Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-12-11
Estimated cost OF buildings 100000,
Amount already
appropriate6s 1890 ~
Intere:t on lana-
acrip fui,ll..s i89i, G,6d00
Interest On land
scrip fund. 1902, $500
Tag tax sand.s 1891, 42,0OC
Tag tan fund 1885,. sa,ooo
$50 HSSSSSGV GNE SJF4lGE N9&9sSS3 EETy I'm NM
Estimated cost 81 Buildings

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Tag tax sand... 1891, 1900
Tag tax fund 1902. $4,000
10000
Z $1,000
Only $4,000 remain to be raised
by taxation, and this amount would.
be lessened by the interest derived
from the Clemson bequest. When
the buildings are completed those
same funds, together With. the two
appropriation, by the Fedegai gov
ernment will be amply sufficient to
maintain all the departments Of the
college without calling on the State
for an additional dollar. The policy
of continuing the erection Of tho
buildings through the year. 1892, will
postpone the opening of the 'institu.
ton to students until the fall of 1892,
which ID unnecessary and at tho same
time will entail upon the Board
grave difficulties in executing the
trust imposed upon them, by reason
Of the fact that the tag tax comes in,
in small amounts and no advanta-
geous contracts can be made without
the money is in hand.
"For these and other like eason
we respectfully and yet urgently
request your honorable bodies to
make q sufficient appropriation at
this session Of the General Assembly
to cover the cost of constructing and
completing all the buildings. The
amount needed, over aud above the
appropriations already made, will be
$107 900. BY donating for II pur-
poses the Land scrip fund and the
tag tax and tho interest on the Glenn
son bequest, this amount will be con-
siderably reduced, and, in fact, would
leave the small amount of about
100000 only, to be appropriated
directly from the Treasury of tho
State. This is a small amount,
indeed, for the State to cxpend to
secure 80 valuable and extensive All
institution. sf# u
"The fund commonly known rs
the Hatch f"id amounting to $15,-
600 per annum, appropriated by
Congress for the support of an oxpe-
riment station and the appropriation
made by Congress at the last session
of $15,oee for tho first year, and in-
creasing each year until the amount
reaches $4,000 per annum, to fur
Their aid agricultural colleges, cannot
be used in erecting or repairing
buildings, and is to be used only in
paying salaries, and purchasing such
appliances as will be ncededin equip
ping tho laboratory, the experiment
station and the agricultural and me-
chanical departments of the college.
Hence by a judicious use of these
funds, tho Board expects to have all
the departments of the college fully
equipped without calling upon the
State for any assistance whatever,
and ready for operation whenever
the doors of the colleg" are thrown
open to students.
"The Board recommends that the
Legislature allow them the use of
100 more convicts. They feel that
they express the wishes of all tho
people of the State.
"And they unanimously recon-
mend that Miss Isabella Lee be paid
all she was willed in her grandfather's
will, whether she is legally entitled
to it or not, and that the State waive
all its rights and titles to this legacy,
ard that tho executor, by suitable
legislation, be authorized and direct
ed to pay Miss Lee $4,000, and de-
liver to her the silvcrware and family
pictures.
"By reason of the lawsuit, the ex-
ecutor did not feel authorized to
marx the grave of Mr.. Clemson with
a tombstone or monument, assis usu-
ally done in such cases. They re-
commend that at least $500 be appro.
priated to be expended by the Board
of Trustees in marking tho grave of
the man who gave so generously to
promote the welfare and the happi-
ness of the people of this State, and
that from the same fund they be au-
thorized to expend $500 to have n
portrait painted of the Hon. Thos.
G. Clemson"
The Board, in conclusion, says:
"Now, that the Clemson Agricultural
and Mechanical College is apparently
an established fact, and it has been
demonstrated that it can be estab-
lished and maintained at very little,
if any, cost to the State, we earnestly
reuueat MI the friends of e1ucot;on