Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-14

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Improvement Of the country. BY bringing
this land into market in such way as to
afford to actual settlers an opportunity Of
purchasing it in small quantities, a valuable
class Of industrious citizens would be indu-
ced to emigrate to the state and identity
themselves with its interests and welfare.
Such a class furnish the most sure and GER
tain source for revenue, and the most valua-
BILE defence against danger in time of war.
Care should be taken however, that our
lands are not brought into market at the
same time with those uf the United States.
l have received communication from
the Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee, by which it appears, that through mis-
take portion of the lands selected by Ohio,
under the various canal grants, has been
sold by the General Government and that
these sales have been carried into grant.
Whether any Of these same lands have been
sold by the state, am unable to say, if SO,
the title granted by the state must hold the
land. But for the purpose of avoiding
hereafter all conflict between innocent pur-
chasers, would recommend the passage
ofa law authorizing the surrender to the
General Government of such tracts of our
canal land as have been sold by mistake
and carried into grant, and not heretofore
sold by Ohio, upon the express condition
that Ohio be allowed to select an equal guam
tty Of other land in lieu thereof, from lands
of the United State, within the state. The
amount of land thus situated is inconsidera-
able, but it is proper that this matter should
be adjusted while good lands can yet be Sc
lected by the state in lieu of those sold.
BY the passage of this law, while the rights
of finnocent purchasers could be secured, the
interest of the state need not be prejudlced
as lands of equal value to those sold could
now be selected.
M. II. Williams, Esq, Commissioner on
the part of this state to settle the boundary
line between Ohio and Indiana, under res
oluiion of the General Assembly passed
March the 10th, 1887 made his report on
the Sd day of February last, which is sign
ed by himselfand A. Matson, Esq, Commits
sioler on the part of Indiana. By which
report it appears they have run and accu-
rately surveyed the line contemplated in the
resolution, and marked it as originally sur
veyed by Israel Ludlow, deputy surveyor of
the United States, and caused suitable mon.
uments TO be erected on the same. A copy
of the original field notes accompanied their
report, together with map of the line run
and established. This report with the ac-
companying documents is filed in the office
of the Secretary of State, in pursuance to
the above resolution.
A set tiof standard weights have been re-
ceived from the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, ,and it will be proper to
direct by law, how they sh Ill be pr eserved
and to made some legislative provision by
which the weights now in the state shall be
made to conform to them.
The number of convcts now cofidned
in the Ohio Penitentiary is four hundred and
ninety three. From Dec. 1st, 1888, to Dec.
LIST, 1888 the total cash receipts will be lsay
in round numbers) $54 4,0O0---payments for
general support sc, Sss5, 600, leaving nett
balance ofSSl9,OOO. The report ftlle dlrec-
tors of this institution will give you more
detailed and satisfactory account Of its op-
eratlons for this year. Under the supern-
tendent ofthe present able and indefatga-
BILE Warden, we have every reason to be-
lieve that the affairs of this institution
will be managed with skill, and a Just re-
gard to the object Of its foundation. MANY
Of that highly respectable and valuable por
tion OF fellow citizens who are engaged in
mechanical occupations complain of the d.
rection given to the labor of the convicts
IN the Penitentiary. The source from
which these complaints emanat eutitle them
to the respect aid careful consideration of
the legislature, and every relief which is
and chp,,ld h.
There are about seventy pupils in the deaf
ard dump asylum at this time. Unlnter-
rupted health has been enjoyed by them
during the present season and their i'm
provement has been equal to that of any
formar year. The great object of this in
stitutlon being to dffuse moral and intel
lectual light in the minds of an unfortunate
class of our population, and to fill up place
in our great system of education, it affords
me high degree of pleasure to be able to
state that, at no time since its establish
ment, has the institution been more prom
ising for accomplishing this object, and at no
period has it been more deserving that high
estimation in which it has always been held
by the public, than at the present time.
The lunatic asylum Is in Furnishing
and prosperous condition. The experience
ofa year has proved that the buildings are
well adapted to the purpose for which they
were intended. There has been great press
Of applications foradmittance, not only from
our own, but from rejoining states since the
house was opened, and the different halls
have been filled as rapidly as they could be
prepared--in all, one hundred and fifty-seyen
have been received and admitted to the
benefits of the proper medical and moral
treatment. Twenty seven of these have
been entirely restored to the use of their
reason, and returned to society and their
friends.
1t affords me peculiar pleasure to be able
to assure you Of the present prosperity and
increasing Importance of the institution for
the instruction of the blind. The present
head ofthls institution commenced, in July,
1887, with three pupils. The number has
increased to nineteen. The new building,
although not entirely finished, is now occH-
pied by the scholars, and will afford them
great advantages hereafter in the success
ful prosecution of their studies, which thew
have not hitherto enjoyed. The progress
made by the pupils in the various branches
oflearning taught in the institution, is
highly creditable to themselves, and homo
rable to their teachers. The facility with
which intellectual and mechanical knowl-
edge can be impaired to this unfortunate
class of citizens, proves that thew are not
only capable of receiving good education.