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GOV, BAKER'S MESSAGE. "We print below the material parts of the message of Governor Baiter of Indiana. Its great length compels us to reproduce it in an abridged form. The Governor begins by expressing
"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AN) THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS
VOL. 8, NO. 4.
BliOOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, J ANTJARY 22, 1869.
WHOLE NO. 3F,
TR ASSIES T. On aqnsr, (I lima,) on im.ruo ..S-l" 3ua 4Qrc two ins't'o---- I .a aqaavre, three iniertioM....... 2 All subseqmit iBtarttona, par iqaar M YEARLY. On colvma, changeable jrtrry ............ ft W Three-quarters cl a coiaura M On-baif of a coin ma.. U t One-quarter of a ciaain... ......... 1 M On eighth of a colnsna .- IX M Transient advertisement aald ia all nNI paid for in advance. Unless a particular tint ia apeetfed when handd in, advertiemijtf will be i.abiishd antil er-
dered oat and ehat&sd aeeordinglj.
Iduction of tbe University bonds durinc and interest due on anv bonds held bv be impolitic, unwise aid injurious to the j rate of assessment and taxation, and to pended, and a small further appropriation cm Prison, to the great detriment of sound
the year, which leaves the net increase of the United States aeainst the State. I was best interests of the ptople ot the State to , prescribe such regulations as shall secure ; will De neeoea. , morality as well as the vood government
the domestic debt at 8222,234, as before ignorant of the existence or nature of purchase said canal. I respectfully re-; a just and equal valuation ior taxation ot
stated. ! such obiection. Subseouentlv. in Jnlv. commend that the sulstance of this reso
In his last message to the General As-' 1868, the Secretary of the Interior, in lution be adopted at the present session, sembly, Governor Wright, in 1S57 in rec- whose custody these bonds were held, filed At the last session of the General Assemoanmending an abandonment of the old sys- two caveats with the Secretary of the bly, a joint resolution passed the Senate, tem bv which the trust funds were loaned Treasurv. one in relation to 141 of these hut. was not acted upon in the House,
thankfulness .a God for the peace and i to individuals on niorto-atre seeuritv. and bonds, whieh had matured in 1S50 ro ' rrnnoshiB- an amendment to the Con-
rnsneritv whifh have prevailed in the ' urging the adoption of the pla n now be- questing that pavment be withheld from stitution declaring that the General , rate of taxation is required iu one
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of the insti'utiuu.
State aud nation since his last
to be Assembly shall never increase
;n ! loht- nr liaKilittr or recognize
lie pays an appropriate tritju.e to tne late i certificates of stock, used the follow- suppression of the rebellion, of such sum claim whatever. crowing out of
u til n.1o wtiA wAliak0arfl tha -fc An if S 1 riBP ii ll A n ti - w . w. avw.
Governor Wright, and sussests that In
diana should have portraits of the deceased Governor in the State Library. He then proceeds to a consideration of THS STATE DEBT. Tie says: The State's outstanding indebtedness, for convenience and reference, may be appropriately classified as Foreign and Domestic. That which I shall, in this communication, designate as the Foreign Debt, consists, 1. Of tbe two and a half and five per cent, certificates of stock, issued under the adjustment made between the State and a majority of her creditors in pursuance of the legislation of 1846 and 1847, commonly called the "Butler bill." 2. Of six per cent, bonds issued under the legislation of 1861 for war purposes, and commonly called the "War Loan bonds." The domestic debt of tbe State is that which she owes to her own educational institutions and consists, 1. Of the Vincennes University bonds.
2. Of the State's indebtedness to the Common School Fund, for moneys belonging to that fund and used by the State in the redemption of her two and a half and five per cent, certificates of stock, and for other Stale purposes. The indebtedness is included in tour non-negotiable bonds of the State, executed by authority of law, aud payable to the school fund, with interest at six per cent., payable semi-annually. According to this classification, the for
eign debt of the State was, on the 31st i
day of October, 1867, as stated in the Auditor's report of that date, as follows, vii:
or
as would cover the face of the bonds, and connected witli the Wabash & Lne Lanal,
such interest as might hae accrued there- or matters pertaiuitig thereto, except as on; the other caveat was in relation to the ; provided for in an a.t entitled ' An act remaining seventy bonds not matured, ', to provide for the fumed debt of the State and requesting that the interest accrued i of Indiana, and for tie completion of the thereon might be withheld in like manner. Wabash & Erie Canal to Evansville," ap-
i ing language, viz.: I l,The present irode of investing the
sinking fund is chiefly in mortgages upon real estate to our citizens. The facilities thus afforded for borrowing money create a spirit of speculation often terminating
in ruin and bankruptcy to the borrower. Copies of the caveats were communicated 1 proved Jan. 19, lS4G,and the act supple-
all property, both real and personal, has rrv total of all the claims presented to A i, other matter equally pressing, is that
no application to municipal taxation, butLv- Mnriran R.i.i Commission fo adiudi- f reformatory in.-tttutiou for i:irU. It
refers to the general levy by the State, and ! cation was 497,399 21, and that of those 15 impossible to receive irls in the House the reason given is that taxes for corpora- j approvecl $413599 48. The Governor ' Rfcte at Tlaii. nVl j without destroying tion, townchip and county purposes can j j,,,,. jits reformatory cr.u -';, aud converting not be equal; that is. because a different i vt iv;r.;nn tn th nrnnripti nfi it into a juvenile u.i.-uo.
