The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-01-10

institution, and their full establish
ment will probably supercede the ne.
ccssity for the continuation OF our own,
To facilitate their work, while accom-
pfishing all that the State Home can
do, l would recommend that, upon the
location OF one OF the branches of the
National. Home within this State, the
Trustees OF this institution be author
lied to transfer to such National Home
the use of the premises and appur-
tenances now occupied by them. for the
period which may clapse before the
completion Of new buildings, &c +, and
also any unused balances of appropri.
ations, on condition that all Ohio sol.
diers nov in the Homo or who may
have the right to admission there un.
der our laws be received and cared for
by the National Board look upon
this course as the more just and prop
er. because the present buildings were
erected by the United States Govern.
ment for hospital purposes during the
war and transferred to tho State with
out 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 500 different claims,
amounting to s90,764 27. out of which
they have allowed, in whole or in part
54l, amounting TO s68,255 10. 9th.
ers are still before thcm, and new ones
are coming in from time to time. The
appropriation OF $40, 900 for this pur-
pose has been expended, and it is prob
able that an equal sum will be needed
10 complete the settlement of such as
may be allowed. AS fast as these
claims can be put in form they will be
presented 10 the United States Gov.
crnment for reimburse ment.
The Board recon mend that the
claims Of soldiers for local bounty
which, under the orders of the War
Department, was withheld from them
till they should actually join their
cormands In the field, aud which was,
in some instances, lost 10 tnem by rea
son of this rule, be added 10 the classes
they are authorized so settle, and that
an unappropriated balance Of the Ro.
lief Fund be applied TO this purpose
These claims appear to me quite as
meritorious us any other before the
Board. and | therefore concur in the
recommendation.
MILITARY CEMETERIES.
Learning that no record could be
found within the State of the burials
in the military cemeteries, and that
there was danger that, by the decay
or destruction Of head boards, all ira.
ces Of the burial places Of deceased
soldiers might be lost, lappointed Chap.
lain D. W. Tolford commissioner to
visit such cemeteries within this State.
and TO procure or make record Of the
interments in them, so far as it could
be done.
The report of the commission is ap.
pended hereto, and the records, which
have been neatly and accurately en-.
tered in books for permanent preser.
walton and reference, are made part of
the archives OF the Executive Ofticc.-
Plots have been made of the cemeteries,
and the graves numbered according to
u regular system, SO that by means of
the record thus nude, any. grave may
be identified even after the head board
is decayod or removed. The sam.
system was adopted in regard TO tho
prison oern1t1riUs, anu all
that Gun now be done to make perma
nent the information which 10 iccessi.
bic on this subject. has been accom-.
plished. The United States Govern.
nent purposes marking the resting
place Of the Union soldiers in some
durable manner, ami the labors OF
Chaplain Tolford will very materially
assist in carrying out the design. and
have been thankfully r, co n,zcd by the
national officers in charge Of that
work.
AGRicULTrRAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
FUND.
Tho financial officers of the State
\ aho were appointed commission to
sell the scrip issued by the National
Government Tor the endowment OF az
'lcultural and mechanical colleges, re
port tho sale completed under the
'mondatory act passed ut your last
'ession. After many ruthless efforts
o agree with other States upon n
minimum price which should control
III sales OF this class OF lund Sc, in
hey found IL utterly impossible to dis.
'ose OF It without reducing the price |
o the market rates which had been
established by current sales. The his
ory OF their efforts is conclusive as TO
ho impossibllity OF doing bettor un. !
er tho circumstances. Tho total |
of the endowment isnd thus
realed is S34O,S94 40, of which S22s,.
90 60 has been paid into the State
'reasury, and tho remainder will be.
ONE due on the contracts Of sale with.
n the coming nine months, the scrip
ot being delivered until tho payments
hall bc completed in each case.
BY your action in regard to tho
anne subject, Board was appointed
receive proposals Tor the location of
College TO be endowed from said lund
his Board Issued circulars into all
he counties of the State, and to all
no existing institutions or individuals
kelly 10 take action in regard TO tho
anne, and the press OF tho State gave
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