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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. INFANTRY.

1st Regt., O. V. I........                    1 2nd Regt., O. V. I........                   2 3rd Regt., 0. V. I ........                    2 4th Regt. O. V. I. .......                    1 5th Regt., O. V      ........                 1

6th Regt., O. V. I.........                  2 7th Regt., O. V. I........                   3 8th Regt., 0. V. I......... Missing 9th Battalion, O. V. I....                 1 10th Regt., O. V. I.......                  2

ARTILLERY.

Bat. A., 1st L. Arty......                  1 Bat. C, 1st L. Arty.......                  1 Bat. G, 1st L. Arty.......                  1

Bat. H, 1st L. Arty.......                  2 Troop H, 1st O. V. C.....                1

Respectfully submitted, W. L. CURRY, Chairman, Captain First Ohio Cavalry, Civil War. CHARLES HUGHES, First Regiment, U. S. C. T., Civil War. CHARLES R. MILLER, Major, Spanish-American War. Committee.           (House Bill No. 422.) AN ACT To provide for printing the report of the commission which had in charge the placing of the battle flags of Ohio in the rotunda of the state capitol. WHEREAS, Under the authority conferred upon him by section 15291-1 of General Code, Governor Willis appointed a commission to provide for placing the battle flags of Ohio in the rotunda of the state capitol, which commission completed its work and filed a report with said governor, by whom the same has been transmitted to the General Assembly, and

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WHEREAS, Out of the sum placed at the disposal of the

commission there is an unexpended balance of one thousand and

ninety-nine dollars, which will lapse to the general revenue fund

of the state, and

WHEREAS, Such report contains historical matter of very

great value and interest to all Ohio veterans and to all students

of Ohio history, therefore

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

That the supervisor of public printing is hereby authorized

and directed to have printed five thousand copies of the report

of such commission, together with the addresses delivered by

Governors James E. Campbell and Frank B. Willis, on the occa-

sion of the transfer of said battle flags to their present location

and also tributes from Governor James M. Cox and former Gov-

ernors Joseph B. Foraker, Myron T. Herrick and Judson Har-

mon. Such report and other matter shall be printed and bound

in a style and manner to be selected by such supervisor and shall

be distributed under the direction of the adjutant general, as

follows: Twenty-five copies to the governor, twenty-five to each

of the living ex-governors, ten to each of the state officers and

the adjutant general, ten each to the presiding officers, clerks

and members of the Senate and House of Representatives of

the 81st and 82nd General Assemblies, two thousand to the

headquarters of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the

Republic for distribution by that organization, one hundred to

the headquarters of the Department of Ohio, United Spanish

War Veterans for distribution, ten to the National Soldiers'

Home at Dayton, ten to the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky, ten

to the Madison Home, ten to the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors'

Orphans' Home, and the balance to the public libraries of the

state. For the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of

the printing, binding, publication and distribution of such report

the said unexpended balance of one thousand and ninety-nine

dollars is hereby re-appropriated and made available, and the

auditor of state is hereby authorized to issue warrants on such

funds for the payment of such expenses on the presentation

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to him of vouchers approved by the supervisor of public print-

ing and the adjutant general.

E. J. HOPPLE,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

EARL D. BLOOM,

President of the Senate.

Passed March 21, 1917.

Approved March 30, 1917.

JAMES M. Cox, Governor.

Filed in office of Secretary of State, April 2, 1917.

 

 

 

SPEECH OF GOV. FRANK B. WILLIS.

UPON THE OCCASION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLE FLAGS

TO THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL.

This is an inspiring spectacle. The old flags have been

placed in safe repose in Ohio's heart. Here they will be pre-

served to latest time, a memory of the heroism of a generation

gone, an inspiration to generations yet unborn. If these historic

banners could speak they would tell of disappointment and de-

feat and privation, but also of victory. Yet, interesting as is

the epic of the banners, more thrilling still is the story of the

heroism of the men that fought beneath them.

This capitol building has been the silent witness of many

important events, but through its portals in recent years has

passed no more impressive pageant than the veteran defenders

of the union, who have this day carried again the tattered flags

that they followed over the battle fields when they were the

"boys in blue." In affectionate appreciation and memory they

are still the "boys in blue," but a little more than half a century

ago, they were indeed "the boys," the blush of youth on their

cheeks, and in their hearts the enthusiastic resolution to do, and

if necessary, to die for liberty and union.

The years through which they served their country on the

battlefield were momentous ones for the Republic. The years

that have followed since their battalions returned under the

eagles of victory and melted without a murmur into the ranks

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