the State affordinsr some proper relief to chiminal law ami prattii-f. -
any ! cipal corporation, county or township than , the 8nflerers by the "Morgan raid' ha- j The barbarous and brutalizing practice
any, - "" uC.wCB v. n..v.u- ,0 sluce puD1IC,y expressed m the of prize-fisihtin is becoming lament.blv
in this countrv. and our Stat
"i i"erore me very jusi coomuuuui ; perloru.ance of my otncial duties. 1 bave .; prevalent
pio!Muu o lue equamv j subsequently discovered no good reason to j bas not been entirely twe from such dia
ry oi a.sesmeni ana laxanon or au prop- , change ,hllt opinion. 1 adopt the lan- graceful and demoralising exhibitiont. ertj, hs no application to county, town- j of niy immediate predecessor on this j Our penal ode contains no adequate ship or municipal taxatton. i snbject, uddressed to the General Assem- j provisions, either preventive or punitive. 1 his just and reasonable interpretation hy of- 1S(35 bj 8ajing th,t ..the true the. ,,plie.ble to auch rases. I therefore re-
me viuusuiuuuu minutes n ; ry ot our government is, that it snail , commend
in tue way ot an equal taxation oi can. protect tne
f'nnd for nnn-nn vment of nrtnnnl and1 and in iinsnniria tliomnf T .iror.io.l ttiA ! nn1 that kaiiI aota shonl.i never be con- 1 towns and cities the municipal taxation is
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government is, that it shall : commend that both of these omissions be
people in their persons and supplied by proper legislation, providing
1- J I - j.... " , , - if - , , - . . f r r K I ( . . v j p i .- IV M, iiutiuIU The long lists of lands forfeited to the ! to me by the Secretary of the Treasurv, j mental thereto, approvii. Jan. 27, 1847; stocks with otner property, in tire larger ,r0perty against invasion aud loss from upon proper affidavit for the a r real b4
the rublic enemv. or ioiurv bv domestic
interest, admonishes us to eek tor some , Adjutant General of the State, who had i strued so as in any manner to create any 1 necessarily onerous, ana vy ef en,Pl,,,& ; insurrection. here losses have been other mode of investment, which shall be previously been especially charged with I liability or legal obligation on the part of j large amounts of banking capital (than j tnns nstaitied, it is much easier for the
equally safe and productive. : the adjustment of our war claims asainst i the State to pay the canal debt, but that j which no other property can better anord peopie 0f te State to bear them in their ' ;.riuc:pals aud hevouds
"1 have repeatedly suested and now tbe government, to proceed to ashing- I the proposed amendment snouia not oe : r"j uuiu j collective capacity tuan lor tne particular: ia a pr.ae riht, and
renew the recommendation, that the Sink- ,on to obtain information as to these bonds construed as atleeting the rights ot per- . oeueui. or au are maueio ran uujumij individuals ou whom they bave fallen. 0u the part vf iht)?e h
ing Fund Commissioners should be au- ! atld a,s0 ln regard to the amount of the thorized to invest this fund, from time to j three per cent, fund due to the State from time, as it may accumulate in their hands, ! tne United States. The Adjutant Gener-
ln the bonds of the State, under appro- al ptoceeded to the Capital and perform
j one hundred dollars in value of taxable
.$3,754,236 33 237,00 00
j t iate limitations as to principal and mar- : f toe daty assigned him in a highly sat-
ket value, thus changing the character of isiactory manner, oDtaining lull mtormaour obligations from a foreign to a do- i tl0n on both subjects, which was duly remestic debt; the interest upon which, when ; ported to me on his return, collected from our people, shall immedi- j Subsequently, on the 7th day of Sep-
j ately be reimbursed to them in the accom- j tember, 1868, by my direction, the Adjupli&hment of that high and most ennobling j tant General wrote to the Secretary of the ' object of human government, the educa- ! Interior requesting that the proper steps
tion of our youth. It is a high trust, and might be taken for the settlement of the will be most truly performed when we principal and interest due on these bonds, shall connect the education of our cbil- ' by the application of a sufficient amount
dren with the character, integrity and hon-; of the allowed war claims of the State or of the State." ! against the government to that purpose. What Governor Wright so forcibly rec- This letter remaining unanswered, I wrote ommended has, to a considerable extent, I myself to the Assistant Secretary of the Inbeen accomplished under tbe legislation jterior, on the 19th day of October, 1868, inaugurated at the special session of the ; to the same effect. Copies of these letters General Assembly in 1865; and it is ho- are embodied in the Adjutant Geueral's ped that it will not be abandoned to return report herewith submitted. The result to a system which experience has con- i was that the Secretary of tbe Interior sent deroned. Ian asrent to this citv with the bonds so
The non-negotiable bonds which have hehi by the goveVnmcnt, and on the 5th been issued to tbe school fund should be 'day of November, 1868, the 141 bonds considered as a perpetual loan to the State, t past due, the principal thereof being 141Instead of taxing the people tC-pay a debt ; 000, and tlg accrued interest thereon bewhich they virtually owe to themsvlvts, ' ing $136 300. were surrendered to me in order that it may be lent on mort-1 with the attached coutons. and I deros t-
A a
holding to bail of thoe intending and
preparing to engage in such coutests; also
by making it a felony ou the part of the
who tua v ensraee
tive capacity than for the particular ; la a .,rile fiht, and a high mi.demeanor .duals on whom thev have falleu. r i. i.m-t f tl, .w ul,., i.v ti.;,
sons holding the obligations of the State, j o'"er property and capital not thus Uvor- benevolent institutions. i since, may eucuur.ge the com mission of and who now are parties to the adjust- ed ,,0. . j Common humanitv as well as the re- lhe csement of the debt of the State as made in n"Vd i T demand i The reputation of the State has been said acts of 1846 and 1847. ?VupJ'c the institutions for the eduction of eriosly injured .ince the last sessiou of
The ?."CIP of 1 ?e enUre debt, f !?e i :r:rinl ,TLrJ ' -d the deaf and dumb. .d the e G.t,.l ASsemby5 in repeated insUn.
