The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-12-06
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says that the negro is invaluable to the
productive resources Of the State, and it
their labor be lost by reno val, it will con-
vert thousands of acres Of productive land
into dreary wilderness. For this reason
he had felt it to be his duty to discourage
their migration. His labor must be made
sufficiently remunerative to subsist and
cloth him, and schools must be established
to educate his children, and churohes built
for his moral training He recommends
that the Commissioners of the Poor be di-
rected to provide suitable buildings at the
various District Poor Houses for their ac.
commodation and to subsist them. The
amount of taxes levied last year is S4l9.-
$751; L, or which sum there has been paid
into the Treasury 1927 ,637,25. The entire
revenue from all sources into the Treasury
for the present yeor is S477,743,97 There
has been paid out of the Treasury S3O4,
66S,9i, leaving in the Treasury a balance
OF Sl73,O65,33. In the matter of Capi-
tation Tax,it is recommended that it should
be reduced one halt, and that the en-
ployer should be held liable for every poll
In his service on the 1st March next. He
says taxes should be imposed on almost
every thing that is now taxed by the In-
terLal Revenue Laws of the United States.
On the subject of the Bank of the State
of South Carolina, the Governor says:
Heretofore, the interest on the public
debt has been paid by the Bank of the
State OF South Carolina, but its loss of
assets, growing out of the war, together
with its large outstanding circulItion, pre-
cludes the possibility Of relying further
upon 1t, and the debt, principal and inter.
est, must be met by taxation
The Treasurer, with the assistance Of an
additional clerk, can pay out, in future, AL
claims IRON h's own counter and | re-
commend that an appropriation be made
to meet the salary of such clerk, aud that
the Bank be discontinued as the fiscal
| agent Of the State.
Til. loss OF assets, and the imposition
d,
| OF SO heavy tax on the circulation O. all
other than National Banks, made it mani
fest that the Bank Of the State of South
Carollna can never resume business; and
| | recommend that its charter tc rovok ed
or declared forfeited, and its books, papers
and assets put in the hands Of Commiss
soners for as early liquidation as nay be
| practicable.
The whole amount of the public debt,
principal and interest of this STATE, no,
including the debts contracted for or On
account OF the wa was on the first day o!
October last, S5,2G1, ,227,74 The Co:n
missioncrs of Penitentiary 20 procure u
site and to erect u suitable Temporary en-
closure and temporary cells, have perform
ed that duty, and have ordered the work
on the cells to commence. The Engineer
asks for an appropriation Of forty 1--WE thou
sand dollars to carry on the work for the
next year. The Governor recommends
the aecer;ance Of the land scrip, donated
by the Congress Of the United States iol
the establishment of an agricultural and
mechanical college, and suggests that said
COLLEGE be engrattcd OH the University o
South Carolina, and save the State all ex
pense for lands and buildings which is re
quired to be furnished. The Message re
commends that the Board of Trustees OF
the University of S. c., which Now con.
sists of thirt nine members, to be re
duced to seven.
TIE PURCHASE OF CORN.
Pursuant to the resolution ot the 21s.
of September last, passed by the Genera
Assembly, | appointed Col. d. Wyatt,
Aiken, Agent OF the State to make pur-
chases OF corn. Having satisfied himself
fully that the double restriction imposed il
the resolution rendered it impossible t,
effect purchases, he declined the appoint
ment concurred fully in his conclusion
that the double restriction rendered the
whole scheme nugatory, and have not
therefore, appointed another Agent Tn,
resolution required that three hundred
thousand dollars of bonds should purchase
aud deliver in the State three hundred
thousand bushels of corn. 1t is reasona-
bly, certain that the bonds could not hav,
been sold for more than seventy cents t
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