Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
GOvernor's M Message
Gentlemen Of the Senate and
House of Re71rese7,t0tiyes.

House OF EtepfeSe7ltdteCeS"
On your return to your legislative
duties, it affords me great pleasure to
greet you With the assurance of the con-
tinued peace and prosperity of the State.
Our people have been protected in all
their privileges and enjoyments. I cor
daily unite with you in praise and
thanksgiving to the Great Ruler of the
Universe, for the manifold blessings He
has vouchsafed to US as State and a
people.
My present communications to you
will be confined mainly to "the condi-
ton of the State" The machinery of
the State Government has worked so
smoothly, under existing legislation, that
I have few recommendations to make as
to notifications or amendments. This
is gratifying to myself; and, I have no
doubt, will be very acceptable to you.
FINANCIAL.
The finances of the State are in a
sound condition. For the details, I re-
spectfully refer you to the reports of the
Auditor and Treasurer of State, here
with presented.
The total receipts in the Treasury from
balance, Nov. I6' were Ss.679.9s6 So
Total disbursements 6,670,OO6 IS
Balance to credit of all funds %, ,OoO $50 81
The General Revenue account, which
presents the receipts and disbursements
for the State Government proper, stands
as follows
Balance Nov ember Is, 1868 s493 7sz on
Amount collected from taxes 924 Se6 So
Amount collected from ether sources IOI. .978 20
Total I,45O .6O3 II
Disbursements for Revenue
For Military Fund 22s,ss8 o.
- 1,O5s.O4O 81
Balance In Treasuary, Nov. is, 1864 s397, ,622 sc
AS compared with previous year, these
figures show the following results 4:
An excess of tax collections fnsIe64 over
An excess of Revenue expenditures of 7s5,795 IS
reduction of balance in Treasury at the
end of the year 26,163 e5
reduction of transfer, tO.MiHtsry fund
The excess of expenditures, as com
pared with previous year, is made up
principally of the following items
Benevolent ins stitutions sa6.7o4Os
Transportation of Militia il. 1863, carried
Equipms nts of Militia 34,7OO is |
Redemption Of Seneca County Bank
Expense of Soldiers vote 9,Ss1 IS |
Gettysburg G emeteTy 1850 90 |
Total IsQ38168 38
Reduction in other items compensate |
for the increase of this sum over the ex-
cess Of expenditures.
The report of the sinking Fund Com
missioners shows that the redemption of
the public debt during the-year has been
as follows
of Foreign Debt sIQO77s 4e
Is Union Loan I.5OO 90
Domestic Bonds 17e4 90
Total 1864 .O58 46
And that it has been increased by do
mestic loan, for military purposes, $780,
600.
The balance of that fund in the Treas
ury, on the 18th of November, was
$710,836 81 from which redemptions
of debt have been made since that time;
but to what extent l am not advised.
The debt of the State, including the
loan of 1864, for military purposes, con
sists of
TS5sts9 S"SRs!fo DEB. S.,, sias95 sg5 21s 21s 80
Total st3 500 ISL Al
Under the act of March 3Oth, 1864,
the commissioners made domestic loan
of four hundred thousand dollars, the
details of which will be presented in
their report.
Under the same act there have been
drawn upon the million appropriation
therein m ade, the following amounts
Fay tran SPortation and subsistence OF
Four Batteries of Artillery, horses and '-O,'O' -
harness 103 9IO So |
Total a243.OO5 70
There is estimated to be- due upon the |
first of these items, $57, ,457. 10; which
will increase the disbursements from that
appropriation to $300,462 80.
AS elsewhere explained, the payments |
for subsistence and transportation of the |
Guard have been assumed by the War
Department; and the item of the pay of |
officers between date of rendezvous and |
date of muster, is under advisement.
The amount of Allotment Fund paid |
into the Treasury by pay-agents, during
the year, was $2,251, ,480 46. Nearly |
half a million has been added since the |
18th of November; and additional |
amounts are on the way, which will |
swell the amount to about three millions. |
One item W hich has swelled this amount
is the large payments to substitutes and
local bounties to recruits, which were not
paid to the men until mustered in here,
and forwarded to their regiments. The
amount collected at the barracks in this
city, on this account, has nearly equal
led the whole amount of collections last
year.
Owing to the constant moving of the
armies during the summer campaign, it
was impracticable to pay the troops
The payments were crowded into the fall
months, and the pay-agents were hard
pressed in making collections; and, in
many cases, seriously, and, in some, dan
gerously delayed in making their returns.
The amount of this fund in the Treasury
on the 18th November, was $753, 1865 "A;
OF this, the sum of S530,571 85 was paid
in between the 1st and 18th of Novem-
Der; $179, ,893 80 was paid in during the
month of October, and the balance dur
ing the month of September.
The State Treasurer makes some sug-
gestions in his report, in regard to the
transmission of this fund to the counties
which 1 recommend to your early atten-
ton. In many cases the amount allotted
to county is in excess Of the State
revenues in the hands of athe County
Treasurer. There is no provision for
payment of express charges in remitting
funds, OF the expenses of the County