The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-01-11
the State and TO the continued liberality
Of the General Assembly.

tai for the Insane has progressed salS
factorily during the season. In the opin'
ion of the Trustees, If the necessary APP
preparations be made promptly, a large
part of the edifce will be ready for occu-
pancy by the first of April next
PENITENTIARY.
The Ohio Penitentiary is altogether in
adequate to the necessities of tile State
there being at this time imprisoned there
in about fifteen hundred prisoners, while
the Penitentiary has suitable recommen'
dations for not more than one thousand,
INTERMEDIATES PRISONERS. Z,
intermediate prisons, or York-houses,
should be provided without delay for the
confinement of the younger class of prisr
oners. and those especially who are pu'
nished for first offense, and whose re-
formation may be reasonably hoped for
AS work houses, they should also DO
adapted to the imprisonment of able
bodied yaprants, who live habitually by
beggary, and are becominga dangerous
element, not only in the cities, but also
in the agricultural dirstricts of the state.
The courts should have authority to pro-
tect the public from this class of offend
ers by sending them to place where
they can and will be compelled to earn
their living. or gnn5
CONDEMNED JAILs.
It will be seen by the report of the
Secretary of the Board ofState Charltles
that several of the jails in the State have
been condemned by grand juries as uhtlt
for nse. The State is bound to take rea-
sonabe care of the health Of prisoners,
and especially of persons detained on
more suspicion of crime. | recommend
A provision of law that whenever a jail
has been or shall be condemned by a
grand Jury it shall be the duty of the
sheriff of the county to take all prisoners
coming into his custody for confinement
in iail to such neighhoringN jailsJ as ne
shall deem suitable and safe, and shall
have sufficient accommodation for the pur-
pose and that the fair and reasonable ex,
pense of the support Of SUCH prisoners
shall be paid by the county 80 sending 10
the county so sending to the county 90
receiving the same.
1 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
The field work of the Geological Sur-
yey proper is now entirely done, and
4 halfthe final repofts-two volumes each
4 IN two,parts-in which the res tits are to
\ be permanently recorded, have been al
ready published, while the first parts, of
V the third volume is now going ,thr6ugh
| the press, and the second part is in Pro.
N cess ofpreparations
\ The two remaining volumes on
\ Economic Geology and the other on r.
h oloqy and BotanyT-are nearly complet-
\ ed and the whoecseries will be ready for
publication before the close Of 1877. j, :,
The general Geological Map Of 'the
\ State, the preparation of which formeo,
| bart Of the duty specifically assigned to
| the Geological Corps, is also nearly com
pleted, and will be prese ted for publ
| cation at the same time with the volumes
of the final report already speGi6ed9 4. 81
In the plan originally proposed by Prof.
| Newberry, the Chief Geologist, and adopt
ed by the Geological Board the final re-
port was to consist of sixgetPYQ yotqn91esl
two on Geology, two ON Pdl@ontology,
one on Economic, Geology, anG one r,9on on
Zoology and Botany y
a 1t was at first supposed that all the
really important results of the Survey
Could be embodied in such report but
Il has been found Impossible to include
witbiTthese limits satisfactory reports
ON all of the eighty counties of the State,
1t therefore became necesSatfYto to prepare
a third volume on Geology, and another
on PaIeontology or to leave unpublished
large part of the most valuable mater
ials which had been gathered. The pub
lication ofthese volumes will give sym
mrtry and completeness to the report
which both the interests of the people
and the credit of The State demand.
| II has also been thought advisable to
add to- the general Geological Map of the
State detailed maps of the most import
ant mining districts, made OIL so laigea 9
scale as to permit,all mines, mining pro
nerties, furnaces, and rolling mills to be
clearly represented These maps will
form six sheets, three of which are finish
ed the other three are now in course oi
preparation. e"a u.
In the appropriation asked for anG
granted two years stree. for the com
pletion of the report and map, no esti.
mates were made for this additional work
and to provide for it's accomplishment
during the coming year further approp
. ration of So 500 viii be required. ShouIc
this sum be granted by the General AS
sembly, the entire report and all thu
maps Specified will be finished and rea |.
for publication before the close of 1871 "
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
A NV attention has been called, by tn
: Executive Comittee the State Board q
Agriculture, to the. embarrassed fnancia
= condition of the Board by reason OF los
. sustained by the failure of the FichIan'
County Bank, and by the unfavorabl
: weather during the week of the last Stat
g Fair.-1 he Board has been unable to pa
: the premiums awarded, and Its ability
do the important work for which it wa
: established is seriously impaired. Til
}, aid of the Legislature will be invoked. an
2 il ia hoped that such relief will be afford
ed as, after investigation may be requll
ed by the important interests involved.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MINES.
|. I respectfully recommend to your a
g tentiorl the suggestions of the 1nspectt
o Of Mines on the subject of establishing
vt department in the Agricultural Colleg
o for instruction in mining engineering
J. and as to the amendments required
1T increase the efficiency of the laws rel
d ting I'd his Office. d5
p e REarSTRY LAW
% In my message TO the General Assem-
3. bly in 1868, l spoke of the prevention
3. frauds upon the elective franchise as tt
Is most important subject then requiriI
D the attention of Ehe General Assembl
s This subject has lost none of its impo
ID tarce. The extent of the evil in Oh
of has probably been overestimated, b
b. the fact that it exists at all tends TO le
III Ia L.