Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-01-28
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
Ohio State Journal Summary.


JAN. 9-Senate-Bills introduced:
Exempting unmarried women from
$500 in lieu of homestead; compelling
sleeping car companies to furnish pro-
lection for valuables by applying law
relating to hotels to sleeping cars.
Bills passed: House bill, appropriat-
ing $13,041 deficiency for publishing
constitutional amendments.
House-Bills introduced: Amending
laws relating to public printing by max
ing special class of the bulletins of the
Ohio Experimental Station; making it
felony to tap telegraph and telephone
lines without authority; authorizing
county auditors to refund taxes errone
ously collected for taxes and permitting
a deduction of the States portion from
the next semi-annual settlement.
JAN. 0-Sendte-Bills introduced
To recover the assessed value of stolen
dogs from thieves and provide penalty;
to prohibit sheriffs and cOnstables from
removing furniture sold on installment
plan in replevin cases without serving
two days notice.
Bills passed: House bill, to appropri-
ate $500 each for legislative contingent
expenses.
House-Bills introduced: To prohibit
the unauthorized wearing and the i'm
proper use of Loyal Legion and Grand
Army badges; prohibiting the killing
of quail in Ohio for five years; restrict
ing and limiting testators from making
indefinite bequests and barring full set
tlement of estates by allowing the heirs
to appoint an administrator to establish
shares where residue is unknown; SIM
plifying sections of statntes relating to
the enforcement of liens by owners of
stations; amending section 1910, Re
vised Statutes, requiring township trus-
tees to make detailed statement of re-
ceipts and expenditures.
JAN. 21-iSenate- introduced
To prohibit the majority of stockhold-
ers in joint stock companies from dis
posing of their stock without giving
stockholders two weeks notice, land max
ing a sale in violation of this provision
void; providing that corporations char
tered prior to the present constitution
may comply with all its requirements
without forfeiting their previous rights;
providing for election of assessors in
precincts whose territory extends into
more than one township; to amend elec-
ton law making it discretionary with
board to divide any precincts containing
more than 500 voters.
House-Bills passed: House bills, pro-
yiding for posting detailed statements
of school funds by township trustees ten
days before and on election day; partial
appropriation bill.
Bills introduced: Providing that coun-
ty commissioners may establish free
ferries over interior streams of the State
when bridges have been destroyed by
fire or flood; changing the statutes so
that notice of school examinations shall
be published in two papers in each coun
ty; revising and correcting the laws per-
tanning to filing bills of exceptions in
courts of record: authorizing directors of
county agricultural societies to proceed
in condemnation to enlarge fair grounds;
creating an examiner of railroad tele-
graphs and prescribing for the punish
ment of railway officials who employ
telegraphers not bearing certificates of
competency from said official examiner.