Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-07

sary, and adequate provision for the una
litigation should be promptly made.
The act Of the last session, appointing
certain citizens to- appoint Directors Sfthe
Penitentiary and Commissioners Of the
State House, having been adjodged uncon-
stitutional by the Supreme Court, the Board
of Directors and the Board OF Commission
ers organized under the act Of 1856 have
continued in the discharge Of their respective
duties. @
The increase of the nunber OF convicta
beyond the number Of cellss renders it in-
dispensable to- provide for the enlargement
of the existing, or the construction Of a new
Penitentiary. Considerations of economy
recommend the former alternative. Proyis.
ions should also be made within the PeniteB@
tiary enclosure for convict ~lunatics. The
General Assembly in 1916 directed such
provisions, but the necessary appropriations
having never been made, the direction has
never been executed. In the absence 0fprO-
per accommodation in the Penitentiary, such
~luuatics must be transferred under Exeeutixe-
warrant to one of the existing Asylums.-
This is clearly wrong. The criminal in
sane should never be introduced into AsyS
lums, where the innocent and the respecsaS
Bile, suffering under the most fearful of es@
lamities, find their best refuge.
The work on the State House advances
towards completion under the vigilant and
jndicious supervision of The Acting Commits,
sioner and his associates. Some alterations
and additions are suggested by the Ar,
chitect, which would certainly improve the
proportions and enhance the simple grandeur
of this noble structure. 1t will be for you
to determine whether the condition Of tho
Treasury will warrant your sanction Of
them.
The rooms for the Library will soon be com
plcted. A small part only of the small appro-s
p~riations made for books has been expended for
several years past. The Commissioners thought
it injudidious to make considerable additions
to tho library, before itconldr be properly elAs-3
sihed and permanently arranged. They now
propose to make only such as seem most clear
~ necessary. The of their report In
relation to the arrangements made for exchang-
ca within the past year, by which many Salua-
BILE works have been and more will be obtain-s
ed, as well as its suggestions generally, will
properly receive your attention.
Thecolleetion Of arms reqIired by your pre-
deccssors has been completed, and u statement
of the result will soon be laid before you. Tho
proceeds of sales OF that portion unfit for SER
vice rannot with p~ropriety be appropriated to
other than military purposes. No more beneficial
application Of them will probably BIO suggested
than the construction of a State Arsenal, and
I-therefore recommend their appro priation 70
thar object.
There is probably n considerable quantity Of
arms yet unsolicited. These are 50 Scatterod
that the cost of collecting them by special
agents would exceed their value. It may DO
expedient to require the Prosecuting Attorneys
and Sheritfs of the several counties to collect
and forward to the State Arsenal such rs. thay
can find, and to provide for their compensation
by "a liberal per centagc.
TO prevent as far us practicable future mis-
use and less, | omm that hereafter no
arms be issued until bonds with sufficient sRre-
ties for their safe keeping and use according to
law, shall have been deposited with the Quar-
ter aster General. .s
Among the subjects proper for your consider
alton, that of the eXtradition of f~ugitivcs from
justice may well have place. Warrants of ex-
tradition issued upon requisition from other
States have been sometimes used for the pur-
pose ofcxtorting compromises or enforcing pay
meht of peeuniary demands. Such use il grSgs
abuse, and should be arrested by penalties ads-
qHate to the object. Some Multitude Of discre-
ton has been exercised by my predecessors a.
we'll as myself in respect to the surrender Of
persons charged ii other States wi tn offences
not punishable as crimes under our own lava.
Tho general rule has been to refuse iuterposi-si
ton in such cases. 1t deserves cons iderntion
whether the exercise of this di erection, especi-
ally in cases of indictnen for obtain ing Rosds
by false pre.enccs may not, with advantages, BE-
regulated by law. ltrP
it is with great satisfaction that I again di-
rect your attention to the State Reform Farm.
Two years since such an establishment in CHS
country was an untried experiment. IL Is ne
longer an experiment, hut a success. That ifis 3
50 is due, first Of all, to the prudent and ysA
liberal Legislation osyoar predecessors and your
selves; but in no less degree to the fidelity,
discretion. energy and economy which has
characterized the administrator of the Acting.
Commissioner and his associates. In obtaining
large results from expenditures comparatively
small; in method of accounts, and in full and
claor nv hihftIOn of its Nr0rEInur uHNl fO.sdaNfOmL
this institution may justly be proposed uS n
model to similar Establishments.
The whole number of boys ommitte to the
Institution is forty-eight, of whom fourteen
have been honorably discharged, and ono haA
escaped. One hundred and twenty can DO Az
comnodatcd in the three family buildings al
tyreaIy erected, and the three similar buildings
soon to be- constructed will admit one hundred
and twenty more. The number OF buildings
can be Increased indefinitely as wanted, at very
moderate cost, but it is not probable that any
others than those now contemplated, will 30
needed for several years.
II has been suggested that the farm and frmi-
ly system adopted in this Institution may b@
useiully introduced in the care and cducation Of
deaf mutes, and the suggestion merits oarefuA
consideration.
/ venture to recommend, in this connection,
legislative provision for meetings, from time 70
time of tie Ssperintendents Of thu various
Benevolent and ketorinatofy institutional fthO
State for comparison and i'm provement Of plans
of administration, methods of reporting, aud
EkSteIIS Oh 1CCOu1ls L cannot QOuuI THAI
much good would result from such eonfsrsn-
eeS-
suggest, also, that the time for making tho
reports now directed by law to DO made BY the
2Oth of November, be extended to the frat OF
December in each year, and that the provisionm
of law applicable TO these documents be 40 az
tended MS to embrace ali reports rcquiFed 10 be
laid before the General Assembly. Such .
regulation, uniform in operation and duly en-
forced, would essentially aid the Executive i'm
preparing a proper statement OF the oonditionO Of
the State: and greatly facilitate the dispatch Of
business by the Legislature. Such reports -
have been prepared and printed will DO Prompt-
ly laid before you.
No financial interests more important than
those connected with the Public Works demand
your care. The immense sums invested Inn
them; their extent and their magnitude; thelR
business relations, and the largo revenues COLI
lectcd aid disbursed in their administrator,
justify the solicitude always felt by the people
concerning their condition and management
The Constitution conhdes their supsrinton-
dance and control to u board of three mamheraS
and to secure the constant advantage Of judy
ment improved by experience, though the con-
slant presence of seine members who have
served for considerable periods, assigns three
yeats as their term Of office, and requirea the
election of ono member each year. The author
iby, entrusted to tho General Assembly, 1w
prescribe the powers and duties of tho BomR1
and its several members must, in my Judgement
be limited necessarily by its nature aud object.
So limited, il is an authority to prescribe The
powers and duties of The Board in general sn-
periatendonce and control. aud not an authog-
ity to divest tho Board of these Constitutional
functions; it is an authority TO prescribe the
powers and duties OF its several mombors In
sub Jrdination to the Board, and not an author
ity TO constitute czech membor an independent
Board, in seperate and substantially uncontroll-
ed charge Of the whole or part OF the Publie
Works. Ii not so limited, the authority Of
tho General Assembly over the Public Works 10
clearly unlimited. 1t may restrict tho saperim-
tendenco OF the Board TO tho Walh0ndiAm
Canal with its insignificant revenue of sevon OF
eight hundred dollars u Year, and give to &C me
enc member the entire management Of the rest.
IL may abroSate the Constitutional Board Of