The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-15
AN EXCELLENT SHOWING.
MADE THE STATE PENlTENTlARY
THE PAST YEAR.
The Annual Report of Superintendent
Neal Running up to the New Fiscal Year.
Facts and Figures Conscisely Stated.


Neal Running up to the New Fiscal Year.
Facts and Figures Conscisely Stated.
COLUMBIA, Jan. Below is given
the annual report of Superintendent
Neal OF the State penitentiary, which
is the only one of the reports ISSUED
covering the transactions up to the
beginning of the new fiscal year pro
vide6 for in the constitution. The ln-
stitution seems to be in good condition
under Col. Meals management. In
stead of being an expense to the State
it begins the new fiscal year with cash
and supplies on hand amounting to
SIS, ,695.S7.
r he report reads as follows:
CoLUMB1A, S. c., Dec. 81, 1895.
To the Honorable Board of Directors
OF the South Carolina Penitentlary,,
Gentlemen: AS required by law, |
have the honor to submit my third
annual report as superintendent OF the
South Carolina penitentlary Tor II
months, ending this day.
] make this report for II months
instead of - months, caused by the
new constitution changing the 1scaI
wear from Oct. 81 to Dec. 81, making
the long report this year instead OF
next.
lam glad 10 say that the financial
condition of the penitentiary IS gooo.
We have had heavy expenses thus
year, caused by equipping three State
farms, which were leased to private
parties before I was elected superin-
tendent, which leases expired with the
year 1894. 80
This change caused US to buy IS
mules and horses, engines, gins, wa,
CONS, tools, farming implements ana
buildings, at a cost of about sl2, ,OOo.
The crops for the past year on the
three State farms were good as a
whole, and on the share farms fairly
good, with one or two EXCEPTIONS.
The States's share of the crops as FOL
lows: 1,1S5 bales of cotton, %, l5O
bushels of corn, 30,515 bushels OF COT,
ton seed, $50, 900 pounds OF hay ana ana
fodder, 1875 bushels of peas, 2,5UO
gallons of molasses, 200 bushels OF
rice, $500 worth of tobacco, 5000 bush
els of oats.
Cash value of crops for the year,
$6S,010.
CASH STATEMENT.
Liabilities of the institution, aside
from the Reid farm purchased, 81,
es7 sn We have in cash 50, ,140.72; :;
due from convict hire and other
sources, 1922. 50; cash value OF crops
now on hand, $4,000, which gives US
cash and supplies to begin the years
work of SIS, ,695.S7, after deductlng
the liabilities. We bought January
last the Reid plantation, adjoining the
DeSaussure farm, LIP acres, for IS,
45O, which will enable us to thorough
" protect the whole swamp lands
from overflow, giving us a very val,
liable tract Of land, containing 4,IlZ
acres. ~.
We made on the two places this
wear Il, 600 bushels of corn, 4SO bales
of cotton, 5000 bushels of oats, 2, 400
Gallons of molasses, 225, 900 pounds OF
hay and fodder, 900 bushels OF peas,
$4,000 bushels Of cotton seed, ana we
expect to do much better on these
two places next year, as we will have
more time to prepare and clear land
and put the places in good Tx for a
crop.
Owing to the depressed financial
condition of the country, we were un-
able to place the convict labor TOR as
good a price as we will the coming
Year. But Notwithstanding the hard
times and low prices of farm products,
we will be able to run the penltentlary
without asking the legislature for
help. I think we should congratulate
ourselves that in spite floods, fire and
money panics, all Of which we have
had heavy losses from, we are able to
pull through and make the many I'M
proyements that we have made during
the past three years.
We have furnished Clemson college
during the past year with 10, $50 day S
labor. at 40 cents per day, 81, 272.OO;
with clothes, shoes and other expenses
amounting to 81, 179.4O. We also tur-
nished the Winthrop Normal and In
dustrial school is, 52S days labor at 40
cents per day, s7,411.20; guard hire,
clothes shoes and other expenses
amounting to IS, 021.42. We furnished
the lunatic asylum with ,2S0 days la
Dor. at 40 cents per day, amounting to
s2,912.oo; guarding and other expen-
ses 81. 500, from which we only recelV-
ed s3,1S1.66. 1t will be readily seen
that these three State institutions have
received from the penitentiary labor
and cash in tie sum of SIT, Ia 81, as
required by the legislature, free OF cost.
For more thorough statement OF the
cash and expense account, l respect,
fully refer you to the more explicit
statement of our clerk, Mr.. r. +. Bur.
riss. which report l feel sure you will
find very full and satisfactory.
CONVICT STATEMENT.
On the 31st of October, 1894. as
shown by our last report, we had con;
fined in the State penitentiary anc
convict camps 1902 prisoners; recel veo
from the courts for the past IA months,
sos; from the asylum, 2; recaptureo,
IS; making the whole number in prs
on during the past IA months 1,69I
discharged by expiration of sentence,
563; pardoned, 40; escaped, 40; by Or
der of the court, 2; by death, 47; killed
while attempting to escape, 8; drown
ed, /; transferred to the asylum: 3
making a total lost, 707; leaving con,
fined in the penitentiary on December
81, 1895, $50; making u prisoners less
than were on hand October 81, 1894.
For a more explicit statement of the
location, ETC., OF the prisoners I would
call your attention to the full and
complete statement of Captain E. Il.
Westfeld, which I feel sure you will