The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-12-10

-fsf-7oi tHe Tlnstltuti "a report or
DIR. Ensor shows that at the Commence
ment ct the year the number of patients
was two hundred and thirty-two, to
which was added niriety, MAKING total
nf three hlimirsasand twenty-tRo under.
treatment during the year. OF this
number thirty have been discharged,
cured sixteen have been, removed !;
tiifty:one have died, and four have. es-
capped, leaving in tho Institution, at this
date, two hundred aud forty -four pa
.::c:::sS.zsS 'ait wii1ipt pne hundred aud twelve
are. indies, and one hundred aud thirty
two are icnalcs The treasurer's state.
ment shows that during the year the
receipts and disbursements were as toll
lows: Collections, forty-one Thousand
aud ave sdollarsaad Ifiity-two cents, ap.
prpprEtiSnS seysnteen thoasand FIVE
hundred and FIVE dollars. Total. tifty-
eight Thousand five hundred and seven
dollars htty.two cents, Disbursements
By deficit in slast;annual report, one hun.
dred aud filty.fsnr dollars and eighty.
one cents; supplies, forty Thousand nine
hundred and gincty-f,nrl dollars and
twenty-niue cents salaries aud wages.
fourteen. @ = 5.hensa..a tonr hundred and
.eishty-two aud sixty.nine cents repairs
aud improvements, two thousand three
Hundred and thiriy.six dollars aud
twenty five cents: balance deposited,
five hundred and thirty-nine dollars
and fes.yS-e:gh: cents. Total
fiity-eight thousand Eve hundred
aud seven dollars aud fitty-two cents.
Liabilities Cor supplies, eleven thousand
eight hundred and thirty five dollars
salaries aud wages, three thousand one
hundred and forty-three dollars. and ffty
cents; total, fourteen thousand nine
hundfcd and seveuty-eight dollars and
siity cents. Assets due by county com.
missioners, twenty-threS thousand Eve
hundred and nineteen dollars aud twenty
six cents pay of patieuts regarded good
three, thousand nine hundred ANA twenty
four dollars and nisety-threc cents /;
State appropriations 10 Janir,ry 1st,
1871, six thousand and fWcntsg-six
dollars aud ninety seven ceuts; ex.
tensloil and repairs, ton thousand dol
lars stoti,l, iorty:three thousand four
'handFed and seveAty.onc .dpllars six-
teen cents gle balrd of
ID transmitting - lls 8; tlie
fsii bi the trcas1rcr of the
.institation, accompany thenl by two i'm
portant recommendations, VIZ: First.
u hat! the bepeficiarics should be main.
tuined by The State instead Of the sevc-
rai counties; and, sccaud, the extension
OF the pres mt new bui ding 81 as to EN- j.
4le -'ls 81, abYldou the interior quarters
ised lor stattcntsi NTH regard TO the
tiiSt reeammsndation, it has my thorough
concurlanca. The effect of the prcsent,
systenAis t,itllrow the entire expense OF
supporting the. Asylum on portion OF
The counties, while considerable nam.
ber s'largely lii ,an'eir OF their ply
'nerfts MS will be seen By the table ac.
eomPapyihg the .treusurer's report. BY
,aiPpqriloqing the, amount of the tax on
the respective c)unties ito the number Of
benehciaries accommodated at the Asylum
aad eoliecting it with the general tax a
ytore equFnble system viii be reached,
aud the Asylum saved from several cm-
barrassments to whieh.it is now liable.
Wieh regard to the proposed extension
iof the Asylam, for which an appropria.
ti9n Of forty thousand dollars is asked, [
think ITS proprlety as well as expediency
are matters of considerable doubt 1t
will bcife.ollGcted that for moro than
twenty years the suitableness ofthe pres
ent locality has been a matter of discus
sion, while the want Of aaentoiilitv nf'