Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-01-10


Claims collected by Attorney
General, and other items. e,lS9 43
Balance in Treasury, IS November
1s47, 494,698 81
Total, sa,9es, 400 IS
EXPENDITURES.
Bills drawn for appropriation and
paid ut the treasury, S23S, 1852 20
districts. 2ss, 1929 90
Interest paid on foreign and domes-
tic debt, 1,o74,2s4 60
Repairs Of canals, roads and public
works, 472,s4l e1
Three per cent fund and one per
cent ON Surplus revenue paid to
counties s7,s47 %
National Road bonds paid credi-
tors. and other small items a,12e IS
Amount paid on account Of princi-
pal of state debt, 4o4,754 So
Total amount Of payment during
the year s2.541,ol 81
Balance in the Treasury on the
18th of fNov. 1s4s, $426,451 IS
With the deliverey of this message, and
the Inauguration of my successor, will ter
inmate trust, which, at the hands of the
freeneu of my native State, accepted with
gratitude, entered upon with diffdence, and
have endeavoured to discharge with fidelity.
From this point of time brief retrospect of
the past two years, may not be out Of place.
The prominent measures recommended to
the General Assembly have been,
I.That our Currency and Revenue Laws,
deliberately sanctioned by the people, should
stand, with such, indispensable amend
ments as experience should indicate to be
Just aad necessary.
2. That Eour colleges, asylums and
schools, should continue to receive such
consideration and support as their great i'm.
p,rtance demands.
3. That our plighted faith should be
maintained invoilate. By upholding the
laws which have been enacted to provide
for the payment of not only the interest but
the principal of our debt. By refraining
from all further works of internal improve
ment, by the State, until the debt be paid
BY oaering to actual settlers such reasona-
be reduction in the price Of our canal lands
as would bring about their sale and i'm
provement. And by strict economy in the
administration in all the departments Of the
government.
4 That the condition Of the canvicts in
the Pcniten.iary. whe wereip0g from
e1rly dawn until dusk, withodf an hour to
read by day, or light to read at night,
should be ameli'rated; md thai, even III
their fallen estate, the accents Of kindness,
the enlightenment oftruth. the teachings oil
morality, ond the consultations Of religion,
should not be withheld.
5. That the momopoies gradually fas.
tening themselves upon the state, and be-
ginning to claim perpetual duration. en-
bracing hundreds of able. bodied rnen, work
ing at thirty three cents per day, boarding
lodging and workshops found. in compe
tition with the mechanics of the state ought
not to be endured or tolerated, beyone
what fair construction Of the contracts
made in accordance with law, demands.
6. That the work Of the new State
House should be Immediately and earnest
ly resumed; and convict labor Withdrawn
trum vocations injurious to mechanical pur
suits, ond directed to this important object
taking care, in its withdrawal, to work M
injury to any just rights of contracts fo
iOf pIiSpn Iuoots
I. Thnt those enactmen!s properly de
nominated. by universal consent, 'the Blacl
Laws Of Ohio, are impolitic, unjust and in
human, at war with the genius Of our fre
institutions, and the spirit of the age il
which we live; and that they ought to b
Immediately and unqualifedly repealed.
This last opinion was everywhere dis
,inc.ly avowed during the canvass of 1876
The repeal has been recommended on ey
cry proper occasion since. And althoug
the General Assembly has, thus far, in tn
exercise of its constitutional powers an
duties, maintained different policy, yet
cannot refrain, in this my last official ac
respectfully yet earnestly to recommend
that these laws should no longer rema
npod the statute books Of the first state, OF
gonized under the ordinance OF 1857.
II will remain q source of grateful re
rnembrance to me, in all future time. tha
every one Of these recommendations, tn
last only excepted. hns met the approba
DIN sud sanc,icn of the Legislature. lh