Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-01-09
SURGEON GENERALS REPORT.
soLDIERs' HONE.


The Home for disabled soldiers,
established by your action last winter,
has steadily improved in organization
and adaptation to its beneficent work.
Its site has proven remarkably healthy,
and the crippled and sick inmates have
been thoroughly and kindly cared for.
The Board of Commissioners of the
National Soldiers Home expect to
an institution similar to our
own in the Valley of the Ohio during
the present year. and it is not improba-
BILE that it may be located within this
State. 1t is estimated that the several
branches of this National Home for
soldiers will, when organized, accom-
modate all the veterans who woulu
have claim to admission into the State
institution, and their full establishment
will probably supercede the necessity
for the continuation of cur own. To
facilitate their work, while accomplish
ing 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 appurie-
nances now occupied by them, for the
period which may elapse before the
of new buildings, &C., and
also any unused balances of appropria
tions, on condition that all Ohio sol
diers now in the Home or who may
have the rightto admission there under
our laws, be received and cared for by
the National Board. l look upon this
course as the more just and proper, be-
cause the present buildings were erect
ed by the United States Government
for hospital purposes during the war
and transferred TO the State without
charge.
BOARD OF MILITARY CLAIMS.
= The Board appointed for the pur-
pose of passing upon unsettled military
claims against the State, report that
they have examined $50 claims,
to 800, ,T64.2T, have allowed,
in whole or in part SAL, amounting to
SOS. .255. 10.
The Board recommend that the
claims of soldiers for local bounty
which, under the orders of the War De 4
Dartment, was withheld from them till
hey should actually join their com
nands in the field. and which was, in /
ome instances, lost to them by reason !
# this rule, be added to the classes they I
ire authorized to settle, and that an
lnappropriated balance Of the Relief
Fund be applied to this purpose.
COMMON SCHOOLS.
The failure of officers of many of the
counties to forward reports, has preven-
ed the School Commissioner from COM
,leting his own report.
l believe that a great majority of the
most active and intelligent friends of
ur common school system have be-
ONE convinced that the administra-
ion of school affairs should ba separa-
ed from the ordinary township and
ounty offices, and that county super
ntendents of schools are necessary to
i've the greatest vitality to the system
ATTORNEY GENERALS REPORT.
The Attorney General makes recon-
lendatiOns in regard to the simpllhcatiOn
the criminal code, the inefiiciency in
ome respects of the laws concerning the
ale of intoxicating liquors, the propriety
making intemperanee disqualification
or the exercise ofjudicial Office, the just
,e of increasing the salary of judges Of /
he courts Of common pleas.