Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-10

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posed upon the sheriff and county
commissioners.
1t is impossible to provide, in al
respects, for the increasing and chang
ing interests of our people, by the en-
actment of general laws. but to q
large extent it is practicable to re
lieve the Legislature from special leg
islation which is demanded and occu
pies so much of its sessions. Specia
Legislation is generally passed with
out due consideration, much of it al
the close of the session, and is chiefly
Objectionable from the partiality with
which powers and privileges are con
ferred.
l again recommend the passage OF
general laws, when it is at all prac.
ticable, and in this connection, rec.
commend the passage of a general
law, regulating railroads now exist,
ing and the incorporation of new com.
panies,so that so far as possible there
may be just uniformity in the fran.
chises granted, and eoual facilities af-
forded to the people Ol all sections OF
the Commonwealth.
There are at this time, in the vari-
GUS prisons, number of persons un-
der sentence of death, some of them
for many years, and as it has become
a custom that an incoming Governor
should not issue warrant of execu-
ton in cases unacted on by his prede-
decessor, it not unfrequently happens
that IN many cases, some of which
are recent, while some punishment
should be inflicted, that of death may
appear to the Executive to be too Sc
we're.
earnestly repeat my recommenda-
tion heretofore made, that provision
be made for the reception of such per-
SONS into the penitentiaries, who may
be pardoned on condition of remain
ing limited time therein.
| re-appointed Hon. C. R. Coburn,
Superintendent of Common Schools,
ON the expiration of his term in June
last, and he continued at the head of
that Department until the first of No
vember, when he resigned, and | ap-
pointed Col. J. P. Wickersham. 1t is
due to Mr.. Coburn to say, that he full
filled all the duties of his Office faith
fully and efficiently. 1t appears from
his report, that there were in the
school year of 1865, 1868 school dis
tricts in the State 1916 schools :;
16, ,l4l teachers, and d..725,3l2 pupils,
with an average attendance Of AIS,
500. The total cost of the school sys-
TEN, for the entire State, including
taxes levied and State appropriation,
was for the year 1896, 81 1875. .258 81
The increase in the number of school
districts was 26 in the number of
schools, 222 in the number of chill
dren atten.ing school, l9,932 in the
average attendance at school, IS, 945,
and in the total cost of the system,
$58l ,020 02. invite your attention
to the valuable suggestions made in
his report, and that Of Col. Wicker
sham, and commend our system of
public instruction to the continued fos-
tering care of the Legislature
l herewith present the reports of
Col. F. Jordan, Military Agent of the
State, at Washington of Col. H. H.
Gregg, Chief of Transportation of
5. P, B ties, on military history of our
volunteers Of trustees of the Sol
diers' Gettysburg National cemetery 4;
of the proceedings and ceremony of
the return of the flags, on the 4th of
July, in the city of Philadelphia, and
of Col. James Worrell, commissioner
appointed under an act relating to the
passage Of fish in the Susquehanna,
and invite your attention to them and
the reports of the Surveyor General
and Adjutant General
The Agency at Washington should,
in my Judgment, be continued. 1t
has proved very useful in all respects, |
and especially to our volunteers and
their families.
Fodr thousand six hundred and nine-
ty claims have passed through the |
Agency during the past year, and |
three hundred and eleven thousand |
seven hundr, d and three dollars has
been collected from the Government |
and transmitted to the claimants free
If charge
1t will be necessary to continue the
)ffice of Chief of Transportation, as
here are unsettled accounts with rail |
ord companies and the National Gov
.Fnmelt. and duties to be performed |
Ii the removal and care of bodies of !
.he dead, which require it. An addi-
.ional appropriation will be required
or this Department.
| earnestly recommend, in Justice /
10 the living and the dead, that our
military history be pushed forward /
vigorously, and that money for that
purpose be appropriated
The trustees of the State Lunatic |
hospital represent that it is impossi- |
bic for them to accommodate and care .
for the number of patients committed !
to them under the laws regulating ad- !
missions into the hospital, and earn
as.ly Recommend that provision be |
made for increased accommodation.
| need not say that the institution
is carefully and economically manag-
ed, or TO refer to that great good it |
has produced ; and that cordially
unite in the statement and recommen-
iations of the memorial herewith pre-
sented.
l invite your attention to the con-
1iti0n of the Arsenal.
1t is too small-unsafe as deposi-
tory for the large amount of valuable
military material to be kept in it, and
is, in all respects, inconvenient and
not adapted to its purpose,
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