The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-17

committee recommends that the treasurer
make the corrections and report the same
to the county commissioners H!d school
commissioners.
DISPEESA..I PhoF is.
Below we give tabTated statement OF
the 6ispenSary profit turael over to county
treasurer by the county diSp~n>er-tn wit:
On October 9th '93. $34. 04
On October 18th 90, l29G3
On December 9TH 95, l39 "
On Jauuarv ll;h 81 259.43
On February i6;.i 81 1882
O, March 1871. '"l l05.S9
On April 9th q, 81 IL
On Nav 23rd 81, 357
ss5O.95
All these amounts were properly charged
up against tr aSHrer rs Il couaty tuni'
The treasurcr'S books Showed TINT the
aggregate amoult o. Il :eS turned into the
county treasury by trial justices FOR the
fiscal pear, commencing November lSt 1873.
as far back as We examined So3,39
and was paid as follows:
By trial justice Tilumons so o0
By trial Justice Hobbs. Sl3 uO
BY trial ja>tice Richbnnrs. 20 90
Upon Examination of the trial Justices
reports. required to be filed monthly with
the county Treasurer. We found 10 report
from trial j.>tice Tl,nmons for noatA "t
January 1891. only two reports from tr!'l
Justice Cal.tey- January l5tt 1894. cover
i.ig previous time, and FEBRUARY 10TH 1884,
FEBRUARY and jane 1884, were al the reports
found on file FROM trial justice Hichoourg;
trial Justice Hobbs had reported for only
three months-Decembc 1898, January and
February 1891; trial justice Owen-no re-
ports.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
The committee found the to ks of the
school commissioner we'll kept and rouch-
ers in their proper places. The attendance
upon the public schools is about $500
pupils; none of the school districts incur
an Indebtedness beyond the amount of the
school funds appropriated. and. therefore.
all the teachers are paid in full for their
services. The school terms however, are
short, t,-running from to 5 months only;
but we think this better plan of opera
ting the schools than to extend the terms
longer, thereby incurring an Indebtedness
without an appro, ,ration with which to
meet the same.
We believe that the dispensary profits
could with better benefit be expended on
the public schools than in any otner way,
aud therefore, recommend that our Sena-
tor and representatives use their efforts to
cause an act of the General Assembly to be
incorporated in our statute laws--glvlng
power to the school commissioner to use
the dispensary profits for school purposes.
AUDITORS OFFICE.
In the auditors Office the committee con-
fined its work chiefly TO the examination Of
the tax duplicates, record Of real estate
transfers, the manner Of keeping same, and
also, to the examination OF reports required
to be filed in this office The tax duplI-
Gates appeared to be in proper condition
and neltly and correctly kept, so also, was
the record of real estate transfers. We
found the reports from the trial justices on
file in this Office the same as those on file
in the treasurer's office On examination
of the reports made by the county dispen-
ser, q slight discrepancy was found in one
of his reports, but upon the dispen ser's at-
tention being called to it, the mistake WAS
promptly and easily corrected by him.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
The records that tie committee found
kept in this office We're IN good condition,
but there were some important accounts
which ought to have been kept-but which
appear to have been wholly neglected-ard d
indeed the same seems to have been the
practice with one or more preceding boards.
There was no account kept against the
county treasurer for county taxes fines, CT
licenses reported to this Office in his month
ly reports, and the only records to be found
of same were the reports themselves-pig-
eon-holed-in the Office Had these re-
ports been riis!aid at any time, the board
would have had no proper records upon
the books in the Office. by which they could
know how the finances of the county stood;
accounts should have been opened with the
county treasurer, charging HIM each month
with the monthly collection Of each fund
reported by him, and crediting against each
fund so charged every check drawn on
treasurer. This appears to us to be the
proper Way this account in the most impor-
tant discussing Office in the county should
have been kept There was no record of
the county commissioners accounts for
services rendered except the aggregate
amounts of the accounts entered among the
registered claims We do not doubt the
COIIeCLUcSS VI LuSSS uSCOUuls, Oot 40 q uot'
ter of business and record an account
should have been kept showing the number
of days served on the board days served
inspecting and number OF miles Travelled
bv each ID the discharge OF his duties SIS
commissioner; but in the absence of the
record, this Office could give rs no such in
formation.
We found that the debt Of the county
for the fiscal year ending October 3ist, 1898.
after applying all funds in the treasurers
hands applicable, amounted to So, 1927,
and back Indebtedness prior to Norem-
Der 1st, 1892. after applying the dispensary
profits and all other funds on hand. amount
ed to S252 G2, making the total county in
debtednsss 81. 444444 SO up 10 November lat,
1893.
The committee did not deem it necessary
to make any careful examination Of the
clerks Office but found the records Of same
neatly kept, and neither did they examine
the shertf"s office. as they understood that
it comes among the solicitors duties to e1.
anime the two last named Offices The |
committee observed. however, that the |
records OF the clerks Office are without suf-
ficient protection from fire, the safe in the
Office being too small, and recommend that !
vault be built adjoining the Office for the
protection of tie records from fire.
The committee on the 25th adjourned |
over until August l4th, and notified the
trial justices 10 have their books at the |
court house for examination on that day.
All the trial justices, except Trial Justice