Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-03
ONO LEGISLATURE



HOUE-BiIis introduced: Providing .
penalty for tie malicious killing or
Wounding Of trespassing cattle; exempt
ing cities Of the second class, third grade.
from the requirment Of having the city
clerk certify previous 70 condemnation
proceedings; to release deposits Of insur-
ance companies withdrawing from bust
ness In the state; repeating the act passed
in 1850 authorizing the state to transfer
swamp lands to the counties in which
they lie; providing for the more advanced
education Of the blind by providing for
the payment Of tuition expenses Of gradu-
ates of the state institution; permitting
councils Of cities where electric and cable
street railroads are operated 10 pass
ordinances requireing the posting Of
watchmen at crossings; rendering more
easy and effective garnishee attachments
in magistrates courts; amending Section
6S92 so as to extend the provision Of the
act prohibiting the boarding Of moving
railroads trains to electric railways and
increasing the penalty by adding inn
prisonment to the fine; providing for
separate ballot boxes where an election
precinct is made up Of part of a township
and municipality so that electors may vote
separately fer township and municipal
officers; to prevent the placing of obstruc-
tions on public foot and sidewalks con-
structed by township trustees. House
bills passed: House bills prohibiting the
publication of advertisements relating to
private diseases; requiring all railroads
over forty miles in length to use steam
for heating purposes and abolishing the
car stove; senate bill providing that in
cases of suits to recover wages, when an
appeal is taken by defendant and the de-
cision of lower court sustained, there
shall be taved in the costs SIS fee for.
plaintiffs attorney; requiring all teachers
In common schools to be examined in ad-
dition TO other branches, as to their knowl-
ege of current topics" Senate bill au-
thoring cou1ty boards of elections to
| divide precincts upon petition of majority
of voters.
SENATE-Bills introduced: To amend
| Section 1922 SO that farmers are not COM
PEELED to give assessor the statistical re-
turns regarding the number of acres of
wheat sown and produced; toallow county
commissioners to fix the compensation for
attorneys in cases to collect delinquent
| taxes; to reu1ire county surveyors to act
as engineers in construction of county
bridges, roads and bitches; to restore the
old law taxir 6 manufacturers and exempt
! ing the years produce of farmers from
taxation; to repeal the struck jury law;
| to require town councils to advertise
where the work or material exceeds 500;
to require county commissioners to adver
tise for bids here the work or material
I exceed Si00 Bills passed: House bills to
| give owners of stations and jacks lien
on the seasons "get" until eight months
after birth; to provide that in laying out
| a state road passing through two or more
| counties each shall appoint acommissioner
| and that the county having three-fifths Of
the road shat be entitled to two commits
sioners; authorizing agricultural societies
to enlarge and improve their grounds at
| will of their board; to make disorderlY
conduct on trains misdemeanor; to re-
| quire presiding judges to instruct juries
before arguments by counsel when either
party demand it; to eradicate the disease
known as block knot" on plum and cherry
trees by burning the same. Senate bills:
To amend Section of an act to regulate
the use of dynamite by forbidding the
storing of explosives within eighty rods
of dwelling outside of municipal cor
| porations; to compel constables to leave
| furniture two days after writ of execu-
ton has been served, thereby allowing the
owner to- get bonds, to amend Section
6342 SO that the order Of the court shall
operate as a conveyance of title to prop
\ erty in cases where both the assignee and
assignor are dead :s as.s =, ..as,ses,