Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-08

educated for lives of usefulness nnC
virtue. We have few nobler or NOR
beneficent charities than our reform
schools.
Your attention is directed to thu
recommendation of the Commission,
ers of the Reform School for boys, with
reference to the purchase of lands ne.
cessary for the use of that institution
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ORPHANS
HOME.
The Soldiers and Sailors Orphans.
Home, at Nenia, is in a prosperous
condition. The new buildings, moi
already finished, are in process of con.
struction, aud there will soon be am
pie accommodation for all the helpless
and homeless children of our dead SOL
diers and sailors, with such teaching
and guidance as judiciOus and loving
managers can offer, or the State pro-
vide.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
The geological survey of the state,
has progressed satisfactorily during
the past year. The first volume of the
final report is now in the hands of the
printer, and will be ready for distri-
button at the present session of the
general assembly. Material for an
other volume is now nearly ready and
1t is hoped provision will be made for
its early publication. To perfect tie
work of the survey according to the
original design, and in harmony with
what has already been completed. will
require one year more, and it is rec
commended that the time of the geolo-
gical corps be extended accordingly,
and that such appropriation be made
therefor as may be necessary.
Five maps, upon . somewhat extern
ded scale, have been prepared by Pro-
lessor Andrews, representing the coal
region in the district assigned to him.
The funds heretofore appropriated for
engraving and printing, were not
sufficient to warrant the Board of
Control in ordering as many copies of
these maps as there will be volumes
in the edition to be published. If il
should be considered desirable that an
equal number should be printed, an
additional appropriation will be re-
quired.
The geological survey is a very i'm
portant work in an economic point of
view, to say nothing of its scientific
interest. 1t has already added large
ly to the value of real properly i'm the
state, while its developments and
disclosures are inviting labor and
capital from abroad. To make q sat-
isfaetOry and creditable survey neces-
consumes considerable time and
costs large sums of money. 1t is,
however, believed that our work is
being we'll and faithfully done, and at
the same time more expeditiously and
cheaper than similar work has ever
been performed in other States.
You are requested to provide for the
necessities of the survey by such ap.
preparations as careful estimates shall
for and your judgment shall ap.
prove.
OHIO RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
The improvement of the Ohio riv.
er and its tributaries is q subject.
which, for manifold reasons, has
engaged the attention of the
people of Ohio during the last few
years, apd or less for q long
trme. Some time since a commission
was constituted by the Governors of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, |
Tennessee, Indiana and
illinois, whose duty it is to consider
what steps are desirable, and to en-
DlOy such means as may be necessary
% secure free and uninterrupted navi-
of the Ohio river and the prin.
ilpal streams which feed it, so far as
hat is possible. This commission has
had frequent meetings, and is still
prosecuting the work delegated to it.
No appropriation has heretofore beeh
made to pay the expenses of the Ohio
commissioners. Your attention is in
Eited to the prOpriety of some proper
md reasonable. provision.
You are also requested to unite with
commissioners i'm their memorial
Congress to give the subject
'uch consideration, and to take such
as a matter of great national
demands.
CENTRAL CELEBRATION.
Great preparations are being made
or celebrating the n hundredth an
liversary of our National Indepen-
in 1876. The Congress of the
United States has by legal enactment
constituted a National Board of Com
nissiOners and a Board of Finance,
composed of c~Orporators from each Of
several States and Territories. To
make this celebration ereditable, as
he occasion demands, it must be
brought home to the hearts of the
All should in some way con-
ribute to its success. And we re-
member what marvellous blessing
nave followed the Declaration Of I776,
I is eminently fitting that we should
give expression TO Our appreciation
md our gratitude.
The General Assembly of Ohio is
therefore, requested to cooperate with
he Congress of the nation in making
he necessary preparations.
IANNER o LISTING PROPERTY FOR
TAXATION.
The laws now in force governing the
of listing property for taxation
re thought by many business men to
)e defective, inasmuch as they afford
opportunity for those disposed to avail
Yourselves. of II, to avoid their fair pro-
of the public burdens. If mer-
.hants and manufacturers were taxed
lpon sales rather than upon the month
y average value of all merchandise
lwned and held" by them, it is claimed
here would be a more equitable distri,
,ution of taxation. And il ought not to
,e possible, rs it now is, for private
,ankers to do a very large business and
let only pay taxes on Office furniture
subject is worthy ofyour~ attention.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Complaint is made that the law now in
orce, passed March y, 1872, creating
nd regulating the Insurance Depart
nent, is unnecessarily w in its OPP
upon the insurance companies
f the State. Section 8 ofthe law makes
t the duty of the Superintendent, in
4ase the assets Of any company are re-
luced more than twenty per cent, to re-
Iuire of the officers that they direct the
tockholders to pay in the amount of the
deficiency within such period as he may
designate in his requisition. Section II
makes it unlawful for such company to
ssue any new policies or to transact any
lew business after the superintendent
hall have issued his requisition.
The amendment suggested by the SUI
reinsurance is, that it shall
70 lawful for a company to continue
BUSINESS for a reasonable time, say about
days, after service of the requi-
ition, providing its impairment shall
lot exceed fifty per cent. The commits
Toner very properly says: This would
i've such company a chance to recover
While it has some vitality. ~Suspending
IS business during the time indicated in
he requisition destroys confidence, and
enders it almost impossible to resume
gain to any profit"
Considering the unparalleled misfor-
which have oppressed Insurance
ompanies within the past year, the sug-
of the Superintendent of Insur-
nee would seem TO have great force.