Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-10
rREAsuRHR OF STATE.

ports made to the Legislature by the State
officers;
TREAsURHR OF STATE.
The total amount Of receipts into the
Treasury for the year ending November 10,
1861, was $5,657, 727 3s, and disbursements
were So, 624, 564 72, leaving balance of $780,.
l62 &C. The amendment of the Independent
Treasury Law is recommended, SO as to re-
quire the payment of all public dues to be
made in specie or the notes of specie paying
banks of Ohio. The outstanding circulation
Of the Savings Bank of Cincinnati when it
went to protest on the Sd ofDeeember 1860,
was $l499, to secure which the Treasurer
beld $4,000 Ohio 6 per cent stocks. The
bills are being redeemed as presented.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The law of April l6 1857, requiring the
State officers ITO keep or cause to be kept, in
their respective Offices accurate and distinct
accounts of the several transactions in their
respective departments" has been complied
with in this office. Jail reports were re-
ceived from only ten counties, the de-
tails Of which are not given. Contracts
were made as follows With J. S. Brown,
Delaware, 1000 reams of double super royal
printing paper, at 81 73 per ream; with
Oglesby, Barnitz, Tytus & Erwins, Middle
town, 100 reams of double fiat cap, for print
ing bills for the General Assembly, at SO 80
per ream; with S E. Ogden, for 10000 bush
els of coke, at 81 cents per bushel, and for
10000 bushels of coal, at 7A cents per busheI;
with Brooke and Champion for so cords of
wood, at So rs per cord.
Four hundred and one copies of Swan and
Critch6eld's Revised Statutes, and 1872 copies
Of Curwen's remain in possession of the
| Secretary after the distribution in accordance
with the law. OF 143 copies Of the former
furnished to the General Assembly, but ll6
were returned at the end ofAthe session.
There were incorporated during the year,
| four railroad, eight turnpike, one insurance,
one bridge, four gas, and fourteen manufac-
turing and mining companies. The amount
expended for stationery for the Legislature
and State Departments, was $20,0l4 35.
PENITENTIARY.
The receipts during the year have been, in
cash, $92,923 IL; in labor of convicts for the
State $l3,056 30-making a total of $ll5,
879 Al; and the expenditures $780, l25. 28
leaving a net balance in favor of the institu
sion of $4,966 63. The cash expenditures
exceed the cash receipts $Z3O2 II. Tht
number of convicts received was 355, 0
which ii were females. OF these, Hamilton
County furnishes 76, Cuyshoga "a, Lucas l6
Lorain IL. From 10 counties none were re
eeived. There were discharged 246 by ex
| pllutlOu Va oOntShOV1 u W poluOu1 IL vi
writ of error, 8 were sent to the Reform
School, have died, and four have escaped
On October 81, 1861, the number of convict
confined was 924, of which 1876 were sen
from Hamilton County, liz from Cuyahoga
81 from Lucas, and 32 from Franklin.
Six counties are not represented, viz
Geauga, Holmes, Knox, Morrow, Pauldin
and Putnam. The Female Department con
tains sixteen inmates. The physician re
ports that the health Of the Institution hs
been as good as usual, there having bee
two hundred and twenty four bed-patient
treated, and only six deaths, one OF whic
was caused bya gunshot wound receive
by the prisoner when attempting to escape
The diet has been much improved by th
substitution of one meal day of butter an
cheese .Gr meat, and by increasing th
amount of vegetable food. This has bee
attended with great success, in the improve
physical condition of the prisoners and i
the saving to the State of Sc per inmate owe
the previous year. The cost offood in 1856
with an average OF nine hundred and twenty
six inmates was $36ss4 OIL; while for l96
it amounted to only $32, 734 SO, with min
hundred and sixty.fve inmates.