The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-10

improbable that II may be located
within this State. IL is estimated
that the several branches Of this Ma
tional Home for soldiers will, when
organized, Accommodate all the vete-
rams wao would have claim 10 admis-
sion into the institution, and their full
establishment will probably superccde
the necessity for the continuation Of
our own. 10 facilitate thsif work,
while accomplishing all that The State
Home can do, 1 would recommend
that. upon the location Of ono Of the
branches Of the National Home with.
in this State, the Trustees Of this in.
sti.ution be authorized 10 transfer to
such National Home the use Of the
premises and uppurienances now oo.
cupied by them, for the period which
may capso before the completion of
new buildings, &c., and also any un-
used balances Of appropriations, on
condition that all Ohio soldiers now
in the Home, or who may have the
right Of admission there under our
laws, be received and cared for by the
National Board. look upon this
course as the more Just and proper,
because the present buildings were
erected by the United States Gov
ernment for hospital purposes during
the war, aud transferred to the State
without charge. -
BOARD OF MILITARY CLAIMS.
The Board appointed under the
statute for the purpose Of passing up
on various unsettled military claims
against the State, report that they
have examined 600 different claims
amounting to s90,7 27, out of which
they have allowed in whole or in par
l5Il, amounting to sGS, ,25j 10. 9th
ers arc slit before them, and new ones
are coming in from time TO time. The
appropriation of $4,000 for this pur
pose has been expended, and it il
probable that an equal sum will b,
requiredto to complete the sottlemen
Of each as may be allowed As fas
as these claims can be put in form
they will be presented to the United
States Government for reimburse
mett. ','.t
The Board recommend that th,
claims Of soldiers for local bounty
which, under the orders Of the Wal
Department, was withheld from them
until they should aotunlly join theii
commands in the field, aud which was
in some instances, lost To-, them b!
reason Of this rule, be added to th'
classes they are authorized to settle
aud that an unappropriatcd balanc
Of the Relief Fund be applied to thi
purpose. These claims appear to m
quite a. meritoriUus as any before th
Board, aud | therefore concur in th
recommendation.
MILITARY CEMETERIES.
Learning that no record could b
found within the State, Of the burial
in tho military cemeteries, and tha
there was danger that. by the deca
or destruction Of headboards, all ira
ccs Of burial places Of DECEASED sold
iers might be lost, appointed Chap
lain ID. w. Tolford, a commissions
10 VISIT such cemeteries within thi
, State, and to procure or make recor
, Cf the intcrments so far as it could b
done. ils Barvri az
The report Of tho commissioner
! lappended hereto, and the records
which have been neatly aecura,cl
, entered in books for permanent pres
eryation aud reference, aud mak pal
of the nrchieves Of the Execdiive of
fee. Plats have been madb of III
cemeteries, and the graves uumbere,
according TO regular system, so tina
by means of tho record thus made
any grave may be identified even af
ter the headbords are decayed or re-
moved. The same system was adopt
ed in regard to the military prisoi
lcemetenes, aud all that can nov bt
doTe to mako permanent the informa
ton which is accessible on this sub
ject has been accomplished. The
Uited States Government purposes
marking tho rea,ing place of tho I'm
ion soldiers in some durable manner
aud tho labors of Chaplain Tolfor,
willyery materially assist in carryiu,
! out the design, aud have been yer,
thankfully recognized by the natioaa
officers IN charge Of that work
A6RcULTURALAND MECHANICAL col
+" - LEuE FUND.
| The financial officers Of the State
who were appointed commission I,
sell the scrip issued by the Nationa
Governmeut for the endowment o
agricultural aud mechanical colleges
report the sale completed under th
am ndatury act passed at your las
session. After msny fruitless effort
to ag'oe with ather States upon
minimum price which should eonto
all sulos Of this class of land scriT
they found it utterly impossible /
dispose Of il without reducing. IN
price to the market rates Shish ha
been established by current sales
The history of their efforts is eonelu
isive as to the impossibiity Of dom
better under under the circumstance
The total amount Of the cndowmen
J fund thus created is S3I0,S94 40, Q
which S22S,569 Co has been paid in
to the State Treasury, aud The re-
maind"r will become Due on the con
tracts ofsale within the coming min
months, the scrip not being delivere
until te payments shall bo complete,
i in each case.
by your action IN regard to tn
same subject, board was sppointe,
to receive proposals for the 'loeaticl
Of college 10 be endowed from sal,
lund, This board issued circular
into all the cOuoties in the Statp, au.
to all the existing institutions or in
dividuals likely to take action in re
gard to tho same, aud the press ofth