Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of State, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, Including the Statistical Report to the General Assembly: For the Year 1872 The fees and perquisites of this office, very considerable, during and immediately following the war, on account of certificates to soldiers claims, are now confined principally to certificates of incorporation. On the business of the past two years, they will amount yearly to about seven hundred dollars. For the past fifteen years, as near as I can asoer tain, these fees have been recognized as a part of the income of the Sec retary of State. During the pendency of the Appropriation Bill for 1870, a clause was inserted in the Senate requiring the Secretary of State to certify all fees received by law into the State Treasury. This clause, after an exhaustive discussion in both Houses of its economic features, was retained in the General Appropriation Bill which became a law April 16, 1870. The fees received in this office by law amount to less than one-twelfth of the aggregate fees at the office, and the amount actually saved by this master stroke of economy foots up the stately total of but during the existence of the Appropriation Act of 1870, and twelve days after, I certified all fees received in this office, from all sources, whether by law or courtesy, into the State Treasury. The total amount of fees received in this office, from April 16, 1870, to April 28, 1871, was for which I hold as precious souvenirs, the receipts of the Treasurer of State. Since the expiration of the Appropriation Act of 1870, all fees received by law have been applied to the payment of clerk hire as per acts of February 26, 1846, and February 10, 1857; a detailed statement, to whom paid and for what services, will be found in this office. The fees by custom I have retained. I desire to call the attention of the General Assembly to this fact, and to say that I have instructed my successor in office to return these fees (a detailed account having been kept), to the persons from whom received; or, if so directed to certify an equal amount into the State Treasury, if in the Opinion of the General Assembly per year is all the compensation the Secre tary of State is entitled to receive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.