Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-04-08
OHIO LEGISLATURE

CoiumDuS, March 30--Ihe house
passed the following bills yesterday.
Giving mayors power to close saloons
during riots-penalty for violating
the order 500 to $500 fine and ten to
30 days imprisonment, or both; to
provide for transferring to the state
home at Madison, o., of wives and
widows of eX-soldiers, sailors and
marines and army nurses; to provide
for organization of chattel loan asso-
Citations, capitalized at not to en-
ceed $500,OOO authorized to begin
business when $4,000 is subscribed.
rate of interest not to exceed per
cent; fixing the standard for milk
tests at 17.6 cubic centimeters; and
that the test tubes or bottles for
milk shall have capacity of two
cubic centimeters for each 10 per
cent. marked on the necks thereof.
The senate passed these bills: Au-
thorizing county commissioners to
care for burial grounds and monu-
ments of soldiers and sailors; appro-
priating $4,000 for the erection of n
monument to the memory of Gen. w.
IL. Gibson at Tiffin, condtionally that
the city augment that amount by $S.-
600; authorizing cemetery assocn-
tlons to sell lands upon which to
erect public monuments or memor-
ials to distinguished deceased per-
sons; making it embezzlement where
any employe takes funds in any
amount within three years that will
aggregate $35; regulating the con-
duct of theaters and requiring provis-
ions for the protection of life-pro-
visions do not apply to halls of
seating capacity or $50 or less, ex-
cept open summer theaters
Columbus, March 31.-The senate.
last night passed the Harrison
school code by a vote of "a to 3.
The school code came up as u spe-
cial order at . p. m.
Columbus, April 1.-The house pass
ed the following bills yesterday:
Providing that the security deposits
made by foreign companies shall be
for the benefit of all the policyhold
ers and not merely those in Ohio; re
pealing the act for the incorporation
and regulation of stipulated prem
ium life insurance companies-it does.
not GUST companies now organized in
doing business here, authorizing the
organization of mutual insurance as,
sociations to assume hailstone and
gas explosion damage risks; requir
ing assessment accident and health
insurance associations of other
states to file annual reports with the
state commissioner by March /, and
authorizing him to revoke licenses
when the expenses have exceeded 80.
per cent. of the incomes providing
that only the subscribed capital of
domestic life and legal reserve life,
companies must be paid up before.
han 10 Il h,,u; nj
ing legal reserve life companies to.
file with the insurance commissioner.
their charters and bylaws; authoriz-
ing insurance commissioner to issue
licenses permitting fire, lightning, ex-
plosion. tornado and marine insur-
ance in companies not licensed in
Ohio, on oath that the insurance cam
not be secured from companies
licensed here; to continue city boards
of elections in Office until suspended
by boards to be created under The
pending general election bill; making
more explicit the cosdition of insur-
ance licenses, that suit may be
brought in counties where the appl;-
cations for insurance are made.
The senate passed the following
bills: Authorizing township trustees
and county commissioners to organize,
special road districts of two and not
more than four townships, with pow
er to improve roads in such distrcts:
making the chief clerk in the office of
| the auditor of state, the deputy state
auditor, with power to act as state
auditor in the absence of that Off
cial; two bills, one providing that in
| townships the trustees may appoint
assessors to fill any existing vacan-
cies, and the other giving power of
appointment to auditors in cities-as-
SCISSORS to serve until their successors
are elected and qualified; empower
ing the sheriff of any county to ap-
point, subject to the approval of the
probate judge, three Jail matrons at
salaries not to exceed $50 month,
| payable ost of the general revenue
| fund of the county.
Columbus, April 2.-Brief sessions
were held in both houses and senate
| Friday at which there was nothing
| done except the introduction of bills
and the fling of reports of commit
| tees.
Columbus, April 5.-Brief sessions,
of both branches of the legislature
were held last evening. The follow
ing bills were introduced in the
| house: To limit the right of habeas
corpus in case person is detained in
a benevolent or penal institution to-
the county in whick such institution
is situated; to relieve witnesses from
discriminating themselves in testify
| ing in cases involving bucket shop
| prosecutions; reducing the fee for
examination of medical students
from $25 to So; removing the limit
| of debt that corporation may in
cur; to segregate consumptive cases
Mt the Central state hospital-the bill
| provides for a new building to cost
$4,000 to be erected this year to-
house one sex of the insane consump-
tive patients and fer $4,000 build
ing for the other sex next year.
The senate passed the following
bills: Appropriating $1,5OO for the
| relief of Edward Muthert, late SER