Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-11-27
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'soIdiers' Allotment Fund a82 90
Balance in Treasury Noy. 10 % 5l0sLz9 %
Total ...-.-.........- --.... s5.O25,E5 81
The amount Of the Public Funded
Debt, Nov. 10, '6T, was SII OBJ 81 56.
During the year the redemptlonsw were:
Ofthe loan OF 1850 -....--s 1850 s.
or Foreign Union Loan -.
OF Bdmestic 81 mes Loan Of 1855 Isl.6ss Is
- a---
rsbt outstanding Nov. Is. as. SO $50 575 4s
Small temporary appropriations are
required as promptly as practicable,
for each of the following objects the
existing appropriations having been
exhausted, viz: Expenses of the Presi-
Dental election; expenses of the Gen
eral Assembly, Trustees of Benevolent
Institutions, Care of State House, Gas
for State House; expenses of Legisla-
tive Committees, Binding for the
State and the new Ediotie Asylum
In pursuance of an act passed March
18. 1857, a board Of commissioners,
consisting of Aaron Il. Perry of Ham
ilton county, Charles B. GlidGen, of
Mahoning county, and james ii. God
mao, Auditor of State, was appOl nted
by my predecessor, Governor Cox,
whose duty il was TO revise AT the
laws ofthis State relating 10 rbc as
sessment and taxation of property, the
collection. safe keeping and dlsbuse-
ment of the revenues, and and all the
laws constituting the financial system
of the State, and to report their pro-
eeedings to the next session of the
General Assem- bly,. The report OF the
commission was laid before you at
your last session Il disclosed many
imperfeetiOns and Inconsistencies IN
the existing legislation touching the
finances. and the urgent necessity for
an elaborate revision Of that legislat-
ion. Their report was accompanied BY
eight separate bills. consolidating the
present laws removing contradictions,
and supplying defects, but introducing
no radical change In the general pFin-
eiples of our financial system. These
bills have already been somewhat con-
sidered In both branches of the GEN
eral Assembly; but no dehnite action
uTion them has yet been had. re-
speetfully recommend an early consid-
GRAFTON Of the bills and their adoption,
with such amendments as in your
Judgment the public Interests mag re-
quire.
The destruction Of the Central Lun-
attic Asylum by fire during the night
! of the 18th inst eausines- -tEas=s4saislT By
suff6catI0n of six Of the patients aud
incalculable distress and suffering 90
| the remainder, will require Investiga
tion and prompt action on your part
In rebuilding the Asylum, the erect
ion of a fire. proof building viii occur
to you as alike the suggestion of pru-
dence and humanity
This .caiamity also suggests the
propriety of examining the condition of
the other Institutions of the State,
with a view of providing them with
every proper means Of security against
la similar disaster.
The interests of common school ed
ucation. IN my opinion, will be prOme-
ted by the early adoption of county
superintendency, as provided 10 bill
on that subject now pending In one
branch of the General Assembly. /
therefore earnestly recommend the
consideration and passage of the bill.
The Commissioner of Common
| Schools is required, ia the discharge
of his duties, to pay out each year, for
| travelling expenses, about 800. The
propriety of refunding to him out of
the State Treasury, his travelling ex-
penses, will probably not be be called
IN question.
During the last summer cattle dis
ease, commonly known as the Spanish
or Texas cattle fever, oceasioned much
alarm in the grazing counties of the
State, and in a few localities caused
| serious loss. On the recommendation
/ of the State Board of Agriculture, In
| the absence of effective legislation, it
was deemed proper to appoint COM
missioners to take such measures as
| the law authorized to prevent the
| spread of the disease. A proclamation
was issued to prevent, as far as prae-
ticable, the introduction, movement or
| transportation of diseased cattle with
In the limits of the State. The rail
road companies and the owners of stock
promptly complied with the require
ments referred to, and the injury sus-
tanned by the cattle interests was happily
not extensive. It is believed that,up
investigation, it will be found necessary
to confer by law upon a board of COM
missioners, appointed for that purpose
or upon the executive COMMITTEES of
the State Board of Agriculture, power
to STAMP OUT the disease wherever
it appears, by destroying all the infee-
ted cattle, and to prohibit or regulate
the transportation or movement OF
stock within the State during the
prevalence of the disease. To the end
that proper investigation may be had,
respectfully recommend that author
ity be given to appoint five commits
sicners to attend a meeting of commits
siouers of other States. to be held for
the consideration of this subject at
Springfield, Illinois, on the first OF
Deeem Der eueXt-said commissioners
to report the results of their investi-
cation IN time for action by the present
General Assembly,
1 submit to your consideration the
importance of providing for thorough
and comprehensive geological survey
of the State. Many years ago a partial
survey was pr Osecuted under many
! difficulties and embaTrassments, which
| was fruitful of valuable results. 1t Is,
! beyond doubt that such a work rs it
| is now practicable to carry out, will, by
I making known the mining, manufae-
] turing and agricultural resources of
the State, lead to their development to
an extent which will within a few
years, amply reimburse the State for
its cost. n
The annual report of pardon granted
and the communications of the sentences
4 of conviets required by law a state
meut in detail Of the expenditure of the
/ Governors Contingent Fund; the semi
annual report of the Commissioners OF
/ the Sinking Fund, for May; copies of
/ proclamations issued during the last
| year; and acknowledgement of the pre-
/ sentatiOn 10 the State or several of the
portraits of former Governors of Ohio,
are transmitted herewith.
The most important subject ofiegisla-
ton which. in my Judgment, requires
the atteution of the General Assembly
at its present session, relates to the
prevention of frauds upon the elective
franchise. Intelligent men of all par
ties are pursuaded that at the recent