The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-08

which case the directors Of the dis
trict shall pay for the water.
School boards are empowered to
buy or lease lands for playground
purposes.
Amendments.
An amendment to the code, pro-
vides for special examinations twice a
year. These are to be held for the
purpose of determining the extent of
knowledge of applicants as special
teachers, such as music, art, gymnas-
| tics, foreign languages, commercial
or Industrial branches In any ele-
mentary or high school,
An act that makes the form of an
amendment to the code and which is
of great interest to baseball fans"
| legalizes Sunday baseball. The new
bill is simply the enactment of the
old law with the prohibitory passage
relating to baseball struck from the
list of other Sunday amusements
which are forbidden.
Canal Legislation.
| A great deal of attention was given
to the canal system OF Ohio by the
last general assembly, and the dis
posal of canal lands was deeply de-
bated. One bill relating to the ad-
ministration of the present canal sys-
TEN failed to pass, but several others
were enacted into laws. A group of
several bills provides for the aban-
doning of the southern division of the
Ohio canal, the Hooking canal and the
Columbus feeder. And further there
is provision for survey and sale or
lease of the lands by the state board
of public works and the chief en-
gineer with the approval of the COVER
nor and the attorney general. The
land of the previously abandoned Wal
honding canals are also to be treated
in this manner. An act was passed
authorizing counties to vote subsidies
to the Lake Erie-Pittsburg Ship Canal
and another permitting the improve
ment of towing paths along aban-
doned canals for road purposes.
For Good Roads.
A vast step in the direction of the
good roads movement was taken when
law was made the object of which
is to improve the county roads of the
state and facilitate intercounty com
munication. The bill establishes the
state road levy of one-half mill, de-
signed to produce about 100000 to
be apportioned equally among the 88
counties on condition of their raising
their quota of the fund. The fund
is to be used for the construction of
an inter-county system of highways
which it is expected will be complet-
ed within eight years.
Another act increases the powers of
the state highway department and re-
organizes it with three additional as
SistantS and other employees.
County commissioners are required
to levy a special county tax for the
repair and preservation Of the ma
tional road.
The cultivation of fruit is to be
greatly encouraged through a law
which makes it obligatory for owners
CT orchards to spray their trees at
least once a year.
Bucket shops are very carefully de-
fined in another bill and penalties for
transactions in stocks, grains or pro
duce other than bona fide sales are
provided.
Agriculture.
Gray-Establshing standard of com
meroial fertilizers, requiring branding &c
show If phQsphorc acid is insOluble and
ammonia largely unavailable; giving
State Board of Agriculture right to print
analyses and giving Justice Courts final
jurisdiction in fraud cases.
Cahili-PrOviding for the appointmnt
of four supervisors by State School Com
missioner to supervise teaching of agri-
culture in all schools outside city dis.
tricts.
MISUNDERSTANDING assessors to re.
port vacant farm land to State BoarC
Of Agriculture.
Lowry. of Henry-Making recompenst
from dog fund to owner of any ahilna
killed because of mad dog bite.
Lowry, of Henry-Limiting to S1,JN
amount to be appropriated for county
fairs from one-ten.h mill county tax.
Cahill-Adding $50 to allowance fol
farmers institutes.
Gray-Providing for inspection of nur
scry stock by the State Board of Agri
culture.
Cetone-Requiring owners of orchard!
20 spray trees once year
Amusements.
Greeves-Repealing state law dgains
Sunday baseball except in the morning
! and giving municipal Councils right t
regulate Sunday ball playing.
cDOnald-Permltting children of les
) than IA years Of age to appear in churcl
and school entertainments with the con
sent of their parents or guardians.
Appropriations.
For 191l-Partial bill, $2,7O7,652. Legis
lature, $255OO0: deficiencies, $193, 979. 2S
, sundries, $50 25O; to build Normal School
at Kent and Bowling Green, 100000; N
G. deficiency, so 7O6.S0; Columbus Centen
) nial, $25 900; to equip state stone qCarr.
r for convict labor, $4,000; expenses 70
commission to codify child labor laws
5000; G. A. R. headquarters, 81 500; re
: appropriation of balance for Ft. Meigs
3 $1,000.
, State Levies Appropriated - Common
: schools, $2,475,OOO: irreducible school debt
2 interest, $325,OOO universities, $625, 900
: weak school districts, $4,000.
: Walling-General deficiency bill carry
;. Ing $l09, 7226O
Banking.
Kennedy-GIvlng State Superintendent
of Banks power to veto establishment O
| new banks and to approve reserve de
\ positories requiring 50 per cent of eac
! share to be paid in before entering int
g business.
G negotiable paper due on Saturday be
cause of Saturday half holiday.
J. Lowry, of Henry-Forbidding banks no
: accepting state supervision to use tn
= word state in name.
Cetone-Requlring competitive biddil
. for state deposits
K Hollinger-Provlding for active count
e repositories, minimum rate / per cen
and inactive county repositories, minimum
rate per cent; providing that a privat
l hank may be an active depository
there be no state or national bank IN tn
q county seat, and that state or natIona
bank outside the county may be selecte
II there be no private bank at the count
I seat.
y Whittemore- that municIp3
p deposits may be secured by Fedora
= state or municipal bonds or first reS
u estate mortgage.
l. Scott-Requires bank repositories to NJ
tify their bank that checks have bee
forged or raised against their accour
l. within one year after the check in que.
l. tior has been paid. or the bank is nj
=. responsible for the loss
e Buildings.
q MISUNDERSTANDING state code f
= public buildings with stringent prov
II sionS for safety and sanitation.
Q Bucket Shons