The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-09-26
Report Of the Grand Jury.

Judge or the flret JuOlClaI LIS
trict of Mississippi:
We, the grand jury empannelet
at the September term, 1902, o
your honorable court, having con
cluded our labors, respectfully
submit this our final report.
We have been in session twelve
days, have examined 132 witnessel
and returned Is indictments. ant
referred some small matters to diff
ferept justices of the peace.
POORHOUsE.
We have examined the poor
house by a committee from oul
body and take pleasure in report
ing that we find the poor we'll fed
clothed and cared for, and theil
conditions. surroundings and treat
ment commendable.
We have examined the Jail and
find it's condition unsafe and in
secure, and we recommend that
some action be taken toward the
building of a new one. The Jail,
or makeshift, is one from which
criminals, in our judgment, can
easily make their escape, and we
believe that good Jail is an abso-
lutte necessity in the administration
and enforcement Of the criminal
law. The heaviest burden the tax
payers are called upon to dis
charge is the enforcement of the
criminal law, and the expenses of
keeping the criminal in subjection
is the heaviest burden to be borne,
and we do not think that after the
incurring of the heavy expense of
the prosecution of the criminal be
should be kept in an insecure Jail
so that he may make his escape,
and we believe that an insecure
Jail lessons the terrors of the law
to the criminal classes. We re-
spectfully. but earnestly, urge the
Board of Supervisors, and the peo-
pie, to the necessity of some action
which will give to the county a
Jail in keeping with the county's
wealth and standing abroad and at
home, and one which will enable
our people and our courts to as
effectively enforce the criminal
laws as in any part of our own
State or country. We feel that
the present jail is reflection upon
our county. We find the Jail to be
neatly and cleanly kept, the pris-
oners we'll fed and clothed.
BOOKS.
We have examined the books of
the various county officers and
find all neatly and correctly kept,
and all settlements properly made,
SO far as we are able to ascertain
within the limited time at our dis
posal for the character of the work,
with our many other and varied
duties imposed along other lines;
but, from the time we had to de-
vote to this character of work, and
our confidence in our public
officials and servants, we confident
ly report that all of their public
duties have been faithfully and
efficiently discharged.
PENSIONS.
We have examined the roll of
honor and find that all the Con-
federate soldiers whose names ap-
pear on the pension roll are en-
titled to the benevolence of a gen.
erous and loving people; proud of
the valor, heroism and patriotism
of the thinning ranks of the noble
manhood, who wrote such
bright and glorious pages of his
tory for the Southern people and
the Southern cause. We congrat-
ulate these warriors in q lost cause
upon the fact that loving State
and posterity is gradually enabled
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more generously provide for them
as honored and loved charges. It
is but their due, and Mississippi
responds to her obliga-
ton to them, the Southern heroes.
We note with regret that it is
given out from the auditors Office
that the pension roll is increasing
with alarm, and that new and ad-
neutrality-suspicious. will reduce the |
pittance to the non-preferred class |
TO a very small amount. We re-
gret to see this, because, in our |
Judgment, no person should apply |
for this pension unless in absolute |
necessity of it for his support,
when in a condition which renders |
him unable to make a living; be-
canse it takes from those who are
in a destitute condition and in ab-
,olute want q part of the pittance
which is their due, and not due to |
the party who is able to make q
living or who can be supported by |
other means. or his family. IL is |