State prior to the adjustme.t under the j nunureu aouars in va.ue hospital or tLe insane should be liberal i ces, bv the execution of prisoners accused "Butler bill ' was over 11,000 000, and property, and the collecticM for those : of crime, bv mob violence. ithin the
the accrued interest then unpaid was over ! y were made accordingly lire cor- , J hospital for1'' mentioned, more than a dozen of 3,000000. Theonehalfof the canal rectness ot this levy depends u have tlltlB sulrcred de,th the
debt including interest at 5 per cent., construe , or ,01 mree i separate u .ip . . . . , tK ! hands of or-anized bauds of men. not act-
IA.. II, ., J " I 1, 1 .1 aaavx iVV U U II ill VU O II U I' V lU I V I iwa
recepiion of inmates, the capacity of thc;ing uuder the impulse of momentary pa-
institution will be nearly, if not quite. ; Siuu wra,"uu L,J s,T,ue "uiraj-e jum ui
sinee tlie adjustment. w.n!d now amount ot tne uecerai Assemoiy, ana, in my
to some 15,000 000. If tie assumption 'judgment, a correct construction of these of this immense burden is t. be proposed, ! c,s only authorized fifteen cents on each let the proposition be made to the people ; oue hundred dollars in value of taxable themselves, who will have to bear it, by ! property. The acts upon which this quessubmitting a constitutional amendment " depends are those of March 9;h, 1861, upon which they can vote. entitled an act in relation to applying cer I tain funds therein named to the payment ASSESSMENT AND TAXATION. of the public debt, and raising a revenue . By the first section of the act of De-j for ,j)e (5Upport Gf common schools, etc ; cember 21, 1858, providing for the ap- t the act of ji yj lgG1 authorizing the
piaisement of real estate, tie Hoard ot ; issue cf war joans and tne g,ate debt of
Fipr cent. Certificates ix per cent. War Loan bonds.
tM '
Total $:.9t.236 33 gaee security to a chosen lew, let it re-
The domestic debt of the State was, at ! main a loan to all for the beuefit of all. the same date, October 31, 186i, as stated 1 have intentionally excluded from the in the same report, as follows: ! two foregoing classes of the public debt, Vinoennes Unive.tj bond-. $fi5.5S5 00 ! comparatively small balauce of the old ScLuol Fuud bonds 3,:ii7,M&2 15 i internal improvement bonds which the
ei them in the vault of the Treasurer of
State. The principal and interest of these 141 bonds amounted to 277,300. Of the seventy remaining bonds uot matured, the Secretary of the Interior could only produce sixty-nine, one having been lost or
holders failed Or refused to surrender Un- I mi&laid hut. he hn tw.r nf the emimina rf
i der ihtt "lintler bill " and unon whif-h no! flie iit Imnrl ' Tli n..:ir.nu y.f tl.o l.jt
j interest has been paid siuce 1841. except j mentioned bonds, representing interest to
as hereinafter stated. j the amount of 45,625, were detached and
.Notwithstanding the fact that no inter- surrendered to me and deposited with tbe 1
est has been paid since 1841 on these Treasuier of State. The total amount of bonds, they have annually appeared in principal and interest settled was 323,the reports of the Auditor of State b a 9-25; and i-cquete.l , in writing-, that the part of the public indebtedness. From j Secretary of the Treasury would transfer 1864 to 1867 inclusive, the amount of that amount out of the allowed war claims
these bonds outstanding was stated at oi this State against the government to
The bonds thus reported were the credit of the Secretary of tbe Iuterior,
Total 3,4:$2,67
In making an exhibit of the foreign State debt in the report alluded to, no two and a half per cent, certificates were reported as then outstanding. As the holders of these have been notified to present them at the State Agency in New York for payment, and as the noney was there for the redemption of all cf them, they were treated by that report
as redeemed. There was in point cf tact, j 5353 ijqq
However, at tne date ot that report, ana , PMn nr- .1.- denomination of SI 000. and ! in ,.nnRiderti
till is, as Will hereafter be explained, Lnn)ipmifintlv there sre 353 in alb Kfluihn..nl nnnn,. The o-nvemment still
...n l,.. 1.. r a - " . r : r-.--. -..- .,...
