The Inspector of Workshops and Factories.

The act of 1884 creating the Department of Workships and Factories, provided for the appointment of one inspector by the governor, but did not specify the term of office or make any provisions for office room. Henry Dorn, of Cleveland, was appointed Inspector, and entered on the duties of his office April 14, 1884, establishing headquarters at Cleveland. April 29, 1885, the act was amended creating the office of Chief Inspector, and providing for the appointment of three District Inspectors, and locating the department in the State Capitol. Henry Dorn was appointed Chief Inspector, serving from April 29, 1885, to April 29, 1889.

W. Z. McDonald, of Akron, was appointed Chief Inspector April 29, 1889, and served one full term to April 29, 1893. March 23, 1892, the law was amended empowering the chief inspector to appoint eight additional District Inspectors. Mr. McDonald was reappointed for a second term and served until June 12, 1893, when removed.

E. M. Slack, of Columbus, the chief clerk, was placed in charge of the department, as acting Chief Inspector, June 12, 1893, and served until December 7, 1893, in that capacity.

J. W. Knaub, of Dayton, was appointed Chief Inspector to fill the vacancy occasioned by removal of W. Z. McDonald, December 7, 1893, and served until April 29, 1897, reappointed for a term of four years, term ending April 29, 1901, and served until December 1, 1901, when the present incumbent was appointed.

April 27, 1896, a law was enacted providing for the inspection of bakeshops and empowering the Chief Inspector to appoint two Bakeshop Inspectors, making total number of District Inspectors thirteen.

The act creating and governing the department makes it the duty of the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the Chief Inspector, whose term is four years.

The act also empowers the Chief Inspector, with the approval of the Governor, to appoint all District Inspectors, whose term of office is three

years.

It is the duty of the Chief Inspector to give his entire time and attention to the duties of his office, to direct and supervise the work of his District Inspectors and to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the law, as will be for the best interest of the service.

It is the duty of the District Inspectors to give their entire time and attention to the duties of their office; to visit all shops and factories in their respective districts; to inspect all manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, mercantile art and laundering establishments, printing, telegraph and telephone offices, railroad depots, hotels, memorial buildings, tenement and apartment houses, halls, school houses, colleges, academies, seminaries, churches, theatres, opera houses, hospitals, medical institutes, asylums, infirmaries, sanitariums and children's homes, for which purpose

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the State is divided up into eleven inspection districts, equalized as near as possible.

It is the duty of the two Bakeshop Inspectors to inspect all bakeshops in the state, as to their sanitary condition, etc., the state being divided into two districts for that purpose, known as the Northern and Southern.

The present working force now consists of one Chief Inspector, eleven District Inspectors, two Bakeshop Inspectors, and four clerks, as follows:

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NAMES OF DISTRICT INSPECTORS FROM THE TIME THE ACT WAS AMENDED CREATING SUCH OFFICE UP TO THE PRESENT TIME AND GIVING TERM OF SERVICE OF EACH.

L

EWIS C. LAYLIN, Secretary of State, was born in Norwalk, Huron county, September 28, 1848. He graduated from Norwalk high school in 1867. In 1869 he was elected to the superintendency of the Bellevue public schools, to which position he was unanimously re-elected for six successive years. He began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar March 13, 1876. He was city clerk of Norwalk two years; a member of the Huron county board of school examiners twelve years; and president of the Norwalk city board of examiners three years. In 1879 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Huron county, and held that office seven years. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1887, and served in the House of the 68th General Assembly. In 1889 he was re-elected representative, and served through the 69th General Assembly. He was the choice of his Republican colleagues in the House for the speakership, and received the unanimous support of the Republican minority. In 1891 he was unanimously renominated by the Republicans of Huron county for representative, and was again re-elected. On January 4, 1892, he was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives of the 70th General Assembly. On April 25, 1900, at the state convention of the Republican party he was nominated by acclamation as the candidate of his party for the office of Secretary of State, and at the following November election he was elected to that office by a plurality of 69,311 votes. On January 14, 1901, he entered upon the discharge of his duties for the full term of two years, and on May 28, 1902, at the Republican State Convention he was unanimously renominated for a second term.

The Secretary of State.

The Department of State is one of the most important divisions of the executive branch of the state government.

Under the Constitution of 1802, the Secretary of State was appointed by the General Assembly, and the duties of the office consisted mainly, to use the words of the old Constitution, in keeping a "register of all official acts and proceedings of the Governor."

The office, however, under the Constitution of 1851, was made elective, and elevated to the dignity of a department; and by virtue of that Constitution and subsequent legislation thereunder, some of the most important executive and administrative functions of the state government are devolved upon this office.

The Secretary of State is made by law the custodian of the acts of the General Assembly, and under his supervision the same are printed and published, and by him all exemplifications of the same are required to be authenticated, and all commissions issued by the Governor to be countersigned.

In this office also, under general statutes, all incorporations are required to be created. Recent legislation, imposing upon domestic and foreign corporations taxation, or privilege fees based upon capital stock, which the Secretary of State is required to collect and pay into the state treasury, makes this department one of great consequence and importance to the state.

The Secretary of State, by virtue of his office, is a member and the secretary of the State Sinking Fund Commissioners, president of the Board of Printing Commissioners, member of the Decennial Board of Apportionment for legislative purposes, member of the State Board of Appraisers and Assessors, and of the State Building Commission.

He is also, by virtue of his office, made State Supervisor of Elections, and as such has the power of appointment and removal of the members of the various boards of Deputy Supervisors of Elections in the various counties, is required to collate and publish the election laws of the state, to determine the arrangement of the ballot, and prepare and furnish forms and instructions to the various county boards of elections, to receive and file certificates of nominations, or nomination papers for presidential electors and state officers, to hear and determine objections or other questions as to the validity of said papers, to decide upon the validity of all nomination papers of a county, district, subdivision of the district, or circuit, when the county, district or circuit board, authorized to pass upon these papers, fail to decide, and a decision of the Secretary of State upon these questions is final.

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