The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-01-26
GOYERNOR,S MESSAGE.

T UeaHeHten OF We senate,
+ and House Of Representatives
In obedience to the Constitution of the State you
are again assembled as the representatives of the
people, to exercise the high and responsible duties
of providing laws for the welfare of your common
constituents.
During the past year, while intestine divisions
and wars have devastated some portions ST other
countries and the struggle of the people for liberty
has spread general anxiety and alarm among the
aristocrats of the Old World for the stability of
their own governments VIC have reason to CON
gratulate ourselves that through the benign iniu-
cnce of free Institutions and the blessings of Divine
Providence, this Nation of which our State forms
no nconsiderabe part has been left to progress on
It's onward march, in civil, internal, religious and
all other Improvements which tend to national hap
piness, prosperity and aggrandzement
Since your adjournment, that dreaded scourge
the =Cholera-inade its appearance in many Of
four towns and cities, clothing them in mourning,
and in its course spreading general affection and
dsmay; yet we have abundantreason for gratitude
and thanksgiving to God for the restoration of health
throughout our borders and for our general pros.
pertv as a State.
The lawssregulatiug all the departments Of State
have been executed during the past year with tide
ty, and due regard to the interest of the State
full and detailed account of the condition of
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you, by the officers on whom that duty by law de-
wolves.
The following statement exhibits the receipts and
disbursements during the year 1849, and the bal
ances applicable to the payment of the State debt
RECEIPTS.
Taxes paid into the State treasury, inclu-
ding Miscellaneous items s, ,210, 500 63
Taxes collected from Banks and State In
eurance companies. 55,492 23
Tolls received from Canals aud Public
Works, and paid into State Treasury. 73i.I73 50
Dividends upon Turnpike & Canal Stocks
and included receipts............... 4s,SO3 81
Canal lands sold, trust fnnds, reuts on Vr-
ginia Military School lands, and other
lie ms paid into the Tressurv......... 5a.Ia5 el
School lands SOLE, tzSs:. ..4rus, rents on
Virginia Military School lands, and
ether Items paid into the Treasury...: 1896 II
Coun,-e -es :::.:....,...... 6a.ss6 II
National Road Tolls and proceeds Of Ma
tiOnal Road Bonds Issued. ........:. 1922 l6
niled States. .................. 1926 81
Total amount nr payments into the State
Treasury during the year lS49. 50 5I,lI9 81
DISBURSEMENTS.
Bills drawn upon appropriations and paid
at the State Treasury 1907, l66 Al
Common School Fund paid to Count mites. 200 600 90
Interest Special Schools and Trust
Funds. and rents Virginia Military
School Ia nd paid Observation-Disclosures. .95 5224 Al
Interest foreign debt paid New York IO223 95
Repairs of Canals aud Public Works and
incidental expences paid. ASS, 1893 81
Repairs of Nation Il Road. interest aud
National Road Bonds paid out....... 81 099 81
Interest on Domestic bonds paid........ 30,82I %
Interest of one per cent on Surplus Reve-
paid to counties. 6.62l 81
Incidental payments s.................. 3,792 10
Total amount disbursed for The payment
appropriations and the Ordinary expen-
dtares Of the 81, I76. 6sI Oh