luc w . u.. )C. of these bouds were held b the ifoard ot 1 ho ds the s xtv-n ne bonds, the merest
Sinking Fund Commissioners in trust for . thereon being settled to July 1, 1868, and the Common School fund when that Board j the principal being not yet due. This ceased to exist, and its effects were passed I leaves one hundred and ninety-six of into the hands of the Auditor of State 1 these bonds still outstanding, one hundred under the legislation adopted at the spe j and twenty-six of them being in the hands cial session of 1S65. j other thau the government, and one claimThese eight bonds had been held by the ! ed by the government being lost or misSinking Fund Commissioners for more j laid. than twenty five years, and no interest" It will remain for the General Assem-
had been naid thereon subsenuentlv to i oly in its wisdom to determine what ac-
"w r - - i j 1
the year 1841. By the act of March 7
cent, certificates outstanding, but they have ceased to bear interest, as the money i in the treasury of the agency wherewith to redeem them, and the holders have been duly notified to present them. In the report of the Auditor of State, for tie fiscal year ending October 31, 1868, herewith respectfully submitted, tbe ioreinn debt of the State is thus 6tated, viz.: Five per cent certi Heater outstanding at ihe last named date 3, 322.924 6S
Si per cent, war loan bonds 2lil.0 00 I
,260 13
County Commissioners of each county : were required, at the first ttrm after the ;
passage of tbe act, or at a special sessiou to be immediately called, to appoint an appraiser of real estate for each county. A proviso to the section declares tliat
nothing in the section shall "prevent the ! Board of Commissioners of any county appointing a deputy or deputies to the appraiser in case of sickness, wnt of time, or disability to discharge tbe duties in the time and manner required ty law. The second section of the same act provides for the election of an appraiser at the October election in 1S63, and every fifth year thereafter. There is uo provision in the act authorizing the Boards of Commissioners of the said counties to appoint deputies to the appraisers that arc to be elec
ted in 1863, and every fifth year thereafter.
unless the proviso to the first section confei s , lhat power. Appraisers were elected under this act at the last October election,
and the Boards of Commissioners ot many of the counties bave already appointed deputies to the appraisers then elected. In auswer to inquiries made by county officers the Auditor of the State has issued a circular to the several counties, in which
he gives the opinion that tbe Boards of Commissioners have no power to appoint deputies to tbe appraisers elected by the people; but that the proviso to the first section of the act only applied to the appraisers appointed for the year 1S5S by the Boards of Commissioners. I believe this opinion to be correct, and there seems to be no power confered on tbe appraiser himself to appoint deputies. As the ap
December 21, 1865. The act first named authorizes a five cent, tax for the reduction and ultimate extinction of the public ,lhf Tl,0 r .f Mot ISfil .tithrtrl-
,u ' ' . , e I those
2.us a uc iciA. iui ihg pa mcui v& :
princi
doubled, and many in all parts of the ! covered, Dul proceeding with a deliberate
State, wbo are now suffering for want of i determination that eviuccs a purpose to ! proper care and treatment, may be reliev- I permit no law human or divine to staud : e j jin the way of tbe accomplishment of their ! The Board of Trustees of the Institn- ! cbject. In all these cases the persot.s extion for the education of the Deaf and j ecuted weie laken by violence from the ; Dumb, as well as that for the education of uody of tbe ofluers of the lw by whom ! the blind, ask appropriations for tbe en- I tbey weie held lui tri-I Iji uffctises with ! largement of their respective institutions. which they were charged. At the time of the establishment of these j The recent outrage at New Albany owed '. institutions, tbe State contained a muoh , its success to tbe audacity of its perpetra'smaller population than it now does; and; tors, and was not anticipated by the local ! we must not forget that the number of i authorities or people of that city. Some
who need the training which such ! time before these prisoners were confined
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interest, and final payment of the princi- j can aione impart, win increase in ine prison in tnai city, ana in anucipa-
pal of the war loan bonds, and the act last r-f -c u. ,11011 o .c.. uvmc.j ...vie .ui mic c-uaiu-abovc mentioned authorizes a ten cent. ! prepared with additional accommodations j dy. 1 sent an agent to that place to ascertax for the redemption of the five and two ! commensurate with the number whi.-h ; tain and report as to their probab'e safety and a-balf per cent, certificates of State 7y, from time to time, be entitled to ad if they should be there delive.ca and linstock outstanding. I think the five cent I m's.slon . prisoned to await their trial.
