Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-23
The State Auditor Gives Out
Some Interesting Figures.
THE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
Assessments of Realty and Personality In
the State and tho Values as Shown by
Auditors Report For tho Year-Jas. IL.
Pou's vouchers For Money Received
From State Treasury-The State Board
of Charities Meets, Completes Its La-
bors and Goes Home.

Raleigh, N. c., Dec. 22.-The auditor
has given out the following summary
of figures for his report;
The figures for the report Of the
State Auditor have been summarized
as follows: Land, 2s.2so'ooo acres; as
sessed value, Sll5,l69,6iS.
Mineral and quarry lands, 1892
acres, 1904, 156.
Town lots. S3,S77: S50l9l LA.
Total assessed value. real and per-
sonal property, sl65, 1GS.27S
The report shows there are la. 36S
horses, value, SS,3S9, 1913: 13o,6S7 mules,
1924 $50; 5S5,625 cattle. A,654.247; 29l,-
305 sheep, s295,403; 1,174,717 hogs, $t,050,-
GIL; value farming implements, Sl,599,-
Csc; money on hand. s4,3O9 5GS; solvent
credits sci. 963, 056; cotton, $l.15I, 1916; to-
bacco, So, 356, 437; shares in incorporated
companies, $6,037, $3.50; total for personal
property, sS6,923,457.
Taxes on real estate, $359.597, and on
personal property, SlSS,334. The report
says there are II, lS6 bicycles, valued at
s150.905.
COLONIAL RECORDS.
The State issued some years ago ten
volumes of Colonial Records" 1t is
now issuing eleven volumes of state
Records" The numbers run consecu-
lively for both the sets of records
The eighteenth volume Is nearly ready
The copy for the nineteenth, twentieth
and twenty-flrst is in the printers
hands. The twenty-first will be de-
voted to the index. The copy Tor the
North Carolina Regiments in the Con-
federate Service" is also in the print
ers hands, save as. to the history of
three regiments, but the latter is writ
ten and will be here In few days.
MIR. POU'S VOUCHERS.
At The rpuupSt r II Pom VOllr
correspondent examined vouchers for
the $1,000 paid him out of the State
treasury. He did not get cent of this
personally, but employed lawyers in
fifty or sixty counties to take evidence
in the tax assessment case. to be sub
mitted to Judge Simonton, and for fees
to clerks and notaries. If the State
wins the case part of the money will
be refunded. in the shape of costs. Mr..
Pou merely acted as an agent, so to
speak, in employing attorneys for
counties or groups of counties. That
rs to payment from the treasury to
Simmons. Pou Ward and Dortch; this
was not for attorneys fees ut all. but
was disbursement of II legislative
appropriation which was n compro-
mise of the oyster entry claims in Car
teret and Pamlico. Not q penny of 1t
was for professional services. but the
lawyers above named received the sum
total and disbursed IL among the coun-
~ vi idIllitO ana taTlerel
and to the widow of the dead clerk OF
Pamlico. The only fee which Sim
mons, Pou and Ward have received
from the State was OF $4,000 In the tax
assessment cases. in which all three
appeared at Ashevile, twice at
Charleston. at Charlotte, at Richmond,
at Wilmington and here. They made
no charge for travelling expenses.
THE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
The board of charities completed
LIT,
who do not live in Raleigh returned
to their homes on the afternoon trains.
That portion of the secretarys report
relating to the condition OF the county
1ails was read at the meeting yesterday.
The remainder OF the session was de-
voted to mapping out the boards re-
port to the next Legislature.
The report will be devoted entirely to
discussion of the different penal and
shnritable institutions of the State. 1t
VIII advocate in unequivocal terms the
establishment of reformatory for
ing of Mr. w. II. Blair. of Winston
and Mr.. w. n. Jones. having been, at
the meeting yesterday. appointed to
draft the bill. They will recommend
that the Legislature appropriate such
an amount as may be necessary for the
purpose.
The part of their report relating to
the insane asylums will also be of in
terest. They state that they find the
institution at Morganton crowded with
inmates. and the one at Raleigh able
to accommodate all who come, there
being only about half the number at
the institution at Raleigh as are cared
for at Morganton. They will recon-
mend that the Legislature do one OF
three thngs-redistrict the State, APP
portioning larger number of counties
to the institution here. or increase the
appropriation for Morganton, or build
another institution.
The board i'll the comprehensive re-
port of this year also exhibits the OPP
erations of all the private and denomi-
national or municipal orphanages and
hospitals, the number of which and
extent of the good accomplished is sur
prising. The full account of this hu-
name work in our State has never been
gathered before this report.
The board, in approving the report,
passed resolution of thanks TO Can
tain benson, secretary, in view of the
great amount of work accomplished
during the year, for his valuable re-
port and untiring efforts in behalf of
the charities"
The absence Of Major S. w. Reid. of
Mecklenburg. through illness, was
much regretted.