Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-21
REPORT Of THE GRAND JURY.

Important Recommendation With Regard
to County Home.
Following is the report of the granG
| Jury submitted before the discharge o
that body last Wednesday morning:
To the Honorable James Aldrich
Presiding Judge: We, the grand jury
of York county, beg leave to submit
this, our final presentment:
1st. The grand jury have passed
upon all bills of indictment handed to
US by the solicitor, and returned the
same to court with our findings there.
on.
End. Committees of the grand jury,
during the present term of court, have
visited the county Jail and county poor
house, and submitted the following
reports, to-wit:
We found the Jail in good condition
and we'll kept; prisoners securely kept
and we'll cared for, and everything in
satisfactory condition.
At the poor house we found 20 in
mates-15 white, ii colored-and sew
eral cared for outside. We found
premises clean and in as good condi.
lion as could be expected. Inmates all
seem to be satisfied and well cared
for.
There are three sick and one insane.
We find one new house with two
rooms about completed. Also new
room to main dwelling completed.
We find that no steps have been taken
toward erecting hospital for the
sick, recommended by former grand
Jury. The home is very poorly sup
piled with milk. There have been liz
bushels wheat and 10t bushels oats
sown on farm.
We respectfully recommend that
sufficient milk COWS be kept at the
farm to supply the inmates with milk.
Also that there be more small grain
sown in the future.
3rd. 1t is the judgment of this grand
Jury that system of more advanced
farming on the poor house lands than
has ever obtained before, should be
inaugurated, with a view to making
that farm entirely self-sustaining. By
adopting new methods which have
been successfully tried in other places,
we believe that the present number of
paupers can be amply supported and
supplied with greater comforts by SO
doing. We submit that it would be
better to devote the attention OF the
authorities to making provisions in
abundance and supplies for man and
beast, rather than make cotton with
hired labor.
4th. The county commissioners have
presented 10 us their annual report for
1899 properly made out in detail,
which received our attention. The
recommendation made by the super.
visor of the county in regard to rail
road crossings are approved, and we
recommend that proper legal steps be
taken to enforce compliance with the
law.
5th. We recommend that the neces-
sary chairs for seating the grand jury
be placed in grand jury room. Also a
few large spittoons.
9Th. We present to your honorable
court, A. G.. Grant, alias Jim Grant,
living 9 miles north of Yorkville on
the Kings Mountain road, for living
in adultery with Liz Hodge and Venil
Rector, and keeping disorderly house,
which is considered in that neighbor-
hood as a nuisance, and so charged
and established by credible witnesses,
of which the following are the most
important, viz: R. S. Adams, Marcus,
Marcus Whitener and w. G. Faris.
9TH. We take pleasure in returning
thanks to your honor, the circuit
solicitor and other officers of the court,
for courtesies and considerations ex-
tended to us. All of which is respect
fully submitted.
IREDELL JONES, Foreman.