The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-06
A FINE SLOWING.
The Penitentiary Makes Profit S35, 900
for the Past Instrumentation Of
the Directors.

The Penitentiary Makes Profit S35, ,o0t
for the Past Year-Recommendati O.
the Directors.
The board of penitentiary director;
held meeting at the institution yester
day morning. The report of the Saper
intendent was submitted. Among Other
things therein stated was that 1,S4:
days labor had been furnished on the
State House; that no improvements had
been made on the prison buildings fol
want of funds, but that new hospital
was imperatively needed. The adylsa.
bility of putting in electric lights was
also suggested. The death of the Rev.
William Martin, chaplain of the institu-
ton, was appropriately referred to in
the report.
The following figures arc from the Su-
perntendent'S report:
Total number Of convicts now in
prison SS4 white, males 5G, females
3; coloreG, males 80, females IS.
Discharged and freed by other
causes, 549.
The number out on farms are as fol-
lows: Aughtry's, 3S; Sims'S, 90; See
gers,>, 120; State farm proper, %; Wal
ker's brickyard, 27.-Total, 235.
AT A MEETING LAST NIGHT,
the directors decided upon their annual
report and attended to some other mat
tiers.
An application was received for a
number of convictS on lease for work
in the phosphate mines. This was re-
fused, as there are at present no hands
to spare.
The board recommended for appoint
ment by the Governor as delegates to
the meeting of the National Prison AS
sociation, to be held at Nashville, Tenn,
on the 18th of this month, Major Thos.
Anderson of Fairfield and Colonel John
Guignard of Aiken.
In their annual report to the Legisla-
ture the directors suggest the erection
OF new hospital within the prison en-
closure, and it is stated that the present
hospital has been pronounced insult
able and inadequate by the chairman OF
the Medical Association. The directors
propose to build new hospital, prob
ably of brick.
The Legislature will be asked to grant
permission to the board to purchase a
farm on which the conrictS can be en-
ployed, the cost of the farm to be paid
out of the earnings of the penitentlary.
1t is urged that the purchase of a
farm is more opportune now than ever
before, as the contracts for convicts on
all the plantations but one. now
run on shares by the penl-
tentlary and the owners of the land, will
expire with the present year. The one
plantation in which the contract does
not expire until later is the Green Hill
plantation of Mr.. John G.. SeegerS.
It is also the belief of the directors
that it will be greatly to the advantage
of the State 10 have the permanent i'm
provements resulting from convict labor
expended upon land belonging to the
State instead of private parties
Although for the first time in three
wears crop has been made on certain
of the land carried on by the State Oh
shares, it has been but a partial crop, as
there was failure to get a good stand
of cotton at the start and the crop is
therefore late. In spite, of this the ex-
cess Of the receipts over expenditures
for the past year makes a handsome
profit, estimated in round figures ut
about $50, 1000.
The total receipts for the year have
been SSS, ,565.35, and the disbursements
we're $73,29S.32. This shows net
profit of SIS, ,267.02, to which should DE
added $4,000 paid for machinery used in
the work on the canal, ETC., and a debt
of S14, 1852 40 from last year which has
been paid. This makes grand total
of profits of $50, 1881.
During the five months since June 1,
during which the penitentiary has had
the contract abandoned by Mr.. Hardin,
the earnings on canal work as figured
by the engineers are some $31, 900. The
earnings of the penitentiary on the canal
contract for the past month have Deen
S5, 400, which is about $4,000 in excess
of the earnings on the same work for
the previous month, and Vet it is stated
that about 100 less hands were en-
ployed.
There has been an average of 305
hands employed on the farms, 265 on
the canal, As in the shoe factory and 1OS
in the hosiery mill.
The crops falling to the share Of the
State will include about 800 bales Of
cotton, 1000 bushels of corn and a
quantity of peas, forage, etc.
The next meeting of the board will be
held on the first Thursday in December.