The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-05-05
OUR LEGISLATURE.

c0mpei electors to vote.
The Ricketts, Senate bill, giving Work.
house Boards authority to parole and par.
don prisoners, was passed by the Senate
The Ray House bill, authorizing County
Commissioners to purchase markers FOL
graves of deceased soldiers, sailors anG
marines, passed the senate.
The Senate cOneurred in the House
amendments to the Hypes bill abolishina
City Boards of Election.
The HOdse, by concurrence on the Sen.
ate bills, made laws, practically, of the
following measures:
To regulate by license and inspection
the manufacture of feed stuffs.
The uniform i'll for the regulation oil
fraternal beneficiary associations in all
the States, agreed upon in national con-
vention of representatives of those as
sOciations held in 1908.
The House passed the following bills
Thursday, already passed by the Senate
making laws OF them:
Providing system Of age and school
ing certificate open to the inspection oi
State Factory Inspector; extending to
larger Counties other than Cuyahoga the
Juvenile Court law; providing that Pro-
bate Judges shall transmit to Recorders a
certificate of the filing of wills devising
real estate in the County where the will
is probated; authorizing County Commits
sioners to levy not exceeding three mills
for County purposes other than for roads,
bridges, county buildings, purchase OF
infirmary lands.
Bills that passed the Senate were:
Permitting the Clerk of Police Court in
cities having more than one Police Judge
to name an interpreter; empowering mu-
inequalities to condemn and appropriate
land around parks or public buildings; to
appropriate $500 for permanent i'm
provement ON banks of st. Mary's reser-
voir upon demand by the State Emergency
Board; fixing fine Of $500 and not to ex-
ceed thirty days of imprisonment for at
tempting to corrupt witness; making 1t
a felony to leave any receptacle contain
ing nitroglycerin in any place other than
factory or magazine.
The Senate passed the following ILLS
Friday, which will be laws when approved
by the Governor:
Providing that in any county where
tolls have heen collected on the national
road, and remain in the County Treasury,
the same shall be expended in the i'm
prOvement Of such road; increasing the
l ond of the State Insurance Commissioner
from SIC, 900 to $l00, 900; establishing Po-
lice Court in the City of youngstown;
waterwOrks companies, electric light or
power companies the right to condemn
land for erection Of power houses, lines
of poles and wire, pipe lines or conduits;
permitting the catching Of blue gill and
sun fish at any time in the year; permit
ting the consolidation of the Wharton and
Carnegie Libraries at Portsmouth: pro-
viding that where coal rights Of any
land have been sold or leased the tax up
on such laud shall be apportioned between
the land owner and the owner Of the coal
rights by the County Board Of Equaliza-
tion; compelling persons issuing trading
stamps to redeem them in any amount
above five cents, and requiring such
stamps to have a cash as we'll as merchan-
disc value; providing that girls sentenced
to the Girls Industrial Home may be
legally held under such sentence until she
has reached the age of 2l years.
The House passed the following Senate
bills:
Giving Common Plea Courts jurisdic-
tion over crossings over steam and elec-
trio roads outside of municipalities; cor
recting defects in the title of the Mercer
County Shooting Club to lands in Mercer
County; providing that evidence given by
any person in the trial of another for vio-
lating liquor traffic laws cannot be used
against him in any prosecution; authoriz-
ing County Commissioners to care for
monuments of the members of Union sold
iers and sailors; authorizing insurance and
fidelity companies in Ohio to reinsure
risks that they hold in other States in
companies that are not licensed in Ohio.
The Legislature adjourned since die
Monday. The school code, bill was passed
according to agreement; also two import
ant revenue bills, one providing for the
establishment of repositories for State
funds and another assessing tax of per
cent. on all inheritances in excess Of
$4,000. A resolution was adopted pro-
viding for submission to the people Of a
amendment exempting
county, township and school
bonds from extration. The Governor We
toed the Chrisholm bill to legalize pool
selling at race tracks, "fOr the reason that
the same is against the moral interests of
the State, violates sound public policy
and is forbidden by the constitution"
The Attorney General held that the bill
was unconstitutional.