1 tne House ot lietuce. the tiovernor 11 lie rcsu.l oi the inoniries made assnr-
savs, that in pursuance of the act of tbe '. ed me that no danger of violence was to last Legislature authorizing him to select j be appreheuded if they were delivered and
0p! a farm for a House of Refuge, I examined j imprisoned for trial at New Albany, and
either personally or through a competent ! 1 so mtormed the Secretary of btate or agent, about thirty farms at six different j the United States, who had telegraphed points, with a view to tbe selection of the j ue on tbe subject. best site for the institution, and ultimate ' I resiiectfu'.lv submit to you whether
fly purchased two adjacent tracts of laud ; suitable pecuniary rewards ought not to j in Hendricks county, near the town of! be authorised to be offered and paid for j Plain field, for that purpose. The two I the discovery aud arrest of those who j tracts contain, together, two hundred and ; were engaged in the perpetration of the l twenty-one actes. The purchase was j recent terrible tragedy, and for the de. m-ul in lima IVitT .. . .1 :n .1, ' .1 . 4 ..II u 1 r
with the aid ot the sinking fund assets in i,v t j - .'. r 1 1 - - -t . J , , 0 . j-. fe ro. . . 1 month 1 deposited in the office of the Sec- ter be eugascd in similar actd.
I J 1 retarv of State a certificate nf the Ineatiiin i ... 11 t. t i .
,' . . . ' 11 snouia aisn. in mv ju.iimenr oe of the institution, together with the deeds n (1 fejonv to :oin or i,ft wemher uf
conveyance by which the lands were ; aDV or..BOiZJ,ioll or association which has
tax authorized by the act of March 9, 18G1, was merged in and repealed by tbe ten cent, tax levied by the State Debt bill of
December 21. 1865. and left the rate
taxation at fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars in value of taxable property for State debt sinking fund purposes. I have caused estimates to be made, and am satisfied that a State debt sinking fund tax of fifteen cents on the hundred dollars for the year 1869, and a tax often cents on the hundred dollars, for the same purpose, for the year 1870, will be sufficient,
Two and a halt per cent, certificates
Tofal $3,540,184 79 This exhibit shows that there was a reduction during the fiscal year 1S6S of the amount of the five per cent, certificates and war loan bouds outstanding of 458,311 66 or deducting the two and a half per cent, certificates, amounting to 7,260 13, not Mated in the report of 1867, a net reduc tion cf the foieign debt during the fiscal year 1868 of 451,051 53. Since the end of the fiscal year (October 31, 1868.) five per cent, stocks have been redeemed at par to the amount of 455,795. and war loan hnmla have ln
deemed in like manner to the amount of ! 'fr
1867, entitled "An act to consolidate cer
tain bonds, stocks and accounts of the School fund into one non-negotiable bond and making other provisions in relation thereto," the validity of these eight bonds was recognized, and the principal and all the accrued interest tl,ereon was included
in the new nop-negotiable bond given by the State to the school fond, in pursuance of tbe provisions of that act. This reduced the number of these old bonds to 345. Afterward, in 1S68, eight others of these bonds wore surrendered to the Agent of State, and new 5 per cent. State stocks
were issued to the holders under the"Lsut-
t on. if any, should be taken with reference to these old bonds. I would unhesitatingly secommend that provisions be made for their adjustment, but for the apprehension that such action on your part might give encouragement to a combined effort which it is said will be made either at the present or at some future session of the General Assembly, to induce tbe State to take back the Wabash & Erie Canal, and im
pose upon the people of the State that half
ot theoriginal debt which was extinguished, so far as the liability of tbe State is concerned, by the conveyance of the canal
and its resources, and some 8 0.000 acres of land, under the provisions of the "Builer
praiser is reouired bv the 13;h section of
1 a the same act to return his appraisement to the County Auditor, on or before the fourth Monday of May after his election, there will not be sufficient time for a single appraiser to make the appraisement within the time limited. Some provision should be made for appointing assistant appraisers, or an enactment should be passed declaring that the present appraisement shall remain as the basis of taxation for another year, and giving the appraiser elected in each county time to appraise personally all the real estate in his county. It is very important to have a uniform
and just appraisement of real estate for , against the United States, since
Will
the bands of the Auditor of State, to
off all the foreign indebtedness of the State,
with tbe exception of the old Internal Improvement bonds; and thereafter no taxes tor sinking fund purposes will be required. 1 therefore recommend that these mtes be established for the years above mentioned, respectively, for State debt sinking fund pui poses, and that the levy of twenty cents ou the one hundred dollars of value, for the same purpose, for the year 1.86S, be
legalized, to the end that there may be no
of
conveyed to the State. One of tbe tracts, ! ;tai,;, ,I,nril,,;n .he r.,n.
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c-onsis ing or. one tiunarea ana sixty acres , ,ion9 0f tb judiciarv by condemning and
of upland, was purchased from Robert 11.
