The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1866-11-30
labor, and to proper thrift and econo:

lhy. res,
Humanity and sound policy unite in
demanding that we should provide for
tho aged, the infrm and the helpless,
and | therefore respectfully recommend
the passage of an Act making it incum-
bent on the Commissioners Of the Poor
to provide suitable buildings at the
various District Poor Houses for their
accommodation and to subsist them.
The Regents of the Lunatic Asylum
have wisely and huranely made pro
vision for the reception and treatment
of insane colored patients, and the Com
missioners Of the Poor in the several
Districts should be required to make
the same provision for their support in
the Asylum as now exists for white
pduper patients in that Institution
The idiotic and epileptic may be well
taken care of at the District Poor House.
TIE FINANCES OF THE STATE, TAXES AND
THE BANK OF THE STATE. -
The taxes levied under the Act Of
December, 1865, amount to four hun
dred and nineteen thousand six hun
dred and sixty-eight dollars and seven
ty one cents, (s419,66S'71.) There has
been paid into the. Treasury, three hun
.dred and twenty-seven thousand seven
hundred and thirty-seven dollars and
twenty-seYen cents, r. (s327 ,137.25.l
Collectors commissions, 32,S69 20
Freedmen's returns unpaid,
principally capitation tax 21,S19 O7
Jury tickets deposited by 'c.
Tax Collectors, 1862 II
Tax executions Issued and in
hands Of fSher1Rs and balances - ~
due in hands of Collectors, 29,780 80
Total ,laasa $419,66S II
This estimate does notinclnde execu-
tons issued by the Taxi Collectors, a.
gainst persons who have failed to make
returns, and who have been double
taxed. The statement of the Comptrol-
ler-General is herewith transmitted fo1
your information.
The entire revenue received into the
Treasury from Taxes, Bills Receivable
registered and carried to cash and 9th,
er minor sources is S447, ,743 81
There has been paid out by
tile Treasurer, on appro-
priations, 304,743 81
Leaving in = the Treasury
balance, on the 31st Octo-
Der last of l13,C5G O3
Subject to draft, of which !.
currency, 75,245 IS
The Treasurer has, in obedience to
tile Act of 21st of September last, etc
provide for the redemption Of Bills Re.
ceivable, issued by this State," prompt
ly exchanged National currency for The
Bills Receivable when presented: This
will rapidly reduce the amount he held
on, 31st October. The e3undrawn appro
priations, and such additional aprro
priations as may be made at the pres
ent session, must be paid principally
in Bills Receivable, until the taxes fol
the fiscal year, commencing the Isl
of October last, shall be paid into
the Treasury, which payments should
be required to be made by the Collec-
tors as early as June next. If the Gen.
eral Assembly re-enacts the clause in
the Tax Bill Of the last year, requiring
that all taxes shall be paid in gold o,
silver, National currency, OF Bills Be-
ccivable, and continues the authority
to tho Treasurer to exchange the Bills
Receivable for National currency, there
is no good reason why the value Of the
former should not be at par with the
latter. . The Comptroller-Gcncral esti-
mates the appropriations for the pres,
ent year at three hundred and ten dol
lars, wlichsnm will be increased, ifthe
recommendation hereinafter made, to
provide for the payment, Of the public
debt, should be adopted by you. The
payment of taxes is, at all times oner-
Gus to t. 9 public, but is peculiarly op-
pressivo to the people at tho present
time. TIE ordinary expenses Of gov.
ernment, however. must be met, and
the faith and credit Of the State main
tanned untarnished, and taxation is the
only resource left us. The burthen
should be rendered rs light as possible,
by the most rigid economy in making
appropriations, and by requiring strict
account bility from all public fuae, ion
aries. Material changes in tho subject
matters Of taxation and notifications in
the rates are requisite to render taxa
ton less oppressive. Assessors should
be required to make new assessments
of the value oflands, and town and city
lots. The Capitation Tax is onerous,
and is not proportioned to the general
scale Of taxation lit should be reduced
at least one-half and the. employer
should be hell liable for every poll in
his service on 1st March next. A gen.
eral system of licenses to lawyers doc
tors, dentists, nillers, cotton pickeries
60, +,J} ,,,o,,o1,o n nto c1,o,, 1-ooners tro1as-