Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-01-07
Total Disbursements. s...........S5,2 ,294, ,029 90 |
Balance in the Treasury, No.
Vember Is, 1e6I............. 9l29,I7G AL

OF the foregoing receipts, it will be seen that
So, 1886, ,l6l GO were derived from taxes;-S327,- :
302 06 from canal and other sources of general
revenue, and from tolls of National Road, from
the disbursement of which no money return
will be made to the State; ;-$l ,555,244 SO from
Military Fund, which will be reimbursed by the
United States, and $66,277 47 from School
Lands and Bank Redemption Fund, which con-
stitute debt rather than revenue. Deductng
the amount of revenues from the Military
Fund and the balance in the Treasury from the
gross receipts, leaves $3,735,764 80 as the sum
expended during the fiscal year, for the support
of the State government in all IFS departments,
executive, legislative and judicial-the com
mon schools, the payment Of the interest and
$5S2 900 of the principal Of the public debt, and
all other expenses attending the administration
of the State government The disbursements
proper for the support Of the State government
during the year, including the expenses and sal
aries of the Benevolent Institutions, the Peni.
tentiary, with the repairs and enlargement OF
the building, and all other expenditures, ordi-
nary and extraordinary, were $767, 800 81, which
is little more than one-half the dsbursem ents
for the support Of the common schools, and
about 100000 less than the payments on the
interest of the Foreign and Domestic Debt.
do not refer to the heavy cost, to the State,
OF Common Schools for the purpose of encour-
aging any reduction of the levy for their sup
port; for, while l earnestly recommend all prac-
ticable retrenchments in public expenditures,
am decided in the opinion, that the state school
levy should not be reduced. r.
The preservation OF the public faith, by the
prompt payment of the interest and principal Of
the public debt, and the providing for the edu-
cation of all the youth of the State, are objects
of such transcendant Importance as to need no
argument to be addressed to the General AS
sembly on their behalf.
The Auditors estimate of receipts from all
sources for the current fiscal year is $4 290, ,7S9-
60, and hi 3 estimate of the disbursements dur
ing the same period is $3,7l3,477 81, leaving q
balance in the Treasury November is, 1869, Of
$577 ,3ll 81.
+ In this estimate of disbursements, the Audi
tor provides for the expenditure of So, ,2l9 Al
for military purposes. feel it my duty 10 re.
commend that the Legislature provide for the
expenditure Of larger sum.
Fiysi-A sum sufficient for the enlargement
of the State Armory, the erection of Labora-
tory, and the purchase of ammunition.
Seo0nd-A sum sufficient for the purchase Of
arms of the most improved kind for the defense
of the State, and to aid the General Govern
ment whenever its necessities shall require State
assistance.
The impoverished condition of the State in
regard to arms on the breaking out of the rebel
lion, and the long delays attending their supply
by the General Government, should admonish
US of the necessity Of the State having always
at its command, and as its own property, arms
for at least fifty regiments of infantry, twenty.
five companies Of cavalry, aud sixteen batteries
Of artillery. Ohio should never again be un-
prepared to render prompt and effective assist
ance 10 the Federal authorities in the support
of the Government nor ought we to rely on
them for arms to defend our State against in.
vasion or insuIrection. The arms purchased
under authority of your immediate predecessors
have all been transferred to the United State
Their cost will be fully reimbursed to the State.
AS its own property, the State has no more
arms than it had in April last, with the small
addition of its proportion of the annual supply
by the Government TO all the States.
The following schedule will exhibit the taxa
BILE property Of the State as valued for taxation ;
the respective amounts of State, county and To-
cal taxes, and the total amount of taxes levied
in each of the last four years.