The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-03

city or County.
SEC. IL. Tie County Commissioners
shall have the power, if the convenience
or necessities of their County demands
it, to establish additional poor farms in
said County; Procitled, That when such
additional poor farms are established,
they shall be located in portions of said
County where they will be most convc-
nient to tho people at large.
SEQ IL. The city authorities of
Charleston and Columbia shall be allow
ed, and it shall be their duty, to provide
for the care of the poor within the limits
of their respective cities; and the County
Commissioners OF Charleston and Rich
land Counties shall, when they levy
general poor tax for said Counties, ex.
cept from the payment of the same the
said cities of Charleston and Columbia;
Provided. That the aforesaid authorities es
OF the cities of Charleston and Columbia
shall have made adequate provision for
the support of their poor.
SEQ. 13. The Overseers of the Poor
of each city and County in this State
shall. on or before the fifteenth day of
October Of each ye:r, make and return
to the Secretary of State statement of
the paupers in each city or County as
they were during the year ending the
thirtieth day of September preceding,
which return shall contain true and cor
rect answers to the following inquiries:
What number of persons have been re-
iieved or supported by your County Tor
city, during the year ending September
30th? OF those, how many have legal set
Element in your County or city? How
many are foreign born? How many
colored? How many white? How mauy
OF your insane do you support in the
State Lunatic Asylum? Have you poor
house? What number of acres of land
is attached to your poor house? What
Is the present estimated value of your
poor house establishment? Real estate?
Personal? What number of persons
have been supported in your poor house
during the whole or any part of the
year? What is the average number sup
ported in the poor house2 What is tie
average weekly cost of supporting each
pauper in the poor house? WHAT num-
ber of persons have been inmates of your
poor house who are unable to perform
any kind or amount of labor? What is
the estimated value of all the labor per-
formed by the poor in your poor house?
What was the kind and quantity of crops
raised on the poor farms? The value of
otAtso oOAob aO Odtlluut6u VuluS OF Cn0C
retained for use on the farm? How
many persons, including their families.
have you supported ont of the poor
house during the whole or a portion of
the year2 What is tho average weekly
cost of supporting each pauper out OF
the poor house? How many have yon
aided out OF the poor house? How many
have you relieved or supported who were
insane? How many who were idiots?
What number of your poor, supported
at the public charge, have been made
dependent by intemperance in them
selvesS What number by intemperance
in those who ought to have been their
supportersP What is the total net cost
of supporting orr relieving the poor in
your County or city during the year, in
clndlng interest on your poor house es-
tabllshment? How many are supported
in your poor house at the present time?
How many are supported out Of
the porr house at the present time?
How many are assisted out of the poor
| house ut the present time? They shall,
at the same time, mako correct returns
of all children in such County or city,
under fourteen years of age, who nre
supported ut the public charge, specify
ing therein the name, age, sex and color
of each. And the Secretary of State
shall furnish County Commissioners of
every County and the Overseers of the
Poor of each city in the State with blank
forms OF returns, which shall contain, in
substance. the foregoing interrogatories.
Sec. IA. The Secretary Of State shall,
on or before the fourth Taesduy in No
vember Of each year, make out an ab-
stract of the returns made to him.
together with such explanatory remarks
as he deems proper, aud, through the
Governor OF the State, transmit the same
to the Legislature.
SEC. Is. The County Commissioners
of the Counties of Oconee and Pickens,
comprising the territory formerly known
as Pickens District, are authorized, after
due notice by advertisements, to sell at
public sale the old Poor House farm of
that District, and arc empowered to exc.
cute the title to the purchaser. The
proceeds Of said sale shall be divided
equally between the Commissioners of
the two Counties, and be applied by them
to the support of the poor.
SEC. 16. All Acts or parts Of Acts in.
consistent with, or supplied by, this Act
are hereby repealed.
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