Uownird for twelve thousand eight hundred dollars (12,800). The other, consisting of &ixty-one acres and a fraction
punishing others f,r veal or pretended of
fenses. It is also worthy of consideration
! whether some legislation is not called for
01 superior crees bottom land, was pur
chased from John Lawrence for the sum
fit eicrht thnncntKI five hnnilret (l.tllurai
I providing for the cu.-t.dy and safe keep
j ing ot prisoners accused ot criuie, at dis-
taut poiuts in the ttate, from the scene
question as to the collection of the unpaid g 5 m; e - f -- ot ihe n o, tne ged iscs taxes for these 5 ears. Unless your ap- i T , , , , i wnere 11 is md..e 10 appear tnat ii ere is probations shall exceed what now I an- II affJs me pleasure to say that the ; reasonable grounds to apprehend mob vioLL. tus,.,. faT nrnMr,..,n uUn he I success of the House of Lefuge has ex- , knee, if confined for trial at or near the
reduced to fifteen cents on each one bun- ceeded my most sanguine expectations 1 dred dollars of taxable property. If the ! Pef f"' J refer you to the report ot the Committee of Ways and Means or any j B?ard of Control for a history of its operother Committee, or members of either atl0D9- and. commend the institution to branch of the General Assembly, shall de- yur fostering care with the expression sire to inspect the estimates upon which I ! f confident belief that, in liberally prohc ,ho ininr, t the rte nf tva. i vidu.g for its enlargement and support.
tion necessary for State debt, sinking fund, Jou .WI" e practicing wise economy and j . . J mi i meetm? the exmictations ot an enlighten
place wbeie ihc offense is charged to have been committed. 1 have long been satisfied that it would be wise to allow courts and juries a larger degree of discretion than ihey now possess in assessing the punishment, on a conviction, in a ccrtaiu class, or perhaps classes of felonies.
for one-half of the principal of i bill.
; the bonds so surrendered, and new 2 per No such effort shall receive aid trom any
iecne.i fnr one-half of th m - otncial action ot tuine.and I ftieretore le
3.00, making, together. 458.795.
( . . . . t'.i. . ppnis pre issut-u iui utit: .n m- (
stand. exciWe ' of 1 the old internal which had accrued UP t0 thc da,e fllrain frolu n,akinS an? recommendation as proveme" boiS. wnich will be sub Z ! the "d" l"' l e. V""1 imProwenl b"ds
quently mentioned, uiav be stated as fob I uer ot ttrese Ponds outsranaing to o, . , sum uia..u.u
lows, viz.: j At the time the State suspended the Five r.er mi .w;fi. c- in i navment of interest on her indebtedness
Two and a half per cent. cerVia'cates v"'" 7,26m is i in 1841, tbe general government held 211 creditors who assented
ar ivau bond, 207,oio oo : of ,i,ese bonds in trust for certain Indian
The State failed to pay any inter
treasury.
State Debt Sinking Fuud
)ngmg
and exclusive-
agency of New York 43.200 97 making I . "s commoniy cauea rue o per veuv
totrcther S"ni 9v i;a -1. ,u fund), amounting in the aggregate
amount of five and two and a half per ce"t. certificates and war loan bonds un-
Tbe ac'iutmcnt made under the ''Butler
Bill" was, as between the State and the
to the arrange
ment, a complete accord and satisfaction.
One-half of the debt was extinguished i
and ceasexl to be a debt against tbe State, and was charged exclusively, with the assent of the creditors, upon the canal and its resources. Tbe old evidences of debts were surrendered and canceled, and we issued new 5 per cent, certificates for one-
to i halt ot the principal, and new s per
!10S,208 59. This application of the 3 i cents, tor one-halt ot the accrued interest; rpr cent, fund naid the interest on 141 of ; the canal was surrendered to the creditors
Total -t ",oa rn I tribes.
Tcward the payment of this we have in ! est on ?e bnds eo,hce 7 ! vnthe 1 ..... u.i .1. . I ment after the year 1841; but the latter.
- vii.i a 1 iitaiirv. iiHiniunnir in ii r -
at Jiffereot subsequent periods, applied
ly applicable to that purpose, the sum of! moneys to wnun tuejate became ctmi.ea
217,091 72, and in the treasury of the I rom l"e sa,e3 01 V"? ' ,na, w,,ul" "V
.1 1 111 . A. - ln AAitA-n vt t v . o n airlt rat
nr vi.le mtoi nr ia .r 1-tne oonos so neia py tne government u . , u . .
r, ,ival.n, ,1 .V: 1. " ... f,.J ' to .luh 1, 1S55. and on the remaining whom were selected by them, and the cer-
dtbt.Mnce the commencement of the fiscal i seventy up to July 1, 1865.
In April. IS08, one ot our Senators in
year 1S68, of 1 200,139 20, all of which was accomplished withoutcontracting any new debt or liability by the process. The domestic debt of the fit ate, as sta
ted in the Auditor's report for .the fiscal
year ending October 31, 18G8, is as lows:
Congress, Hon. O. P. Morton, wrote to
tifieates of canal stock issued at the same
time for one half of tbe debt on their face show that tbe creditors now look exclu
taxation, and it is Deiievea mat tins win
be better attained by having one man to appraise all the real estate in a county than by having multiplicity of appraisers in each county.
