The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-07
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CONBMbUB, April H.-bBNATx. .buls pao0 Aos
Amending ssetien lfs4 70 % - prsviAs skaA
any person leaning 10 ~ art museum o. asse-
citation any property may ale certificate Of
reservation 10 reclaim such property at any
time within ave years; authorizing the son-
missioners OF Adams county TO repair and CON-
struet certain roads; authorizing Qsorgstewn,
Brown county, to issue $50 900 bonds for street
improvements; to provide for the enlargement
Of culverts under the Miami and Eric canal.
HoUeE-fills passed. Providing for levy
for township graded schools; requiring the
building OF county roads to cemeteries on the
petition OF Q majority Of the owners Of abut.
ting property; requiring the posting Of finan-
cial statements of the townshipten days before
the election Of township trustees; permitting
owners Of property abutting on township roads
to construct sidewalks. Bills introduced: Pro-
viding that fines imposed on disorderly women
shall be paid into the fund Of the Cleveland
Shelter for Friendless Women; prohibiting the
locating Of saloons next TO the deaf and dumb
institution st Columbus.
CoLuMBUa April %. 2s.--snNArB.-Bills passed:
To provide for the election Of state
food and dairy commissioner; au-
thorizing tho fish and game commits
sion to settle claims for fishing nets destroyed
under act Of April Is 1859. 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 a. It has in county ditch eAsesi
to empower probate courts to provide fer the
constructing Of levees along bodies Of water
when required BY public health; to authorize
the mayor Of Cincinnati to appoint the three d.
rectors OF the house OF refuge; to prohibit dis
criminntion between insurants OF the same
class or to offer rebates on Insurance.; to pro-
vide that when q county decennial board Of
equalization does not finish its work within q
reasonable time. the state decennial board Of
equalization may fix time for the nling Of tho
report, and II the county is then delinquent,
m tho orer art froY ne
HousE.--The house passed bills to prevent
the doing Of an insurance brokerage bus ness
and prohibiting tho placing OF business in
Ohio with agents outside the state; appropriat.
ing $62 $50 OF the direct tax to pay maturing in
debtedness OF the state board OF agriculture;
compelling every owner or operator of manu-.
featuring or other industrial enterprise to fur
nish the commissioner Of tabor statistics with
information required by him as outlined in his
circular blanks; regulating the management
and providing for stats inspector Of building
associations.
COLUMBUS April 20 29-SENArE-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 tho
portrait Of Ex-Governor Tod. injured by the re.
cent fire in the rotunda, and to repair the paint
ing Of Perrys victory also in the rotunda; to
amend the semi-monthly payment act us
to make II apply to all corporations and firms;
fraudulent entries ofhorses in speed classes;t to
authorize the guardian or trustee of any minor.
insane or imbecile person, when he has agreed
with q corporation on the compensation to be
paid in condemnation OF property, 10 file his ap-
plication In the probate court for authority to
convey the property; to make it a misdemeanor
for an assessor to fail 10 swear 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 tho
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 friendless girls; amending section
G355 OF the Revised Statutes SO as to extend the
preferred claims OF laborers to cases where tho
business of individuals, firms or corporations Ia
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 Of
$4,000. with additional allowances for clerk hire
and Office rent.
COLUMBUS, April SO-SENArH-Bills passed:
Amending section 5697 OF the Revised Statutes
SO as to permit u wife to testify against q hus-
band as to personal violence in divorce pro-
ceedings; to authorize township trustees, on
the petition OF twenty-five properly holders, to
condemn property for q public road to Gene.
terry; providing for the appointment OF com.
mission and appropratiny $1,000 for the loca-
tion and erection OF monuments to Ohio troops
on the Chickamauga battle field; authorizing
administrators and executors to administer
oaths to appraisers; fixing the time to be gain.
ed by convicts in the Ohio penitentary for good
conduct; providing that squirrels may be killed
between June and December 15
HOUSE E-Bills passed: Providing for the ap-
polntment OF q commission and appropriating
" 800 for location and erection of monument
on the battle fields OF Chicamauga to Ohio
troops; making the stealing OF sheep or the
1fnia intt, rtt 80
able by year in the penitentiary; appropri.
attng 5000 for repairing OF paintings in capito!
rotunda; authorizing township trustees to lay
out roads 10 stone QuarrIes, coal lands and
other mineral lands.
COLUMBUS. May 1.-SENArE--Bills passed:
Appropriating 1890 for the relief OF j. w.
Keene, injured in elevator accident at deaf and
dumb asylum; requiring railroad trains to come
10 full stop before crossing street car tracks;
authorizing trustees of Ohio state university to
borrow $50 900 In anticipation of annual levy to
complete buildings; authorizing Canton to
issue $780, 600 In bonds to pay indebtedness:
providing for the payment OF the salaries of
Representatives Heffner and Geyer, and Sena-
tors Amos Hart and Pat.ison, for the unex.
pired term Of their predecessors deceased.
Adjourned until Monday
HoUsE-Bills passed: To facilitate the work
OF the state board of equalization by requiring
county auditors. through he-auditor of state,
ship assessors; TO provide permanent camp
ing ground for the Ohio National Guard. Ad.
journed until Monday.
GEO. PorTERF, of near Augusta, Car
roll county, had his leg broken while
unloading salt Frank Manful, neigh
bors son, mounted one of the horses
and started for a doctor. Two miles
from Augusta tho horse became fright
ened and threw the boy, killing him.
The new city council of Sidney has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
posting of show-bills of an immodest
nature on and after May TO-
AN anti-dancing league is being organ
lied at New Lisbon.
MDDLETowN win borrow $50, 900 to