ently believed that the legislature needs only to be
informed that such a wrong exists to promptly provide a remedy.

The official reports of the penitentiary, the Reform School for
Boys, the Reform School for Girls, and the benevolent institutions
of the State, which will be laid before you, show that the work of
these institutions has during the past year been well done. They
will, without question, receive from you all needed encouragement
and support. It seems proper, however, to direct your attention to
the urgent necessity of such legislation as will empower the boards
of trustees and directors charged with the erection of buildings
for the insane and for the orphans of deceased soldiers, to
complete them as soon as practicable.

By the census of 1870 the number of insane persons in the State was
3,414. The number of patients under treatment in the insane asylums
of the State was, last year, only 1,346. The trustees of the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home report that the number of
orphans in Ohio needing care is about eight hundred, and that the
number cared for is only about two hundred and fifty. These facts
sufficiently demonstrate the importance of the suggestion here
made.

I renew the recommendation heretofore made that the legislature
provide for the erection of suitable monuments at the graves of
General Harrison and General Hamer.

General Harrison has many titles to the grateful remembrance of the
people of Ohio. He was one of the pioneers of the West, a soldier
of honorable fame in two wars against the savages and in the war of
1812, a secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory
before Ohio was organized, a law-maker of conspicuous usefulness at
the State capital and at Washington, and was chief magistrate of
the Nation at the time of his death. To honor him is to honor all
who were eminent and useful in the early settlement of Ohio.

General Hamer served with distinction four times in the General
Assembly; was the speaker of the house of representatives; was six
years a member of Congress from the Brown county district, and died
in Mexico in 1846, a volunteer from Ohio, in the service of his
country, with the rank of brigadier-general. At the time of his
death the General Assembly, with entire unanimity,