Ihe law as it now stands fixes the compensation of appraisers of real estate at two dollars per day. It is worthy of consideration whether this is an adequate compensation under existing circumstances. The act of March 15, 1867, entitled ' An act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes on shares of stock in banks and banking associations doing busitiess in this State," expressly exempts stock in the Bank of the State of Indiana and in National Banks from taxation fur
municipal purposes. I respectfully recommend that this section be repealed, and that an amendatory section be passed,
declaring that shares ot stock in these ex empted banks shall be taxable for municipal purposes like other property. Banks are generally, if not always, located iu incorporated towns or cities, and derive as much benefit and protection from muniidnal L'dveriinient as any other
;r 0 . . - .
IS BO
and for general revenue purposes, it will j "g expectations 01 au eu..gmCU-: j re8l,ec,fnn v recommend that the disafford me pleasure to furnish them. j ed constituency. i ,jnctim, between grand and petit larceny war claims against the cnited states 1 8111 persuaded that Jn the ex-I be abolished, and th.tt courts and juriei
The aggregate of the war claims tiled lt-n Kafi ,n tn ,t,0 r-f.irm,;n f ; ., ; t . T i
tne oe- j , ., . , -i ....... . .. . . . . -
viieuucrs, auu rue j u en lie ueiiuipiruiii ui jr n ls nol inougnt OCst to Oo tills. TC a commuuity afford not only a hope, but, j the minimum puniahmcnt for graud
in a targe majority oi cases, an assurance larceny liont two jears to ono year.
Hy our Constitution, wlnte mlo per-
of the war is 4,oi3,0ol oi.
There still remain pending claims to the
amount of 3 568,082 30. The Adjutant GeneraJ of the State made several trips to Washington to furnish evidence, and ex plain any of tbe objections which had
been made to parts ot this sum. finally, by the advice of Senator Morton and other distinguished persons, Mr. J. A. Co-
burn was employed as agent. Since the making of this arrangement, aud through the agent so employed, allowances have been made to the State, on elainis which had previously been suspended, disallowed, or not examined, to the amount of 1,653,497 95, and prior thereto, claims had been ailowed amounting to 305,719 99, the aggregate of the
amounts allowed being 1,05,917 94. Of this was received, on the 4th day of December, 1S08, the sum of 91,730,39, which was paid iuto tbe Treasury of the State on the same day, and the residue of the amount so allowed, viz , 1,867, 1S855, was applied as follows, viz.: ' Adranced to the State by the UniI ted StaU-3 in 1S61 $450,000 00
of success in the exercise of reformntory influences and treament. It will be seen
by the report of the Board of Control, that !
! ot the coO.OOO appropriated for the estab
lishment of the institution, and for defraying the current expenses thereof, the sum of 39,261 25 was expended in buildings and their necessary improvements; that the expenses of the institution since it was opened, in January, 1 868, including furniture, stock and implements for the farm, and the clothing and support of the boys, &c , ic, amounts to the sum of 20 73875; and that the Commissioners were
compelled, to enable them to keep the institution open, to make a loan of 10,000. The Soldiers' and Seamen's llouie. near
Xt.n-rtegntiabl bonds school fund. I'r iveritj bonds
held by the
P.iii intn Ihn TniAiliirv nf thA SttlLta
i . . ii-... . . .. .1.1 : I J "
me that a bill had been introduced into i siveiy to tne canai ior tne reueu.puuu i persons or institutions, inu nicic is n by Quartermaster uenerai biKin.. the Senate which would be pressed to an S lliee certificates, and not to the State. To1 justice in exempting them from their just j Ad,nccd to the State b, the United
early consideration, directing the Secre-! p y """"J v" "JO ra " suare oi municipal ouiucua.
. . r .i. t" ... a.,A., IV.-.,., i , tne ciate ior tne oavmeni oi an pan n i nt tl.e .National tanKS aoing
! .mMnt that mv he due to anv State on 1 th,s canal debt, would be to create a new ; ,his State can noUbe taxed for municipal
..,t .,f V.l.;mc the rrineinal and debt for a purpose expressly interdicted by j purposes o long as
1 F I 4 :..;.M 1 I,A afr...,.v n . .1 . f 1
Received if direct tax of 1863 I Paid by United States mustering of-
Total
HTIx Id t)l. n .-a ah tho A SI . Ailf IA
Act e .. . . j - .1 c i r by tbe government for Indian annuities. debt ot the State during tbe fiscal year ot CJ . ,
C )..) in . - j , ccnavor muriuu. iu tne same eriuiuiuuiea-c-JZ,a.J4. Ibis increase was occasioned .. . , . . . . . .
negotiable - .-' -r tl j 2v.it e -c .u.
jeuuuuf, it & iiau on oenaii I'l tne
j State to the passage of the bill. I prompt-
by the issuing of two bonds to the school fund: O .e, dated Mar 1, 1S68, for. A nother, o f tame date, for....
