Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-11
NO. AZ.

L OF the accounts Dy Eue u - Uo iJeAA v
ments were too brief or vague to afford
much assistance In correcting the er-
rors. Meanwhile deaths, removals
from the State, and other casualties,
were COmplicating the difficulty Of pro-
I curing new vouchers, and diminishing
/ the chances of final settlement, or at
/ best the State was losing the interest
\ upon the large sums due.
The Governor states that an examin-
alton of the causes of suspension had
1 been begun By Gen. Day, QUartermas-
/ ter General of the State, and no ap-
! preparation for his salary having been
! made, he generously offered to contin-
ne his labOrs without salary until it
Icould be determined whether such SER
| vice could hasten the collection of the
| class of claims specially belonging to
| his department. The result, he says,
/ has been very satisfactory, and Of the
claims peculiarly belonging TO the
\ Quartermaster' Department, about
/ tWO-thirds, amounting to $lS7 ,O09 81,
/ have been satisfactorily corrected and
settled with the u. S. Treasury, and
the amount credited to the State on its
/ direct tax, while the other third is In
such a state of forWardness as to give
/ reasonable confidence in the early pay
ment of all that can, IN any manner, be
allowed under existing laws.
AS the interest on the amount coll
! Iected would pay the salary of an ofti-
Ger for more than five years, an appro-
priation to compensate Gen. Day for
his services is very justly recommend
ed.
Gov. Cox heartily accords with the
I policy of reducing the military Offices
1 of the State TO the lowest number pos
sible, aud recommends that the paid
staff be reduced as rapidly as the inter
/ ests of the State will permit. He
] thinks the collection Of military claims,
of the State and of soldiers, may be
| most properly conducted through the
! staff departments and recommends that
/ If the State Bureau of Soldiers Claims
1 is continued, it be consolidated with
the Quartermaster Generals Office
The Washington agent, he thinks,
/ should, In such case, be made AssIs-
| taDt QuaTtermaster General.
/ The Governor calls special attention
to that part of the Surgeon Generals
report which urges the necessity of
| taking precautions against the spread
\ of Aslatic cholera next summer. To
insure the execution Of such sanitary
measures as experience has proven to
1 be most effective in fighting the pesti-
/ Ience, he recommends that responsible
/ power be placed in the hands of boards
of health, which can act without de-
/ pendence upon other local authorities.
/ He says wherever this has been done
! during the year past, success IN COM
/ batting the disease has been 50 great,
even in the dense populations Of the
sea-board towns, as to convince the
public Of the necessity and prOpriety
! of such a measure. He would there
/ fore recommend legislation authOrl-
zing the creation of such boards in cit
4 les and villages; but as their authority
! must necessarily be somewhat arbitra-
ry, IL would be proper to make the law
! expire at the end of n year by It's own
( Limitation, so that interference with
I the ordinary administration Of local
affairs could not continue beyond the
probable duration of the evil which
OccasiOned it.
SOLDIERS HOME.
This institution, the Governor says,
! has steadily improved in organization
and adaptation to its benihcent work.
1 The school has been well attended, and
/ the records of the iutistution show
/ that there is no disposition on the part
Of our discharged soldiers to avail
i themselves unnecessarily of the sup
port thus offered, but that they are
very generally animated by laudable
pride in being independent and self
supporting as soon as their physical
condition viii allow.
/ The Board of Commissioners of the
/ National Soldiers Home expect to es-
tablish an institution similar to our
own In the valley of the Ohio during
! the present year, and it is not improb-
II able that it may be located within
this State. The Governor recon-
mends that In such case the Trustees
of the State Home be authorized to
! transfer the use of its premises to the
National Home Iutil its aecommoda-
/ tiOns can be prepared.
The Board of Military Claims has
examined 500 claims amounting to
$50, 1854 27, out Of which they have al
/ lowed 54I, amounting to 500, ,255 l9.
The Board recommended that the
/ claims of soldiers for local bounty
] which, under the orders from the War
4 Department, was withheld from them
/ TIL they should actually join their COM
mands in the field, and which was, In
D "
of this rule, be added to the class they
are authorized to settle, and that an
UnapproprIatad balance of the Relief
Fund be applied to this purpose
Il These claims appear to me quite as mer-
itorious as any other before the Board
and / therefore concur IN the recom'
mendatior.
4 For the preservation of a record o.
burIals in military cemeteries In The
State, Chaplain ID. w. TOlfoFd was ap,
pointed to visitand examine such Gem
eteries and make a neat and accurat,
] record Of the interments in book
which have been made part of the ar
chives of the Executives Office. Plat
of the cemeteries were made out anC
the graves so designated by numbers
as to be capable of Identification ever
after the head boards are decayed oi
destroyed.
The scrip issued by the Nationa
Government for the endowment of an
agricultural and mechanical college
has been sold to the best advantage
creating an endowment fund of $40
994 40, of which $22S. .569 60 has beer
paid into the State Treasury. The in,
stitution has not yet been located OF
organized, and definite proposals fol
It's location have only been received
from Licking county, and from tn,
town of WorthingtOn. The early ant
final action of the General Assembly
in. reference to the location and organ
ization Of the institution is recon
, mended.
In reference to our common sohOO
system the Governor says / believe
that a great majority of the most activ,
7 and intelligent friends of our common
school system have become convinced
! that the administration of school af
3 fairs should be separated from the or
dinary township and county offices, ant
e that county superintendents Of school
are necessary to give the greatest vital
] ity to the system, not only by guiding
the general instruction and disclplinU
= of the several schools, but in person
Q ally attending to the collection of thos
S facts upon which government action i
{ based. / have endeavored, during tn
e past season, to obtain information ol
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