The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-01-02
A MEMORIAL
OF the South Carolina inter-State
and West
INDIAN EXPOSITION co.
TO The Members of the General
Assembly Of South Car
DINA for an Appro.
priaticn.

pItoiiCH.
To The General Assembly Of the State
OF South Carolina:
The Memorial Of the South Carolina
Inter. State and West Indian Ezposi-
ton Company, a corporation duly
Chartered under the laws Of the
State Of Sou:h Carolina, respectfully
shows:
That heretofore the General Assembly
Of this State by a concurrent resolution
adopted on the 9th January, 1900, Be-
solved, that the projected Exposition
in the fall of 1901, at the States Metro
polls, Of all the industries and resources
of the whole State, material and other
wise, demands and deserves the en-
couragement and endorsement, and also
the active cooperation Of each and
every citizen Of the State who has the
welfare of the Commonwealth at heart"
Your memorialistfarther shows, that
this encouraging declaration made %
above stated By the Legislative Depart
ment Of our State Government, gave an
immense impetus to the prof ject Of hold
ing, within the limits Of South Caro-.
lima, an Inter State Exposition, and
the important enterprise was soos
thereafter insugursted under most aus
picious circumstances. From every
portion Of the State came cheering
words Of endorsement and the promise
of cooperation and substantial aid.
The enterprise was herslded at homs
and abroad as a supreme effort Of our
people to plsce the State upon the high
est industrial plane and develop its I'M
mense dormant resources.
The Exposition Company was char
tered with an authorized Capital Stock
Of two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, of which amount nearly two hun
i..ed thousand dollars have already
been subscribed. Strong assurances
have been given that the 3 Uaisea aisesa States
Government will appropriate ia aid Of
the enterprise the sum Of two hundred
and City thousand dollars, and that
the City Council of Charleston will add
fifty thousand dollars to that amount;
and now, in this Memorial, your Honor
able Body is respectfully asked, to sp-
propriate the sum of fifty thousand dol
lars for the construction of State
building on the Exposition site. and to
aid in proper exhibit Of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Industries and the
Material Resources Of the State.
It is quite unnecessary to do more
than allude to the great benefits which
will be derived By every portion of our
State from such display Of our re-
sources as will be made. Visitors are
expected not only from every State in
the American Union, but from the
West Indies, from South America and
from elsewhere abroad. Capital will
be induced to invest with Us and i'm
portant accessions will be made to our
population.
Your memorislist further shows that
the project has been successfully
brought to the point Of active construo-
tion, and requires at this juncture the
fostering care and substantial help Of
the State Government. Its full work
cannot be accomplished nor can the
best results be attained without such
help. The necessity for State aid in
such undertakings has been recognised
in every State in which Ezpositions
have been held. In the South We find
among other instances that in 1885.
the State Of Louisiana appropriated
one hundred thousand dollars, for the
New Orleans Exposition, and that in
1897 the State Of Tennessee appropriated
fifty thousand dollars, for the Nashville
Exposition and for the purpose OF
erecting building and displaying
therein the resources Of that State. SO
great has been the appreciation Of such
opportunities by South Carolina IN the
psst that her Legislature in 1883 cheer
fully voted ten thousand dollars, for
the purpose Of making an exhibit at the
New Orleans Exposition, and again IN
1896 the sum of six thousand dollars, for
the purpose Of meeting the cost Of .
State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition.
The knowledge of this commendsble
action in behalf of our Sister States,
gives assurance that your Honorable
Body will now extend its beneacent aid
to our OWE State enterprise.
Wherefore. Your memorialist re-
spectfully prays that your Honorable
Body will appropriate in aid Of the pro-
posed Exposition the sum Of fifty thou.
sand dollars, to be expended under such
supervision as may be regarded proper
and expedient.
And your Memorialist will ever pray
and 30 forth.
The South Carolina Interstate and
Wess Indian Exposition Company,
By F, ". WAGNER,
President.
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