Making together $224,000 00 But from this gross increase is to be deducted 2,000, on account of the re-
.3,50l,3i 15 ! interest of all bonds issued by such State ne Lonstiturion. i ue t.,onsmunon in , the fctate ot Indiana is exempt ucaue ...c
es.isa oo and held by the government; that this bill i lfru,!,u1ul!l79 ,,,ai ; act ot congress requires n to uc i" - " .T,,, qin .. i was especially intended to cover the old j 3ny debt to be contracted on behalf of the j an cqual footing 8s to taxation with State 3,oo,vui to , - , i i Slate evcent in the foilowinsr cases: to ;nct!tntiing It is true that the
oonas or inaiana, wnicn were puretiaseu ; -r- --- . . , .uo. -- ,. . ,
i litre i uaauai ucuiuo in n cnur, i v y-- j ' n t tee 01 n Section Ot Uio vuatici ui - the interest on the State debt; to repel in- j 0f the State exempts its capital stock and vasion, suppress insurrection, or if hostili- i that of its branches from municipal taxaties be threatened, provide for the public j tion and it is equally true that the Sudefense." j preme Court of this State, in 1S58, deln 1S57, the General Assembly passed a j dared this exemption to be constitutional, joint resolution declaring that the General j In the decision alluded to it was held that Aecen.hln h.a nn nnoriinr the P.insli. ihe nrnvisinn of the Constitution Which
.itnn .irhasJ the W.hach n.l V.rie ' mate it the dutv of the Legislature to
non.
The stock
business in
ficcr in 1803
that Of the Bank of tonds..t the Mat. ,arrendered
:$69.00, dthvr bond- (not qaoled) ' July I, 1MH Bond j To bahinoe afeount of 100 day men , not paid because of deficit in a pj propriation
193..123 14 ;3a.302 9t 700,442 43 60,500 47 141,000 00 136,300 00
466,575 50
SSS 66
flS4,000 06 40,000 00
ly replied that, if any objections, legal or moral, could be urged to a proposition that the government should retain out of adjusted claims which it owed to the State, a sum sufficient to liquidate the principal
Total $, 867,187 55 NEW SUPREME COURT BUILDING. The act of March 9, 1867, authorised the Governor to erect, at a cost not ex
ceeding 50,000, a building for the use of
the Supreme Court, and the officers of the State. The sum of 2.129 62 more than
sons ol fiiteign birth, nf the age of twen
ty one years uud upward, who b ve resided in the United JMates one ycr, and six months iu this State prior to an election, are electors, provided ihey have declared their intention to become ritixns of the United Sutes fonfurmably to the laws of tbe United States ou ihc subject of naturalization. ly the laws of Congress this declaration may be made before the c'.erk of any Court of Kecord of any State, such Court having eommou law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk or protlmnotitry. It has been represented to rue that in some instances deiks of Circuit .Courts iu this s: .. ?f Inn' i"iit'il hlxnk i-er:ifw-atrs of d.-o-
Knightstown, which was adopted as one j brs :0!is i (i tc. tiou to become citizen, of the Benevolent Institutions of the State j un(tt;r r al of the court, wiih.,ut, howby the last General Assembly, is iu sue- j ev ,iiv;r Ilsuiie!i tbereio, and cessful operation, and has already accom- i lJte ,lnve illtnis,ci ,i,pse blank to parpiished great good in ministering to the . (;va rien1. w5)l. .(.,e :,l.jtedi necessities of a class of meu who have j Je y c-iorks, and these depu'ie. n th done and suffered much for their couutry. u'. cl,ctiolli 3rf(Wr,..,i i T . .liiTori.t STATE PRISONS. I tow n ships -nd i-sued tbe ctrlificates to The reports of the Boards of Directors j such foreigner, ot the proper political afof both the State Prisons show that the filiation, as might appear before the depfinances of the institutions are in a satis- uy and take the ouch of intention. I factory condition, and that there has been j recommend that this public indecency be a great improvement in this respeot within j prohibited by proper pualiies, and that the last two years. i it shall be made unlawful for any clerk, , , . . r i . j- either personally or by deputy, to take the The subject of prisons and prison dis- ; "'- i j j . i j . ,. . z . - . . j , -declaration ol auv toreigncr to become a cm ine is ot great importance, md h at-;u." . - re r , r . r r . . ..iiijen .r tn issue 'ertifinate thereof at
universal attention tnrougnout - ..... I -ni? t!..r r.hice. thin ih 1 lprk Dnice or
mintrv. It will not be many years - J . . . ...
J " - . .1 - I ' . I. .-. I
accommodations, and in view ot ;
iuiiuii i VI u u i m ti a on i ii c n aui?u a 1 1 1 1 in it. lutkcs u v n v. uu.j . , , , . - ... Canal, and that ifit had the power, it would -provide lv law for a uuifurru aud eual Ihc above amount w a required aud ex-
the
the court is iu
prison
that event I desire to call attention to the propriety of providing a system of graded prisons. There is a present and pressing necessi ty for a separate prison for female convicts. There are now some nineteen or tweuty women incarcerated iu the. South'
sessiou. CO V 11 IK The org iniiiiou and jurisd: jtiou of th couits i. a fcubject which hhould icceiveyour encful vousid ration. In the larger counties the criwiual prosecutions occupy so muoh of the time of the ciurts that u aluit aa-uuica ta be denial cf justice