Ohio General Statistics FOR THE Fiscal Year Commencing July 1, 1919, and Ending Prepared and Published BY HARVEY C. SMITH Springfield, Ohio: The Kelly-Springfield Printing Company. State Printers. Bound at the State Bindery. These statistics are published pursuant to an act passed by the Eighty-first General Assembly of Ohio, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1915, and is as follows: "Sec. 260-1. For all state officers, departments, commissions, boards and institutions of the state the fiscal year shall be and is hereby fixed.. to begin on the first day of July of each year and to end on the last day of June of the succeeding year. and every "Sec. 2264-1. Each elective state officer, private or quasi-public institution, association, board or corporation receiving state money for its use and purpose, shall make annually, at the end of each fiscal year, in triplicate a report of the transactions and proceedings of his office or department for such fiscal year excepting, however, receipts and disbursements unless otherwise specifically required by law. Such report shall contain a summary of the official acts of such officer, board or commission, institution, association or corporation, and such suggestions and recommendations as may be proper. On the first day of August of each year, one of said reports shall be filed with the Governor of the state, one with the Secretary of State, and one shall be kept on file in the office of such officer, board, commission, institution, association or corporation. "Sec. 2264-2. Wherever in the statutes of this state annual reports are required to be made to the Governor, or annual reports to the Governor are referred to, the words 'to the Governor' shall be held to mean annual reports in triplicate as provided in section 2264-1 and the special information required by any such statutes to be included in such annual report to the Governor shall be included in such triplicate reports. "Sec. 173. The Secretary of State shall prepare from the reports filed with him or with the Governor of state, accurate statistical tables and practical and analytical information regarding the activities and proceedings of the several offices and departments of the state to be known as 'Ohio General Statistics.' "Sec. 173-1. The Secretary of State shall annually publish the 'Ohio General Statistics,' the number of copies thereof to be determined by the commissioners of public printing. The first issue of 'The Ohio General Statistics' shall be for the period from November 15, 1914, to and including June 30, 1915." measure. The act providing for the "Ohio General Statistics" is an economic The purpose of having a complete and comprehensive statistical history of the state in condensed form, covering every activity and industry of the state is apparent. Prior to 1915, each department, board, commission, institution, etc., issued a voluminous annual report in large quantities and at great expense. For many of these reports in the form in which they were compiled there was little demand, resulting in thousands of such being left on hand and worthless. To correct this condition the General Assembly charged me under this law, with the duty of compiling and publishing from reports filed with me or with the (3) |