The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-12-03
Debt outstanding Nov, 10. 1852, $40
TEMPORARY APPROPRIATIONS.

~ TEMPORARY APPROPRIATIONS.
o3Small temporary appropriations are
required as promptly as practicable,
for each of the following objects
the existing appropriations having
been exhausted, viz: Expenses of the
Presidential elections, expenses of the
General Assembly, Trustees of Benev-
olent Institutions, care of the State
House, gas for State House, expenses
for legislative committees, binding for
the State, and new Idiotic Asylum.
REVISION OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM.
In pursuance of an act passed March
18, 1867, a Board of Commissioners,
consisting of Aaron f. Perry, of Ham
ilton county, Charles E. Gliddon, of
Mahoning county, and James III. God
man, Auditor of State;-was appointed
by my predecessor, Governor Cox,
whose duty it was ITO revise all the
laws of this State relating to the as
sessment and taxation of property,
the collection, safe-keeping and dis
bursement of the revenues, and all the
laws constituting the financial system
of the State" and to report their pro-
ceedings to the next session of the
General Assembly. The report of the
commission was laid before you at
your last session. 1t disclosed many
imperfections and inconsistencies in
in the existing legislation touching the
finances, and the urgent necessity for
an elaborate revision of that legisla-
ton. Their report was accompanied
by eight separate bills, consolidating
the present laws, removing contradic-
tions, and supplying defects, but in
Producing no radical change in the
general principles of our financial sys-
tenn. These bills have already been
somewhat considered in both branches
of the General Assembly, but no def
mite action upon them has yet been
had. / would respectfully recon-
mend an early consideration of the
bills, and their adoption, with such
amendments as in your Judgment the
public interest may require. oyes
| >ltsai CENTRAL LUNATIC ASYLUM. iitll'
The destruction of the Central Iu-
natic Asylum by fire during the night
of the 18th instant, causing the death
by suffocation of six of the patients,
and incalculable distress and suffering
to the remainder, will require finvesti-
CATION and prompt action on your
part. In rebuilding the Asylum, the
erection of fire-proof building will
occur to you as alike the suggestion of
prudence and humanity.Nf
This calamity also suggests the pro-
tpriety of examining the condition of
the other institutions of the State,
with view to provide them with ev-
cry proper means of security against
a similar disaster. o b 29nloGF iUO
The interest of common school edu-
cation, in my opinion, will be pro-
NOTED by the early adoption of county
superintendency, as provided in bill
on that subject now pending in one
branch of the General Assembly. /
1 therefore earnestly recommend the
consideration and passage Of the bill.
The Commissioner of Comm on
Schools is required, in the discharge
of his duties, to pay out each year for
travelling expenses about 500. The
propriety of refunding to him, out OF
the State Treasury, his travelling ex-
! penses, will probably not be called in
question md9 e-tt ilG}fH II IH.j0.ls
THE CATTLE DISEASE -
During the last summer, @ cattle
disease, commonly known as the
Spanish or Texas cattle fever, occa'
stoned much alarm in the grazing
counties of the State, and in few To-
calities, caused serious loss. On the
, recommendation of the State Board o.
: Agriculture, in the absence of effec'
tive legislation, it was deemed proper
to appoint commission to take sucf
8 measures as the law authorized to pre-
b vent, rs far as practicable, the intro
duction, movement or transportation