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six during tho year, end the capital' of these 

 banks has been increased $235,947. 



The amount of legal-tender notes or other 

 moiii-ys exempt from taxation, as returned for 

 tho year, is $11,809,041, being a decrease on 

 hut year of $3,518,299. 



'I lit> total valuation of property, as returned 

 to tho Auditor of State for 1870, is as follows: 

 Acres of land returned for taxation, 25,395,060; 

 value of lands, $503,851,297; value of real 

 estate in cities and villages, $204,495,539 ; value 

 of personal property, $459,884,861; total valua- 

 tion of taxable property, $1,107,781,697. 



A comparison of these figures with the foot- 

 ings of tho duplicate for 1869 shows a decrease 

 of 26,112 acres in lands assessed for taxation, 

 but an increase of $100,372 in value. There is 

 an increase of $122,609 in chattel property. 

 The increase in real estate in cities, towns, and! 

 villages is $10,328,261, making a net increase 

 of $10,555,242 in the valuation of the taxable 

 property of the State. 



The amount of the tax levies for 1870 was: 

 for State purposes, $4,666,242.23; for county 

 purposes, $6,501,930.02; township, special, and 

 city taxes, $12,295,459.57; total taxes, $23,- 

 463,631.82. The increase in the amount of 

 levies for State purposes is $620,765,65, and 

 for local purposes $609,988.67; total increase, 

 $1,230,754.32. 



The principal objects for which money was 

 raised by taxation, and the amounts raised, are 

 as follows : 



School purposes of all kinds $4,960,771 87 



City ana township taxes (exclusive of school, 



but Including the poor) 6,839,469 03 



County tax (including bridges and roads) 4.640,004 15 



State debt 1,399,465 15 



For the support of the State Government 

 (which includes all departments and ob- 

 jects of State action) 1,749,259 90 



The decennial valuation of the real property 

 in the State, as finally revised by the State 

 Board of Equalization, showed the value of 

 real property to be $1,013,586,459. This is a 

 very large increase on the valuation of 1860, 

 and more than half the increase is in the cities 

 and towns. The five leading cities show a 

 valuation as follows : 



Cincinnati $111,588.029 



Cleveland 39,525,989 



Columbus 13,981,161 



Toledo 10,519,652 



Dayton 10,751,896 



At the close of the year there were in the 

 insane asylums of the State 433 male and 441 

 female patients. In the county infirmaries and 

 jails there were 1,176 insane persons. The 

 infirmary statistics show the whole number 

 of inmates during the year, excluding fifteen 

 counties, from which returns were not received, 

 to have been 6,476. Insane, 931 ; epileptic, 

 337; idiotic, 505 ; children under fifteen years 

 of age, 1,003; boys, 584; girls, 419. Births 

 during the year, 197; deaths, 582. "Whole 

 number of prisoners in jail during the year, 

 5,680 4,791 men, 421 women, 287 boys, and 

 27 girls. The number of insane, 245 ; epileptics, 

 13. Sentenced by municipal authority, 1,676. 



In ^jail, 264 220 men, 86 women, 7 boys, and 

 1 pirl. Number of insane, 19; epileptic, 6. 



In tho Asylum for Idiots there are 170 

 patients. 



In tho Deaf and Dumb Asylum are 812 in- 

 mates 184 boys and 128 girls. The average 

 cost of each pupil during the year was $2 

 In tho Institution for tho Education of tho 

 Blind there have been during the year 119 

 pupils. At the State Reform Farm there wore 

 at the close of the year 335 boys. At the Re- 

 formatory for Girls there are 48 inmates. 



In the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Homes 

 there were 140 boys and 79 girls. 



The school statistics of the State show that 

 during the year ending August 81, 1870, there 

 were built 645 school-houses, valued at 

 $1,891,597. There are in the State 10,550 

 primary-school houses and 16 high-schools in 

 the townships, and 729 primary and 106 high- 

 school houses in separate districts, making a 

 total of 11,401 school-houses in the State. The 

 value of the primary-school houses in the town- 

 ships is $6,107,298; of high-school houses, 

 $7,000 ; of primary-school houses in separate 

 districts, $6,317,254; of high-school property 

 in the same, $1,295,500. Total value of school 

 property in tho State, $13,727,052. There are 

 in Ohio 517,127 white boys, and 498,446 white 

 girls, between the ages of five and twenty-one; 

 total white children, 1,015,575. There are 

 13,382 colored boys, and 12,725 colored girls; 

 total colored, 26,107. The total number of 

 school-children in Ohio is therefore 1,041,682, 

 being an increase over last year of nearly 13,000. 

 The number of pupils actually enrolled in the 

 public schools is 719,902. The total number 

 of pupils enrolled in private schools is 10,500, 

 and in class schools (German, and colored, 

 drawing public funds) 11,413. 



The Fifty-ninth General Assembly began its 

 session January 3d, and adjourned April 18th. 

 During the session seventy-two general laws 

 were passed ; among those of general interest 

 were the following acts : 



To so amend the marriage laws as to'permit women 

 eighteen years of age and upward to be married with- 

 out the consent of parent or guardian. 



To authorize the granting of alimony during tho 

 pendency of appeals of divorce and alimony causes 

 to the District Court. 



Naming the 1st day of January, 4th day of July, 

 and 25th day of December as legal holidays in the 

 presentment and protest of commercial paper. 



To authorize county commissioners to pay boun- 

 ties for killing wolves. 



To establish and maintain an Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College in Ohio. 



Authorizing the removal to reform institutions of 

 minors under sentences for felonies. 



To encourage the study of anatomy by prescribing 

 the manner of procuring and furnishing bodies for 

 dissection. 



To authorize the consolidation of two or more 

 religious bodies heretofore incorporated under the 

 laws of this State. 



Authorizing cemetery associations to hold five 

 hundred acres of land, of which three hundred acres 

 may bo exempt from taxation. 



To provide for tho enlargement of the Lunatic 



