Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-07-24

which report Your Committee refer
for any information ~ to the rccrip''
aad disbursements, number % patient.
etc, FOR the wears 1881 and 1885.
Your Committee further report
there was remaining in the treasury O
said Institution on the Slh of Deccml
Der. 1885. TO its credit, a cash balance
of $2l. 5i440, (sce Treasurer's report 7
79.) being the aggregate OF cash bal
anccs accumulating from a%ppropria'
lions not exhausted since 1877. loul
Committee. recommend that this sum
be deducted from the appropriations
for the year 1885; and they report here
with a bill requiring all such cash bal
anccs remaining over from any appro'
priation to be covered back into the
Treasury OF the State, and they recon-
mend lis adoption.
Your committee further report, that
they find upon investigation that il
has been the practice, sanctioned by a
rustomed Of long standing, for the
Superintendent of the various Asy-
lums at Jackson to subsist themselves
and their families out of the appropri-
ations made for the support of these
institutions.
For instance, we find that in the
Asylum for the Insane the families OF
the Superintendent and his Assistant
average thirteen persons, and ut the
cost per capita of maintaining said in
stitution in 1885, viz: $l3i.70, the sup
port of these persons cost the State
The sun Of Sl75l for supplies. In
this is included the cost OF five SER
wants employed mainly, if not entire
" in the Center Building" in the
service of the Superintendent and his
Assistant. The monthly pay roll of
these, servants is $5l per month or
$Sl2 per anDum. 1t therefore cost the
State the sun of S2:343 per annum to
maintain said families in addition to
the salaries now allowed by law.
Your Committee report further.
that from evidences, they are of opin-
ion that the cost per capita OF main
tanning said families is somewhat
greater than that of maintaining the
patients and employees.
Your committee further report, that
for this practice there is no authority
of law, and while they do not repre-
bend the official of the said Asylums
for following a long established Gus
tom, they submit that the practice it.
self is rrprrhcnsiblc, and recommend
the passage OF n bill for its correction,
reported herewith.
Your Committee report that the at-
fairs of the Asylum for the Blind is
administered well, as far could be de-
tcrmincd by actual inspection and i'll
ycstigation. but not with the same
economy that charactcrizes the man.
lgcmcnt Of The Insane ASYLUM.
find the prices paid for supplies
are higher and your Committee see
no necessity for this difference. The
cost per capita for supplies in this In
>litui.ion placing the average number
pfpupil> at thirty. is Sl73.9l. We find
HAT there arc eight teachers employ
rd in said Institution, including the
superintendent which, in the opinion
Of your Committee. is too large a
number OF pupils. Your Committee
submit that two teachers in the litcra-
department, and one Of the female
teachers Of handicratt could be dis
pcnscd with.
Your Committee further find, that
he actual pay roll for said institution
for 1884 and 1855 aggregated the sum
total of S2.6Sl 90, 10 which must be
the sum OF Sl56 for washing for
pupils for those years. Total S3,l37.
The report Of the superintendent
shows $i3,S01.00 disbursed for wages
md labor. The difference between
The two sums. viz: S66I00 is claimed
o have been disburscd Tor extra labor,
which your Committee submit is cX-
..ravagant.
Your Committee further report, that
he Asylum tor the Deaf and Dumb is
and economically administer
ID but the Committee concur N the
recommendation ct the Governor, in
MS Message. that the appropriation for
his Institution can be reduced to
per capita, or the total appro-
OF $4,000 per alInllm.
Your Committee further report that
hey have made no investigation Of
NV Public institutions outside the
Iitv OF Jackson, no appropriation
laving been made Tor that purpose.