The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-01-13

bursemcnts for the fiscal year ending
December 81, 1896. The aggregate
receipts and disbursements are as fol-
lows:
Receipts. ts................ S62, 10 II
Disbursements s.......... 63, $40 So
Account overdrawn ......$ !, AS 66
Cash value Ct crop on hand. So, 1925 40
Amount due for convict hire
and other sources ... 5,108 46
Total ........... ............ 500 ,033 "
Account overdrawn. ....... 1,445 sc
Leaving -. s56, ,578 rs
Liabilities, including Reed
farm purchase money. -. 1870 SO
Leaving on hand .s38, ,2O7 SO
We beg to call your special atten-
tion to the report of the special COM
mittee appointed by your Excellency
as chairman ex officio to take stock Of
the institutions effects, which we
have appended as part of our report.
Everything has been put at cash val
ue, and shows that the institution has
been managed by careful and >compe-
tent officers.
We also beg to call your attention
to the condition of the real estate as
we'll as personal property of the insti-
tuition, which we are sure has been in
creased in value by improvements is
and good management at least 25 per
cent.
When the purchase money for the
Reed farm is paid, which will be in a
few days, the institution will have
paid for all the property under our
dictatorship, and two Of the farms,
DeSaussure and Reed, containing
about 4,7OO acres, which have been
bought and stocked in the last six
years, are worth, in our opinion, with
stock of mules, horses, cattle, hogs
and crop provisions on hand and ma.
chinery, together with the improve
ments in the way of damming, ditch
ing, terracing, clearing building and
otherwise improving the lands by a
system of rotating crops and fertilizing
s1O1, ,565. 40.
In addition to the above mentioned
farms the State owns a small farm in
Lexington County, containing 4O4
acres, in good state of cultivation, well
stocked and provided with other plan.
tation supplies.
These three farms constitute all the
real estate owned by the State for
farm purposes. We are pleased to
say that each department in the State
prison shows efficient and painstaking
care has been rendered by each officer
in charge. In the last few years a
considerable sum of money has been
srcnt on system of sewerage and va
-ious other sanitary improvements,
which has been money we'll spent, as
the report Of each of the subordinates
will show.
The personal property Of the insti-
tuition, as shown by the report of the
special committee, is in good condl-
tion and we'll cared for.
This property: including crops on
hand, aggregates S86,973.SO. The
prisoners show that they are well
cared for. There are in prison 100
less than II months ago.
The policy of the board Of directors
and management is to utilize all Of
the prisoners on the State property,
and we are rapidly growing to that
end. All contracts for share crops
have expired and will not be renewed.
In conclusion we desire to thank
your Honor for the assistance and ad-
vice given US during the year.
We are pleased to say that our re-
lations with the superintendent and
all officials and employees has been
very pleasant and agreeable.
Respectfully, 7. j. Cunningham,
chairman; j. W. Lyles, S. ?: j: Gar
ris, w. O. Tatum, j. Fl. Blackwell, ,
board OF directors.
Attached to the report Of the board
of directors is an itemized report OF
the stock on hand at the various
farms in the State, which makes this
showing: DcSaussure farm, S2o, ,4oI;
Reed farm, s23, ,10S.40; Lexington
farm, 50, ,O53; prison farm, s3l ,226. 70;
hospital, s1,O29.65. Total, s86, ,873.-
so. Liabilities, s1S,37O.9O, including
$4,000 Reed farm; s5,74S phosphate
and small bills; assets for convict
hire, etc., IS, 108. Az. Total indebted
ness, S13, ,262.47.
THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.
Superintendent Neal gave his re-
port to the press tonight. 1t is an
exhaustive paper and reads as fol-
lows:
COLUMBIA, December 81, 1896.
To the Honorable Board of Direc-
tors of the South Carolina Penitentl-
ary-Gentlcmcn I herewith submit
this my fourth annual report as su-
perintendent of the South Carolina
Penitentiary for the fiscal year end
ing December 81, 1896. We had con-
fined in the Penitcntiary, as shown
by the last report made one year ago,
$50 prisoners: received from the
Courts during the year 1896, 276, re-
captured, 20; total, 1,249; lost by ex-
piration of sentence, 355; by death,
If; escaped, 42:: pardoned, 80; trans
ferrcd to Jail, L. lost by order of
Court, 2: total, 476-leaving in con-
Gnement January l, 1897, 9l9-mak-
ing 172 prisoners less than we had
twelve months ago. For more com
nlete nrison statemen. .gu will please