The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-04-12
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.
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COiumbus--sieasur introduced
and Passed. ,

Columbus. o., April s.--senate--Bills
were passed as. follows: To exempt from
the collateral inheritance tax charitable
institutions and institutions of purely
pubic character; to regulate the consol
idation of insurance companies and re-
insurance of risks; 10 make II felony
for a parent to refuse to pay the expense
of his child at county. or district emil.
dren's home to provide for pu u1iieation 10 oi
TO make liable to tlXation H. OHIO any per
son who has reside IN the s az the great
er part of the II months preceding the
appraisemert
House--Bills were passed as follows:
Granting to guardians of minors, luna
court that are allowed admnisi rators;
giving to the state railroad commissioners
the right to require railroad companies to
where trains are scheduled to stop. on the
petition of ten persons; requiring all Of
fetal state documents 70 be bound IN Vol,
umes of 1000 pages each; fixing levy OF
1-100 mills for the support of Wilberforce
university, this levy TO be doubled in 1906
and 1901.
senate passed the Toledo centennial ap-
propriation bill after cutting the appro-
priation from $l,00O00o to s75o0Oo and pro-
Vidng for a new commission of II mem
bers to be appointed by Gov. Nash The
bill as 1t came from the house provided
for the continuance of the original Gom, is,1i.
were introduced amending the. teachers
pension law; to allow. a, judge accused
seressed naeg In 0tf the ddecson of any case to
file within three days an afhdavit deny
ing the charges made against him the
case then to be considered by the pre-,
siding judge of the district. to compel
electric light and gas companies TO 1ul-
nish without charge a meter FOR each
House-Bills passed as follows: Ex-
empting brewers and owners of cold stor-
age warehouses from payment OF the
Dow tax for the years previous to the
years of 1898: amenuln'; the game laws
so as 10 make the open season for snoot-
ing quail and all otner game run from
November 10 to December of each year;
making 1t misdemeanor to hunt upon
the land of another person without get
ting the written consent of the owner
restricting deaf mutes over the age Of
10, who are educated at the expense or
any county under the 1898 law, to instruc-
tion for not more than FIVE years; pro,
vidng for the dissolution of special school
districts; restricting township trustees to
levy for rSsa purposes
were passed as follows: Authorizing the
state canal commissioners to lease for 10
years canal lands at their discretion; pro-
vidng for the giving of instruction in
physical culture in the public schools OF
the state, in normal schools and at teach
ers' institutes: to authorize natural gas,
petroleum and waterworks companies to
condemn lands for purchase; to author
ize the killing of any dog which worries
sheep or cattle; to restrict the jurisdic-
tion of justices of the peace In attach
ment cases to the township where one
of the persons interested resides, or
tiCn is situated; to provide for the ad-
journment of county boards of equaiiza-
tion on or before the first Monday in Oc-
tober after their convcning: to allow ped
dlers to sell goods without first holding
them or 80 days; to increase TO 16 years
girls industrial school, and to Is years
when a girl may he removed from the
peniten tiarv. to the school; to provide for
N1,..1 1tEtty, for tax ft,rn for hA 10
of forfeited lands.
House-Bils were passed as follows:
Permitting Cincinnati to annex surround
ing towns and villages; prohibiting the
combination of insurance agents for pur-
pose of increasing or maintaining rates;
eXempting insurance companies from max
ness done outside of the state of Ohio;
directing the governor to return to the
survivors of the 30th Louisiana confeder-
ate volunteers the battle flag captured
by an OHIO reTimens, and now in the
relic room Of the state house: authorizing
the governor to appoint some one to rep.
factories at the Paris exposition: to pro-
vide for publication of 1000 additional
copies of the law library catalogues.
Columbus, o.. April 6.-Senate--A larger
Appropriation was made in the general
appropriation bill. to rebuild the build
Ing destroyed by fire in the penitentiary.
passed were to amend the act governing
bond issues for water works purposes in
Cleveland, to exempt from depoSiting
with the state treasurer the sum of $780,
300 insurance and trust companies which
insure by advancing the money to be in
sured and taking a mortgage to insure
the payment thereof.
House-Representative De Rams gen
eral bicycle bill was passed. Other bills
passed Were permitting township trustees
to rent township halls for social pur-
poses: TO prevent tuberculosis in cattle:
authorizing the state board of equaliza-
,ion of railroad property to revise the
apportionment by county auditors. Mr.
Sharp introduced bill providing that Ia
bells shall be placed on all medicines not
compounded by druggists and physicians
giving ingredients and quantity of each