The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-01-22
AUDITOR.

We have no recommendations to
make concerning the salary Of the
County Auditor.
LICENSES.
We recommend that a general law be
passed, allowing boards of County Conn.,
missioners to fix the licenses for buying
and dealing in seed cotton, as in the
case now with Hawkers and peddlerS.
and that in no case the license for pur-
chasing seed cotton be less than $500.
MAGISTRATES.
The Magistrate at St. Paul does
mere, or as much work as all the other
Magistrates il the county together,
with the exception of the one at Man.
ming. We recommend that his salary
be raised to 5000. No recommendation
as to salary of Magistrate at Manning.
The Office of Magistrate at Foreston
is an expense to the county. 1t
pays practically nothing into the Treas
ury, last year the income being about
$500 against Sl75 paid out by the
county for salaries of Magistrate and
his constable. We recommend that
this Office be abolished.
About the same condition of affairs
prevails with the Office of Magistrate at
Pinewood as with the one at Foreston.
We also recommed that the office OF
Magistrate at Pinewood be abolished
ard that the work OF that section be
dcne by other Magistrates.
We recommend that the Office OF Mag
is.ratc at Paxville and salary of same
remain as at present.
No recommendation as to Office OF
Magistrate in Salem.
No recommendations as to Coroner.
The question of fraudulent school
chart claims is too well known for us to
discuss with you. We would not know
how to go into details as to what legis-
lation is necessary, but we recommend
that you take such action, or whatever
action, you see proper that will stop the
payment of fraudulent school chart
claims against the county. in the light
OF the legislation that was enacted by
YOU at the last session of the General
Assembly providing that these matters
go before and be paid upon the recon-
mendation of the Grand Jury.
FINANCES.
In regard to the county's finances
YOU will see from the statements which
we will send you. that the appropriations
in two or, three instances, ,anG especially
in the cases of appropriations for THE
Poor" and for ''roads, brides and chain
gang" have been insufficient, and that
the expenditures have far exceeded the
appropriations. These expenditures
could not be helped, and have been
made strictly in accord with an econ
omic regard for the county's interest.
We hope, however, to be able, with the
funds which will be at our disposal
from dispensary sales and seed cot
ton licenses, in addition to the regular
county taxes, to pay 100 cents on the
dollar for all Indebtedness contracted
during the fiscal year 1901. We think
that the levy and appropriations, as ap-
pear upon page 1853, acts of 1891 should
be allowed to remain the same for the
present year, except as to the charges
which we have recommended.
We want the authority to borrow
$500 from the State Sinking Fund
Commission this year. as we have done
for the past several years, to defray the
expenses of jurors, witnesses, ETC., and
special matters which we have to pay
cash for, as for instance supplies for
Poor "Chaingang' and Bridge
supplies" and so forth.
TIMBER CARTS.
Ono of the greatest evils that County