The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13

Appended to this report is state
ment embracing the receipts and dis
bursements for the fiscal year ending
December 31st, 1896. The aggregate
receipts and disbursements are as fol
lows:
Disbursements. $40. 81
Receipts. 62,l25.I'
Account overdrawn........$ 1,445.6e
Cash value of crops on
hand. nd.........,..........S52,9 925. AZ
Amount due for convict hire
and other sources. 5,10S. 4e
Total. 1858, ,o3s. 81
Account overdrawn.......s ,445.6t
Leaving. SIS. 26
Liabilities, including Reed
farm purchase money!. 1S, $40. SO
Leaving on hand.......$3S 207. 33
We be beg to call your special at.
tention to the report of the special
committee appointed by your excel
lency as chairman ex-oficio, to take
stock of the institutions effects, which
we have appended as a part of our re.
port. Everything has been put at
cash value and shows that the institu.
ton has been managed by careful and
competent officers.
We also beg to call your attention to
the condition of the real estate as well
as personal property of the institu'
ton, which we are sure has been in
creased in value by improvements 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 direct
orship and two of the farms, DeSaus-
sure and Reed, containing about
400 acres, which have been bought
and stocked in the last six years, are
worth, in our opinion, with their
stock Of mules, horses, cattle, hogs and
crop provisions on hand and machin-
cry, together with the improvements
in the way of damning, ditching, ter
racing, clearing, building and other
wise improving the lands by system
of rotating crops and fertilizing, $101,-
565.40.
In addition to the above mentioned
farms the State owns small farm in
Lexington containing 404 acres, in
good state of cultivation, we'll stocked
and provided with other plantation
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 painstak-
ing, care having been rendered by
each officer in charge. In the last
few years q considerable sum of
money has been spent on system of
sewerage and various other sanitary
improvements, which has been money
well 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 condi'
ton and we'll cared for.
This property, including crops on
hand, aggregates $S6, $3.50. The
prisoners show that they are well cared
for. There are in prison 100 less than
IL 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. ALI contracts for share crops
have expired and will not be renew
ed.
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 rela.
tions with the superintendent and all
official and employees has been very
pleasant and agreeable.
Respectfully,
IT,. CUNNINGHAM, chairman,
J. w. LYLEs.
s. P. J. GARRIs,
w. o. TATUM,
J. 81. BLACKWELL,
Board of Directors.
THE sUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
The following is the annual report
OF Superintendent w. A. Neal:
COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. 81, 1896.
TO the Honorable Board of Directors
of the South Carolina Penitentiary
Gentlemen: I herewith submit
this my fourth annual report as super
intendent of the South Carolina peni
tentiary for the fiscal year ending
December 81, 1896:
CONVICT STATEMENT.
We had confined in the penitentia
ry, as shown by the last report made
one year ago, 900 prisoners; received
from the courts during the year 1896
ZIG; recaptured, %; total, 1249;; los'
by expiration of sentence, 355; by
death, A; escaped, AZ; pardoned, 81
transferred to Jail, 1; lost by order o1
court, 2; total, 476; leaving IN con
finemement January 1, 1897, 8lS
making 172 prisoners less than we hao
12 months ago. For more complete
prison statement you will please ex
anime the report of Capt. Westfeld
HEALTH AND SANITARY STATEMENT.
You will find lost by death during
the past year A. being three less thar
the previous year. This record WI