the welfare of
the patients require that the chronic insane should be provided for
by additions to the asylums already built, or to those which are
now building. It is probable that in this way such patients can be
supported at less expense to the people of the State than in
infirmaries and jails. However this may be, their present condition
imperatively demands, and, I trust, will receive, the serious
consideration of the General Assembly. Although commonly classed as
incurable, it is quite certain that, by proper treatment, in
suitable institutions, the condition of all of them will be vastly
improved, and, it may well be hoped, that many of them can be
entirely cured.

The expediency of establishing an asylum for the cure of inebriates
has not been much considered in Ohio. The encouraging results
which are reported by the officers in charge of the State inebriate
asylum of New York, induce me to recommend that the General
Assembly provide for a full investigation of the subject.

The agricultural and mechanical college fund, created by the sale
of land-script issued to Ohio by the National government, amounted,
on the first instant, to $404,911.37-1/2. The State accepted the
grant out of which this fund has been created, February 10, 1864,
and is bound by the terms of acceptance, as modified by Congress,
to provide "not less than one college on or before July 2, 1872,
where the leading object shall be, without excluding other
scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics,
to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture
and the mechanic arts." The manner in which this fund shall be
disposed of has been amply considered by preceding General
Assemblies, and in the messages of my predecessors in the executive
office. I respectfully urge that such action be had as will render
this fund available for the important purposes for which it was
granted. It is not probable that further delay will furnish
additional information on any of the important questions involved
in its disposition. Much time and attention has been given to the
subject of the location of the college. No doubt it will be of
great benefit to the county in which it shall be established, but
the main object of desire with the people of the State c