The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-12
The Law-Makers.

Bills were passed by the Senate Thurs
pay as follows: To extend the life of the
State Canal Commission; 20 provide addi-
tional compensation at So per day and the
| services of clerks for county boards of
equalization and for the Stale Board OF
Equalization.
The following bills passed the House:
Imposing penalties for the infringement OF
trade marks, and providing for their regis
tration with the Secretary of State: amend
ing the weed law SO that abutting land
owners may cut weeds on highways AMI
have cost credited to their road tax If land
owners do not cut weeds the township
road supervisor shall and the expense shall
be paid out of the township road fund: au
thorizing the State Board of Public Works
to lease the bernie bank of the Ohio Canal
between Newark and Buckeye Lake to the
traction company making the best offer:
for the protection of fruit growers against
the San Jose scale. 1t was amended TO do
away with the proposed corps of inspect
ors, and the Ohio Experiment Station is
authorized TO eXpend not to exceed $4,000
per year in the work: permitting guard
ians of minors and imbeciles to mortgage
wards property for needed repairs.
The following bills passed the House
Friday: Authorizing the Commissioners
of Lake County to join with the Council OF
Painesyille in improving road; author
ning the Commissioners of Clinton and
Fulton Counties to pay an additional 81
per day TO real estate assessors: authoriz-
ing the Trustees of German Township.
Fulton County, to levy additional taxes for
road Improvement; permitting banks in
Hamilton and GAINESVILLE having paid
up capital of S50.0o0, to become custodians
of trust funds. This is now law.
Bills passed the House Tuesday as fol-
lows: Granting 10 guardians of minors,
lunatics and imbeciles the same rights in
court that are allowed administrators:
giving TO the State Railroad Commissioner
the right to require railroad companies to
erect suitable waiting rooms at all places
where trains are scheduled to stop. on the
petition of ten persons; requiring all Off
cial State documents to be bound in vol
umeS of 1000 pages each: fixing levy OF
1-lOO mills for the support of Wilberforce
University, this levy TO he doubled in 1909
and 1891.
The Senate met with a bare quorum, and
remained in session only an hour.
The following bills were passed: To
exempt from the collateral inheritance tax
charitable institutions and institutions of
purely public character; TO regulate the
consolidation of insurance companies and
reinsurance of risks: to make it a felony
FOR parent 10 refuse to pay the expense OF
his child at a county or district children's
home: to provide for the publication OF in
iention TO apply for remission of taxes.
Friends of the Toledo Centennial are |
iOwncaSt. The commission of twenty |
one gentlemen who have heretofore |
over the Toledo Centennial was |
day, and a new commission of eleven per- |
sons, to be appointed by the Governor,
in its place. The appropriation |
was cut down from Si,000,000 to s15o.O00.
The Kreis bill, eXempting brewers and |
owners of cold storage warehouses from |
payment of the Dow tax for the years pre-
viouS 10 1898, except in such cases where |
demand had been made for the payment |
Of the taxes. passed the House after an an
mated debate. Most of the speakers took
The ground that the passage of the bill was
merely an act of justice, inaSmuch as no
demand had ever been made for such
axes, and to force the brewers TO pay the
Jack taxes and penalties now would seri-
'usly cripple many of the smaller con-
;ernS.
A large number of local bills were