Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-02


Pay of Patrols of State. 4o4 a
ray oI Lunatic and other Asylums OF
S''e S,I22
Annronr, .,,,- $3.50 o:
Appropriation for the to fran: '0S4
Constitution OF New State.... I63a9 .;
Deduct this amount from the sum dis 'O''e' =
5,d 1nTSed In the fiscal year, as shown by
| Table B, as follows:
"HSis ISss amOu dlsbursed in the year
Dedast as stated in is6s No StSs i i
s9,s46 Sc
hghty-ninc thousand eight hundred and
iorty-six dollars and sighty.three cents
| tso9,e46 S3l is the actual expenses of the
state II reduced to state of peace and the
amount ought to be still further reduced
| when the Legislature remembers that dur
ing thH past fiscal year there was one reg
] ular ana one extra session of the General
Assembly. The Legislature will see bv re-
lerring to the table. enumerated, that there
was little more than one. half ofthe money
dlsbursed in 1862, paid for extraordinary
purposes, and shows the actual expenses Of
the State, for the fiscal year ending SEN
TEN 3Oth, 1862, at only Ss9. $40 SO. II
wiz DC remembered that this expenditure
was not aion" for the counties in the pro-
posed New State. but embraces payments
made for Alexandria, AcrOmac and North
ampton counties.
II fhese figures can DC relied unon, and
when tits rccoliccled thai only tweuty-niuc
o. ts;" forty eight co0utics OF the pr0poscd
New State, have as yet paid anything into
the Treasury, is it not clear, that with the
sew state formed AMI peace restored the
taxes could be reduced one half, and thsn
produce more rcrcnue ghHu would be re-
qpircd iDr an economical administration
OF the STATE. A,!d here let me state that
there wl!i bc outstanding and uncolIec,ed
due the State from ShcuiIs. Collectors. and
other persons, OF the counties of The pru.
posed New STATE, when the State shall have
nccn formed, sun oi not less than $500
VUU ihis, with The balance in the treas.
ufy, Will Gire It sum aimns, equn! TO the
whole expense uf the erection Ut the public
buildings Of the New State In this con-
necuon permit me to call thc attention of
the General Assembly To the ucccssi;y. If a
New State Is Iormel, OF some legislation
necessary To vest the power in The Courts
OF the New State to recover the outstaud-
ing h"1anccs IN Tie hands OF SheriTs, Col
lectorS, Banks, Saving Banks, Railroad
Companies, Express Companies, Insurance
Companies, Notary Publics, Clerks of
Courts, Bridge Companies, Toll Gathcrers,
Superlntendcnts OF State Roads, Canal
Companies, Escheators or Eschea:ed Lands.
ana other property, within the boundary
OF the proposed New State: as also the
right to receive dividends on stocks stand
ing IN the name of the Commonwealth,
Literary Fund, or Board of Public Works,
IN Banks and other Corporations, within
tue New State; AS also the power TO con-
troll these stocks until IL settlement eau be
had with the Old State. Would it not he
well for the Legislature to repeal the acts
OF May last, making an appropriation o: one
hundred thousand dollars to the New State
and re-enact it, so as TO avoid the last
clause requiring the New State, in it's set
ilemcnt with the Old State, to account for
tho one hundred thousand dollars. The
money in the Treasury, cut of which this
one hundred thousand dollars is appropri-
ute,l, was collected from the counties Cf
the New State, and the old State has moth
ing TO do with it. The settlement with the
Old State ought 10 go back 10 the bccinuiur
OF the rebellion, and settlement made from
that time. II so, the New State is entitled
TO, and ought 10 have, not only the one
hundred thousand dollars, but all that
shall be in the treasury ~ the time of its
admisSion, An appropriation bill TO that
effect ought To be irlmel. The money be-
longs To The counties u! the New State,
aud bE any Just rulc, uught to remain with
them. BY this rate and with the uncol-
lected balances due the State from counties
within the proposed New State, The New
State would haze the money ready to put
up all Of her public buildings or nearly so.
The State has about tour hundred
thousand dollars worth o; stock in The
North Western bank AT Wheeling, standing
IN the name of the Common wealth. part in
the name OF the Board OF Public Works,
anu Phrtin the name of the Literary Fund.
The State has Fifty thousand dollars Of
stock or loan, in the name of the Literary
Fund, III the Bank at FairmOnt, and from
City to seventy thousand dollars in the
Exchange Bank at Weston, making about
five hundred thousand dollars in all She
is also a stockholdcr in the Improvement
of the Nuuswha river, how much, tue Au.
ditor does not know. The State is the
owner of several important turnpike roads
in the North Western part of the State, and
| is q stOckholder in many other turnpike
aud bridge companies. The power TO con-
troll and use this stock, before aud pending,
the settlement with the Old State Some
Legislation therefore, uPoa the subject, will
be necessary
Under the provisions Of the bill now
pending before the Congress of the I'nitcl
States for the admission of the New State.
the Convention that framed the Couslilu-
tion for the New State, will have 10 again
| assemble, and it is respectfully submitted,
whether the Legislature Ough; not to make
small appropriation to meet the expenses
of that body while sitting.
All of which is most respectfully sub
mitted, SAMUEL CRANE,
iulIor of I1ibLrc AcrnrL,k,