Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-09
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
FELLOW Citizens Of the General As

Feuo,o- Citizens of the General As
sem5Iy.
There is good cause for congratu-
lation, that while the people of Ohio
have not been altogether exempt
from misfortune during the year
which has just drawn to close, yet
no startling calamity has befallen
them. Peace, health and financial
prosperity have generally prevailed
within the limits of our State; the
standard of education has been main,
tanned; success has attended the ven
lures of capital. and rich reward has
followed close upon the footsteps of
labor. While, within few months
past, desolating fires, have laid
in ashes two great and beau
tiful cities, east and west of US, our
homes have been spared, and all our
towns and cities have been busy with
their multiplied and uninterrupted
industries.
You are again assembled, to de-
termine how the welfare of the State
may be promoted by wise and judi
cious legislation; and it becomes the
duty Of the Executive, to offer for
your considerate action, such sugges
tions and recommendations as may
seem pertinent and necessary.
For detailed statement of the
conduct of affairs by your State otll-
GERS during the last twelve months,
you are respectfully referred to the
Annual Reports of the Heads of De
partments herewith transmitted. 1t
viii, 1 think, be found that no inter
est has suffered through the neglect,
imcompetency, or fraud Of those
whom the people have honored with
important trusts.
l subjoin brief statement Of the
present financial condition Of the
State.
On the 18th day of Novem-
bcr. 1871, the Public Fund
ed Debt of the State was S9,022 ,721 Is
The redenptions during the year
were
Loen of 1850 s1,17O 90
Loan of 1870 4I3,912 SO
| Loan of 1871 2,I00 90
Loan of 1875 1000 90
Loan Of 1881 1882 81
439,175 SO
Outstanding Nov. 15. 1872 ss.5s3,546 81
On the amount outstanding on
the 18th November the sum of $l02
015 had ceased to draw interest, sthe
holders thereof having been notified
to surrender their stock for redemp-
ton. thus making the interest bear
ing Funded Debt Of the State So,
4S1 .53137
The Funded Debt is divided as
follows:
Foreign Debt-Paya-
BILE in New York
City. $S,5ol,8 ,8S1 81
Domestic Debt-Pay-
able in Columbus 1865 90
| Total $685. .546 81
| The local Indeptedness of the
State on the 1st day of September
1872, was as follows:
Net debt of Counties $3,75e.436 0:
Ees debt Townships, includ-
ing debts created by
Boards OF Education, 9TH
er than for seperate School 49,
Diitricts 447,23s II
Net debt of Cities (first and
second CLASSY I1,4s5.57l O.
Net dedt of incorporated
Vilrge. 6le,55s 6
Net debt of School Districts
Especially 1924 723 /
Total $17.59O, ,547 8
The amount of reimbursa-
bic debt, State and Local,
i therefore is $2G,174,c94 3
To which add irreducible
debt 4.o2a,475 Q
And we have aggregate debts il
State. $50, 0,197 $50
In this statement. the State del
Is reckoned to November 25, 1S7:
/ To the local Indebtedness above ST
forth, is to be added, for debts ere:
ted il aid of Railroad enterprise
under what is known as the Boes,
$. law, mp 10 Janualy l, 1873. not les
than $1,000 coo more On Decembs
Esd it was S5,I77,000