The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-02-25
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

duced: To authorize McConncllsville, Morgan
county, to issue Is, 900 in bonds for cemetery
purposes; to authorize Malta, Morgan county.
to issue 5000 in bonds for gas purposes; to
authorize McConnellsville, Morgan county, to
issue 5000 in bonds for gas purposes.
HousE-Bills introduced: To authorize prop.
erty owners TO begin proceedings in probate to
condemn and sell abandoned burial grounds,
when the village or city has on interest therein,
and the grounds have not been improved for two
years; to authorize township trustees to open
and improve streets and alleys outside corpora
tons, and issue bonds therefor upon application
Of the owners Of o majority Of the abutting
property: providing for the Issue OF life certif-
Gates to teachers In country districts; author
izing county examining boards to grant Ave-
year certificates, good in any county OF the
state, to teachers; to require administrators and
executors to file accounts of distribution; to
provide that taxes assessed for joint township
cemetery purposes, shall be placed In the hands
Of o managing trustee; to abolish the Office OF
state inspector Of rife practice and to author
ize the adjutant general to employ United
States army officer to assist in the drills and
inspection Of the Ohio National guard; to re-
Quire telegraph companies to pay fees amount
ing to flve cents mile of line to the state rail-
road commissions, to be turned into the state
treasury.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 18.-SENATE.-Bills intro
duced: To amend section 3, ,4S7-1 so rs to author.
Ice boards Of education or directors OF county
districts to rent, lease, or grant the use Of
school buildings for the select and normal
schools when the same are not used for the
common schools; TO supplement section 5,Sle
and $50 so as to provide for the care or dis
position of perishable property involved In re-
pievin and attachment proceedings, SO that its
value may not decrease pending litigation;
10 amend section $500 so as to allow
oil savings and loan companies to make
loans to the extent Of seventy-five, instead
80 a -
which such loans are secured Among several
bills passed were the following Of general in
terest: Curing q technical error in the act pro-
viding for the care of insane inmates at the Ohio
Soldiers home A law. Providing that oil hon
orably discharged soldiers who have been in
mates Of the state one year or more at the date
Of making application shall be eligible to the
Ohio Soldiers home, and that in such cases
preference shall be given to those who served in
Ohio regiments. A law.
HoUsE-Bills passed; To make the ami.
versary Of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln legal
holiday; to provide for the election Of an addi-
tional Judge Of the common pleas court in the
First subdivision Of the Fifth judicial district
composed Of Adams, Brown and Clermont coun-
ties. law. To provide that telegraph, tele.
phone and gas companies having grants for the
use Of streets in Cincinnati, shall, before using
the streets, obtain permits from the board Of
| administration
COLUMBUS, Feb. r.-SENArE-Bills passed:
Amending section o723 so that no proceeding to
reverse, vacate or modify judgment or final
order shall be commenced, unless within si{
months after rendition Of judgment or order,
unless the person entitled to such proceeding is
an infant or of unsound mind in which case the
six months shall be exclusive Of the time of such
disability; prohibiting road supervisors from
placing bitches in front Of dwelling houses, with
out tiling or seweriug the same, SO as not to IN
terfere with the convenience Of the property
owner. Bills introduced: To provide that the
state school commissioner shall prepare all ex-
animation questions for the county school ex.
aminers. and thus the examinations shall be
made uniform throughout the state; to prohibit
| itinerant merchants from selling merchandise
without both o state and local license.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: To provide for the de-
| struction Of plum and cherry trees afflicted
with "black-knot;' to provide for the publica-
ton OF notices Of examination Of applicants for
| teachers certificates in two papers Of op-
! posite politics; to provide that children in
| township district residing more than one mile
and o half from the school where they have
legal residence, may attend the nearest school;
to exempt from service on juries oil persons
over seventy years Of age; providing that, in
| case the defendant in suit for wages appeals
| from the decision Of Justice Of the peace, he
shall pay fifteen dollars for the fee OF the suit
Or's attorney In case tho Judgement Is not re.
versed. A law.
| duced: Authorizing the governor to appoint
| two reputable citizens to investigate as to the
| advisabilty Of establishing b state institution
| for the reformation of drunkards, and appro-
! priating 5000 for experiments, extending for q
| period of nine months; to amend section 25O2 so
as to authorize all municipalities in the state TO
grant perpetual street railway franchises on
| proper remuneration, and to prohibit the grant
| ing Of the same gratuitously; imposing o fine
Of $40 to 500 for tampering with the drains.
Bills passed. Amending sections 5547 and $500
| so as to allow garnishees to demand fees in ad-
vance, and If not paid he shall not be in con-
tempt Of court for failing to answer; amending
| section 1921 by authorizing county commission
ers to build and maintain public ferries where
necessary, and preferable to bridges.
HoUsE.-Bills passed: To require common
pleas courts to appoint boards of visitors for
county charitable and correctional institutions;
| to provide that, when u widows dover consists
! Of timber or unimproved lands, whose annual
| rental will not give her an income cOmmensur-
| ate with the value of the lands, the court may
order enough of the land sold to provide the
| widow with her dover; to provide for the crea-
tion of public libraries in villages and cities of
less than 80 600 inhabitants: to provide penalties
for violation of the switching law Bills intro
duced: To provide for the appointment Of police
matrons in all cities of more than q, 900 popula-
ton; to increase the mileage fees Of jurors from
five to ten cents per mile; to provide for the
better protection Of mechanics who are COM
PEELED to work on scafolds; to provide for the
branding of cheese, apd to prevent fraud in its
manufacture and sale.
COLUMBUS, Feb 19.-SENATE.-The follow.
ing bills were introduced: To transfer s20O
from the street lighting to the general fund in
Bellevue, Sandusky county, to transfer s46C
| from the street fund to the corporation, bridge,
fire and light funds in Seville, Medina county.
| HoUsE.-Bls were introduced as follows:
To abandon portion of the Hooking canal; to
appropriate $4,000 for the completion of the
geological survey and publication Of the report;
for the construction of o road from Norwood to
Oakley, Hamilton county; to authorize Mt. Vic
tory, Hardin county, to issue 200 bonds for q
town hall; to authorize boards of county com
missioners TO appoint county inspectors OF
nuisances ito authorize the village of London tC
issue $4,000 bonds for the construction of a
building to be used as a factory and election
| house.
| State News Items.
The John Duncan and Sam Norris
factions met in Bloomfield dry good: