sale of section 16, school lands, |
the same as other lands.
Bills passed: House bills, empowering |
superior court, Hamilton county. to ap-
point commission to select jurors for |
police court; to strike out clause in sec
ton 545 R. S. requiring probate judges
to make records of cost bills.
JAN. 6-SsfaGtc-Bills introduced
act relative to epileptic COM
stamping weight of oatmeal,
-four, ETC., on the sacks; preventing out
side building and loan associations from
doing business in Ohio.
HOuse-Biils introduced
ing common pleas courts to suspend
sentence in criminal cases after case has
been through circuit court and pending
appeal to supreme court; disqualifying
attorneys for neglect to
prosecute in certain cases; appropriating
S25, 900 to erect a cottage at the Nation
Al Woman's Relief corps home at Madi'
son, Lake county; to reduce the salary
IF the Governor from $4,000 to $4,000,
md all other state officers except audi
,or, treasurer and secretary of state; to
establish school book commission to
tx maximum price on school books;
that boards of education shall
not contract with the teachers before
heir election; authorizinga general levy
If 1-20 mill for Ohio State university;
for expediting the publication
If agricultural reports so as to be ready
or distribution July 1; correct an error
n statute excluding unmarried women
rom the disability clause of limitation
If time in civil actions; providing for
he erection and support of armories by
axation; to repeal an act entitled "To
provide for the epileptic insane"
Bills passed. House bills regulating
he drawing of grand and petit juries;
o define pure wines; regulate the man
fracture of compounds; to provide for
'etter security against railroad aeci-
Tents.