Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-01-11
two years since the passage Of the act.
NEW STATE FARM.

TWO years since the passage OF the act |
NEW STATE FARM.
Under the provisions of a law !
passed by the last legislature author
izing the Board of Control to purchase !
lands in the Mississippi delta
for additional penitentiary farm (see Q
Chapter Sc, Acts Of 190O), beg to re-
port that, acting in strict conformity
to said law, the board purchased 49,
1882 acres lying in the northern part
OF Sunfiower County, Mississippi, ira !
Versed by the Yazoo Delta Railroad, at 1
ana for the price of $5.78 per acre. | I
am pleased to report that of the many
thousands of acres which were offered Z
and personally inspected by the Board
OF Control, the tract selected was, in I
my opinion, wisely purchased 1t Is ?
fertile, we'll located, and we'll drained !
by means of permanent streams and !
bayous; the vast majority of 1t is first. y
class delta land, susceptible of being
put into profitable cultivation, and
was purchased at a remarkably low I
figure. 1t is being rapidly cleared and Q
furnished with necessary and suitable !
stockades for the safety and care OF :
the convict labor and / confidently !
predict that within the next two years 5
sufficient land will be cleared and ac-
commodations provided for the con- a
centration and work thereon of all the
convicts, except such as will be needed
for the cultivation of the other convict o
farm properties owned by the State. a
STATE TREASURER.
Owing to the unfortunate occur
rences in connection with the State
treasury since the last adjournment of L
the legislature, it becomes my unpleas- D
ant duty to lay before you officially the a
facts which brought about the vaca- p
tion of the Office by Treasurer Showers, h
and the election of his successor. d
In August last, acting under the re- A
quirements of Section 2159 of the Il
Code, counted the money in the II
vaults of the treasury, and, upoa D
verifcation, there was found shor1- Ii
age in the cash called for by the books s
to the amount Of $181, ,252.52 Where t
upon, acting under requirements OF c
the Code, | made and caused to be pub a
lished a certificate covering in detail S
the facts and conditions as disclosed a
by such investigation and count, a {
copy OF which certificate is as follows: 5
On August 18th, 1901, deemed Il
proper to verify the cash balance on C
hand in the State treasury, as shown c
by the books of the treasurer, and to |;
that end | went to the treasury office c
on the morning of the said 18th in Fl
slant, without giving notice to any one C
IN said office, for the purpose of count Il
ing the money on hand, but was in s.
formed by ]. r. Showers, Treasurer, d
that the time lock had been put on, S
and that access to the cash was impos-
sible before o'clock that evening.
returned to the treasury at that hour, |;
when | counted the said funds in the t,
presence of and with the assistance of fl
Auditor W. @. Cole, J. R. Stowers Is
Treasurer, and Charles Lowe, book Il
keeper, in said office, who verified the C
correctness of said count, and found r
the condition of the funds of the treas e
ury on that day to be as follows, TO- p
wit: 4
70 cash on hand August 1...........
TO cash received since .................
BY bonds and warrants paid in August ....
Currency on hand .....................
Gold on hand ..............
SSilver SnSS itoI ON nana IN 49, '''..........
1ash items In the drawer ...................
Penitentiary accounts overdrawn for which ere
Difference
The treasurer presented the following as cash
that they be counted as cash. to-wit
Due bill o. j. Waite, cashier First National Ba
receipt Tor draft for collection by +. b. Neal,
OF Merchants Bank ...................
Cash on deposit in Merchants Bank, .......
Allowing the treasurer credit for the aggrega
three items claimed by him as cash. there
ance belonging to the State unaccounted
amounting to the sum of .,.....,.......