The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-04-19
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
fourth Session Of the Ohio Leg
islature NJ C0l.mbus.


Columbus, April 11.-Senatc-Bille
passed: To provide that trial Judge
who is accused of bias in any case,
may file q counter-affidavit, the case
TO be heard by the presiding Judge Of
the district.
To make II misdemeanor to al
low bull to run az large. To regu-
late the handling of nitro-glycerine.
To provide for the continuance OF
commissions to superin! end the con-
struction and maintenance of bicycle
paths throughout the stale, the
wheelmen alone to pay the expense
thereof.
House--Givihg guardians the right
to pay tuition of wards in schools
outside of resident district. Author
izing county recorders to use type
writers in preparing permanent rec
ords of Office. Enlarging the powers
of prosecuting attorneys, in bringing
suits on official bonds. ENempting
from taxation lands on which histor-
ical monuments are erected Modi-
flying the existing law 50 that state
commissioner of railways may order
repaired overhead bridges which are
not 81 feet from the track as re-
qlired by the statute for the safety
of trainmen
Columbus, o., April 12.-Senate--
Bills passed: Authorizing county
commissioners to require persons
convicted of misdemeanors to work
out their sentences; applying the
laws governing work on roads to
state line roads; authorizing the APP
preparation of $4,000 to stamp out
the San Jose scale; providing that
boards of decennial appraisement
shall sit the. next year as boards of
revision; providing for the payment
of tsition of high school pupils in
adjoining counties when there is no
such school in home counties; au-
thorizing the spearing of fish in the
back waters of the Ohio river; pro-
viding for the registration of the
union label; to regulate the practice
OF osteopathy; giving honorably dis
charged soldiers of all wars prefer
ence in employment on public works.
House-3ills passed: Reducing to
IA the age at which children may
be employed in mines during vaca-
tons; imposing penalties for the vio-
lation of the obligation of secrecy by
messenger companies; relieving brew
ers from payment of back taxes un-
der Dow law on goods kept in stor-
age previous to 1898; providing that
personal property shall be listed for
taxation at it's true value in money.
Columbus, o., April 13.-Senate-
Bills passed: Including soldiers of
the Spanish-American war in the
statutes which gives eX-soldiers
preference for public employment; re-
ducing to $50 the minimum penalty for
township or municipal officers who
have an interest in the profits of any
contract let by them; providing for
the trial before county probate courts
of alleged neglect or refusal to pay
the Dow tax; holding county from
which case is taken responsible for
costs of change of venue; providing a
method for improving county roads;
authorizing the appointment of a
state commissioner OF soldiers claims.
House-Bills passed: Deficiency ap-
preparation bill carrying 1887 ,637; re-
| quiring debenture companies to make
the deposit of 100000 required by the
laws with the state superintendent of
insurance from their capital stock, in
stead of from their deposits; provid-
ing for scientific instruction in tenn
perance in the schools of the state;
requiring administrators and execu-
tors to report to the probate court
within one year lists of claims filed
against estate.
Columbus, O., April 14.-Senate-
Bills passed: Permitting the state
school commissioner to investigate
the accounts of school treasurers; to
provide for the Capitalization of
township schools, subject to the vote
of the people interested; allowing
wife to adopt the children of her hus-
band by former marriage; to pro-
vide suitable waiting rooms at rail
road stations; making the open sea-
son for all game November 10 to De-
cember IS; to require administrators
and executors to file accounts of all
claims against estates under their
charge with the probate court; sub.
mitting to vote of interested electors
proposed increase in road tax levy;
providing for teaching music to town.
ship school pupils; extending the op
Grafton of the existing laws governing
homestead and dover exemptions to
all assignment cases; requiring EN-
ployers to grant employees two hours
on election day in which to vote; linn
iting to eight hours the work day Of
men employed on public works; re
quiring sportsmen to secure writer
permit from the owner before enter
ing grounds to shoot.
House-Bills passed: Requiring {
low water alarm gauge to be placed
in all steam boilers; forbidding tn,
sale of cocaine and morphine excep
upon the prescription of licensed
physician, forbids the refilling of pre-
scriptions; authorizing the consolida
tion of electric light companies; per
mitting secret, beneficial and religious
societies to invest surplus funds IL
real estate; changing the name of tn
German Lutheran Synod of Ohio AM
adjacent states to the Evangelical Lu
theran. Seminary of the Evangelics
Jut heI,an .Iainf SYNOD of Ohio