The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-12-03
Governors Message.

Fellow Citizens of the General As
sembly:
Upon your assembling to ente
again upon the duties of IegisIatinl
for the welfare of the people of Ohio
the Governor is required by the Con
stitution to communicate to you the
condition Of the State, and to, recon-
mend such measures as he shall deem
expedient.
The reports of the executive of1cerl
of the State, and of the heads Of Statl
institutions, are required by law to bI
made to the Governor on or before the
goth day Of November of each year
Since that date sufficient time hal
not passed for the publication Of the
reports, and shall, therefore, not bt
able at the opening of your present
session to lay before you a detailed ex
position of the affairs of the various
departments of the State Government
1t will be my purpose in this com
municatiOn to invite your attention
to few brief suggestions in relation
to some measures which are deemed
important, and which may be consid,
eredand acted upon, if you think il
advisable, in advance of the publica-
ton of the official reports.
FINANCES.
The financial affairs Of the State
government are in a satisfactory con-
dition: The balance in the treasury
on the 18th of November, 1867, was
$677, $3.50 70. The receipts during the
last fiscal year were $4,347, ,484 80,
making the total amount of funds in
the treasury during the year $685.
AS 81. The disbursements during the
year have been 4,455, 1854 Sc, which
sum has been paid out of the Treasury
from the several funds, as follows, viz:
General revenue fund, S1,518,210 80;
canal fund, $14,939 80; National Road
fund, $18,829 36; sinking fund, $1,-
472,226 80; common school fund, ST.
426;868 so; bank redemption fund,
81 ,695; soldiers claim fund, S3,7 ,781 68;
allotment fund, 1882. Bal
ance in the Treasury, November 10,
1868, s57O,12 Is. Total, $5,O25,-
475 81.
PUBLIC DEBT.
The amount of the public funded
debt November Is, 1867, was $11, ,O31, )
GAL 56. During the year the re-
demptiOns were: Of the loan of 1860,
$14,6 81; of foreign Union loan of
1868, $191 ,166; of the domestic loan OF
1868, ,S131 ,088 13; of the loan of 1870,
$157, 1861 80; total, S499,96 13. The
debt outstanding November 10, 1868,
was 0,532,675 43.
TEMPORARY APPROPR IATIONs.
Small temporary appropriations are
required as promptly as practicable for
each of the following objects, the ex-
isting appropriations havin been ex-
hausted, viz: Expenses of the Presi-
DENTAL election, expenses of the Gen
eraI Assembly, trustees Of Benevolent
Institutions, care of State House, gas
for State House, expenses of the Iegis-
Iative committees, binding for the
State, and the. new Idiotic Asylum.
REVISION OF THE FINANCIAL sYs-
TEN.
In pursuance of an act passed March
l8, 1867, Board of Commissioners,
of Aaron F. Perry, of Ham
ltOn county. Charles B. GlidIen of
county, and James H. God
man, Auditor of State, was appointed
Oy my predecessor Governor Cox,
whose duty it was to revise all the
laws of this State relating to the asses
nent and taxation of property, colleC-
lion, safe keeping, aud disbursement
Jf the revenues, and all the laws con-
the financial system of the
State, and report their proceedings to
he next session of the General As
,embly. The report of the Commits
ZION was laid before you at your last
session. 1t disclosed many imperfec-
ions and inconsistencies in the exist |
ing legislation touching the finances,
md the urgent necessity for an elab- |
,rate revision of that legislation. Their |
epOrt was accompanied by eight sep
rate bills, consolidating the present
avs, removing contradictions and /
defects, but introducing no
adical change in the general princi-
lies of our financial system. These
ills have already been somewhat con-
idered in both branches of the Gen
raj Assembly, but no definite action
pom them has yet been had. l re-
recommend an early con
Iteration of the bills and their adOp-
ion, with such amendments as in
our judgment the public interest
nay require.
CENTRAL LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The destruction of the Central Lun-
tic Asylum by fire, during the night
f the 18th inst, causing the death, by
Of six of the patients, and
distress and suffering to
he remainder, will require investiga-
on and prompt action on your part.
n rebuilding the Asylum, the cree
on of a fire-proof building will occur
, you as alike the suggestion Of pru-
ence and humanity.
This calamity also suggests the pro
riety of examining the condition of !
le other institutions of the State, with :
view to providing them with every
roper means of security against SINH
r disaster.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF
SCHOOLS.
The interests of common school ed
,ation, in my opinion, will be pro-
oted by the early adoption of county
perintendencies, as provided in a
Il on that subject now pending in one
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