The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-01-11

within this State. 1t is estimated
hat the several branches OF this Ma.
ional Home for soldiers will, when
organized, accommodate all the vet
,rans who would have claim to adj |
mission into the State Institution, and
heir full establishment will proba-
ply supercede the necessity for the
of OUR own. To facili |
ate their work, while accomplishing
I'll that the State Home can do,
would recommend thatJupon the To-
cation of one Of the branches of the
National Home within this State, the
Trustees Of this institution beau
Lhorized to transfer TO such National
Home the use OF the premises and
now occupied by
them, for the period which may
elapse before the completion Of new
&C., and also any unused
balances OF appropriations, on con
tlition that all Ohio soldiers now in
the Home or who may have the right
to admission there under our laws, be
received and cared for by the Nation
al Board. / look upon this course rs
the more just and proper, because
the present buildings were erected by
the United States Government for
purposes during the war
and transferred to the State without
charge. .... ... ,..
BOARD OF MILITARY CLAIMS.
The Board appointed under the
statue for the purpose Of passing up
on various unsettled military claims
against the State, report that they
have examined 500 different claims,
to S90,764 81, out Of
which they have allowed, in whole or
in part 81 ,amo lnting to S6S, ,255, 10
Others are still before them, and
new oncs are coming in from time to
time. The appropriation Of S40O, 900
for this purpose has been expended,
and Is probable that an equal sum
will be needed to complete the settle
ment of such as may be allowed. AS
fast rs these claims can be put in
form they will be presented to the
United States Government for re
imhurscment.
The Board recommends 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
commands in the field, and which
was, in some Instances, lost to them
by reason of this rule, he added to
The classes they are authorized to
settle, and that an unappropriated
balance of the Relief Fund be appli.
ed to this purpose. These claims
appear TO me quite as meritorious as
any other before the Board, and
therefore concur in the recommends.
ton.
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
traces of the burial places Of deceas.
ed soldiers might he lost, appoint.
ed Chaplain ID. w. Toliord Il com
missioner to visit such cemeteries
within this State, and to procure or
make q record of the interments in
them, so far as it could be done.
The report of the commission i:
appended hereto, and the records
which have been neatly and accurate
ly entered in books for permanent
preservation and reference, are made
part of the archives of the Executive
Office. Plots have been made of the
cemeteries, and the graves number
ed according to a regular system, SO
that by means OF the record thus
made, any grave may be identified
even after the headboard is decayed
or removed. The same system was
adopted IN regard to the military
prison cemeteries, and all that can
now be done to make permanent the
information which is accessible on
this subject has been accomplished
The United States Government pro
poses marking the resting place Of
the Union soldiers in some durable
manner, and .he labors Of Chaplain
Tolford will very materially assist il
carrying out the design, and liav'
been thankfully recognized by th'
national officers in charge of tina
work.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL
LEGB FUND.
The financial officers of the Stat,
who were appointed commission t.
sell the scrip issued by the Nationa
Government for the endowment o
agricultural and mechanical colleges
report the sale completed under thu
amendatory act passed at your las
session. After many fruitless efforts
to agree with other states upon ;
minimum price which should contro
all sales Of this class of land scrip
they found it utterly impossible t.
dispose of it without reducing th'
price to the market rates which ha,
been established by current sales :
The history Of their efforts is con
elusive as to the impossibility. of do
ling better under the circumstance
The total amount of the endowmen
fund thus created is S340, 1874 40 o
which S22S, $1,000 has been paid in
to tue State Treasury, and the re
mainder will become due on the con
tracts of sale within the coming min