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his voluntary service and the
assistance of the regular
employees of theSociety a mass of
valuable material was
collected. This consists chiefly of local newspapers
from which clippings have been made,
indexed and
bound.
When the General Assembly finally acted it
made only meager appropriations for the
work. At its
last session no provision was made for
the Commission
but the work has been continued by the
Society. It
should collect material for a memorial
volume similar to
the one published by Indiana. Of course
it would now
be next to impossible to get
photographs for each Ohio
soldier who lost his life in the war,
but much valuable
biographical material could still be
collected for such a
publication. Just what provision will ultimately be
made for the surviving soldiers of the
World War is yet
to be determined, but there can be no
question in regard
to the lasting debt of gratitude that
the state owes to
those who made the supreme sacrifice in
answer to the
call of the Republic. Our soldiers who won the gold
star in the hospitals and on the
battlefield should be
honored by a fitting permanent record
in the archives of
the Buckeye State.
UNDER THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
The reorganization of the departments
of the state
government for which provision was made
at the last
session of the General Assembly assigns
the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
to the Department
of Education. Before this transfer could be made,
however, certain action had to be taken
by the Society
through its Board of Trustees. A
special meeting was
called for this purpose for June 29th.
At this meeting
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President Campbell announced that it
would be in order
to offer a resolution expressing the
desire of the Trus-
tees to comply with the requirement of
the new admin-
istrative code, which makes it possible
for the Society
to operate as a branch of the
educational department of
the state. In compliance with this
suggestion Professor
B. F. Prince offered the following
resolution:
WHEREAS, An act approved by the Governor
and filed in the
office of the Secretary of State April
26, 1921, establishing an
"administrative code for the
state" makes the following provi-
sions in section 154-55 of said act:
"The director of education
shall be a member of the board of
trustees of the Ohio Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society, in
addition to the members consti-
tuting such board under the other laws
and regulations pertaining
to the membership thereof. No moneys
appropriated for the use
or support of the Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society
shall be withdrawn from the state
treasury for such use until the
board of trustees of said society, as
constituted when this section
takes effect, shall consent to the
provisions hereof and file dupli-
cate certificates of such consent in the
offices of the Secretary of
State and the Auditor of State,"
and
WHEREAS, It is the desire of the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society through its board
of trustees to carry out
fully the provisions of this section, in
the belief that the work
of the Society, which is distinctly
educational in character, may
be materially aided and advanced by
closer relations with the
department of education and its
different administrative agencies,
as provided in the "administrative
code," therefore,
Be it resolved, That the board of trustees of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
consent to the provisions
of said act as expressed in section
154-55 and hereby place on
record the assurance that they will
comply fully and cordially
with said act so far as it applies to
said society.
Be it further resolved, That the secretary of the Society is
hereby directed to furnish to the
Secretary of State and the
Auditor of State each duplicate copies
of this resolution duly
signed by the president and secretary of
the Society.
The resolution was unanimously adopted
and copies
of the same have been duly filed with
the Secretary of
State and the Auditor of State. It will
be seen that this
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action makes very little change in the
status of the
Society, while it offers large
opportunities for co-opera-
tion with the various branches of the
Department of
Education. The Superintendent of Public Instruction
now becomes ex-officio a member of our
Board of
Trustees.
ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF
THE WORLD WAR
A constitutional amendment providing
"for issuing
bonds for adjusted compensation for
service in the
World War" was submitted by our
General Assembly
at its recent session to the electors
of Ohio. It will
be voted upon at the coming election in
November.
Briefly stated this amendment provides
for raising
the bond limitation under the
constitution of Ohio and
would authorize the General Assembly to
provide for
the issue of bonds to the amount of
twenty-five million
dollars ($25,000,000). A board of "Commissioners
of the Sinking Fund" is authorized
to sell bonds to
this amount, bearing interest at not to
exceed 51/2% per
annum, and to administer the proceeds
of the sale of
such bonds as additional compensation
to World War
soldiers for the period of their active
service at the
rate of ten dollars ($10) a month, the
aggregate not to
exceed in any one case two hundred and
fifty dollars
($250). The bonds are to mature in twenty equal
semi-annual installments, commencing
not later than
the first day of April, 1923. No officer with rank
above captain is to receive any payment
from this fund.
A number of states have already
provided addi-
tional cash compensation for honorably discharged