The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-05
Soldiers Orphans Home.
HEADoUARrERs DEPARTMENT OF ONO,
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, L. s.,
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
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GENERAL ORDERS no. S.

GENERAL ORDERS no. 81
I. At the late meeting Of the semi-annual En-.
campment, held at Cleveland, Ohio, July goth and
2ist, ls7O,l the following report was unanimously
adopted in reference to the Ohio Soldiers Orphans
Home, its management by the Board of Control
appointed July 26th 1863, in pursuance of resolu.
tions adopted July 2lst, Is6o the present indebt.
edness of said Board and the mode of raising means
to pay the same, viz;
"Committee appointed to devise ways and means
to meet the Indebtedness contracted by the Board
of Control OF the Ohio Soldiers Orphans Home and
its affairs, beg leave TO report that they find that
there has been received by the Treasurer of the
Board of Control the sum OF Sll Al o. and paid ont
for expense of the Home $ll SS4 balance due the
Treasurer advanced by him the sum s237.9O. That
the entire present Indebtedness Of the home is
al2, ,53e.92. Assets in the hands Of the Board of
Control 5000; balance Indebtedness $7,539.92
That this Indebtedness was contracted in part by
the Board of Control as necessity to put the
Home under their control in such condition that
the Trustees of the Orphans Home might under
the law accept il State institution.
FThat this indebtedness was contracted for pro-
visions and clothing for the support Of the orphans
of Ohio Soldiers Orphans Home, and is a debt
that calls for and demands prompt payment
Your committee are satisfied that the SUM received
by the Treasurer and disbursed by the Board of
Control, has been iHdeiOusly and economically ex-
pended THAT the debt contracted for the establish
ment and support of the Orphans Home was not
only wise, prudent ard udicioas policy on the part
of the Board of Control, but an actual necessity.
That in the opinion Of your ormittee it Isl sacred
debt 10 which the honor and manhood of the COM
rades of the Grand Aruly OF the Republic, Depzrt-
rnent Of Ohio is, is pledged.
Your committee would therefore recommend
that the delegates present in Convention make
known to the Convention forthwith what amount
certain and fixed can be raised If any in their
posts by soldiers reunions, excursions representa-
tions Of the Drummer Boy and other dramas and
That addition IN tha cttTra en-
pledged that Chaplain Collier and Chaplain Earn
shaw, TO be assisted by Colonel Edward Anderson
and assistant inspectors. detailed by the Depart
neut Com Rnder TO visit the posts and BY personal
appeals TO comrades and friends to awaken them
to sense oftheir duty financially to meet the IN
debtedness of the Ohio Soldiers Orphans Home
that in this way the amount Of said Indebtedness
can be esEiv raised by the time fixed for the annual
convention"
II. In explanation of the above report simple
statement is due.
lst The sum reported as received by the Treas
urer of the Board does not include any part of the
money paid by the people of Xenia and Greene
County in the purchase of 100 acres Of land decided
to the Board of Control and an additional subscrip-
ton Of $4,000 fro the same people, which has
been and is now being expended in the erection of
buildings on said land in order to provide accom-
modations for at least $50 children, so that the
same can be accepted as donation to the State of
Ohio under the Law Of said state.
I'd. If the State Board of Managers could have
accepted the 100 acres of land and such buildings
a. were upon the same at the tire of the passage
Of the law by the General Assembly, the Board of
Control would have been able to pay of all its in
debtedness from moneys subscribed and assets
then on hand.
Sd. The members Of the Board Of Control know
ing the pressing necessity OF the immediate care
for many hundreds of Orphans OF dec ased and dis
abled soldiers and sailors and learning the peeu-
liar situation of the White Sulphur Springs prop
erty which rendered it impossible for the State
Board of Managers to get possession of and estab-
lish Home upon the same as was contemplated
by the law Of the State, and fully contding in the
people of Ohio, to sustain them, made
the following proposition, viz;
"XENIA, May Is, 1870.
''To the Board of Managers of the Ohio Soldiers
and Salons Orphans Home:
"GESTLEMEN-Ihe Board Of Control Of the Ohio
Soldiers Orphans Home hereby tender to you, as
the representative Of the State of Ohio, one hun
dred acres Of land, free of fincumbrance three brick
cottages, two stories high, of three rooms ca and
one substantial frame building, two stories high,
forty by one hundred and fEty-eight feet, accord
ing to the accom- mpanying plans, sufficient and in
our opinion, than sufficient for the acco rmo-