The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-25


The total taxes collected during the
year were $4,426, ,505.15
There we're receipts from mlscella-
neous sources which ran the receipts
to s494.l7O:10. The largest of these
miscellaneous proceeds were as fol-
lows: Sale of section 16, $21, ,541.3S;
convict labor in;Penitentiary, Visitors
Fund and miscellaneous sources at
Penitentisry, $685., ,126.41; tolls and
water rents from. the Public Works,
$2l3, $50 % !; insurance fees from State
Commissioner G of ofInsurance, ,$20, ,9S9 20
Mother Russell's bequest to Deaf and
Dumb and Columbus Insane AsyIums,
$27,2l5. As against this total there
werc disbursements to the amount of
$463, ,732 33.
The Adjutant Generals Department
cost over $lO9, 600 more to run it than
did the Governors Department. This
does not include over $4,000 for the
care of the State-house. According
to the sum expended for the State
house it would seem that there might
have been some way of keeping it
clean and in order so as to avoid the
clamor and criticism during the past
year on it's condition. An expendi-
ture of $30,9l4 in the Department of
the Adjutant-General proper was for
tents, in which purchase the Adjutant-
Generals action was repudiated by the
Legislature, and payment ordered in
such a way, after investigation, as to
ignore him and his alleged authority
to run the State in debt without the
direct consent of the law. w.making pow
er. The expenses of the Adjutant-
Generals Department are heavier than
those incurred in sustaining many OF
most beneficial and most needed of
the State Benevolent Institutions, and
there Is an impression that the return
is scarcely adequate to the outlay.
Even as it is the sum SILT, ,937.77 does
not include the entire expense, as the
militia gets further sum from cities
and towns that are forced to pay hall
rent for companies. The cost of the
annual summer picnic alone was over
$4,000. The salary paid the Cover
nor during the year was $3,S33 81.
The mileage and per diem of members
OF the Legislature during the year was
S16.29S 80.
The outstanding circulation of the
free banks in Ohio is given at $l9.-
955, and the amount of bonds on de.
posit is $43, ,74S. The names of the
banks are as follows: Bank of Com
merce, of Cleveland Bank of Della
ware Bank of Marion: Bank of the
Ohio Valley, at Cincinnati; Cham
paign County Bank; Franklin Bank,
at Kent Forest City Bank Cleveland !;
Ironton Bank, Ironton; Merchants
Bank, Massillon Marine Bank, Tole-
do; Mount Vernon Bank; Pickawsy
County Bank; Springfield Bank ;
Stark County Bank, and Savings
Bank, Cincinnati. s5sa
The outstanding circulation of the
independent banks is $40.372, and the
amount of the bonds given to secure
the same $78,177. These banks are as
follows; Bank of Georgia, Commercial
Bank of Cincinnati, City Bank of
| Cleveland, Dayton Bank, Franklin
Bank of Zanesville. Mahoning County
Bank, Sandusky City Bank and West
ern Reserve Bank at Warren. The
total amount of outstanding circula-
ton of both the free and Independent
banks is $50. .327, which is secured by
bonds Of $121, ,925 in all. 1t is safe to
say that nine-tenths of the notes have
been destroyed or were lost long ago.
Any one having such in his possession
can have them redeemed by present.
ing them at the places indicated above.